Guild Wars 2

I just bought an entire set of new runes, four Runes of Divinity to be exact. I applied two of them right away to pieces of my armor, and found I could not replace existing runes in my other armor pieces (even though I’ve been able to do this before, and I can still do this with the armor I’ve already attached the Runes of Divinity to). So… I went and bought new cultural armor, of my suited level, and now I can’t apply my rune of divinity to my cultural armor even though it has an unused item slot! Why? I’ve found nothing that suggests certain runes can’t be used on certain items, and what is even dumber is existing runes can be destroyed and replaced in some armor items but not others. Why!? Is this a bug or did the Guild Wars developers really make the game this difficult to play. I mean, I just bought NEW armor and NEW runes so I could use them together, and now I can’t even use them together and it was a waste of gold!

The major rune of divinity requires level 39 armor and above. The superior requires level 60 and above. (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_Divinity)
What level are your armor pieces?
It sounds like you wear mixed level armor and two of these could use the rune, because their level was appropriate and two were not.
Is that possible?

And if you bought cultural tier one it is 35 and you cannot use runes that require 39, unless you have transmuted them to a higher level (39+).

ok wait that may be it. The cultural armor is tier one lvl 35, I’m lvl 41, and it was the Major Rune of Divinity.

What Navi said makes sense. So what you’re saying is I need lvl 39+ items to put a major rune in? I can understand that.

Yes. You need 39+ armor pieces.
The easiest way for you now seems just to buy some cheap green 39+ armor, transmute it with your cultural one (if you want to keep the cultural look) and there you go, you will be able to put the major runes in.
:-)

Yep. I had that happen to me once. Before that, I didn’t know there are level restrictions on the armor lol.

My lv80 light acolyte berserker chest I got from fractals (karma equivalent) does not allow me to slot a Ruby Orb in it, so I’m stuck with the rest of my gear with ruby orbs and a subpar single gear piece with a rune.