Guild Wars 2

I know a lot of the runes get very little love, so I was wondering what are the current most popular runes to run for:

DPS? Bunkering? Roaming?

And which class do you play with said runes?

Here are two posts that show tournament builds.

Master’s of the Mists
Top GW2 Tournament Builds

That site isn’t even accurate on my build…

Probably divinity,scholar, eagle and ogre for dps
Undead for cond dmg
Monk, Earth, Mercy (Well there is actually a ton of different viable sets) for bunkers

imo

Lets do this:

Elementalist:
Bunker – 2 runes of monk, 2 runes of water, 2 runes of earth/dwayna/divinity
6 Runes of the Forge

DPS: 6 runes of divinity
2 runes of monk, 2 runes of water, 2 runes of divinity/earth/dwayna
6 Runes of the Ogre
6 runes of the Scholar

Engineer:
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Guardian:
Bunker: 6 Runes of the Soldier
6 Runes of Melandru
6 Runes of Lyssa

Mesmer:
Shatter: 6 Runes of the Scholar
6 runes of the divinity
5 Runes of the scholar, 1 rune of the eagle
6 Runes of the Ogre

Necromancer:
Power Wells: Runes of the Ogre
Runes of the Adventurer
Runes of the Nightmare

Condition:
6 Runes of the Nightmare
6 Runes of the Undead
4 Runes of the Undead, 2 runes of the krait

Ranger:
Traps: 6 Runes of the Undead
Beastmaster: 6 Runes of the Forge
6 Runes of the Dwayna

Thief:
Perma Evade: 6 Runes of the Lyssa
Backstab: 6 Runes of the Scholar
6 Runes of the Divinity
6 Runes of the Ogre

Warrior:
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Unsure about Engineer and Warrior atm, but if someone could fill that in for me while I’m at school that’d be great

In terms of engineer, these are what I typically run-

Conditions:
-4 nightmare/ 2 lyssa

HGH Conditions:
-4 nightmare/ 2 lyssa
-2 hoelbrak/ 2 fire/ 2 strength

Static Discharge/ Power-Crit Rifle:
-6 Divinity

Condition Bunker:
-6 Undead

On my MM Necro I run 4x Vamp 2x Svanir…

Some more runes for Eles ;

6x Superior runes of Earth
6x Superior runes of Divinity
6x Superior runes of Dolyak
6x Superior runes of Melandru
6x Superior runes of the Grove.

Even 6x Superior runes of vampirism also works too

I have runes of divinity on Ele.

Earth is kinda meh. Rather only use 2 or use Forge

Dolyak, sure.
Melandru, in the current meta not overly
Grove….meh
Vampirism: no. I dont think this is a viable rune choice in all honesty. Its ok but….not as useful as the others.

It works as an MM Necro. Random 975 damage life steals? I’m down for that.

DXIEdge.2789:

I have runes of divinity on Ele.

Earth is kinda meh. Rather only use 2 or use Forge

Dolyak, sure.
Melandru, in the current meta not overly
Grove….meh
Vampirism: no. I dont think this is a viable rune choice in all honesty. Its ok but….not as useful as the others.

The reason for earth being in the list due to the fact it an give an extra aura to proc with Air 1,so u have easier time to keep permanent swiftness and fury. Some extra toughness is a bonus too

Melandru is better than meh,with the current meta all about AoE conditions spam. Not that great but it deserve some notic.

Grove is about the root, it makes opponent lose tempo of the fight in a very hard expected way. No one would expect you run Grove runes to start with, plus the root make your burst easier to land with CE and BGrasp. Healing is also scale very well with Eles too. So it is a plus plus.

Vampism is funny though, it is average in my opinion, but for some fun, it is good to annoy people, though sometimes it does save me from a certain death. And leech Heath oh yeah, yummy)

Some bunker engineer use 4x earth 2x Grove or 4x grove 2x earth (30% protection duration + gain protection when hit) thats with Protective Shield and Protection Injection traits is a lot of def.

A lot of good stuff here, thanks alot guys