Guild Wars 2

As an elementalist, I’ve been hooked on my Evasive Arcana build ever since I first learned to play it. Rune of Resistance however got me really excited and I was planning, for the first time in nearly a year, to run a different build. However, the actual version seems somewhat unplayable to me. If you run a signet build, chances are you’ll run multiple signets. With a cooldown so high and a duration that low, I fear I’ll end up wasting the aegis because it triggers when I’m dodging or something.

I’d probably use the rune if either:
a) the duration of the aegis effect was increased to 10 seconds (it’s just the next hit anyway).
b) the cooldown was lowered to 15 seconds (might be trouble on guardians, I get that).
c) the anti-condition effect was closer to Rune of Melandru’s (i.e. also worked on stuns, making the rune worth bringing for other reasons than the aegis effect).

Link: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Resistance

P.S. I know it’s comparing apples to oranges, but when a powerful rune like perplexity gets a cooldown of only 8 seconds, I wonder why a rune like this gets a cooldown of 30 seconds.

TBH, I think the point is that you get well-rounded defense and the ability to on-demand block. Seeing as most signet are instant, and thus can be used when disabled, I feel like they wanted to give the ability to use a 30s cooldown controllable insta-block to people and decided signets were the most balanced way to do it.

IMO a better way to do it would have been introducing a a set of signet skills, one for each profession, that had similar benefits flavored to each profession.

Like more -condition for warriors but no toughness, more tough but less -condi for eles, speed for engis, vit for thieves, etc.

PopeUrban.2578:

TBH, I think the point is that you get well-rounded defense and the ability to on-demand block.

That makes sense, but that doesn’t work for every profession. For professions like the Ranger, which basically have ‘panic button’ active for their signets, it works great. For Eles, that have proactive signets. Chances are huge you’ll end up wasting the Aegis effect and not getting it when you truly need it.

Which is why I feel the duration increase would be the best option. It’ll still only block 1 attack every 30 seconds but this way, it’ll be more useful to signet-active builds. The way it’s now, it’ll only work for builds that use say, a single signet as their healing skill.