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: Runes might come from old [[Arcane magic]], considering the Wizard spell. --[[User:Leord|Leord]] 15:43, 25 November 2008 (CET)
: [[Lut Gholein: The Binding of Destruction]] - mentions runes --[[User:Leord|Leord]] 17:16, 25 November 2008 (CET)
== Amount of Runes ==
It's confirmed there are going to be but 5 runes:
:'''IGN: We know you couldn't show the runes because you guys are still working on the map and everything else, but could you tell us a little bit more about them? And also, since the monk has his own innate runic tie-in in a way, based on his manipulation of his attacks, how does this differ from the barbarian or the wizard or the witch doctor in how he winds up using the system?'''
:'''Jay Wilson''': Well, the system is similar for every class. What we did is we broke down five basic runes. Each rune has a general type of effective pluses. One tends to be more damage-oriented. One tends to multiply effects, splits projectiles or bigger radiuses, things like that. One tends to be a very energy-efficient rune, so you cut down cost or in some way increases the benefit of the skill, so you get more for less. One tends to be more focused on death effects, critical effects. And one of them we call just…the weird rune, which is our grab bag for anything unusual we want to stick on. Every active skill, we define an active skill as a skill that you have to click to activate, can have all five runes affect it. Each rune will change the function of the skill. Some of the changes are minor, there are some cases where there's not much appreciable effect. And then some cases are much more drastic, where for example with Ice Storm or Blizzard, one of the things we're playing around with, this halo of frost whips around her and anyone that moves through it takes damage. That adds on to the effects that Ice Storm already does. So there's a whole bunch of different…the basic idea is to capture that dream of, I'm gonna customize my skills. Even though you and I have the exact same skills, we don't play the same because our skills are different. And then throughout the game, the runes will upgrade in power. So that will just increase and amplify the effect that they have.
The page currently states that furing development more runes will be added. Might want to change that, but I'm not sure what to do with the current text. Replace it with a note that there'll be just the 5 runes, or remove it altogether and put that information elsewhere? --[[User:Vipermagi|Vipermagi]] 14:19, 26 August 2009 (CEST)
