- What do you favor in the runes ? Rune's skill or first the transfo of the rune ?
- Which rune are you seeking ?
- Which runes do you use and in which circumstances ?
On my AT I use Increase Attack + Crit Strike and Additonal Damage. Don't see a reason to use the Area Effect one because to many AOES to make use of it. Additionally I use Increase Recovery on secondary PVP gear for when I'm focused since it does not only increase the own heals (+pot heals) but also the heals you recieve.
On any other DPS class I would use Additonal Damage, Area Effect and Crit or Attack. Most likely Attack because the value in manastones is higher compared to Crit.
I am sceptical about any kind of Enhancement Runes + the Crit Reduction Rune since the Enhancement Runes are only useful if you face an enemy with an actual resist to any kind of state you are countering with your Rune and the Crit Reduction Rune sounds better than it actually is. 5% reduction on a 50k hit is 2500 dmg, you still recieve 47.500 dmg. 5% reduction on a 5k hit is only 250 dmg. The increase on each level is +4 so at +5 you would have 70 (7%) reduction. Debatable if it's not useful when u're in a grp pvp situation where you get focused so much that you hardly can use any skills or you got other supporting Transformation Collection effects which push your reduction higher.
XP Rune for botting is nice to have as well, if you can afford all the Combat Extractors anyway 