Guild Wars 2

^ title for pve and wvwvw. full berserker, 0/30/20/20/0 traits. divinity is too expensive, no..i don’t die much, i’ve seen guardians/warriors, all defensive dying over and over.
aaannndd what sigils? currently i have rage on mh and bloodlust on off

Theory:
Scholar is good when you can meet the bonus damage requirement. Which means basically never getting hit. This makes it a good fit for BS burst builds in SPvP.

In WvW, however, you tend to get hit with incidental damage a lot. Running through an area-attack, getting shot by an NPC archer, all kinds of stuff.

If you only care about burst, Scholar might still work for you. Maybe if you have a ton of healing (one of those 30-points-in-Shadow-Arts constant-regen builds). Otherwise, Ruby Orbs or Runes of Divinity are going to give you more consistent benefits.

Personal anecdote:
I use Ruby Orbs for a rather glassy 0/30/15/25/0 S/D + SB build. 25 in Acrobatics is for the “+10% while endurance isn’t full,” which comes up a lot more often than “+10% while health is above 90%.” (I sacrifice quite a bunch of that, though, because there are some great major traits I could have for another 5 points in Shadow Arts. But that’s not really relevant to the runes.)

aahh, i see, thank you for the rply!

ruby orbs any time any place any fight for dps build thief but its only my opinion

Give you good balance between your main stats power and crit rate + give you 4 or 5% more (don’t remember it was 4 or 5) crit dmg
This 5% is ALWAYS added to your dps and scholar give your only 10% when your hp is almost full, when you get dmged you lost your 10% dmg, with orbs you always got boost no matter of your hp state

and rune of scholar is 2g each one and orbs its like 8 silver per one (just a small + when you are lack of money ;p)

Ruby Orbs are definitely far more cost effective.
I’m running full Scholar’s for WvW and it was an “upgrade” from Ruby Orbs.
You know what the difference is? Nothing really that noticable.