Two majors or one superior?

So, the health penalty of major runes has been lowered to -35, so you can get two majors for the same 'cost' as one superior.

So, are you guys fitting new runes into your armors, or do you stay with your minors/superiors?

Being a classic D&D min-maxer, I will most likely stay with my superior runes.

runes dont stack do they? so a sup will give +3 and 2 majors will be +2 pressumably?

Think I will stay with the minor/superior rune fit, mostly because old habits, but I might try out a minor/major/major fit if I play a build that would profit from it

But if the runes don't stack, why should you put two major when you can put in the superior to get the same result?

You can now get +2 +2 for the same health penalty as +3 +1. I believe thats what was intended to be said.

He's not talking about stacking runes, he's talking about +2 to two attributes as opposed to +3 to one and +1 to another.

ooooh thanks for clearin that up for me

Hey! I was first.

heh heh

Unless you run a pure dual attribute mix build that leans equally on both skills, I think that (at least in PvP) should go with the Superior/Minor rune structure. This is especially true if you are a warrior/ranger/assassin primary.

I'd say it strictly depends on the skills you use, and how much that +1 attribute bonus would affect them.

Usually more points in 1 attribute gives dimnishing results on skills.

Am I really the only person who uses dual superiors on many caster characters? My mesmer, necro and ele all have a superior of fastcasting, X Attribute, Soul Reapong, X Attribute, and Energy Storage, Fire Magic(respectively of course)

Nope Vlad I do too. As a matter of fact I ran with a 3-superior rune ranger build for a loooong time.

This is one of the best updates in a long time. I will defiantly make new use of new Major Runes. For starts my Assassin gets a Major Rune of Dagger Mastery. That -75 is too much for a class that gets hit with armor drawbacks.

Depends on the build. With this -35 I got an cool build that will get +1 with no cost compared to before the update.

It depends on the build but there are certainly many builds that could benifit from the double major alternative. I think a bonder would be good with this because you can get your divine favor higher than you usually wouldn't previously so that blessed signet gives more energy. Also I think the triple Major rune option wouldn't be that bad now that it's only 35. Before it just became habit to use rune-sets that other people did I used to always use a Sup Healing and a Major Divine. I didn't have any problem with having 405 health and now it'll be 420 health so it's not as bad. Woo!

Oh and if you think the Sup/Major combo is reasonable the triple major O.o combo seems reasonable too at 425 health.

Probably stick with the sup runes already on my head pieces. Whatever I'm supposed to be doing in the group, I usually have that attribute set to 16. I also go with 2x sup runes (just borrow a piece of armor from the 55 set).

I can definitely see the advatage for a monk major healing, divine and/or protection, which is why they are all sold out

It's especially useful if you want to hit certain breakpoints and still get the most effeciency out of your attribute points.

1 superior, and 1 major + helm