Guild Wars 2

What runes do most people run? In this condi spam meta I was thinking either hoelbrak or melandru, but traveler mobility also seems nice. Any ideas?

Most people run power runes when it comes to med Guard. Strength, Hoelbrak, Scholar, Pack, Flame Legion, and Citadel are all viable choices. I personally like running Speed. I prefer Speed over Traveler because the vitality boost.

www hoelbrak lemongrass and swift moa feather are great alltho suuuperexpencive
spvp speed

If you go Meditation in WvW you will need to choose either Traveler/Speed Runes, Moa Feathers or a Scepter…
Don’t want Traveler/Speed Runes? Use Moa feathers or wield a Scepter. Don’t want to wield A scepter? Use Moa feathers or Traveler/Speed Runes etc etc, it’s a vicious circle. Otherwise you’ll end up in situation where you’re just walking after a guy kiting you eating his attacks watching your own heals and meditations go on cooldowns while he will barely be using anything beside his autoattack

Melandru Runes combined with Lemongrass food just works wonders against all these condition builds, but just don’t forget to dig out that mobility from somewhere

Vikkela.7261:

If you go Meditation in WvW you will need to choose either Traveler/Speed Runes, Moa Feathers or a Scepter…
Don’t want Traveler/Speed Runes? Use Moa feathers or wield a Scepter. Don’t want to wield A scepter? Use Moa feathers or Traveler/Speed Runes etc etc, it’s a vicious circle. Otherwise you’ll end up in situation where you’re just walking after a guy kiting you eating his attacks watching your own heals and meditations go on cooldowns while he will barely be using anything beside his autoattack

Melandru Runes combined with Lemongrass food just works wonders against all these condition builds, but just don’t forget to dig out that mobility from somewhere

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I was just thinking of GS+Sword/whatever for 3 blink pressure. I don’t mind scepter, I used to run it on my old build, so I may pick it up again to see how that works.

Runes of the Pack have ~50% uptime on swiftness and fury, along with 175 power and 125 precision. You get to keep some of the dps runes offer, along with some uptime on combat mobility we need so desperately. Not entirely reliable as you need to get hit for the swiftness, but it’s the best middle ground imo.

Beats losing a utility for retreat or using traveler and hitting our dps.

Traveler’s.

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Aoko.3562:

Vikkela.7261:

If you go Meditation in WvW you will need to choose either Traveler/Speed Runes, Moa Feathers or a Scepter…
Don’t want Traveler/Speed Runes? Use Moa feathers or wield a Scepter. Don’t want to wield A scepter? Use Moa feathers or Traveler/Speed Runes etc etc, it’s a vicious circle. Otherwise you’ll end up in situation where you’re just walking after a guy kiting you eating his attacks watching your own heals and meditations go on cooldowns while he will barely be using anything beside his autoattack

Melandru Runes combined with Lemongrass food just works wonders against all these condition builds, but just don’t forget to dig out that mobility from somewhere

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I was just thinking of GS+Sword/whatever for 3 blink pressure. I don’t mind scepter, I used to run it on my old build, so I may pick it up again to see how that works.

Blinks dont matter, w/o a soft cc they disengage and kite you.

In spvp it’s almost mandatory you use power runes like Strength or Rage or Ogre otherwise you don’t have enough dmg

Booms.2594:

In spvp it’s almost mandatory you use power runes like Strength or Rage or Ogre otherwise you don’t have enough dmg

aye

I use strength but when in doubt Runes of the Pack.

Charak.9761:

Aoko.3562:

Vikkela.7261:

If you go Meditation in WvW you will need to choose either Traveler/Speed Runes, Moa Feathers or a Scepter…
Don’t want Traveler/Speed Runes? Use Moa feathers or wield a Scepter. Don’t want to wield A scepter? Use Moa feathers or Traveler/Speed Runes etc etc, it’s a vicious circle. Otherwise you’ll end up in situation where you’re just walking after a guy kiting you eating his attacks watching your own heals and meditations go on cooldowns while he will barely be using anything beside his autoattack

Melandru Runes combined with Lemongrass food just works wonders against all these condition builds, but just don’t forget to dig out that mobility from somewhere

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I was just thinking of GS+Sword/whatever for 3 blink pressure. I don’t mind scepter, I used to run it on my old build, so I may pick it up again to see how that works.

Blinks dont matter, w/o a soft cc they disengage and kite you.

Won’t that still happen with the full cripple/chill durations that will be on you with traveler’s?

Aoko.3562:

Charak.9761:

Aoko.3562:

Vikkela.7261:

If you go Meditation in WvW you will need to choose either Traveler/Speed Runes, Moa Feathers or a Scepter…
Don’t want Traveler/Speed Runes? Use Moa feathers or wield a Scepter. Don’t want to wield A scepter? Use Moa feathers or Traveler/Speed Runes etc etc, it’s a vicious circle. Otherwise you’ll end up in situation where you’re just walking after a guy kiting you eating his attacks watching your own heals and meditations go on cooldowns while he will barely be using anything beside his autoattack

Melandru Runes combined with Lemongrass food just works wonders against all these condition builds, but just don’t forget to dig out that mobility from somewhere

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I was just thinking of GS+Sword/whatever for 3 blink pressure. I don’t mind scepter, I used to run it on my old build, so I may pick it up again to see how that works.

Blinks dont matter, w/o a soft cc they disengage and kite you.

Won’t that still happen with the full cripple/chill durations that will be on you with traveler’s?

It will happen either way.

The only thing medi guard is good against is melee & idiots too stupid to kite.

VS any ranged enemy with half a brain you will die because they will kite you.

The only time ^ that is not true is when you have an ally who can provide an over abundance of cripple/immobilize/chill on said enemy thus allowing you to stay on them.

Hopefully someday Arena.net realize this and add a 3 second cripple onto the sword #2 & greatsword #3. (or make Glacial Heart work with all weapons)
Until then bring an ally with a ton of CC or be prepared to pillar hump or die vs anything with ranged & two brain cells to rub together.

Everyone seems to agree that vs ranger opponents you will die, than why don’t you use scepter? I will roam wvw with gs/scepter+focus, not only the scepter has a great combo of skill 3+2 but you can spam those orbs and keep the pressure up until your leap or Judge’s Intervention come out of CD, i really don’t see the big deal here, i mean in spvp i kept bigger pressure with the scepter on a range class than him on me, i don’t see it as a big problem here, plus once those 2 skills comes off cd and you can close the gap you will probably burst him to death.

Hyperion.4638:

Everyone seems to agree that vs ranger opponents you will die, than why don’t you use scepter? I will roam wvw with gs/scepter+focus, not only the scepter has a great combo of skill 3+2 but you can spam those orbs and keep the pressure up until your leap or Judge’s Intervention come out of CD, i really don’t see the big deal here, i mean in spvp i kept bigger pressure with the scepter on a range class than him on me, i don’t see it as a big problem here, plus once those 2 skills comes off cd and you can close the gap you will probably burst him to death.

Because any competent enemy will simply strafe back and forth.

If they do that & are more then 600 units away around half maybe more of the orbs will miss them because they move so slow & have no homing on them.

As for the number 2, ya the damage is nice if you can get them to stand still for about 3-4 seconds but that rarely happens.
It’s damage just takes too long to deal out.

If Im roaming, Im going camp to camp, so sword will always be on me

its funny how range type classes can kite you but rangers are still easy kills as medi

New Sigil and Runes are coming.
What do you think of criple on crit and on dodge? Evasion runes give criple on dodge and 6th bonus and Ferocity has main stat. They also give Fury and Swifness for 5 secs