Guild Wars 2

I’m seeking to the community to get help with choosing runes for my build. I like to use poison as a supplement to my poison for max dps, although bleed is my main condition. I’m focusing on CnD and then Sneak Attack for bleed.

Note that all runes are Superior and have +182 Condition damage, so I removed it from the list for simplicity.

Afflicted

• 15% Bleed Duration
• 15% Poison Duration
• You create a Death Nova when you go down. (Cooldown: 30s)
  Death Nova last for 3 seconds and grants 8 seconds of Poison. Applies to all targets that attacks me.

Krait

• 15% Bleed Duration
• 5% chance to cause bleeding for 10 seconds when hit. (Cooldown: 5s)
• 100 Power while underwater.
  I’m almost never underwater, but my general damage here sucks.

Orrian

• 15% Poison Duration
• 5% chance to inflict Poison for 10 seconds when hit. (Cooldown: 10s)
• You gain haste for 5 seconds when you fall below 20% health. (Cooldown: 90s)
  Doubling my attack speed for 5 seconds can be devastating.

My thoughts:
Afflicted will give me increased duration of bleeds and poison, which is quite effective. Death Nova isn’t the big thing since I’m rarely downed, but damaging enemies that’s trying to down me isn’t a bad idea.

Krait gives me even more bleeding. Great when countering zergs or larger groups of mobs. Only downside of the bleed is that it will only apply every 20th hit. Which means that I will constantly keep at least 1 stack from this rune. As I mentioned, I’m rarely underwater, but when I fight there my dps is bad.

Orrian will not help me at all with the bleeds which is my main buff. But it’s important to take into consideration that I’m also using poisons, and I could rely on this rune to apply poison when my skill is on cooldown. As I mentioned doubling my attack speed for 5 seconds when my health is low can be devastating as I will be able to put up a ridiculous amount of bleeds.

I’m traited in dealing poison when stealing, shorter cooldown on pisons and stealing health when applying poisons. Check out my build for further information. You might check it out if you want to go advanced in helping me.

Do you use any of these runes yourself or do you know any who does, if so leave a reply with your thoughts

bad link… can u provide the whole link site, thanks

5 Afflicted and 1 Krait is what I use.

This might only apply to PvP, so ignore me if this doesn’t sound right to you, but my main focus for Pistol bleeds is to get 50% longer duration – adding 2 additional ticks per bleed works very, very well.

In the past, I’ve gone 1 of 2 routes – 3 afflicted, 3 krait, agony on the weapon (10% longer bleeds) and 10 Points min in deadly arts
OR
2 afflicted, 2 krait, 2 centuar, Agony on the weapon.

2 afflicted, 2 krait, 2 centuar, Agony on the weapon is an excellent call.

Also, don’t discount a full set of undead runes. The toughness>condition damage set bonus is actually quite good when combined with the right gear/foods and results in less overall DPS, but more compact DPS as well as some variant gearing and trait options and of course more survivability. If your build traits heavily in to shadow arts, you’re getting a pretty nice chunk of condition damage out of undead runes.

The link should be fixed now

Thank you guys for helping out! Looks like I’m going to try 2 afflicted, 2 krait and 2 centaur. That will give me an insane boost of bleeding duration, which sounds great!

Don’t need 2, 2, 2 for WvW/PvE because there’s this amazing food: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rare_Veggie_Pizza

Kurow.6973:

Don’t need 2, 2, 2 for WvW/PvE because there’s this amazing food: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rare_Veggie_Pizza

Is there a cap on the bleed duration increase? If not couldn’t you just do 2,2,2 and the pizza?