Guild Wars 2

Has anyone experience with using both of these at the same time?
My idea is that if Blinding Powder is triggered, I’ll have a 2nd blinding powder on backup.
Last Refuge: Use Blinding Powder when your health reaches 25% (90-second cooldown).
Rune of Infiltration: Cloak when you fall below 10% health. (Cooldown: 90s).

With Rune of Infiltration, 10% health seems very low. I wonder how often a player can just hit me for 11% and not even trigger this. Does “cloak” last the standard 3 secs and does it blind? Are these runes bugged like so many others?

Also, wondering if a big hit can trigger both of these at the same time. If so, does the stealth time stack?

I mainly play WvW and with these runes would have about 1400hp 1600tough.

You don’t have the HP pool for 10% to trigger very often.

There are better runes for PvP.

I used the Superior Runes of Vampirism for a while which have a similar 10% HP procc. (Mist form in this case)

Despite sounding good in paper it isn’t actually nearly as good as I imagined. Contrary to my belief it doesn’t procc as “soon” as you hit 10% HP. Rather it checks after you’ve been hit and then proccs if you are below 10% HP.

So a hit would have to leave you with exactly 1-9% HP for the Rune set to procc and even then it doesn’t do so reliably.

I have found all Superior Rune Sets to be very lackluster for Thieves and am much more comfortable running with Orbs.

If you’re burst/direct damage (which looking at Rune of Inf would suggest you are)
Ruby Orbs far outclass almost every Rune set in the game unless it specifically compliments a “gimmick” in your particular build (i.e. Rune of Centaur + Vigorous Renewal for Swift + Vigor + 4 Ini on heal, etc.).

125 power, 85 Precision and 12%+ Crit damage? It’s basically a specialized Runes of Divinity for a burst build, there really isn’t much of a better choice.

If you were building on a higher HP class, Runes of Inf might be worth looking into. But for most Thief builds (i.e. the gimmicky yet highly effective ones) have much better Rune/Upgrade Component choices than Infiltration.

Just my two cents.
Edit: It’s also worth mentioning that if you’re not very familiar with Last Refuge, prepare to watch it get you killed. Especially if you’re a Cloak And Dagger build, that 25% mark can come in the middle of a CnD cast…

I run a full valkyrie gear set (literally every piece) with runes of infiltration. I think I’m sitting at around 19k HP, and I’ve had the stealth trigger from the set a number of times, almost all of which has saved me from imminent death. That said, I still think 10% trigger point is too low, 15-25% would be a lot better. If I had any less health, I don’t think the rune set would be worth it.