Guild Wars 2

So I find it a bit misleading that runes such as Divinity, Traveler, and I would assume even some of the new runes like Rune of Leadership which grant + to all stats don’t actually do that. Specifically, they do not give you any of the new stats: Expertise and Concentration.

Why even convert these into new stats that seem to resemble the original stats, if we’re not going to have them benefit from +all stats runes? Also, it’s a bit confusing overall. I think there needs to be either a change to make these runes work with the new stats or change the rune descriptions.

ArkisTruefire.1746:

Why even convert these into new stats that seem to resemble the original stats, if we’re not going to have them benefit from +all stats runes? Also, it’s a bit confusing overall. I think there needs to be either a change to make these runes work with the new stats or change the rune descriptions.

Standard MMO development mechanic to obsolete old gear without the new stats to force people to grind gear with them .. seen before in games like WOW and LOTRO to name but two I’ve suffered in.

Sure, let’s assume that really is the case with this, then they should be changing the old runes to account for this. It’s misleading and makes people think “Hey we can totally use these runes! They probably changed it to be normal stats so runes like Divinity work on them!”. Alternatively, it’s just straight up confusing for newer players. What defines “all stats”. There’s no difference.

There’s so many things in terms of crafting and gear that they have just completely forgot to balance or fix. This is just one of them.