Guild Wars 2

Like the title says, is there any formula for discovering runes (like it is for items)?

Since most runes don’t really correlate well with their ingredients, blind combinations it is.

Most involve 1 refined material (bolt/ingot/square) and 1-2 lodestone bits (or one lodestone) or some other rare material (doubloons, etc). Some require a recipe sheet to be learned first.

most armor-making crafting professions will use various levels of lodestone bits to make those.

Aaa well that would be for the end game. I want to know if there’s a formula in general.

I mean, let’s say if, hypothetically, I would not have the wiki, how would I approach rune crafting other than blindly trying combinations?