PvE rune swapping

On a pve character, it should be easy and cost free to trade runes on armor.

I have a fire ele with a sup fire rune on, but recently i've wanted to try out other elements, but it makes no sense to have a health-sapping sup fire rune on if you dont use any fire magic.

So i propose that when you add a rune to armor that already has a rune on it, the rune comes off the armor and straight into your inventory.

bumped...

Or you could always have the superior run on the appropriate Elemental eye and switch between those, so you only suffer hp penalty once.

Lol thatd take up lots of time n money

not really.. or buy another helm.. or use the candy cane

get another piece of armor without the rune.

i put expensive runes in cheap pieces like boots/gloves for less materials cost.

they do pop out already except that they go poof instead of to your inventory.

IT IS A GOLD SINK NOT A REVOLVING BUY IT ONCE FOREVER DEAL

Think your point was lost on some, Premium, but since it's the most logical thing to do...

Like Premium said - get a fire head piece, but a superior fire rune on it - get a water headpiece, but a superior water on it. You should have minors on your normal set of armor (minor energy storage on boots, minor whatever on gloves, etc, major/superior vigor on whatever). Want to play fire, click on the appropriate headpiece and you're good to go. I do this on my ranger all the time. I have an expertise, marksmenship, and wilderness survival headpieces with the appropriate superior runes on each. When I want to UW trap, I go WS, when I'm going for damage, I put on my marksmenship, when I need energy management in my build, I swap on expertise. I mean it seems to me that it would only make sense to do this.. you usually only want a superior to max out a stat (16 fire, 16 water, etc) so you'd stick it on the corresponding helm. Then there is no need to be able to switch runes.

I'm not sure if I'd like to see the ability to obtain the rune without salvaging the armor... seems like that's your tradeoff for infusing your armor with a special rune.

I don't enjoy this idea, runes are a good gold sink and for some people are their only real source of income. I know I wouldn't have managed to buy half of what I have if it weren't for runes actually being worth something. If everyone and their mother used the same 4 or 5 runes throughout the entire game, it'd take away some of their value and then PieXags would not be happy. As many others have suggested here, I just bought each headpiece and a superior of that masks type to put on each one, I swap them when I swap builds, simple as that.

hm...dang i shouldn't have put my sup fire rune on my CHEST!

The headpiece switcheroo doesn't even cost much more than a handful of monster parts. The Crystal Desert collectors have max armor headpieces that, apart from one that wants 5 bleached shells, are very easy to get.