Quote Originally Posted by Glamdring View Post
All that being said, rune is flawed as a tank, even though that was SE's expressed intent in the design phase for us. We have 1 tool for major hate, Flash.
I agree with most of the points you raised in your post besides the one I just quoted. Valiance, one for all, and foil all build decent amounts of hate. In addition to this, runes can be used for a steady stream of enmity if you're dealing with an enemy you just can't smack hard enough to keep his attention.

While it's true RUN could use something more than just this, I do hope they take a slightly less traditional route when attempting to fix it. Not that I would complain to have more straightforward hate tools, but it would be more interesting to have unique abilities such as an AoE buff RUN could give which siphons all hate generated by party members for 10 seconds directly to the RUN.