Guild Wars 2

When you have multiple runes of the same type it opens up successive bonuses on those runes. Does each of these bonuses stack? Ex. 6 superior runes with the first stat as +10 power. Would that be +60 power total or just +10 but you get the successive bonuses too?

they stack.
This is most evident with the runes of divinity, in which every rank is +10 to all stats. If it didnt stack, then having 6 would give the same benefit as having one, which would be useless.

Ok, thanks! That’s what I assumed, but I just wanted confirmation.

They do NOT stack! Wearing 6 Divinity runes gives you a total of +60 to all stats, because it has six instances of +10 to all stats.

Look at it this way:
The first rune of a set gives you the first bonus.
The second rune gives you the next bonus.
The third rune gives you the third bonus.
etc.

Runes of the Divinity have six identical bonuses of +10 to all stats. If you have one rune, that one rune provides +10 to all stats. Two runes provides a TOTAL BONUS of +20 to all stats (because the first and second effects of the Rune Set are active) NOT two instances of +20 to all stats. Each rune provides only one of the effects on the rune description.

So, 6 superior runes with the first effect being +10 power means that you will get +10 power for having the first rune equipped, and each subsequent rune provides the other 5 effects. Runes provide their bonus as a set, not individually.

Aradon.5936:

They do NOT stack! Wearing 6 Divinity runes gives you a total of +60 to all stats, because it has six instances of +10 to all stats.

Look at it this way:
The first rune of a set gives you the first bonus.
The second rune gives you the next bonus.
The third rune gives you the third bonus.
etc.

Runes of the Divinity have six identical bonuses of +10 to all stats. If you have one rune, that one rune provides +10 to all stats. Two runes provides a TOTAL BONUS of +20 to all stats (because the first and second effects of the Rune Set are active) NOT two instances of +20 to all stats. Each rune provides only one of the effects on the rune description.

So, 6 superior runes with the first effect being +10 power means that you will get +10 power for having the first rune equipped, and each subsequent rune provides the other 5 effects. Runes provide their bonus as a set, not individually.

That, sir, is exactly what they were asking. They were basically making sure that the +50 didn’t override the +25, and instead added to it. Aka, do the stats stack?

“Would that be +60 power total or just +10 but you get the successive bonuses too?”

The response was yes to this question, when it is actually no. You don’t get 60 power total, you get 10 and the successive bonuses.

Edit: To clarify, it seemed like the OP was referring to ‘stacking’ as ‘each rune provides the first bonus cumulatively,’ and the second post said that ‘they stack’ but used ‘stack’ in a different sense. I wanted to clarify exactly how they stack.

Thanks Aradon, you are right.