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[JnEricsonx]

Just wondering.  About to put one in my 2 handed weapon, just not sure which one to use.

[Jukaga]

Corrupted ones I think, iirc they affect all beasts (that would include dragons), humanoids (includes red templars) and anything else alive. Only undead and darkspawn are immune. I could be wrong though. I do like making a demon-rune equipped weapon for the Fade and Cleansing runes when I know I'm mostly fighting darkspawn. I'm sure someone will give us the straight dope.

 

If corrupted are as effective as it seems, I think there should be negative repercussions for making heavy use of red lyrium.

[GhoXen]

Lightning Rune, since it applies the most useful debuff in most cases. Frost Rune is decent if you are a ranged character relying on kiting.

 

Corrupting Rune doesn't affect dragons or red templars. It affects only regular humanoids (Venatori & bandits) and regular beasts (bears, wolves, giants, lizards, etc.). Enemy-specific runes are fairly straight forward - each covers only 2 enemy categories, except dragon rune.

 

Generally speaking, you will only ever run into difficult fights against Venatori (Corrupting), red templars (Cleansing), undead (Demon-slaying) or demons (Demon-slaying). Each is fairly situational and usually region-specific, but since Demon-slaying covers two such situations, and demon Rifts are in nearly every region, I'd say Demon-slaying is the most versatile among enemy-specific runes.

 

Finally, and this is pretty big since you are talking about a melee character. Enemy-specific runes give bonus weapon damage based on the weapon's original element. This means that a 2H sword would deal bonus physical damage, which is mitigated by enemy's armor and any other reduction. Elemental runes on the other hand bypass armor entirely. The difference between a 25 dmg elemental rune and a 50 dmg enemy-specific rune is smaller than you'd imagine when used by a physical damage dealer.

[Xionanx]

Spirit for Staff users of course, its the best "general" all around DPS increase for those with a staff.

I would go with lightning otherwise.. granted I can't seem to find a Superior Lightning Rune myself.. so.. meh