Guild Wars 2

I’ve got superior runes of infiltration on my beastmaster ranger, but I’m not entirely certain whether or not they affect my pet. Is this the case? he seems to do more damage when enemies are low on health, but I’m finding it hard to gauge.

Could someone clear this up for me?

I took the time to run a few tests in the mists, specifically with an outfit consisting of having no runes, and an outfit with scholar runes (for the +10% damage when your health is over 90%)

my test drake dealt 887 – 928 damage with normal, not critical auto-attacks when not using runes. 1550 – 1630 criticals

When I swapped to the outfit with the scholar runes, there was no visible change; if there had been, the damage with the criticals would have gone up by another 150 or so, and it hadn’t. I think I can safely say “No” to my own question.

I really want to say no, but I don’t have proof.

It’s a good question, because my Dwayna Runes give Regen to my pet on using a heal skill, so it would be strange if that’s an exclusive function to only that set of runes.

the problem with Dwayna runes is that one using a healing skill, the regen spreads to all of your allies, so it’s not a good one to judge with

Forgot about that, good point. Been awhile since I actually read what I have equipped lol

I’m doubtful they do. I have not heard of any runes or sigils or anything that applies to the pet’s damage and suspect a lot of people have looked at that pretty hard by now.

You can share buffs generated by Runes with pets via the Fortifying Bond trait, but that’s the closest similar thing I can think of.

slingblade.1437:

I’m doubtful they do. I have not heard of any runes or sigils or anything that applies to the pet’s damage and suspect a lot of people have looked at that pretty hard by now.

You can share buffs generated by Runes with pets via the Fortifying Bond trait, but that’s the closest similar thing I can think of.

If only Fortifying Bond also shared boons with 5 people closest to you, too.

matenji.3809:

slingblade.1437:

I’m doubtful they do. I have not heard of any runes or sigils or anything that applies to the pet’s damage and suspect a lot of people have looked at that pretty hard by now.

You can share buffs generated by Runes with pets via the Fortifying Bond trait, but that’s the closest similar thing I can think of.

If only Fortifying Bond also shared boons with 5 people closest to you, too.

Arguably it does you one better, particularly if you’re solo. RaO becomes absolutely monstrous with this one trait.

I often wondered about the 5% damage bonus from runes of the ranger being applied to pets as well ..