Guild Wars 2

why did boon duration on runes get hit so hard? before this patch you could go 2/2/2 and get 45% boon durations from just your runes, now its just 20% if you use runes of water x6. you cant get boon duration on ascended trinkets, only with exotic. and when you get giver’s armor you give up an entire stat for just 1% boon duration per armor part. arent we allowed to use it in our builds anymore? if we now want to make boon duration work, we are forced to max a specific trait line (limiting build diversity), forced to use exotic armor/trinkets and food that costs 8 silver per 30 minutes. please do something about this :/

Having 3+ of my characters hit by this, and knowing that I’ll have to buy new runes from the scalping auction house, and that I can never get back to my original builds potency, makes me want to play even less.

Some builds only could work with 100% boon duration, especially as support.

On top of that, I’d have to buy extractors if I can’t afford it in gold because I can’t transmute runes into new gear anymore thanks to the new transmutation system. That’s just great. >:C

rip, protection auramancer
goodnight sweet prince, might share mesmer
vaya con dios, vigor/protection ranger.

Bravo, why not just salvage them off with a BLSK? I have tons of those left over from dailies and world completion. If you have new gear and the skins are in the Wardrobe, salvaging the old gear for runes/mats would be the obvious next step, right?

timmyf.1490:

Bravo, why not just salvage them off with a BLSK? I have tons of those left over from dailies and world completion. If you have new gear and the skins are in the Wardrobe, salvaging the old gear for runes/mats would be the obvious next step, right?

I want to keep my gear and the runes since everyone is scalping everything currently. Plus, there are likely some people out there in karma gear whom -in the same situation- wouldn’t even have the ability to salvage it.

I currently have the option to go pay 5+ gold + BLSKs for a new set of gear, or 5+gold for a new set of runes.

Karma gear is a good point, hadn’t considered that.