Guild Wars 2

Was wondering if anyone thought of using these runes. With brutal signets and a 20% boon increase through foods your might stacks last 24 and a half seconds. Which means your gaurenteed at least 3 stacks of might at all times. The cool down on one of the signets is 24 seconds with the reduced cd granted by brutal signet trait.

Ranger doesn’t have much long duration might stacking though, so its probably not the best rune for us because of its focus on self stacked might. Even if I were to make a PvP/wvw might stacking build, I would run with Hoelbrak instead, just my opinion.

Thanks. Wasnt sure which direction to go and runes of strength are expensive. Just figured since we can now generate might easily through pet swaps signets and the jungle stalkers roar it was something worth looking into.

Stalkers might is not affected by the rune I believe. It is by Lingering Magic though.

They will help you get to 25 stacks on your own, but you also need to take torch, warhorn, clarion bond, battle sigils, double drakes, and zeyphers.

For me that is too many things I don’t want to take.

What you can do is go to PvP practice area, practice the combo above and see what you think.

If you like the weapons/playstyle then go for it.

It’s actually a pretty good rune, I’ve swapped to sigil of strength as my second sigil on the longbow (after the nerf of fire sigil) and using this rune you can stack a decent amount of might on that alone just simple autoattack will have you hovering around 4-6 might (I have the extra boon duration from nature magic aswell) and in spikes with rapid fire+barrage and quickening zephyr you can easily get over 10 stacks perhaps as high as 15 even it also plays fantastic with SotP, that said Hoelbrak is probably better in pvp but I’m not entirely sure on that, I played with both and there isn’t much diffrence really you’ll definetly do more damage with strength but not much on the other hand the condition reduction on Hoelbrak is very weak too given how long duration many conditions have you’ll often need a cleanse anyway or die I find, paired with food in wvw it’s another story though.

edit: also in addition as tempting as it might seem to have zephyrs speed on petswap I would never ever trade out taunt for it not even with this rune, taunt is way too important in too many scenarios both offensive, defensive and as support.

How does RF with QZ stack more than simply AAing? The sigil has a 1s ICD, meaning you can only get two stacks from RF.

I would think pierce would help. Since you are hitting multiple targets throughout the cooldowns. Not using QZ I have seen it stack an additional 4 to 5 stacks. In a large zerge fight timing my signet cd and pet swaps I can maintain 23 to 25 stacks the entire fight. That combined with bloodlust hits pretty hard. At least for a ranger. I have never seen numbers like those in my combat log prior to the new patch.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

How does RF with QZ stack more than simply AAing? The sigil has a 1s ICD, meaning you can only get two stacks from RF.

he ment with the Signet traits and a general over all use of the build its good for quickly adding the two might , rather than waiting for the chance of crit and chance of the sigil triggering. kinda Garrentees 2might when used in addition to all other sources.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

How does RF with QZ stack more than simply AAing? The sigil has a 1s ICD, meaning you can only get two stacks from RF.

+barrage I missed to type that. to clarify I was not using signets to get this only the rune and sigil of strength and nature magic and if you also add food you very easily maintain close to 10might aslong as you keep attacking.