Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

So in light of the recent chrono nerfs, it seems that the general consensus would be to use Leadership runes now, right? I still have my Chronomancer runes slotted, which are now useless.

The thing is, I don’t have enough Crystalline Ore (or wvw Tokens) to even craft one rune right now, so it will be a long process before I am able to attain them.

I was wondering what would serve as a bridge rune while I work towards the Leadership runes. Something that may not be optimal but would be sufficient for general PvE/fractals/some casual raids?

I already have a full set of Commander’s gear, and was looking at Durability runes for the 20% boon duration. This is what I was looking at. The exotic trinkets are for the event that my party does not have a Revenant. I could then upkeep 100% boon duration without the Revenant, or food. Then I could use food that adds power and precision instead (would this be a viable idea?) This is what it would look like with a Revenant in party.

I plan on swapping all my gear to Zerk/Assassin once I have the Leadership runes, but I don’t really know what to use until then.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Edit:
I realize that I wouldn’t be able to use the Exotic trinkets in Fractals, so this is what my fractal build would look like with Durability runes. With the aid of food and nourishment, I would still be able to maintain 98.6% boon duration without a Revenant, and with Zerk trinkets.

you could go for runes of herald, which provide very high protection uptime if you consider heals in your usual rotations. And you also don’t lose out too much boon duration compared to durability. Durability is still a decent option ofc, and I wouldn’t say which one is better than the other.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

you could go for runes of herald, which provide very high protection uptime if you consider heals in your usual rotations. And you also don’t lose out too much boon duration compared to durability. Durability is still a decent option ofc, and I wouldn’t say which one is better than the other.

Thank you for your response! I did consider Herald runes, but I felt that the 5% difference in boon duration was actually rather significant, seeing as how I’m only looking at Durability for the boon duration and not the stats/effects themselves.

You may be overlooking 20% boon duration from food in that build OP.
edit: also commander weapons are a good option..

edit2: I’d rather take herald runes for the prot uptime over leadership runes.

It means you need a little more commander gear than if you use leadership, but it makes tanking a lot easier. Also the prot uptime will just make runs much smoother.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

You may be overlooking 20% boon duration from food in that build OP.
edit: also commander weapons are a good option..

edit2: I’d rather take herald runes for the prot uptime over leadership runes.

It means you need a little more commander gear than if you use leadership, but it makes tanking a lot easier. Also the prot uptime will just make runs much smoother.

Thanks for your input!

About the food, I’m trying to maintain 100% boon duration without the aid of food, and perhaps using offensive stat food instead. In my edit in the OP, I have a build with food.

DeathReign.7821:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

You may be overlooking 20% boon duration from food in that build OP.
edit: also commander weapons are a good option..

edit2: I’d rather take herald runes for the prot uptime over leadership runes.

It means you need a little more commander gear than if you use leadership, but it makes tanking a lot easier. Also the prot uptime will just make runs much smoother.

Thanks for your input!

About the food, I’m trying to maintain 100% boon duration without the aid of food, and perhaps using offensive stat food instead. In my edit in the OP, I have a build with food.

Yeah I failed at reading..

Use boon duration food. You sacrifice less investment in gear ( such as exo vs asc trinkets) will end up counteracting any gains you get from using power/prec food.

Food that adds power / precision / ferocity / % modifier are never able to make up what you lose by using so much commander gear.

It’s strongly suggest you use 20% or even 30% boon duration food. It’s a bit expensive I know, but you can also get those 10% utilities cheaper if you buy the recipe and craft ’em yourself.

Until your leadership set, juse use 4 times these and 2 platinum doubloons.

I’m in a hurry, I’ll help you out with more detailed information once I’m back home in ~5 hourse, maybe more :< see ya!

Xyonon.3987:

Food that adds power / precision / ferocity / % modifier are never able to make up what you lose by using so much commander gear.

It’s strongly suggest you use 20% or even 30% boon duration food. It’s a bit expensive I know, but you can also get those 10% utilities cheaper if you buy the recipe and craft ’em yourself.

Until your leadership set, juse use 4 times these and 2 platinum doubloons.

I’m in a hurry, I’ll help you out with more detailed information once I’m back home in ~5 hourse, maybe more :< see ya!

That’s actually a great idea! Thanks for that.

This would be what I’d have in mind with the rune mix you recommended. Comparing the stats, it actually looks pretty decent; the stats aren’t too drastically far from the leadership set I would use (assuming no Revenant in these builds).

The only notable difference (to my eye) is 11.7% crit damage, but I’m not sure how significant that actually is, seeing as how bad Chrono dps is anyway.

20% normal food is really cheap. You can craft the candy corn loaves with 70 toughness and 20% boon duration, or just buy some omnomnomberry stuff with 20% boon duration and magic find iirc for like 6s each.

Bountiful utility food is really expensive though. Those run close to 1g per use, so I personally don’t feel they’re anywhere even remotely near worth it.

Fay.2357:

20% normal food is really cheap. You can craft the candy corn loaves with 70 toughness and 20% boon duration, or just buy some omnomnomberry stuff with 20% boon duration and magic find iirc for like 6s each.

Bountiful utility food is really expensive though. Those run close to 1g per use, so I personally don’t feel they’re anywhere even remotely near worth it.

Jeeeeeez. 1g each is pretty freaking steep.

And thanks for the Omnomberry tip! Chocolate Omnomberry Creams go for 8 silver each according to wiki. I was using Fried Dumplings which were 20 silver a piece!

Go for superior rune of water, gives some healing and 20% boon duration. Other runes might seem more usefull but they give 10-15% duration at best. In any case only boon duration really matters. Ofc farm those leadership runes but until then its a nice budget/time option.

I assume many are tanking too; so herald and durability would > water.

Durability still has the issue of farming; albeit a little easier. But I mean if you have no lumps of aurillium may as well just grind for leadership or then go herald or water yeah.

Thank you all for your input! I’ve decided to go with Xyonon’s suggestion of 4 Traveler’s with 2 Platinum Doubloons due to the fact that it adds 3% more boon duration than 6x Durability/Water/Herald.

Thanks again for all the suggestions!