Guild Wars 2

I use ranger runes on my ranger and the bonus #6 that gives +7% dmg while having an active companion is deactivated underwater, while it’s lit up on land.

Is this a bug or intended? And has anyone else found this to be the case?

Does your Aqua Breather have the rune?

Lazze.9870:

Does your Aqua Breather have the rune?

Ugh darn, no it doesn’t, i forgot aqua breather replaces the helmet under water so geez, we have to have 7 runes!. Well tnx for pointing that out, i’ll see if that fixes it.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Lazze.9870:

Does your Aqua Breather have the rune?

Ugh darn, no it doesn’t, i forgot aqua breather replaces the helmet under water so geez, we have to have 7 runes!. Well tnx for pointing that out, i’ll see if that fixes it.

Technically everybody has to have 7 runes for any build if they want them to work underwater.

You may want to check any alts you play as well!

Which is totally stupid imo. Why not just make the breather a skin and use the stats from your headpiece? It’s not like you drown even if you do not have a breather on at all.

Well, I mean underwater combat in general is only half finished in most cases. Breathers were designed for a different game, a game in which it was a mechanically viable choice to use a split rune set and make the breather change your 4 rune to better fit the underwater weapon.

I wouldn’t expect to see underwater seriously looked at before an underwater expansion.