Q:
What Runes?
I use scholar, because the ferocity bonus is about 3% dps by itself, AND things aren’t always burning either, especially when I’m solo and/or running air/water instead of air/fire. (note I main d/w, not staff. d/w burns things less, and has higher crit chance)
I use Staff and it’s really easy to keep enemy burning all the time, way easier than keep my health above 90%(1 enemy hit and I lose like 20% or more and you can’t avoid everything). The only problem is this ferocity bonus which is nice indeed – 6.66% extra critical damage.