Suprior Rune of Absorption

Not to derail, but I was wondering if the Sup. Absorbtion will stack with knights armor? Yes it does stack.

Well if you only want that Sup Rune on you to PvP you might as well just make a PvP only char instead. If you do a lot of farming/running and think that the 1 point of damage reduction would make a large difference then use it, otherwise sell it for some good gold.

In my personal and strictly professional opinion, Absorbsion runes aren't even worth equipping. Especially with the minus 75 health. Do they really make that big a difference? If I were you, I would sell it. But thats just me. Please argue with me! Absorption Runes don't give - ANY health.

Superior rune of absorption is -3 damage, major is -2, I still cant justify the 90k for 1 damage, but then again, I am frivilous with my cash, I hoard alot of it and dont like to drop it all the time. My two cents. As a runner I can tell you two things about sup absorption.

1. It is absolutely worth it
2. You can run without it

If though you can run without it even the best runner dies ocassionaly and sometimes 1-2 health total (quite literally) can be the difference between life and death. I can't tell you how many times I have hit my heal sig with 1 life remaining.

So do the math, you are running through a mob of 10 monsters who hit you twice in 3 seconds then it is likely to have reduced your total damage take by 20. You have a total of 530 hp (assuming sup vig) which means that you saved approximately 3% of your total health.

Any runner reading this will vouch that that is a lot of health.

That said, I bought a sup vigor and absorb for my plate and ran with that for a long time. Then I decided to get 15k glads and I cheaped out and didnt buy either for a long time and I was able to run just fine.

It boils down to ease not necessity.

Good luck with your choice

Lady Blue Steel apparently teaches how to keep up -10 dmg as you run Lonars Pass in her Running Academy. Not sure whats up there...I know the superior absorption is -3, -3 shields (that requires a condition...maybe enchanted?) -1 knights armor. Thats -7 right there. The highest you can get is 10.

Sup Abs= -3
Knight's= -2
Shield with:
Dmg -2 (stance/enchant)
Dmg -3 (hexed)

No it isn't permanent or reliable even, but it's possible.

Lady Blue Steel apparently teaches how to keep up -10 dmg as you run Lonars Pass in her Running Academy. Not sure whats up there...I know the superior absorption is -3, -3 shields (that requires a condition...maybe enchanted?) -1 knights armor. Thats -7 right there. This means she is using a stacking shield.

I am not sure how she gets to constant absorption but I believe the shields are as follows

-2 stance -2 enchant (or some combo meaning you can get -4 stacking if you are both in a stance and enchanted)
-2 stance -3(10%) chance (replace stance with enchant or hex)
-2 stance -3(hexed) etc etc you get the point

As far as I know, there is no shield that gives -3 reduction all the time (enchanted or stance) for a positive reason. -3 relates only to hex or a percentage.

So you can get -3 from sup rune, -2 from knights or ascalon and potentially -4 to 5 more from the shield depending on the situation. So you can get it to 10 but not reliably. You can do 9 fairly reliably with sprint or balanced stance + veil or mending always running using a -2,-2 enchant and stance shield.

Tell you what though, you don't need -10 reduction. When I am running enchanted in a stance with my -2,-2 shield hill giants in snake dance do 0-1 damage with their normal attacks.

She could potentially use shielding hands, Im not sure what the recharge time is on that but it adds -2 reduction with 0 attribute points in that skill.