Guild Wars 2

Does anyone use Superior Runes of Mercy?

(1): +25 Toughness.
(2): Gain up to 400 Toughness, while reviving an ally, based on your level.
(3): +50 Toughness.
(4): You resurrect allies with 30% more health.
(5): +100 Toughness.
(6): You revive allied players 20% faster.

What happens if more than one player with Runes of Mercy revives a player, do attributes (4) and (6) stack?

It seems that these runes might be helpful in some dungeon situations but they are practically free (2.5 silver each).

I don’t use them and can’t imagine them ever being useful. They are a huge dps loss.
I am speaking strictly PvE. No idea for WvW or SPvP.

They seems best for wvw and pvp for a tank build or a guardian. I was considering build for this for that reason, but I can’t pull it off atm due to not enough money for the rest of the gear to do with it.

carlobarletta.5638:

What happens if more than one player with Runes of Mercy revives a player, do attributes (4) and (6) stack?

No idea.

carlobarletta.5638:

It seems that these runes might be helpful in some dungeon situations but they are practically free (2.5 silver each).

If your party is dying too much, you need to try to change your build/gear to prevent the death, not to ress faster.

I occasionally see “it” in yoloq.

Can’t answer the questions.

If you are so keen on using them, Warriors get the same bonus toughness when reviving someone, so it doubles up. It’s the vitality/boon duration line.

I’ve used them some in PUG story dungeons with players that are not at level 80 and go down more often.

ArenaNet made them more powerful a while back but I guess still not strong enough for any serious interest. That said, reviving players is not a totally insignificant part of the game and if made sufficiently strong the runes must have some decent value.

I used them back when they changed teq and people dropped like flies, because my PTV set was strictly for teq and I didn’t see a point in using expensive runes. I can’t really see them being useful anywhere else.

wvw medic?

o.O?

I sometimes toy with the idea of making a Nomad’s Set with all Superior Mercy runes.

Nemitri.8172:

If you are so keen on using them, Warriors get the same bonus toughness when reviving someone, so it doubles up. It’s the vitality/boon duration line.

The Warrior also gets an extra 10% revive speed from this tree, so when using the Mercy runes they revive people very fast, like having inverse poison on them.

They are only useful at Tequatl in PVT gear, and maybe PvP.

Yes I use them on my WvW Guardian, guildy uses them on his ‘’ res’’ Warrior.

For PvE, as long as huge majority of mobs melt in 1-3 seconds, it won’t see much use there.

But as people already mentioned, good for Warrior along their Tactics Trait line, good for aggro control (As reviving maxes out reviver’s aggro rating), which has minor traits that boost revival for content where berserker DPS cannot dominate…

I use them sometimes in spvp when I feel like being a troll. Just run around with thief and reduced damage in stealth, res all allies always.
Rarely see it but can work with a medic role, especially in spvp where one person getting back up can turn the tide of a fight.