If we say that any rune above 21 is a high level rune:
Necromancer (Bone) runeword takes Sol (12) Um (22) Um (22)
Sorceress (Enlightenment) takes Pul (21) Ral (8) Sol (12)
Barbarian (Myth) takes Hel (15) Amn (11) Nef (4)
Amazon (Peace) takes Shael (13) Thul (10) Amn (11)
Paladin (Principle) takes Ral (8) Gul (25) Eld (2)
Druid (Rain) takes Ort (9) Mal (23) Ith (6)
Assassin (Treachery) takes Shael (13) Thul (10) Lem (20)
The only one that requires 2 high level runes is the Necromancer runeword. I say this is unfair and should be addressed
Really all of the class armors are overpriced except for treachery. The amazon, barb and assassin armors are the only reasonable ones.
I dont know anyone who uses these except for treachery… Are you just complaining to complain about something else?
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If you know of a +2 to skills for Necro and 30 All resist chest piece that is cheaper. Please enlighten me
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With the changes to Holy Bolt I have been thinking about that expensive pally armor.
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Maybe they would see more use if they were cheaper.
It doesn’t have to be the best end game piece ever for it to see some play. It just has to be good at a particular point. These seem to be aimed at early ladder based on the cost of most of them, but the necro armors cost is way about the others to the point that by the time you would make it… why would you?
So, in summary you are exactly correct. Now think about why you’re correct and I think you’ll find why this post exists.
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I usually play summon necro so I get a cheap Trang chest piece and throw some more resists into it.
Poison or Bone and I would be looking to make Bone until I could afford Enigma. Provided I could get the FCR elsewhere.
The lack of FCR puts viper magi armor on par or perhaps even ahead of Bone, so I agree it shouldn’t be two Ums.
I’ve heard of a build that was theorized years back called the Holy Gunner, a Zealot paladin with maxed Holy Bolt synergies. It could theoretically work quite well in Arcane Sacntuary, walking back to stack up ghosts then killing them with the piercing bolts.
Both Bone and Rain are pretty sleeper as mid-tier options on some builds until they can afford Enigma/Fort/CoH.
People overlook the fact skills proc’d from items benefit from synergies when applicable, so both the Bone Armor and Cyclone Armor procs provide a lot of passive survivability.
Both Druid and Necro are classes scaling massively off +skills too.
Myth is ok if you level as a Singer Barb too, specially since it costs nothing. Same with Peace for the zon, its a free 2 skills + other ok mods pretty much guaranteed by the time you reach mid nightmare.
The Pally/Sorc ones i can’t find a use for though.
Those runewords were probably developed by a noob programmer at 4:45pm on a Friday.
Treachery is the only usable one and it should be deleted because its used only ever used for BM dueling.
I feel like all of these could be updated to be…less awful. There is some potential, and I think they could be made into really good, reasonable to spawn, transitionary gear from Nightmare---->Hell.
Thanks for reading,
Floopay
Technically, the most expensive runeword in that list is principle:
Bone = 0.06 HR
Enlightenment = 0.02 HR
Myth = >0.01 HR
Peace = >0.01 HR
Principle = 0.11 HR
Rain = 0.04 HR
Treachery = 0.01 HR
I’m pretty sure there would be some players out there that would give you a couple of Um runes for free if you asked nicely 
Principle may see some use with a Fanaticism-based Zealot build once 2.4 hits and Holy Bolt damages demons as well as undead.
brah, do you even play the game? 1 rune from rain and 1 rune from princple are harder than 2x um. ( gul and mal is much higher on the list than um) Um drop like candy everywhere in hell.
Does anyone know if the bug for “Peace” when equipped on Act 1 Merc for Valkyrie spam was repaired (it crashed the game if I remmember) ? Having in mind that +Ama skills work for Act 1 Merc, this Armor can be now interesting solution (shame it does not have Knockback though, but it would be too much I suppose) …
UM its not a High level rune bro, its really common. Paladin use a Gul which is the first kind of HR ( i consider Vex at hr, ppl might disagree ) and its not a usefull runeword, i would use another armor to be honest.
The best class runeword for armor its Treachery and its used in so many characters and mercenarys.
Viper Magi… No one would use an armor that requires 2x Um rune over that until they get end game armor.
I don’t play “online”. I am constantly pausing for one reason or another so group play isn’t good for the Other people in the group when I am there. As for Ums dropping like flys in Hell, Well then perhaps I am not far enough into Hell to get them as I just started act 5.
If you can find it in hellforge, it’s not a high Rune.
Um Mal ist are not high runes.
All these runewords suck incredibly except treachery. It’s good for prebuff and early game play through.
Its good runeword honestly but not worth two um runes. One would be enough.
Paladin one with gul is also too much.