Superior Runes?

How many Superior Runes can a fellow have on him?
Thanks,

Mind

Five, since you have five pieces of armor.

I thought they didn't stack?

The -hp stacks.

If that was the question, the OP should've asked that.

Yep. The bonus to the attribute doesn't stack, only the HP penalty does.

It don't stack for me.

So to understand Kha...Only one of the Sup Runes will have an effect?
I have an axe and a vigor.
I will only see the effect of one of them?

Thanks,
Mind

So would 2 superior runes of 2 different attributes both have an effect? or just 1?

Ie I put on a superior Axe Mastery Rune and a Superior Strength Rune.. will I get the full benefit from both or just 1?

The same attribute won't stack, different ones will.

You can't have 5 Superiors of Strenth and have the effect of all five. (You'll have only the effect of one rune and a bunch of -75 HP penalties.)

You can't have 1 Superior and 1 Major of Axe Mastery and have the effect of a Major and Superior. (The higher tiered rune will override any lower runes of the same attribute.)

Also you have to know that Major Runes have a -50 HP penalty and Superior Runes have a -75 HP penalty. If you were to put all Superior Runes on (with the exception of Vigor and Absorption Runes) you could have a -425 HP penalty total.

You CAN mix different attributes and have 1 Superior Strenth, 1 Superior Axe Mastery, 1 Major Vigor, 1 Minor Tactic. (As long as the attributes are different, then there won't be any problems.)

What happens if you use 5 sups when you only have 200hp?

I think.... it just leaves you with 1 HP max lol :X

all -hp stacks my char has 105 life from 5 sup runes

by the no stacking statement, they mean runes of the same attribute don't stack. You can't get rank 30 in an attribute by getting 6 superior X runes. But you can get +3 in all your primary profession attributes, if you'd like.


... Of course, the penalties are heavy, so use them sparingly... unless you're one of those solo underworld monks, in which case, use as many as you can find, with no vigor.

Thank you to everyone for those answers. muchly appreciated. I thought that was how it would work, but I admit that the comments made before my post had me puzzled and I was afraid I had been wrong. I only had 1 minor rune anyways, but just got a second and so wasn't sure if it would work or not (different attribute).. especially considering the confusion that was comming from the post's before mine.

Runes do stack with non-rune items though. Like the "reduces damage" part in Knights Armour is just like an Absorbtion Rune, but they stack, and the +1 -attribute- on most headgear also stacks with runes. Because of this, the highest you can get in any attribute (without using skills to boost it for a short amount of time), is 16: 12 ranks using attribute points, 3 using a superior rune, and 1 using headgear.