Guild Wars 2

Returning for season 3 of living story after a long earned break.

Main question: Scholars Versus Strength Runes. I know that still exists to this date so I want some inputs on what the better rune is for zerk reapers. I use dagger/warhorn and GS too.

Oh and I guess i should mention trait lines: Spite, Soul Reaping, Reaper. Spite for might and close to death, SR for vulnerability and extra reaper time, Reaper for reaping.

Well, the main question is still: Scholar or Strength runes?

What area of the game?

If PvP/WvW, Strength.

If PvE, Scholar.

Why?

In PvP/WvW, you will rarely be above 90% health and you will likely be receiving Might from other players if you are in a group. With Strength runes, it will be easy to maintain multiple stacks of Might, probably up to 25 stacks if you’re in a zerg. Your health will fluctuate a lot while you’re taking damage during fights but you will maintain the +5% damage from the Strength runes’ sixth bonus as well as many stacks of Might.

In PvE, you will certainly take damage but in many cases, it’s a lot easier to stay above 90% health with intelligent footing. As long as you’re familiar with what you’re fighting, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about being in critical shape maybe with the exception of raids. So you should be able to keep the +10% damage boost active quite often.

For the record, I use Scholar runes on my Necromancer for PvE and I don’t run Berserker gear in WvW.