Runeword - Revision history

MrFrye at 05:36, 25 May 2012

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Flux at 00:06, 26 June 2009

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Flux at 07:57, 29 April 2009

2009-04-29T07:57:34Z

Leord: Runewords moved to Runeword: Plural -> Singular

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Runewords moved to Runeword: Plural -> Singular

Leord at 11:24, 12 February 2009

2009-02-12T11:24:03Z

Flux at 07:06, 12 February 2009

2009-02-12T07:06:20Z

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Runewords were a feature added to Diablo II in the expansion pack. They allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with massive stats, unique-style stats. More powerful, higher level, rarer runes made items with better stats, and over time most of the best equipment in the game became runewords, thanks to [[mudflation]] and various [[duping]] exploits making the ultra-rare {{iw|runes runes}} common enough for most players to obtain them.

See a full listing of {{iw|Runewords Runewords}} in the Diablo II wing of the DiabloWiki.

Runewords will not be returning in Diablo III, since the [[D3 Team]] thought they were overpowered and resulted in lacking character equipment variety. The designers have promised that we'll see a wide array of item variety, and that there will be new ways to customize and craft items, but details have not yet been released. All that's known about [[Items#Item Sockets|item socketing]] so far is that gems are returning.

[[Runes]] are found in Diablo III, but their function has changed. They are still small items that have no function on their own, but instead of being socketed into items, they are now socketed into active skills right in the skill tree interface, adding new properties or modifying the function of that particular skill. Details and many examples of how this works can be seen on the [[skill runes]] page.

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-'''Runewords''' were a feature added to [[Diablo II]] in the expansion pack, which used a combination of runes in [[socket]]ed items to "craft" a completely new set of stats for it. This feature will not return in [[Diablo III]], and [[rune]]s now have a [[skill]]-related functionality.
+'''Runewords''' were a feature added to [[Diablo II]] in the expansion pack, which used a combination of runes in [[socket]]ed items to "craft" a completely new set of stats for it. This feature will not return in [[Diablo III]], though there will be many other types of item crafting and creation.
 ==Diablo II Runewords==
-These {{iw|Runewords runewords}} allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with massive stats, unique-style stats. More powerful, higher level, rarer runes made items with better stats, and over time most of the best equipment in the game became runewords, thanks to [[mudflation]] and various [[duping]] exploits making the ultra-rare {{iw|runes runes}} common enough for most players to obtain them.
+These {{iw|Runewords runewords}} allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with impressive lists of stats, making them much like Uniques. Thanks to the new very high level runewords that were added in the v1.10 and v1.11 patches, runewords became the most powerful type of item. This caused some [[mudflation]], especially due to all of the rune [[duping]] that went on to provide the extremely hard to obtain high level runes.
-Runewords will '''not''' be returning in Diablo III, since the [[D3 Team]] thought they were overpowered and resulted in lacking character equipment variety. The designers have promised that we'll see a wide array of item variety, and that there will be new ways to customize and craft items, but details have not yet been released. All that's known about [[Items#Item Sockets|item socketing]] so far is that gems are returning.
+* See a full listing of {{iw|Runewords Runewords}} in the Diablo II wing of the DiabloWiki.
 [[category:items]]
 [[category:Game terms]]
 [[category:Diablo II]]

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