Guild Wars 2

Plan to load up my zerker (who usually focuses on DPS and therefore fire) with a complete rune set. What’s the best for general PvE including fractals, farming, living world, champ runs, WvW and generally all around.

Divinity? (expensive)
Strength?
Power?
Fire?
Elementalist?
Some other one?

Probably divinity would be the best choice but I’m using strenght cause it’s cheaper and I combine it with sigel of battle so I have the 5% extra damage always.

Divinity or scholar would be my top choices. Unless you want to be really cheap and jsut slap a few ruby orbs in your armor. I bit the bullet and dropped the cash for full divinity for my burst spec and don’t regret it at all.

dunno about the runes that aren’t available in pvp, but ogre is best for doing damage. and the rock dog it summons does a lot of damage too
divinity gives less damage but gives more defense.
divinity’s defense advantage is greater than ogre’s damage advantage, but that’s without considering the rock dog

Ogre or Scholar

Unless you are using staff the “dps element” is air.

Scholars are the best choice.

Isn’t the 6/6 runes of strength bugged? Wiki does not say it is but I have not seen confirmation anywhere.

Scholar Runes for sure

Zelyhn.8069:

Unless you are using staff the “dps element” is air.

Scholars are the best choice.

Isn’t the 6/6 runes of strength bugged? Wiki does not say it is but I have not seen confirmation anywhere.

What makes you think it’s bugged?

I don’t suggest Scholar runes at all, because as the glassiest of the glass cannon out there, you will rarely keep your health above 90%.

I think it really depend on your trait setup. i use rune of ranger because i am lacking crit chances due to my setup.

rainynoble.6531:

I don’t suggest Scholar runes at all, because as the glassiest of the glass cannon out there, you will rarely keep your health above 90%.

I think it really depend on your trait setup. i use rune of ranger because i am lacking crit chances due to my setup.

You only need to keep it for about 25% of the time to get a better boost than ruby orbs. Besides, they promote better play (damage avoidance and keeping your health up). But Ranger runes are good too, the 6th bonus is bugged so you always get the 5% boost.

rainynoble.6531:

I don’t suggest Scholar runes at all, because as the glassiest of the glass cannon out there, you will rarely keep your health above 90%.

I think it really depend on your trait setup. i use rune of ranger because i am lacking crit chances due to my setup.

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn’t being the glassiest of the glass cannons mean that you are either at full health or dead with very little in-between?

Wouldn’t that make Scholar runes even more effective since if you are not above 90% health you would go into “Oh KITTEN!!” mode and try to heal up and thus get the 10% damage buff back right away?

Am I missing something here?

Completely on the money there Da Beetus.

I’d rather not stop doing damage if I don’t have to
if I’m at 70% health, I’d rather keep attacking than waste time healing

A Zerk Ele isn’t gonna go to 70% usually though, they’re either at full, dead, or very close to dead.

Da Beetus.1275:

rainynoble.6531:

I don’t suggest Scholar runes at all, because as the glassiest of the glass cannon out there, you will rarely keep your health above 90%.

I think it really depend on your trait setup. i use rune of ranger because i am lacking crit chances due to my setup.

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn’t being the glassiest of the glass cannons mean that you are either at full health or dead with very little in-between?

Wouldn’t that make Scholar runes even more effective since if you are not above 90% health you would go into “Oh KITTEN!!” mode and try to heal up and thus get the 10% damage buff back right away?

Am I missing something here?

Mob’s weak auto attack and condition damage will often drop your health below 90% and that is, in most zerker ele’s case, around 1k-2k hp loss. that is very difficult to maintain because are you going to waste heal and dps time or are you going to keep dpsing? i assume most zerker players are into speed runs and stacking method, believe me, you will be cleaved below 90% all the time. regardless of your trait and weapon choice.

It is also very dependent on your own skill to avoid damage/ maintain health and your group’s support. i pug alot so i know i can’t go all out and still perform top tier compares to organized groups who is able to give me aegis, condition removal etc. when needed.

Ephemeral.5409:

rainynoble.6531:

I don’t suggest Scholar runes at all, because as the glassiest of the glass cannon out there, you will rarely keep your health above 90%.

I think it really depend on your trait setup. i use rune of ranger because i am lacking crit chances due to my setup.

You only need to keep it for about 25% of the time to get a better boost than ruby orbs. Besides, they promote better play (damage avoidance and keeping your health up). But Ranger runes are good too, the 6th bonus is bugged so you always get the 5% boost.

I think playing zerker ele in general teaches you how to avoid damage lol. further increase the difficulty won’t really teaches newbies.

when i started out with ele in dungeon i played with boon duration runes and ptv gear, eventually i exchanged ptv with ppc and other offensive runes because i know the places inside out and was able to anticipate killing moves.

When anet introduces new pve stuff i always switch back to ptv. because knowledge is 50% of the battle.

Bsgapollo.5364:

Zelyhn.8069:

Unless you are using staff the “dps element” is air.

Scholars are the best choice.

Isn’t the 6/6 runes of strength bugged? Wiki does not say it is but I have not seen confirmation anywhere.

What makes you think it’s bugged?

It has been bugged for a long time I just looked at the Wiki so I’ll ask in the bug forum and see if it was fixed but not in patch notes. Otherwise it still is bugged and has been for a long time.

I always wanted to use that rune but it was/is bugged. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-superior-rune-of-strength-is-bugged

The wiki has changed doesn’t say it is bugged so maybe it was fixed.

Ruby orbs for wvw, scholar for strictly pve I would say.

Kamui.3150:

A Zerk Ele isn’t gonna go to 70% usually though, they’re either at full, dead, or very close to dead.

scholar runes are the best choice for zerk ele.

OneManArmy.9732:

Kamui.3150:

A Zerk Ele isn’t gonna go to 70% usually though, they’re either at full, dead, or very close to dead.

scholar runes are the best choice for zerk ele.

Agreed, I’ve been reluctant to use them myself…swapped to Scholar runes lately and it’s lovely. With practice and difficult content, keeping your HP high isn’t an issue – it’s often either high enough for me or I’m dead, anyways.

Helps that the best-feeling build for my favorite weapon (staff) takes 10 in water for 10% additional damage when over 90% health as well, though.

Ranger runes are bugged and the six bonus procs all the time

FrownyClown.8402:

Ranger runes are bugged and the six bonus procs all the time

Spike coming to the price of Ranger runes.

Market manipulation?

I flip them all the time actually