Guild Wars 2

When I first heard about the classes in Guild Wars 2 I made my mind up that I was going to play an Engineer. When I pick up mmorpgs I usually only have time to dedicate to 1 character and MAYBE an ALT. It was an innocent decision because I was under the assumption that all classes would be balanced to play however we wanted (based on the skills you chose). I figured Pistol Engineers main skills and tools deal w/ condition damage so I should focus on that.

I was ignorant to how condition damage worked and didn’t realize at the end of the day my condition damage really didn’t matter when playing with other people who deal condition damage. I didn’t know condition damage was worthless compared to direct damage. I am running a full Superior Rune of Nightmare Set. According to others, I wasted my time.

I took a long break from GW2. I felt like the class I spent my time learning to use and building out was looked over and there were no plans by ArenaNet to rectify how condition damage worked (among other reasons).

tl;dr
What Superior Rune set would be best for me to replace Superior Rune of the Nightmare? I like shooting my pistols, swapping to grenades or mines, I love the Toolkit and occasionally throwing down turrets.

Use this for starters:
http://www.guildwars2hub.com/guides/basics/rune-guide

listing of what runes do:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune

You´re also believing the hype much too much.

In the usual open world Zergs and at times even in WvW conditions do get capped and unless you provide some arcane ones that part IS useless.
Well though luck for everybody else and you may end up with silver or bronze from time to time. So what.
But this game has much more to offer than the boring Zerg and conditions then become very viable and worthwhile again.

Don´t get too disheartened by the min-maxer – OMG! N00b Zerker>all! – crowd.
Just do your thing and experiment, with different classes even.
To me this diversity outside of the boring Tanker/Healer/DPS gameplay IS the main plus of this game.

Condition damage is great fun, ya just gotta learn how to apply the right kinds at the right time—maybe not your gameplay style—in which case, you might need to roll a new character. (It doesn’t take long, especially if you’ve done a lot of ‘ground work’ with your Engineer main already)

Oh and also no need to kill the runes in your current set.
Just buy yourself another inventory slot and get to work on a new armor-set with different stats and runes.
The Power/Toughness/Vitality karma-store gear from the Orrian Temples is always a good backup set to have.

MrDmajor.7084:

When I first heard about the professions in Guild Wars 2 I made my mind up that I was going to play an Engineer. When I pick up mmorpgs I usually only have time to dedicate to 1 character and MAYBE an ALT. It was an innocent decision because I was under the assumption that all professions would be balanced to play however we wanted (based on the skills you chose). I figured Pistol Engineers main skills and tools deal w/ condition damage so I should focus on that.

Fixed. There are no classes in this game, only professions.

Try WvW. Conditions are effective there.

If you go for some kind of HGH engineer with Rabid armor set, the might stacks you get combined with the high precision of the Rabid set means you’ll still be doing good direct damage with the grenade kit in the advent that your conditions are replaced.