Should a PvE Warrior Use Major Runes?

Generally, in PvE, should a warrior use major runes for his weapon attribute and/or strength? Or should he just stick to minor attribute runes? Is the health loss worth it? Thanks.

One major rune's fine. Two? I'm not brave enough to try. :P

You can use a major weapon rune if you want but the extra damage doesn't pay off in the end. Strength doesn't need a boost.

But aren't there like a million ways to gain extra health?

Well, ive had a superior rune on my warrior from way back when the prices of the runes were huge. I might just either be too lazy or too proud to remove it now, haha. However, the warrior has made it through all campaigns fine, and he AB's fine (havent done much RA with him). Could he survive better with minors, eh yea maybe, but pve wise you can make it just fine.

So in otherwords, with one major rune, you can make it just fine.

Superior weapon rune and superior vigor here, then full radiant and a zealous weapon to let him spam You Move Like A Dwarf! and Vanguard Assassin. I dont know if its optimal but he vanquishes like a sonofabitch.

In short, I dont really think you need to minimax in PvE.

I use a Major weapon rune on headpart, the rest all minors, except Absorption since that doesnt have drawbacks. As a warrior I like high health.

- Ganni

I've got major strength gauntlets kicking around for when I want the 14 strength breakpoint on [skill=text]enraging charge[/skill].

Really though, you'd take a major rune if you need to hit a breakpoint generally.

Tanking in PvE is ''Easier'' with lower HP (holding Aggro is easier) So in that sense, the major would be helping you.

Otherwise, 1 major is enough.

For general PvE i don't use anything that sucks health. For something like Obby tanking and running i use a Sup rune. But for general PvE i dont see the use. If you really want to its not gonna make you suck but honestly the bonuses a warrior receives for that one attribute point were not worth it. Its really personal preference/what build you run but for the most part id say there is too little benifit to justify giving up health.

Hmmm. Now there's a thought... When I'm ready to get some decent max armor (instead of the half-Krytan collectable, half-Tyrian maxes I have now), or at least a pair of cheap maxes as spares, I might just have to try out a couple of Superior attribute runes for my pathetic little Earth Shaker/Crude Swing hammerite...

a COUPLE?????

Please no.

I use all minors. +1 gives like 2 extra damage to sword attacks. big deal. ill take the health

So what are you guys saying then? Either one major or none? By the way, how many attributes do you guys use? Because I use four, so maybe I should use more major runes to boost my attributes (though I will always make sure that my health is at least 480).

3. You better have an amazing stable proven build to go any higher.

I suggest to stick with max 3 attributes (12 to weapon and something to something else) and i suggest to raise your health by 100 if you have ~480.

IMHO, I only run majors or superiors on warriors to meet breakpoints. This is usually for Strength, since most of my axe attack skills don't have any character-breaking breakpoints. Unless you are meeting a breakpoint for the insignia or for a skill, you are probably not doing anything but sacrificing a large amount of health for a negligible increase in damage.

Of course, warriors are so buff anyway that you can probably afford a hit to your health in PvE, so it mostly comes down to preference. If you want to have 15 Sword Mastery so you can run around all like "I am teh warrior who makes teh monstars fall daown lolz" then it probably won't make much of a difference anyway.

I'd still take the health unless the extra spec was giving me another second on one of my stances.

4 is too many attributes, the only time I ever seen 4 attributes work well is on monks using healing, prot, divine favour and shadow arts (return). Even then its just 4 in shadow arts.

In order to decide whether to use a Major/sup rune or not look at it this way.

What do I gain from it? In the case of a weapon, probably like 1 extra dps, max.
What do I lose from it? 35 - 75hp

Is it worth it? Usually no.

The only time its worth it is for breakpoints, or 55ing. The only class I ever use a sup on is necro for mming for the 16dm breakpoint.

Three Questions:

1. I'm a W/Mo. If I were to use 3 attributes, then which 3 should I use?
2. Most people say that you shouldn't use a monk attribute, but then what's the point of the secondary profession then?
3. I also thought about just sword and strength, but I only have prophecies and EotN, so no lion's comfort. This means that without tactics or monk attributes, I will not have any defensive or healing skills. What would you guys suggest for me?

/Mo on a warrior is only really good for [skill]Mending Touch[/skill]

In PvE you don't really need a secondary.

I run superior runes in PvE unless it's serious business (DoA etc)