Guild Wars 2

What are your thoughts?

I’m talking from a meta 20/25/0/0/25 point of view.

It’s a good option but I still prefer scholar for an organized group. Guardians don’t get the benefits of the might duration that much in that case. For pugging using empower at the start of a fight and swapping out of it with these runes seems like a good choice though.

I saw that someone did the math for ruby orbs vs scholar, would love to see that done for this choice. The way I figure It’s consistency with strength, or more potential with scholar, have to say personally I’m leaning strength just because I’m not confident on the 90%+ thing.

I’m sticking with scholar, I can maintain the bonus 50-100% of most fights ^^

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I’m sticking with scholar, I can maintain the bonus 50-100% of most fights ^^

To be honest, Strength seems to pull ahead now even if you stay above 90% HP.
Never underestimate Might Duration… And otherwise it’s just 3% damage difference.

Evalia.7103:

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I’m sticking with scholar, I can maintain the bonus 50-100% of most fights ^^

To be honest, Strength seems to pull ahead now even if you stay above 90% HP.
Never underestimate Might Duration… And otherwise it’s just 3% damage difference.

And some ferocity isn’kitten although not sure how big an impact that has now.

travelers

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Evalia.7103:

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I’m sticking with scholar, I can maintain the bonus 50-100% of most fights ^^

To be honest, Strength seems to pull ahead now even if you stay above 90% HP.
Never underestimate Might Duration… And otherwise it’s just 3% damage difference.

It’s ~5 % damage difference, the ferocity on scholar is worth approximately 2 % damage. Besides, I don’t see where the might duration should help us so much – 6 or 8 seconds from VoJ activation is no big deal, focus 5 blasting yields only 3 stacks and staff 4 is … bad. I guess strength runes rock for LH eles, but otherwise?

Having done some math on it, it appears Stength runes require an additional 4-5 stacks of might (4 if not very buffed, 5 if fairly buffed by empower allies, banners, spotter, other might/fury stacks etc) to be active before it starts to out-dps Scholar.

Honestly I doubt 45% might duration will result in 4-5 more stacks of might. So it probably comes down to how confident you are in staying above 90% hp.

Also – when buffed properly (25 might), Scholar has a higher dps ceiling.

^ Well he does have 25 points in Virtues adding up on that 45% duration. But without a sigil of strength, it seems you’d need to invest points for Empowering Might as well