Guild Wars 2

I like tagging things with my loot stick (as I’m sure many people do); but I love doing AoE fire damage with both Permeating Wrath and Sigil of fire for possibly even more tags.

What runes have people found to be most effective for tons of enemy-tagging in farming? What skills and build work best?

Just curious to see what others have discovered.

Something that gives movement speed if nothing else.

If I were to make a build purely for farming, it’d probably look like this http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW7fnkICtChNDBWCBEEhD9hKHFbYIafgOoPrBQSOuA-TVSEABIcEACZ/BSVCKiuBAM/BkyvCeAAxo+jAXEASBAxaA-w

The idea is to just whack things with your loot stick and burninate everything. Every VoJ proc will cause a 7s aoe burn at ~540 a tick. This allows you to quickly fire and forget, knowing your burning will last until either they’re dead, or until you’ve dealt enough damage for the tag.

Sc+T is there for boss like figures (Orr farming, the metallic bosses in SW, etc), and will stack quite a bit of might for you. Litany will probably make you immortal for its duration due to how much burning you can deal. FMW gives the always useful Quickness and fury for uber tagging, and the other skills give you stab+stun break, condi removal (and more burn), and more condi damage.

Full carrion (because it’s cheap and accessible. Sinister also works perfectly, Rampager is alright) allows you to enhance condition damage while providing enough power to help tag mobs that evaporate. Speed sigils give you more swiftness than you could ever want, fire helps tagging and strength helps might stacks. Balth runes because burning.

Radiance gives 30% crit (enough for procs), and extra burn sources, damage, and duration
Virtues let’s your VoJ do all the work, and Zeal enhances what it can.

This kind of build is really just for farming, though it might possibly be retooled for zerg fighting too. The key is to light everything on fire, allowing you to let things burn while you tag other mobs. If mobs are dying before burn can really tick, there’s nothing really that can save you. On bosses you should easily be able to hit 25+ burn stacks, and maybe even might, ensuring significant damage throughout the fight.

Now get out there and make Rodgort proud.