Guild Wars 2

Is there anyway to remove runes from gear short of salvaging it and thus destroying the item?

I don’t think so, but I wasted roughly 50s PER RUNE buying a Dwayna set for my healing/support WvW build (which was my favorite thing to do in the game) and will now be re-gearing and re-runing in light of the recent patch changes. Stacking +healing was worth it when I could pump out a lot of heals, but since that’s been removed from the table (my +healing stat doesn’t benefit the heals generated by other players blast finishers, and regen has a very poor healing coefficient) I see no reason to kitten myself so harshly in other areas.

Along these lines, anyone have any suggestions for a new rune/build setup for primarily WvW and solo PvE? I will likely run D/D in PvE (to keep the playstyle interesting), but losing out on the long range AOE of a staff in WvW is gonna hurt (I already switched to D/D when roaming and small-group hunting in WvW, but always used a staff for keep sieging/defense). Thoughts are appreciated.