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Originally Posted by Quality
Here is a little background information on my character before I ask the question:
I wear Full Droks Armor with Minor Strength Rune in Helm, Minor Tactics in Chest, Superior Axe Mastery in Gloves, Superior Absorption in Leggings, and Superior Vigor in Greaves. I use Victo's Axe and Victo's Bulwark. All those items together give me a total life of 515. When I don't use Rune of Superior Axe mastery, I have 590.
All that considered, is the -75 health sacrafice from the superior rune worth it for the extra damage dealt? I'm about to start doing basically nothing but PvP on that character (if that makes a difference).
In general, I would say yes. The damage more than makes up for the health cost.
However, as it is a PvE character, you have a big advantage in this field over PvP characters: rune swapping.
There are two major areas where having a minor is handy: Playing against spike, where the extra HP will give your monks that little longer to infuse, and playing with DP, where you can make up for a significant proportion of it by just swapping to a minor. It hurts to do that, but to still be an offensive character that can penetrate into the backlines of an opponent, you some degree of durability.
So run a superior 90% of the time, but should you ever be in either of those two situations; switch.
(Although I would highly reccomend dropping Victos Axe for a 15^50 collectors pair with vampiric/zealous and fortitude. Sundering is truly horrible.)
