Guild Wars 2

Arena Net announced that there will be single rune sets which are good at specific things to prevent mixing multiple rune sets.
Like a beeding duration set for example. The Rune of the Krait is doing well here with +45% bleeding duration.
But I miss a good boon duration set. On my guardian I mixed 2 Runes of the Monk, 2 Runes of the Water and 2 Runes of the Traveler to get +45% boon duration.
Now the maximum is +20% with the Rune of the Water which is less then 50% compared to before the update.

In my eyes that is not sufficient.

I imagine they are gonna pump out some new runes. If they want us to use all the same set (which is stupid, we were at least mildly diverse before) they will NEED to bring us boon duration runes. I foresee more stat combos anyways, so with those we will most likely get some more runes, just like the last few times.

I think the lack of boon duration runes really harms build diversity, and promotes the zerker meta.

Boon duration could definitely do with being a bit more viable in my opinion! I guess we have to just assume there’s a reason for this at the moment? Would be nice to hear about this in a live stream or something!

I heard mention of +boon duration being too powerful for their tastes (I have no evidence to back it up so take this with a grain of salt), but it really messes up my shout guardian’s build. Now she can’t maintain almost-perma swiftness with Save Yourselves! and Retreat!.

Agreed. I’m having a real issue without utilizing my mixed rune set to maximize boons. It’s a sad day for my ele :/

The Boon duration build I used on my Warrior (Water + Traveller + Major Traveller) is completely ruined, I went from 70% passive to 45%. That’s far too great a loss considering that mixing runes robs me of the 6th bonus.

Luckily my Guardian’s Shout build uses full Traveller’s, so with the tree at 6 she still has a passive Boon duration bonus of 45%, it seems that’s the intention.

I cannot possibly fathom why Celestial does not have Boon duration.

@Hannelore: But the +45% is your total bonus, isn’kitten Only 15% are from the Rune of the Traveller.

Half my roster is ruined. I don’t feel like I should have to regear/respec/resocket all my characters and help fund the scalpers in the auction house just to be on par with what my characters did a day ago due to no change of my own.

This is just insufferable.

It’s a sad day for a lot of interesting characters. So much for “encouraging build diversity”.

May have been an intentional nerf to might stacking.

Fredgerd.3204:

May have been an intentional nerf to might stacking.

Runes of Strength got strengthened, and Warriors got an aura that gives Might to allies whenever they also receive Might. You can stack 25 stacks of Might in a party now with just one Warrior + any other class, especially Guardian.

I run Runes of Strength + Sigil of Strength + GS trait to gain Might on crit. Against single mobs I get about 20 stacks of Might and that is also given to allies.

Might stacking is far from nerfed, it is going to be far more potent than ever before.