Guild Wars 2

Will ascended armor also have a rune slot so shout warriors can still remove conditions on shouts? f the rune is integrated into the armor, will all the rune effects be integrated?

Got worried because of the description that says ascended items will have the rune slot integrated and some builds are quite dependent on runes.

Only rings and backpacks are coming out with this patch. They don’t use runes so you’re good. As they release all of the ascended armor i highly doubt they will scrap their rune system.

the way I read it, its like when you craft a ring, the slot is already filled, just has an extra infuse slot.

cant see why the armour wouldnt have rune slots

The way it’s been described is that you won’t be able to put runes into the Ascended armour.

What will probably happen is you’ll get a few extra stats as if you’ve got an orb already included in your armour, rather than being able to put a rune in yourself.

At least, that’s how I’ve read it. I have a feeling most people will continue using exotics in their day to day playing because of the versatility runes give builds that I don’t think will be replicable with Ascended.

Of course, I could be TOTALLY way off the mark. Wait and see I guess!

Brunners.7251:

The way it’s been described is that you won’t be able to put runes into the Ascended armour.

What will probably happen is you’ll get a few extra stats as if you’ve got an orb already included in your armour, rather than being able to put a rune in yourself.

At least, that’s how I’ve read it. I have a feeling most people will continue using exotics in their day to day playing because of the versatility runes give builds that I don’t think will be replicable with Ascended.

Of course, I could be TOTALLY way off the mark. Wait and see I guess!

That’s how I read it also. If runes leave, warriors will be nerfed again as warrior is already quite weak and it would take away one of the warrior’s best strategies.

no runes or sigils. the items have an extra stat set to sort of compensate though, think of it like having Crest of ____ built in.

Even when infusion comes to armor, you wouldn’t need to use either all 6 armor pieces with rune slots or all 6 armor pieces with infusion slots. Mix, match, find the balance.

CHOAM.7852:

Even when infusion comes to armor, you wouldn’t need to use either all 6 armor pieces with rune slots or all 6 armor pieces with infusion slots. Mix, match, find the balance.

What the OP is refering to are Superior Runes of the Soldier, which upon having 6 of said rune Shouts remove conditions from you and party members, thus the need for all 6 no mix match could be done.

@OP: There is no ascended gear out to examine, we know VERY little about the gear that is being released no (2 rings and a back piece) other than the fact that the slots on them will be for some type of infusion.

The correct answer anyone should be giving you is “we don’t know, that gear isn’t out yet”.

Methias.3521:

@OP: There is no ascended gear out to examine, we know VERY little about the gear that is being released no (2 rings and a back piece) other than the fact that the slots on them will be for some type of infusion.

The correct answer anyone should be giving you is “we don’t know, that gear isn’t out yet”.

His question was speculation, so the answers we can give can be speculation.

Yes, my question was speculation. I was wondering if A.net would reply though.

EDIT: at least replying to say they are aware and that they will not kill this build or something like that.