Guild Wars 2

Up until the April 14th patch I played a boon duration Guardian in WvW. Gear is all Knight’s and Berserker, Staff and Greatsword with Altruistic Healing and Pure of Voice. Shouts for boons, cure conditions, boons last forever, might on critical hits, stability for days, was great times.

Now boon duration is not viable and I need a new set of runes. It also seems a lot of the runes have changed drastically.

What would you guys recommend for playing in a 10-15 man WvW? What runes do you guys use?

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melandru

if you are poor then hoelbrack.

set of water runes provides you 20% boon duration.

Rune of the Pack if you have high boon duration from traits. The price is increasing right now because more people now realized it’s very good.

Rune of the pack, rune of strength, rune of flame legion- mediation or shout Dps. Flame legion I feel needs defenders flame IMO it shines with that trait and gets you the burn uptime to use the modifier.

I have a set with pack and strength prefer strength tried flame legion today and thought it was great for a cheaper strength alternative.

Melandru or hoelbrak for condition management.

Citadel also isn’t the worst for loads of fury, but that should be your “no one gives me fury and I only have 20silver”.

Traveller… now move away from the shouts.. do it slowly..

I to used boon duration which gave the the constant swiftness but shout build seems meh since the nerf. Lets be honest, 90% of the shout builds out there suddenly lost 30%, 30% !!! usefulness from any boon, and shouts are all about boons. Even stand your ground seems a bit naff, still good for stomping or a quick run though a zerg, but forgive me if i don’t cheer due to total utopia. Its hard to beat that 25% faster run now and coupled with meds you get a nice teleport thrown in should fancy it. Sorry I went a bit of topic there, but it kinda part n parcel, yea you boon duration sucks now so yea so do boon duration shout builds.