Rune Tiles

Rune tiles are crafted using alchemy, and can be put together into tilesets to gain damage and healing buffs in combat. Most of the individual runes are based on the Elder Futhark alphabet.

For instructions and technical details on how tilesets work, visit the page on artificing. Suggested tilesets for each class can be found in Category:Suggested Tilesets or on the individual class pages.

Attack Runes

The following tiles are triggered when a specific action or attack is executed. Tiles trigger when an enemy is hit.

Rune		Bard	Musketeer	Mage	Ranger	Scoundrel	Shaman	Paladin	Warrior	Recipe
	ᛃ (J)	Mallet Throw	Receive Decurse Orb Receive Shield Orb	Pushback	Smoke Arrow	Card of Light	Stun Orb	Libram of Power	Provoke	Tile ᛃ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Green 1 Linstanium 1 Nahomium Blue Finish
	ᚨ (A)		Impact Orb	Frostbolt	Piercing Arrow	Burn any card	Place any totem Frost Totem Pulse	Ground Slam	Wound	Tile ᚨ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Nahomium 1 Obsidian Green 1 Grathorp Blue Finish
	ᚢ (U)	Justice Crescendo[1] Harm Crescendo	Weakness Orb Gravity Orb	Fireball	Spread Arrow[1]	Card of Flame	Fire orb	Direct hit with pips Hammer throw with pips		Tile ᚢ  Blue 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Turquoise 2 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᛞ (D)			Arcane Ray	Fire Rain Arrow[2]	Spread any card (not Flame/Vines)	Lightning Orb		Cleave	Tile ᛞ  Blue 1 Cryejil 1 Knight's Tear Yellow 1 Knight's Tear Green 1 Cryejil Blue Finish
	ᛟ (o)	Gentle Healing pulse Harm pulse Justice pulse	Poison Orb[3] Renew Orb[3]	Affliction	Poison Arrow	Card of Vines	Lava Totem pulse	Hammer of Retribution	Hamstring	Tile ᛟ  Blue 1 Nahomium 1 Grathorp Green 1 Obsidian 1 Nahomium Blue Finish
	ᚳ (C)		Cure Wounds Orb Shield Orb damage (Explosive Shield talent)							Tile ᚳ  Blue 1 Nahomium 1 Grathorp 1 Cryejil Turquoise 1 Cryejil Blue Finish

Notes

1. Triggers once for every hit.
2. Triggers on each tick.
3. Triggers once for every enemy/player hit.

Receive Specific Attack Runes

These are the counterparts to the Attack Runes, triggered on the player receiving the attacks.

Rune		Bard	Musketeer	Mage	Ranger	Scoundrel	Shaman	Paladin	Warrior	Recipe
	ᛒ (B)	Mallet Throw		Pushback			Stun Orb			Tile ᛒ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Grathorp Green 1 Linstanium 1 Nahomium Blue Finish
	ᛠ (E)		Impact Orb	Frostbolt	Piercing Arrow		Frost Totem pulse	Ground Slam	Wound	Tile ᛠ  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Knight's Tear 1 Cryejil Green 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᛓ (F)	Justice Crescendo[1] Harm Crescendo		Fireball	Spread Arrow[1]	Card of Flame	Flame orb			Tile ᛓ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Green 1 Linstanium 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᚸ (G)			Arcane Ray	Fire Rain Arrow[2]	Any Spread card (not Flame/Vines)[3]	Lightning Orb		Cleave[3]	Tile ᚸ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Nahomium 1 Knight's Tear Red 1 Grathorp Blue Finish
	ᚼ[4] (I)	Harm pulse Justice pulse	Poison Orb[2]	Affliction[2]	Poison Arrow[2]	Card of Vines[2]	Lava Totem pulse	Hammer of Retribution		Tile ᚼ  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Red 1 Cryejil Blue Finish

Notes:

1. Triggers once for every hit.
2. Triggers on every damage tick.
3. Only triggers on the main target of the attack.
4. ᚼ Also triggers on some DoTs applied by monsters.

Attack Received Runes

Research: On what DoTs does ᚼ trigger?

The following tiles are triggered by enemies damaging the player in some way.

Rune		Activation	Recipe
	ᚹ (W)	Get hit by a melee attack	Tile ᚹ  Blue 2 Nahomium Turquoise 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᚥ (Y)	Get hit by Magic Attack Projectiles DoT ticks	Tile ᚥ  Blue 1 Grathorp 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Green 1 Nahomium Blue Finish
	ᚼ (I)	Triggers only on some DoTs: Poison DoT Affliction DoT	Tile ᚼ  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Red 1 Cryejil Blue Finish
	ᚪ (a)	Get hit by 2 different enemies in 3 seconds	Tile ᚪ  Blue 2 Obsidian 1 Cryejil Turquoise 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	< (K)	Get hit by 3 different enemies in 3 seconds	Tile <  Blue 1 Nahomium 1 Knight's Tear Green 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	𛲣 (O)	Get hit by 4 different enemies in 3 seconds	Tile 𛲣  Blue 1 Garthorp 1 Cryejil Turquoise 1 Nahomium Yellow 1 Cryejil Blue Finish

Attack Speed Runes

These tiles are triggered by hitting an enemy multiple times in the span of a second.

• DoT ticks like Poison, Affliction or Bleed do not count as hits.
• The game keeps track of the hits per second with a background clock - this means that, for example, an attack speed of 2.2 hits per second can trigger either ᛗ or ᚾ, depending on when the "second" starts.
• If more than one enemy is hit within a second, the Attack Speed runes won't activate, Attack Multiple Targets Runes will be triggered instead.

Rune		Activation	Recipe
	ᛗ (M)	2 hits per second	Tile ᛗ  Blue 2 Nahomium Yellow 1 Cryejil Red 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᚾ (N)	3 hits per second	Tile ᚾ  Blue 1 Cryejil 1 Obisidian Turquoise 1 Nahomium 1 Knight's Tear Blue Finish
	ᛈ (P)	4 hits per second	Tile ᛈ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Grathorp Yellow 1 Grathorp 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᛢ (Q)	5 or more hits per second	Tile ᛢ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Nahomium 1 Obsidian 1 Nahomium Finish

Class Notes:

• Warrior:
  • Blocking an attack with the shield counts as a hit on the attacking enemy. Getting attacked by multiple enemies will trigger Attack Multiple Targets Runes.
• Musketeer:
  • Normal shots count as two hits.
  • The turret healing/damaging counts as a hit.
  • A shot with Poison, Weakness, Gravity and Impact counts as 3 hits.
  • Charged shots with the Charged Orb talent count as hits on all enemies they reach (even if no orb is used) and will trigger Attack Multiple Targets Runes instead.
• Ranger:
  • Charged Shots counts as two hits.
  • Poison Arrows count as two hits (three if charged).
• Mage:
  • Arcane Explosion counts as two hits if a single target is hit. If more than one enemy is hit, Attack Multiple Targets Runes will trigger instead.

Attack Multiple Targets Runes

These tiles trigger when a number of different enemies are hit within two seconds.

Rune		Activation	Recipe
	1 (1)	Hit 2 enemies within two seconds	Tile 1  Blue 1 Nahomium 1 Linstanium 1 Obsidian Yellow 1 Cryejil Blue Finish
	ᚩ (x)	Hit 3 enemies within two seconds	Tile ᚩ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Nahomium Green 1 Knight's Tear 1 Grathorp Blue Finish
	ᛇ (c)	Hit 4 enemies within two seconds	Tile ᛇ  Blue 1 Cryejil 1 Nahomium Red 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Blue Finish
	ᛖ (e)	Hit 5 or more enemies within two seconds	Tile ᛖ  Blue 1 Nahomium 2 Cryejil Yellow 1 Nahomium Blue Finish

Attack Delay Runes

Delay tiles trigger depending on how long you did not attack an enemy.

Rune		Activation	Recipe
	Ƶ (g)	1-2 second delay	Tile Ƶ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Red 1 Obsidian 1 Grathorp Blue Finish
	ᛁ (i)	2-3 second delay	Tile ᛁ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Grathorp Turquoise 1 Obsidian 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᛝ (n)	3-4 second delay	Tile ᛝ  Blue 1 Grathorp 1 Obsidian Yellow 1 Linstanium 1 Cryejil Blue Finish
	ᛥ (s)	4-5 second delay	Tile ᛥ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Linstanium Turquoise 1 Nahomium 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᚦ (t)	5+ second delay	Tile ᚦ  Blue 3 Cryejil Green 1 Grathorp Blue Finish

• Attack delay runes trigger immediately before the next hit. For example, starting combat by using a Piercing arrow will trigger ᚦᚨ.
• Delay runes work off of actual time since last hit, and do not depend on the background clock like the Hits Per Second runes.

Other Runes

Tiles that don't fit in any category or their way of triggering is unknown.

Rune		Activation	Recipe
	ᛏ (T)	Getting healed by anything (every tick for HoTs)	Tile ᛏ  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Knight's Tear 1 Obsidian Green 1 Knight's Tear Blue Finish
	0 (0)	An enemy you hit before dies.	Tile 0  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Obsidian Yellow 1 Nahomium Red 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᛚ (L)	?	Tile ᛚ  Blue 1 Grathorp 1 Nahomium Green 1 Cryejil Yellow 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᚱ (R)	?	Tile ᚱ  Blue 1 Cryejil 1 Grathorp Green 1 Grathorp Yellow 1 Knight's Tear Blue Finish
	ᛋ (S)	?	Tile ᛋ  Blue 2 Cryejil Turquoise 1 Obsidian Yellow 1 Cryejil Blue Finish
	𐑾 (V)	?	Tile 𐑾  Blue 1 Linstanium 1 Knight's Tear Green 1 Cryejil 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᚷ (X)	?	Tile ᚷ  Blue 1 Knight's Tear 1 Grathorp Red 1 Grathorp 1 Obsidian Blue Finish
	ᛘ (Z)	?	Tile ᛘ  Blue 1 Grathorp 1 Nahomium Turquoise 1 Linstanium Red 1 Linstanium Blue Finish
	ᚺ (H)	?	Tile ᚺ  Blue 1 Obsidian 1 Knight's Tear Turquoise 1 Linstanium Yellow 1 Knight's Tear Blue Finish

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