Guardian+Radiance Runes. Friends or not ?

[Lucas.3718]

On paper radiance rune and guardian (especially retaliation guardians) could benefit pretty much from this rune. Some vitality to help you survive, Boon duration for higher retal. uptime and 33% longer light auras. what do you think worth or not worth ?

[TheAgedGnome.7520]

Although it might have some use, I don't see Radiance runes as offering enough benefits to prefer it over other choices.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

> @"Lucas.3718" said:

> On paper radiance rune and guardian (especially retaliation guardians) could benefit pretty much from this rune. Some vitality to help you survive, Boon duration for higher retal. uptime and 33% longer light auras. what do you think worth or not worth ?

 

I guess that depends on your desired roll. Are we talking DPS? If that is the case, no those runes wouldn't be suitable at all. A Retaliation Guard doesn't need vitality from runes as they can wear Valk pieces because they don't require as much precision on their gear. If they are going Core Guard Zeal / Radiance / Virtues, retaliation uptime is pretty much 100%, so the extra boon duration, while always good, won't be as impactful as the +ferocity from Scholar runes; for a build that runs at 100% crit, ferocity is a straight damage increase.

 

If you are referring to some other Guardian role that runs Radiance that I'm not familiar with, I can't really offer much feedback :disappointed:

 

[otto.5684]

Radiance runes are unuseble by guardian in any game mode. The vitality is a useless stats on any possible build. The aura duration is not useful either. 25% boon duration is nice, but not a reason you would use this rune.

[LetoII.3782]

I mean, I'll give myself light auras..

But are they a game changer?