Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I run 0/5/30/30/5, and I use traveler’s runes on my armor. My biggest enjoyment now stems from WvW roaming/dueling. I love the fact that I have +25% movement speed, but I want to push for more damage. I switched to traveler’s runes because I felt I didn’t connect w my opponents enough, and it has plenty of other perks as well (boon duration). I consider switching to damage runes like strength runes because I play very offensively. I realize the drop in movement speed would suck, but could I still effectively kill targets without the boost in speed?

If so, please explain how I could go about doing so w my current trait set-up. Thanks

I don’t really understand the question.
Just swap runes and go.
But I recommend you try it in spvp first, where it’s free.

The question is do other guardians find +25% movement speed invaluable enough where it is the go to rune for roaming/small group fights. I’m considering using other runes, but I’m not sure if being slow again will get me kills

Guardian have many swiftness. Traveler no need.

The permanence of the speed boost on the runes is better than the the F’ed up way staff gives you runspeed. Plus, traveler’s runes were actually buffed in the patch. I’m not sure you will get more kills for a few points more stats from other runes unless the set your considering has some effect that you take advantage of with your build.

Out of curiosity, mrauls, what sigils do you use?

Swap to what runes you like for damage then replace your oil with a “swift Moa feather” there 30s off the trading post, and the speed increase works out around 25% to, problem solved :P! It’s what I use

Traveler runes allow you to disengage or use some soft CC and catch the classes that can reset the fight and get away. Without speed our class has a lot of difficulty with people that can reset.

There are options like Twisted mentioned but has a solo roamer I’m not ready to ditch the traveler runes just yet. Like Obtena the nerf back in December or earlier was a game changer for symbol of swiftness and it is utterly worthless now(hey bad guy or girl who is chasing me to kill or mutilate my body, please stop when I do so I can cast this stupid symbol that grants me a few ticks of speed and the longer I stay in the longer my speed will last…yeah, not going to happen).

I use my travelers

then use 2s stones over the 30s feathers

If you use 180 of these feathers, you paid for the price of the rune set

And when you’re roaming, you’re medi, and when you’re medi you’re not using staff/retreat

Charak.9761:

I use my travelers

then use 2s stones over the 30s feathers

If you use 180 of these feathers, you paid for the price of the rune set

And when you’re roaming, you’re medi, and when you’re medi you’re not using staff/retreat

I am a medi guard, I use a mix of soldier and zerker, so for me, using runes of wurm is a big damage increase, over using stones and traveller runes, and with the feathers I keep my movement speed, I am willing to spend the extra gold for the better stats, this was never a question of what works out the best price wise, but what is best stat wise, using the feathers gives you a much wider range of choice for your runes

DrakoRoma.4167:

Out of curiosity, mrauls, what sigils do you use?

Energy and Accuracy :-)

I’m testing the rune that caught my eye in sPvP and it’s working very… interestingly

I’ve been testing a lot of rune sets since the patch removed the 15% boon stacking and I can honestly say nothing seems to work better than travelers. I find the 25% speed increase invaluable, the all stat increase nice enough and at least you keep 15% boon. Mybe I’m not delving far enough away from my pre-patch build and will change my mind, certaintly soldiers in always an option. Using feathers means a dps decrease and a crap load of gold in the long run, dont fancy that option much.

I’d say stick with the Travelers. I find the biggest problem we face is getting kited since we don’t really have too many cripples/chills/immobilises. Travelers lets you stick to your target like nothing else I’ve found and greatly improves your effectiveness in melee combat.