superior rune of ranger with minis
I agree that the rune working with minis sounds bad, but why should the rune only work with ranger pets?
6 Runes of the Warrior gives -20% weapon swap cooldown.
6 Runes of the Guardian burns attacker for 1 second upon successful block.
6 Runes of the Mesmer gives 33% extra daze duration.
6 Runes of the Elementalist gives 20% extra burn and chill duration.
6 Runes of the Necromancer gives 20% extra fear duration.
6 Runes of the Engineer gives 7% extra damage when holding banners, elemental weapons, environmental weapons, bundles, kits, stolen items, etc.
6 Runes of the Thief gives 10% extra damage when attacking from behind or to the side of your target.
6 Runes of the Ranger gives 7% damage when you have a companion.
All of these runes can be easily crossed over to other classes for various builds, and I believe the Superior Rune of the Ranger shouldn’t be an exception.
IMO it should work for Guardian Spirit Weapons, Ranger Pets, Engineer Turrets, Necromancer Minions, Mesmer Illusions, Elementalist Elementals, Summoned Thieves, Any Utility and Elite Skill that summons an NPC, Sigils and other items that summon minions to fight along side.
Superior Rune of the Ranger shouldn’t work with miniatures, but neither should it be exclusive to Rangers unlike the rest of the class runes. These are my opinions on the matter.
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I agree that the rune working with minis sounds bad, but why should the rune only work with ranger pets?
6 Runes of the Warrior gives -20% weapon swap cooldown.
6 Runes of the Guardian burns attacker for 1 second upon successful block.
6 Runes of the Mesmer gives 33% extra daze duration.
6 Runes of the Elementalist gives 20% extra burn and chill duration.
6 Runes of the Necromancer gives 20% extra fear duration.
6 Runes of the Engineer gives 7% extra damage when holding banners, elemental weapons, environmental weapons, bundles, kits, stolen items, etc.
6 Runes of the Thief gives 10% extra damage when attacking from behind or to the side of your target.
6 Runes of the Ranger gives 7% damage when you have a companion.All of these runes can be easily crossed over to other classes for various builds, and I believe the Superior Rune of the Ranger shouldn’t be an exception.
IMO it should work for Guardian Spirit Weapons, Ranger Pets, Engineer Turrets, Necromancer Minions, Mesmer Illusions, Elementalist Elementals, Summoned Thieves, Any Utility and Elite Skill that summons an NPC, Sigils and other items that summon minions to fight along side.
Superior Rune of the Ranger shouldn’t work with miniatures, but neither should it be exclusive to Rangers unlike the rest of the class runes. These are my opinions on the matter.
Judging from the wording it looks more like it is intended to be how you described. If it was meant to be ranger pet only it probably wouldn’t say “have a companion”
As discussed in the chat, I’m reporting this as a bug:
The case (6) of the Superior Rune of Ranger is said to work with minis. It should work only with ranger’s pets.
People ask this in the chat because minis are now taken away if the map population is raising. For the game balance it is better if (6) does not work with minis. They also claimed that (6) works with mesmer’s clones/phantasms; that should be fixed too if unintended.
Since the September Feature Patch, testers have said the (6) bonus does not trigger if a mini is out. This seems more likely to be the intended behavior:
- rune of the ranger works best with rangers
- it was never intended to be a straight +7% bonus for owning a mini.
tl;dr I believe the runes were bugged originally & that bug appears to have been fixed: it no longer offers bonus damage when a mini is present.
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This Rune set was broken for a long time and only worked on rangers..
Anet had to fix it so it could work on Guardians, Eles, Necros and Mesmer and Thieves too…
not sure it works on Engineers or Warriors but do they need help these days dmg wise anyway?
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This Rune set was broken for a long time and only worked on rangers..
Anet had to fix it so it could work on Guardians, Eles, Necros and Mesmer and Thieves too…
not sure it works on Engineers or Warriors but do they need help these days dmg wise anyway?
It SHOULD work with Engineers with turrets. Whether it actually does or not, I don’t know. I’ve heard it doesn’t work with Spirit Weapons either, though again, I don’t know if that’s just bad info or a confirmed oversight.
Honestly, I’ve heard so many conflicting reports about this rune and what it does and doesn’t work with that I just don’t know how it functions at all.
It should work like Thanatos writes. People cannot update the wiki with better information if this is is not cleared by the game developers.