Good stuff. I, personally, have been running Superior Runes of Thorns and have been loving it with my D/D condi thief (Whenever you take damage every 10 seconds, you gain +50 condi damage and each stacks last for a minute). Also going almost full dire with some sinister trinkets. I use this setup for both WvW roaming and PvE and it works wonders. <3
I’m glad you made this post! I was just about to inquire about runes choices for Condi DD. I play it in both PvE and WvW and knowing what could work for both would be great! Currently running krait runes since I stack bleeds faster and more frequently than poisons but I’m wondering if the Rune of Thorns is worth it too.
Concur with Holliday, but you could also run withdraw for more condi heal or the DD heal for more dodges. Also, the new poison runes are very cool (gain condi damage when struck by a poisoned foe), but krait, undead, or orr are fine.
Which condition runes are the poison ones? Also, prior to this I was playing P/D condi thief so using D/D for conditions feel a bit iffy to me. Is P/D still good with DD or what?
Does anyone else feel like the rate that events reward shovels have dropped immensely? The two days I’ve spent straight up SW farming felt like each FULL event run rewarded 1 or 2 shovels at a time.
Would you ever use Eagle Runes if you had them? I’m currently using them in my own thief’s build but I wanted to know if they’re better than/worse than the Pack runes you’re using in your build.
No I think that pack runes are better than eagle for a few reasons. Pack runes provide much more power than the runes of the eagle, and if you already have a high crit damage then this power will add to your damage more than the ferocity will. Secondly the fury and swiftness uptime(Theoretically 50%) are extremely nice from the pack runes. The swiftness helps to make up for the speed lost by not having traveler runes, and the fury greatly increases your average damage output. The stack of might isn’t wonderful, but it does add to your overall dps. Eagle runes would probably work well in conjunction with a more glassy executioner build though xD
I see. Thank you for the response! I’m considering your build and I’m wondering whether I should get a third set of armor. (Already have berserker and condi.) I’ve always wanted a tanky build that can still kitten the deeps so yours seems to be that build!
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Hey a question. Why Pack Runes and not Stregth?
A bit based on your build, what do you think of this? This is what I’m thinking to get
I like runes of the pack better than strength because of the increased precision as well as the chance at fury and swiftness.
I guess I can try those before Strength, they are cheaper, thats a plus
Also, have you ever tried Runes of the Stregth, or you have allways roamed you Runes of the Pack, even before the runes change (before I would use Traveler)
I’ve ran these (In order):
Beryl Orbs
Ruby Orbs
Travelers
Lyssa
Strength
Back to travelers
Pack
And pack runes were probably my favorite out of them all. Strength let me hit hard and stack more might, but pack runes were very convinient for raising my precision and giving me the fury I lack due to 0 in trickery.++
Would you ever use Eagle Runes if you had them? I’m currently using them in my own thief’s build but I wanted to know if they’re better than/worse than the Pack runes you’re using in your build.
I’m sure there’s a lot of you, like my self, who’re stuck on servers they don’t want to play on and for whatever reason that we went there, its been taken care of and we want to return. However, that’s a problem if your original server is always full and there’s no way for you to know when it’ll be open except by mindlessly logging in and out for the list to refresh so you can see. For those of you with crappy connections, this wont help at all because by the time you finally get to see the log in screen again, there could have been a space opened up and you just manage to miss it.
I propose that there be a queue to join the full server once it’s opened. I’m stuck on a server I exchanged to for a friend’s sake since he’s been there waiting for CD to open for the past few weeks and nothing. I decided to go over there and spend some time with him only to find out a few hours later that they opened up all the server caps so I had let my friend know he could get to go to CD and I’ll be there in a week. Of course, CD could be full by then and I’ll be the one stuck on a foreign server and left out of my guild’s activities for longer than I intended to. With server transfers soon coming, it’ll be even harder for me to get over there since Gems are skyrocketed to ridonculous prices and I cant just purchase them.
I don’t think it’ll be a bad idea at all to have a queue for server transfers. Instead of there being a prompt though like when you’re in an overflow, the transfer should be instant once your turn on the list comes up to avoid others being held up.
Just saw about 5 bots gathered together and I managed to report 1 until they all just vanished while I was approaching them. I’m sure they were bots but they were well geared, all had luck sigils on and were huddled together. I JUST MANAGED TO GET A SCREENSHOT OF THEM WARPING WHILE TYPING THIS POST LOL I watched closely this time and it looks like they’re teleporting instead of running around. I have a gaming computer and my internet connection is pretty epic. I doubt that I was the one who was lagging.
Not sure if this is the right section to put this in.
