Guild Wars 2

On the armor runes that state that an effect has a 5% chance to trigger when hit, does that mean when I, the player, hit something? Or when something damages me?

I haven’t been able to find a clear answer to this question.

“When hit” refers to an attack successfully hitting you. Therefore those 5% proc chances might happen more often when hordes of weak mobs are hitting you at the same time, but it’s rather worthless against a Champion mob when you’re just dodging their few mega hits.

Now some Runes like the Rata Sum have a 50% proc chance when hit. I could see that proc rate actually being useful, even though I dislike the recast timer on that proc. However most of the 5% proc Runes are very unpopular since they’re so hard to trigger and rather unpredictable in terms of their game performance.

Well that is a bummer, makes it less fun now :/