Guild Wars 2

When I made my ascended armor I went with Superior Rune of the Reaper because I regularly use shout skills and I enjoyed chilling foes (I am a PvE player btw). Now that there has been a nerf on our chilling damage, should I change out my runes? Or do my runes still work the way that they used to? I have noticed a difference since the Spring update, I am doing far less damage than I used to. I am considering getting some scholar runes instead. I know scholar runes are meta anyways, I am just curious if the 6th tier chilling boon is history because of the nerf.

Absolutely do it.

Reaper runes were only semi useful in pvp, and only cz one esl necro (prototype) used them at the start.

For pve they werent even great anyway, since 2 of the shouts already apllied long chills. Yes the durations have been nerfed, but now chill doesnt dmg anymore so youre only getting 1x 8s bleed out of it.

Scholar, srtength,pack or wurm with valkyregear in that order. pack is bad for raids tho, so id suggest either a cheap power one or save up the money for scholar/strength

if you play wvw, this is good also for the frontline shout build.

I have valk ascended, so scholar runes it is

I have full valks as well, I run rune of the wurm. Its cheaper than scholar and you can hardly tell a difference

I have all the components for scholar runes banked, so it was simply a matter of crafting them. Sure, I could have kept the charged cores for a rainy day, but I looked up and it seemed like it might rain soon, so I went with it.

I like these runes, I can see a big difference. I am doing pre-nerf damage, so that’s nice. I don’t fall down to that low health threshold very often, but when I do the boost is nice. I like these runes better than I like strength runes on my mesmer. I put those in her exotic armor, and I wasn’t impressed with them. I wish I had sold them…lol

Ophidia Moonstone.2587:

I have all the components for scholar runes banked, so it was simply a matter of crafting them. Sure, I could have kept the charged cores for a rainy day, but I looked up and it seemed like it might rain soon, so I went with it.

I like these runes, I can see a big difference. I am doing pre-nerf damage, so that’s nice. I don’t fall down to that low health threshold very often, but when I do the boost is nice. I like these runes better than I like strength runes on my mesmer. I put those in her exotic armor, and I wasn’t impressed with them. I wish I had sold them…lol

the boost isnt below 90% its above 90%, its a dps loss if you go under 90%.

Even better! No wonder I am seeing such an improvement.