For melee IDK. I full planned to strip my concentrate barb when I heard of the new runewords, so I never cared to look into it. What you can do is have eth temp armors. Make a few of those runewords in eth armors (with hugh dura prefereably) and use those.

Heres my idea on this subject.

REember that youd have to change your gear for max DR. With a PERFECT dr COA you will only have a grand total of 46 damage reduction. This is assuming you have perfect dungo's as well. You also don't have a free socket open in your armor that you could possibly 40-15.

With a LEVI(25) All you need is a pdungo (15), and a low coa (10%) This will enable you to potentially pit up to 120% edmg extra in jewels alone. A perfect LEVI would have I think +50 str. Thats so fa a total of 170% edamage. A high levi can also have 1700+ defence. In a paladin or concentrate barb, that equates to much extra def.

I really don't know though. These new rune words are going to ruin melee dueling. ANd I'm probably wrongon everything that I've said above.