Guild Wars 2

Now that the they fixed the quickness buff on these runes… is it just me or are these extremely good for guardian now. Like pretty much the best runes for guardian damagey builds.
When you hit 20% hp you just use the quickness to heal and then have like 4secs left to wreck things with like 4-5 mobs on you with NO DOWNSIDE to the quickness. Plus it aoe burns when you use your heal? GG.

Any thoughts?

For Outdoor..yeah.
For Dungeons, not really.

I honestly think they’re even better for dungeons o_o Having quickness when you’re low…
Just think… get under 20%, pop heal or if you don’t have heal, pop Tome of Courage and superheal whole group while under quickness

just switch to shelter…and block everything while healing.
isn’t that what it’s for?
i don’t get where this ‘quickness heal’ idea come from.
Tome of courage as a burst heal is a decent application… but considering that Inspired Virtue Spam chained with Renewed Focus takes half the time …

If you hit a 5sec quickness and then popped ToC you would NOT die lmao… throw down passify, a few smaller heals, and then 2.5sec full heal for the whole group. Point is, the quickness effect plus the other stats on the runes as a whole is a slam dunk in my opinion for a more damage-oriented guardian build.
It even gives 3.45 more seconds of burning that you can stack on more to if you use the 10% more damage to burning targets.

It’s 5secs of haste and and roughly 10secs of burning every 90secs. And usually when you hit 20% hp you’ve already dodged a few times I’ve found and you’re on your last leg to survive. Iunno, seems redic good to me. I just can’t find anything else that seems like it would be as useful.

I still wouldn’t use ToC in dungeons except in some situation where spamming heals is more important than doing damage.

Renewed Focus cooldown makes it possible to spam it in boss fights consistently.
You’re triggering so many boons not to yourself but your allies as well compared to burst healing over 20 seconds where damage stops completely cause your hot bar is occupied with ToC 5 skills and utility slots disappear.

If they made utility stay during the Tome activation – I wouldn’t hate it so much. 20 seconds is a lot of recharges done.

Shelter – Renewed Focus chain is like a 5 second block
If you pair it with 6 x Rune of Lyssa set, that’ll trigger a complete condition cleanse and all boons for 5 seconds granted every 90 second. That’s like another version of Save Yourselves at your command.

And burning when healing – is probably the last thing I’ll thing I’ll promote this set for.

I find that ToC is much more useful. A: 90sec cooldown isn’t spammable, and usually pulling a group out of a really tight spot with quick heals and protection on a bossfight makes things go easier. I run with premade groups usually though and the only time we are having trouble is when something randomly goes terribly wrong and burst healing is the key to saving the situation and turning it around. shrug

But that said, the runes still work really well with Renewed focus for popping it quicker and doing way more dps while invulnerable and up in the face of the mobs.

Having all boons while invuln is almost a waste, clearing conditions isn’t really something that guadians need considering they can already do it in so many ways, and conditions aren’t even that problematic if you know how to avoid them.

AoE 3sec burn isn’t anything to turn your nose at when it makes your entire spin do 10% more damage to all mobs around you.

“A 90sec cooldown isn’t spammable, and usually pulling a group out of a really tight spot with quick heals and protection on a bossfight makes things go easier. "

Because you take down bosses in like…2 minutes?
And your group can wait for burst heals every 4 minutes?

And every 30 seconds, I’m obligated to spam my heal – … just to dps?
There’s a lot of things that ‘seems right in principle’ but when put under practice…doesn’t seem practical.

A haste every 90 seconds meant your healing won’t even get the ‘hasted’ benefit every time.

And getting down to 20% HP mark every 90 second isn’t something to plan for. It’s something to avoid happening in the first place. I brought up Rune of Lyssa as an example of something you can do ‘on demand’ not something you rely on ‘internal cooldown’ with no control over (90 second) and ‘having less than 21% HP’ to occur.

“Having all boons while invuln is almost a waste, "

No, but it sure does making sure you live and kick kitten easier than hoping nobody knocks you down when you trigger that ‘survival haste sequence’ because the Lyssa boon includes Vigor, Stability, Protection, Regeneration, and the works.

sigh You obviously didn’t get the purpose of this post. Lmao

Lmao. I don’t. Really.

It’s okay though, not every opportunity works out -_-

Did i tell you about the warrior? They get haste when the enemy is 25% HP and below.
Maybe you can counter that trait, Xeno-bro.

Were you trying to talk up Runes of Balthazar on the TP, Xeno?

If your build was worth a crap, you would rarely hit 20% HP in PVE anyways. I love haste but the implementation in the rune is almost worthless. While it appears good for dungeons, I don’t tend to build around the chance that I’m near death, I build to avoid that situation in the first place.