Runemaster path?

[old.Vespa]

Im new to midgard and im wondering about the /best/ path for a runnie...

talking to most it seems suppression to 26 is a must for pulsing bladeturn...

but then what?

dark or runecrafting?

and which class gets those funky hammers and spears from the sky?

they killed my old wizard many a time

gotta make an alt one of them anyway...
any help appreciated

Vespa
Runemaster
<Mighty Chronicles>

 

[old.Zarff]

well im very happy that i chose 26 supp and the rest in rc (at lvl 50 it will b 47)

 

[old.Vespa]

i quite fancy supp 46 rc 28

anyone else done this?

this way i get pulsing bt every 6 seconds...

or is that overkill on the bt?

Vespa
Runemaster
<Mighty Chronicles>

 

[old.Zarff]

Gro lvl 49 rm got the 6 sec pulsing

 

[old.Gro]

First, there's no such best path of a runemaster, depends on your way of temper and playing style.

You want the best and fastest casting DD and AE DD in the realm , go darkness. You'll be able to do a lot of dmg in massive numbers of people incomming to you. As a bonus you will get the best dmg add in the realm, better than the skalds.

You want a lot of "utilities" like f.ex. range debuff, DD (and AE DD) with snare, nice fend, go suppression.

You want to stand far of and do ranged combat versus other ranged people, go runecarving.

As Zarff said, I myself is a pure supressor and don't feel gimped at all in RvR. Bolts gives the most dmg of all runemaster spells put I myself find them rather useless unless you want to stand far of and nuke archers and casters (kind of like PK camping) since bolts are deflected if target is in melee. Many albs especially imo have also speced in shield making them able to partically block your bolts. And bolts are on a timer. And I have to say I love my AE DD with snare more and more every day, since next to damage speed is everything in RvR. And my DD does the same (some say even more) damage than runecaring DD's. Aye, runecaring is great but there are other ways too. If I were to respec I might go witha pure darkness...

[EDIT] Found out I didn't answer most of your questions, but here are some:

"and which class gets those funky hammers and spears from the sky?"
Thanes get hammers, runecarving runemasters get spears.

"talking to most it seems suppression to 26 is a must for pulsing bladeturn... "
Isn't a most... but if you plan on grouping just a bit people like fend.

"i quite fancy supp 46 rc 28 anyone else done this?"
As I said I went/am going the pure supp way. The extra damage you will get then in your suppression line is far better then a useless level 28 bolt imo. (You will still have your baseline bolt which is much higher)

Some specs I would recommend:
47 rc / 26 supp
50 supp / 20 dark
50 dark / 20 supp

If you want more info, tactics and more go to this board:
http://vnboards.ign.com/board.asp?brd=20914
Should keep you busy for a day or two... /cheer

 

[old.Vespa]

Cheers Gro