Which hunting rune do you believe to be the most benificial to have while hunting

Tyrean

Sena

Depends on class, stats, regen before berkana, and what you're bashing. Algiz is probably the best in most situations though.

Iocun

Jera may be nice for strength-dependent classes, if your base strength is low enough that its usefulness isn't reduced by diminishing returns too much, but otherwise it's probably almost always going to be Algiz.

Nellaundra

I have Inspiration for a strength boost and I'm fairly good health-wise already.  Moar damage reduction pls.

Sylvance

I don't see the point in Berkana if I have a Boar tatt. Only saying that as we're being forced to choose; in reality I'd just take the full set.

Kellonius

I can buy artefacts to increase my health, and I can get tattoos to increase my health regen, but I cant buy a flat 10% damage resistance to everything. 

Eld

Sylvance said:

I don't see the point in Berkana if I have a Boar tatt. Only saying that as we're being forced to choose; in reality I'd just take the full set.

They stack. More regen never hurts.

Amranu

@Sylvance boar and berkana don't overlap... It's just more regen on top of boar, regardless of anything other than somehow having level 3 regen before berkana.

Sylvance

Sorry, what I meant was that Boar Regen is enough for me given the premise that I can only have one rune in hypothetical exercise.

Sidonia

Sylvance said:

I don't see the point in Berkana if I have a Boar tatt. Only saying that as we're being forced to choose; in reality I'd just take the full set.

I don't see the point in 2 if I have 1.

Anatral

Algiz for all the reasons listed above, but Berkana, Boar and Forest Harmony is awesome.

Tesha

+10 damage on high speed rapiers.

Synbios

Algiz - always a beautiful thing to have.

Antidas

i dont see the point of this thread. Just get all three, who cares which one helps the most

Iocun

Antidas said:

i dont see the point of this thread. Just get all three, who cares which one helps the most

One day, a magical fairy will grant you a boon of one permanent rune on your Achaean character, but you only have five seconds to decide on which one. WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN IF YOU NEVER ASKED YOURSELF THAT QUESTION BEFORE???!

Ryukishi

Jera, because I hate asking for runes and it lasts longer!

Darklyre

The answer is none of the above, because Raido's the best hunting rune ever when you need to GTFO or grab refills.

Katzchen

Would have to say I prefer Jera, because of the time it lasts for.

Randlog

I was gonna say berkana, until I realised I was wrong. peer pressure?

Averi

Have ALL the health!!!  And it lasts almost forever.

If I wanted more damage reduction, usually I just put down an anthem. 

Achilles

Iocun said:

Antidas said:

i dont see the point of this thread. Just get all three, who cares which one helps the most

One day, a magical fairy will grant you a boon of one permanent rune on your Achaean character, but you only have five seconds to decide on which one. WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN IF YOU NEVER ASKED YOURSELF THAT QUESTION BEFORE???!

Perma jera ftw. +1 Str and con is 900 credits worth of arties.

Valden

I would choose Jera for the length of time but they all last the same amount of time for me anyway

Eld

Achilles said:

Iocun said:

Antidas said:

i dont see the point of this thread. Just get all three, who cares which one helps the most

One day, a magical fairy will grant you a boon of one permanent rune on your Achaean character, but you only have five seconds to decide on which one. WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN IF YOU NEVER ASKED YOURSELF THAT QUESTION BEFORE???!

Perma jera ftw. +1 Str and con is 900 credits worth of arties.

+1 str/con arties: 900 credits
10% damage reduction artie: priceless

Achilles

Pretty sure its 5% or maybe 7% if you aren't a shamans or runewarden

Sena

It's 10% for everyone.

I missed that change.

Tvistor

The best hunting rune is the one where you hang around Hashan during raids and steal Thaumas' kills.

Achilles

Sena said:

It's 10% for everyone.

No there was a change months back regarding runes.

Achilles

Announce 3587

Eld

Achilles said:

Sena said:

It's 10% for everyone.

No there was a change months back regarding runes.

Where's that sadface button we've been asking for?

Woong

Berkana - Because having less health or taking less damage is strictly inferior to INFINITE health.

Also, it's a lion. Lions are cooler than trees or elks.

Sena

Woong said:

Berkana - Because having less health or taking less damage is strictly inferior to INFINITE health.

If berkana can be considered infinite health, then so can jera and algiz.

Berkana actually adds a maximum of 1080% of your maximum health. That requires a level 1 regen ring and always being hurt enough that none of the regen is wasted, which means usually it will be far less. And if you don't have a regen ring, or if you have level 2, berkana is less effective.

Jera easily adds more health than that, except for unlikely situations like very high con at very low levels. At level 80 with 14 con, assuming you sip (with no sip bonus) and eat moss/potash (with triage, at 6 seconds balance) as often as you can and none is wasted, and you have no health boosts, jera adds ~2177% of your max health, just over twice as much as berkana. The actual formula for this situation (full sipping/moss with no bonuses) is (108300*Level/(Pre-Jera Max Health))%. Sip/moss bonuses make jera even more effective.

Algiz also effectively adds more health than berkana if the damage you take is at least 3% of your max health per second on average, before algiz. Although this assumes 10% reduction, since I'm not sure what it was changed to. If it's 5%, then that would require 6% of your max health per second. If you're taking much less than that, you probably don't need runes anyways.

So, berkana is far from infinite health, and actually works out to less health than either of the other two runes (although that's a silly way to look at any of the effects).