Guild Wars 2

I’ve been comparing the two options and I can’t seem to make up my mind. Placing gemstones in your armor pushes your attributes up far more than runes possibly can, the main attribute by 30 more with two extra attributes to boot, while a rune only focuses on one attribute.

On the one hand I really like the extra effects on some of the runes, but for some reason they look a bit underwhelming, seemingly more flavor than actual strength. Conversely gemstones builds your character’s attributes, which is where the majority of the strength in the game lies.

So I’m a bit torn between the two. I like the idea of what runes are going for, since they are the only items in the game with ‘flavor’ abilities, while gemstones have solid attribute building.

Which of the two do you prefer?

The other thing to consider with Runes and Sigils is they don’t always behave like their tooltips suggest. There’s hidden cooldowns and just plain old not-working bugs. So that’d be another thing in favor of gems n crests.

On the other hand, having a rock dog pop up is something fun and different, whereas stats are boring and don’t do nearly enough for all the attention they get.