Guild Wars 2

One thing that has always frustrated me with the Guardian is how easily you can be kited. Even if you go GS + Sword + Judge’s Intervention, without any CC or Swiftness they can just run.

With 6x Superior Rune of the Pack + “Retreat” + Superior Aria (shout cooldown decrease) you have essentially 100% uptime on Swiftness.

Using that rune is still good for damage too. You get 125 Precision and 175 Power.

Does anyone else use this?

I definitely use it. In fact, If you use just Retreat and Superior Aria (Shout cooldown reduction), you end up with an effective 25% (24.X%) speed increase.

For pack runes as a whole, 175 Power and 125 Prec are good stats, and the aoe Might, Fury, and Swiftness is excellent, especially if a lot of people in the zerg are running it.

Yes, Pack is an extremely good rune. I’d recommend using Pack over Traveler and Speed in a majority of scenarios in wvw. Also in pvp it’s used on most medi builds.

Pack is optimal for most situation with its 50% uptime on fury thats shared with allies, not to mention stats. I feel like for a roamer guard either pack or traveler runes must be present. However i think wasting a trait and utility for movement is sacricing a huge deal. The reason we get kited os because some builds have more gap openers than our closers. The best thing you can do is try not to miss binding blade and use your other three gap closers cleverly.

Eh I put here a 200 words long answer and the forum just ate it…

Pack is good…

Speed and Traveller are selfish rune sets. They give you constant speed with zero support and offensive stats.

In a group where even little source of swiftness is available the Pack outshines the Speed and the Traveller.

Aggrostemma.1703:

Speed and Traveller are selfish rune sets. They give you constant speed with zero support and offensive stats.

In a group where even little source of swiftness is available the Pack outshines the Speed and the Traveller.

Aggrostemma.1703:

Speed and Traveller are selfish rune sets. They give you constant speed with zero support and offensive stats.

In a group where even little source of swiftness is available the Pack outshines the Speed and the Traveller.

Pack Runes do indeed outshine Travelers and Speed Runes by a wide margin, in most game modes. Though Traveler’s and speed are mainly put on WvW roaming builds, so you don’t feel like a turtle moving from point A to B or keeping up with other players trying to kite you. Sure Pack Runes give you swiftness, though its stripable and requires you to get hit. Traveler’s does not have that problem and is active 100% of the time.