Guild Wars 2

Just curious what runes are people running on their rangers when they’re not in super serious spvp/squeezing-out-max-dps mode?

I haven’t really played the game much since Halloween but really wanting to get back into it now, I thought the best way was to completely redo my old ranger set up, maybe get around to unlocking druid finally. Looking through the wiki’s rune page again to see what’s new just reminded me how many fun options there are so I’d like to hear what tricks other people are enjoying using.

Privateer runes I use for fun. I like that old Zoo-Tycoon build.

I dont really find myself changing my runes a lot in PvE. I just stick with Trooper’s, but Ive been considering Hoelbrak for the heck of seeing how fast/long I can sit at maximum might. or trying Dolyak/Durability so I can PvE while being in a coma.

Madking runes. Birdsssssss!!!!!

Trapper Runes, for the PvE Ninja Vanish

The core concept of my Ranger is maximizing boon output for my pet, so I run with Altruism Runes. The extra Fury is pretty handy since pet crit chance isn’t exactly stellar, and Ranger has some nice low-cooldown heals to make use of it frequently.

Serious question: What’s the difference between “super serious” and “for fun” runes? Don’t you just pick one that matches your build? Is for fun picking one that doesn’t accomplish your goals, like self-imposed penalties?

Fluffball.8307:

Serious question: What’s the difference between “super serious” and “for fun” runes? Don’t you just pick one that matches your build? Is for fun picking one that doesn’t accomplish your goals, like self-imposed penalties?

Serious answer, some people would say that picking rune sets or builds because you like them or to accomplish a niche effect is “doing it wrong”. I suppose I just wanted to emphasise that there’d be no wrong answers. And that I wasn’t looking for just whatever’s currently listed on metabattle as most optimal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that if it’s what you find most fun, just if you preferred to run runes of the air because they synergise a bit with resounding timbre and you enjoy a speedy lightning themed ranger I wanted to hear about it. Or you liked getting a shocking aura when you used strength of the pack because yay potential moment of clarity synergy. Or comboing tempest runes with the new protect me. Or turning strength of the pack into a pseudo “Fear Me” with sunless runes. Or giving your pet aegis with runes of resistance. Or any number of other things I’m sure to not have thought of.

All excellent answers so far btw, thanks everyone!

@Wondrouswall, I remember trying that myself and getting so annoyed at that kitten bird trying to slaughter the world when all I wanted to do was successfully make a jump haha!

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Care to enlighten me with regards to Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo). Seriously no idea what you mean. Then again, I only WvW…

Rune of the golemancer can be entertaining.

Rata Sum Runes + Poison Mastery + Asuran Radiation Field skill for Poison stacks.

Crapgame.6519:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Care to enlighten me with regards to Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo). Seriously no idea what you mean. Then again, I only WvW…

Sun Spirit, 2 Hyenas, Rune-spawned.
You can proc the Sun Spirit 4 times yourself. It’s pretty fun seeing people having no idea where did the 18 stacks of burn come from.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Crapgame.6519:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Care to enlighten me with regards to Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo). Seriously no idea what you mean. Then again, I only WvW…

Sun Spirit, 2 Hyenas, Rune-spawned.
You can proc the Sun Spirit 4 times yourself. It’s pretty fun seeing people having no idea where did the 18 stacks of burn come from.

Sigh…. I miss my pirate rune in PvP

Remember when the bird from pirate rune used to crit for 3k + and was hard to kill? lol

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Anyway you could make a zoo build for general pve map completion?

StickerHappy.8052:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Anyway you could make a zoo build for general pve map completion?

Wooden Potatoes (semi annoying semi interesting hardcore YTer) made a zoo build for ele like 3 years ago. It’s 100% viable and even effective. Just take a bunch of kitten and overwhelm the open world enemies. Probably good for when you’re drunk.

If you’re really interested and can’t find it yourself, I can probably find the video. It’s blatantly obvious though, just take every available summon and pet and etc.

Fluffball.8307:

StickerHappy.8052:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Dolyak (Greenz)
Mad King (Birds)
Pirate / Rock Dog (Zoo)
You also might be able to spawn the mist wolf yourself with Rune of the Pack (+WH +Clarion Bond) – not tested, just an idea crossing my mind.

Anyway you could make a zoo build for general pve map completion?

Wooden Potatoes (semi annoying semi interesting hardcore YTer) made a zoo build for ele like 3 years ago. It’s 100% viable and even effective. Just take a bunch of kitten and overwhelm the open world enemies. Probably good for when you’re drunk.

If you’re really interested and can’t find it yourself, I can probably find the video. It’s blatantly obvious though, just take every available summon and pet and etc.

Please do. Thanks Fluffy. Btw, does Osi still play?

StickerHappy.8052:

Please do. Thanks Fluffy. Btw, does Osi still play?

No you have to look first haha. Go back to 3 years-ish ago and look for something like “zoo” or “summon” in the title. Honestly it’s not worth it. He took like pet whistles and ele summons and blah blah blah. The traits are not even remotely like what they are now. The value of the video is only in the concept and nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WoodenPotatoes

Who is Osi?

Fluffball.8307:

StickerHappy.8052:

Please do. Thanks Fluffy. Btw, does Osi still play?

No you have to look first haha. Go back to 3 years-ish ago and look for something like “zoo” or “summon” in the title. Honestly it’s not worth it. He took like pet whistles and ele summons and blah blah blah. The traits are not even remotely like what they are now. The value of the video is only in the concept and nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WoodenPotatoes

Who is Osi?

Osicat, I thought he was your guildie from JUDGE

StickerHappy.8052:

Osicat, I thought he was your guildie from JUDGE

That’s FrouFrou. She and I are old school double melee fans together back when s/d + GS was hip and edgy, but that’s where the connections end.

Fluffball.8307:

StickerHappy.8052:

Osicat, I thought he was your guildie from JUDGE

That’s FrouFrou. She and I are old school double melee fans together back when s/d + GS was hip and edgy, but that’s where the connections end.

Oh yea, FrouFrou, sounds like a love story between you two XD, does she still play?

StickerHappy.8052:

Oh yea, FrouFrou, sounds like a love story between you two XD, does she still play?

No idea. I see her post from time to time but she’s not on my contact list or anything. Check with her not me! :P

Mad King runes on my WvW hybrid druid combined with entangle to proc an kitten of bleeding is always funny

Sparky.8724:

Mad King runes on my WvW hybrid druid combined with entangle to proc an kitten of bleeding is always funny

Right? Combine that with a concussion shot/poison volley to proc multiple ancient seeds, quickness and your pet burst, and people just melt.

5 Runes of evasion and a sigil of stamina is really fun with opening strikes.

My favorite rune set as a Druid, is the runes of the flock for vicious attack birds that blind while I heal.

As for when I’m playing as a ranger I really like Ogre for the rock dog, kinda sad it’s no longer in sPvP, in there I’ll kitten around with grove a bit

Mad King Runes….
I love walking up to someone and popping Entangle and doing /sit
+ it’s amusing to see ravens that aren’t ravens but are eagles… appear and peck your target.

Durzlla.6295:

My favorite rune set as a Druid, is the runes of the flock for vicious attack birds that blind while I heal.

As for when I’m playing as a ranger I really like Ogre for the rock dog, kinda sad it’s no longer in sPvP, in there I’ll kitten around with grove a bit

I have a nice druid AoE condi build and use actually rune of dwayna for the greenz, but i would love to use grove but the icd of the root should be on par with ancient seed :/
Iz would be cool if the made a new rune based arround roots and remove the roots from grove with healing fragments similar to rev ventari stuff, this way the healing power on this rune would make sense ><