Guild Wars 2

I just tried to add 2 Minor Rune of Lyssa to the Gloves Mighty Swindler Gloves of Lyssa. I double clicked on the Rune stack and hovered over the gloves and the first rune applied with no problem. I double clicked again and hovered over gloves a second time to add the second rune, got the popup warning about destroying the existing upgrade, clicked anyway and still no second rune. The same thing happened to me last night when trying to add 2 Minor Runes of the Lich to Mighty Swindler Boots of the Lich. Now, if it lists stat bonuses for TWO RUNES then why will it not let me socket both of them? There is no level requirement listed on the Runes nor is there any other requirement listed on the armor pieces.

This is not a bug.

You have to apply the second rune to another piece of armor to make them stack.
You sort of create a special armor set when applying multiple runes of the same type

Ahhh….well that’s very misleading then. It doesn’t say 1 PIECE or 2 piece 3 piece and so on like you would normally see in say WoW or Diablo 3… It very much looks like the bonus is derived from multiple runes in one piece of gear. Well, thanks for the info.

Omg, where were the instructions on how to do this?! five million years later, and I finally find out how to do this from a random forum post when ANet should’ve made it more apparent.

Valek Hawke.3975:

Ahhh….well that’s very misleading then. It doesn’t say 1 PIECE or 2 piece 3 piece and so on like you would normally see in say WoW or Diablo 3… It very much looks like the bonus is derived from multiple runes in one piece of gear. Well, thanks for the info.

well it actually tells you when you’re equipping one over another that the other will be destroyed so yes, it does tell you what you’re doing there.

it doesn’t make it clear that you need 2 pieces of armor with the same 2pc set sigil though, but anyone who has played other MMOs is used to what a set bonus tooltip looks like and figures it out. they need a mouseover tooltip that explains that probably

but it does tell you that you can’t put 2 in the same slot

Rynocerous.5492:

Omg, where were the instructions on how to do this?! five million years later, and I finally find out how to do this from a random forum post when ANet should’ve made it more apparent.

it’s an MMO, ask in /map

if you get rude comments, block/report and move on, someone will help you. the original design of MMOs was for the community to sustain itself then wow came along and blizzard let everyone dissect their game and theorycraft, give you guides, etc, and that community died.

if you can’t figure something out though, just ask in map or make a post here. there is a need for a few more tooltips but most people ignore them anyway. like this OP, ignored the tooltip that says YOU ARE ABOUT TO DESTROY THE SIGIL THAT’S IN THE ARMOR