Which Runes should I be using?
If you’re running GS you should probably run Strength Runes.
Rune of strength for solo pve content, rune of Scholar for Dungeon and Fractal runs with semi-skilled groups. If you’re casual, strength runes is probably the way to go…Scholar Runes requires you to stay above 90% health to really get the full affect of it and if you don’t think you can do that the majority of the time, it’s probably not worth it. You’ll need to pick up Phalanx Strength in the tactics tree, though, if you decide to go with Strength Runes.
Either should be fine. If you are still using the GS and not Axe/Axe you are most likely running 6/5/0/0/3 which would benefit more from Strength. If you do ever change to a different weapon set I think Scholars would be a more versatile choice. You might also want to consider “Rune of Hoelbrak” if you want to bring it into WvW/PvP, but you’d still be squishy as a Berserker.
Scholar under perfect conditions.
If you had to ask this, you won’t be under perfect conditions. So Strength.
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