Do people actually use great runes that much?

[a person]

I have like 40 rune arcs but don’t use them to activate my great runes for some reason. I activated my great rune (godricks) in my first playthrough once and then a second time in ng+2 and have not used them since.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Na....it's far to valuable a consumable

The irony I know

[Key]

Nah, I don't even activate nor equip them anymore.

[Sean Maxhell]

Sometimes. I have more than 300 for all the times i help to kill Malenia.

[Seijana]

I would but I tend to hoard rune arcs.

[Bonkers]

I only ever use Godrick's in early game sometimes, though Rune Arcs are pretty rare at that stage of the game that even that isnt too common for me.

[Mecharion]

They could have hidden more rune arcs in the world instead of leaving it empty...

[Pacino]

I normally use them but I started a NG+ run and sped through half the game without bothering to activate the towers. So I don't see them as essential.

[Orfin]

No, there are too little of them to use them constantly and they don't give enough of a boost to secure a boss kill for you.
If the boss is easy I don't need them and if the boss is hard I can use all of them in an hour or so. Either way not much reasons to use them.

[Conway Bieber]

Invader supremacy.... I have so many that they started getting put in my storage box past 99+...

[Owl]

Originally posted by Conway Bieber:

Invader supremacy.... I have so many that they started getting put in my storage box past 99+...

Rookie numbers. You should have dumped your storage box limit of 600 multiple times already.

[chrstnmonks]

No I honestly forget about them most of the time.

[Glioburd]

I activate them sometimes for a dungeon or exploring a new area to make it easier.
Rykard's great rune is great for that, you can spare a lot of healing flask.

[qwerrie]

Originally posted by Sean Maxhell:

Sometimes. I have more than 300 for all the times i help to kill Malenia.

just: wow!

[Sonnenbank(Raphael am zocken)]

Never used them much in base game.
only in first playthrough when i learned a boss enough that iw as close to killing him.
but after that i knew most bosses well enough that i could always kill them no matter what
so going to the tower and activating Godricks rune felt like 10 minutes time waste.

Using Malenias Rune a lot in DLC though
it really makes a difference on dex builds

[palacentes]

I only use rune arcs for malenia in base game, a solid build can handle the bosses w no buff. DLC gives more pressure, so I rune arc there often, esp guys like messmer and rad, combo kings.... Been going for morgott's a classic HP buff, like a free health talisman.

Also for Leda's BS gank, only mohgs great rune works and its a very nice dmg buff.