Guild Wars 2

So, while we are underwater. We utilize a breathing apparatus. (With very poor choices and options for stats I must say. Anet, get on this and make them craftable with exotics and stat combinations that don’t suck for a guardian. Condition damage? Really?…)

If you put a rune on it, it shows 7/6 if you have the same rune on all.

My question:

If I have a full set of armor with soldier runes, do I have to put a soldier rune on the rebreather to retain the shout’s curing conditions, or am I free to stick a random rune for some more power/precision without losing the benefit?

I can’t find any posts about such things, and the wiki doesn’t seem to help with that either (Or I can’t find it.)

It has to be the same rune as your helm to retain the bonus.

Bottom of the first paragraph: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune

I must be blind and missed that.

I questioned because of the 7/6 listed when I have 7 runes of the soldier equipped.

Now if I can just get Anet to give me a P/P/T version of the rebreather…

Thank you.

No problem! Yeah, the 7/6 thing is annoying and even worse when you have the same runes in your sPVP gear. It’s possible for it to say 14/6 if you have the same runes in every slot. Terrible bug.

Yeah, that is certainly confusing…but Toxyn has it right. You really do need at least 7 runes.

Also, Guardians with Condition Damage isn’t all that bad. You do burn every 5th hit, after all.

I don’t even wear aquabreathers anymore. #winning

Don’t you drown if you don’t wear an aquabreather?
I haven’t tried it. I just assumed this would be the case.

No. Breath wasn’t ever implemented into the game so not having an aquabreather doesn’t do anything