Can't find a concrete answer anywhere so I figured I'll ask here. This part of the game is confusing me the most. I understand the benefits of the runes/masteries/tree, but was curious over a few things:
I have a RL friend that is level 30 and basically got all his stuff and just plays. I'm a crappy level 6. When I play with him, naturally I'm probably in with 9 other Level 30 players. So what I noticed is I'm currently incredibly squishy as I basically have none of those perks protecting me; I seem to die nearly instantly. When I reach level 30 myself and apply all the runes/masteries) would I be able to be "on par" with the other players and be less squishy? Or would it still depend entirely on my dudes/rune and mastery choices.
When I play solo, I actually feel "equal" to my enemies (i.e. I can actually fight them)... I hope I can retain this "feel" at level 30 lol
2. Can I reset my masteries as many times as I want? Or once I set one would it mean I need to pay IP/RP to go at it again
3. The runes; I noticed I have to buy them to fill up my pages. My question/concern here would be that I noticed there's many many runes that I can mix and match with. So, for example, if I buy X1 rune and X2 and apply them but then later on, I want to replace X1 and X2 with Y1 and Y2, would the X1 and X2 then be placed back in my "inventory" for use again, or do I need to buy them again?
4. I'm guessing each dude has a cookie cutter rune/masteries build presuming I'm not doing anything "special", hence my concerns of #2 and #3
Thanks!