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Flux: moved Runestones to Skill Runes

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moved Runestones to Skill Runes

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MrFrye at 18:24, 29 May 2012

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MrFrye at 05:39, 25 May 2012

2012-05-25T05:39:25Z

Elly: removed old material added to the rune archive page

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Maurish: Undo revision 46983 by Slande (talk) (spam)

2012-02-22T13:23:01Z

Undo revision 46983 by Slande (talk) (spam)

Slande: /* Proposed Changes to Rune Functionality */

2012-02-22T09:20:02Z

‎Proposed Changes to Rune Functionality

Risingred: first pass, needs work

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 The final game rune system was introduced in early 2012 in [[Beta Patch 13]], where players were first able to try them out for themselves<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/video-journal-3-new-skill-interface-rune-system New Skill Interface and Rune System] -Diablo.incgamers, 20/2/2012</ref>. Runes are now effects in skills, can be switched between freely, and are entirely divorced in organization from the old runestone items system.
 Runes are now a component of the [[skill]] system that allows a player to alter a skill. Some runes, such as the [[Bash]] rune [[Unleashed (rune effect)|Unleashed]], do not change the basic functionality of the skill, simply increasing the damage or duration, or lowering the resource cost. Other rune effects do much more, entirely changing the function of skills from offensive to defensive, or changing the function greatly, such as the [[Witch Doctor]]'s [[Rain of Toads]] rune for [[Plague of Toads]]. That rune takes a short range, slow, erratically-moving projectile attack and changes it to a ranged attack with almost full screen range that deals heavy damage to a targeted location.
 The five rune effects lost their individual, unifying names during development, and there is no longer any way for players to refer to something like, "the [[Crimson Rune]] effect in [[Cleave]]." All the rune effects are simply referred to by their own names now, such as Cleave's rune effects, [[Broad Sweep]], [[Gathering Storm]], [[Scattering Blast]], [[Reaping Swing]], and [[Rupture]].
 ===Attaining Runes===
-[[File:Rune_ui.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Socketing a rune.]]
+Runes are automatically unlocked at predetermined levels. Each skill lists what levels each rune unlocks at, and players receive notification of the new runes that have become available each time they level up. Runes can be changed at any time, but changing a skill or rune while not in [[town]] will trigger a 10-second [[cooldown]], during which time the skill or spell will not be available for use or further modification.
 ==Skill Rune Videos==
-In May 2011 Blizzard released a set of five videos, one for each of the classes, demonstrating various runestones in a single skill each.
+In May 2011 Blizzard released a set of five videos, one for each of the classes, demonstrating various runestones in a single skill each.  These show early versions of teh rune effects, and do not correspond exactly to what we see in the final game.
-===Witch Doctor's [[Acid Cloud]]===
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-===Wizard's [[Ray of Frost]]===
+The Wizard's [[Ray of Frost]]
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 '''Runestones''' is the old name for [[Skill Runes]], which provide five different functions for every skill in Diablo III. All rune forms offer some sort of upgrade over the original skill, and there are virtually no scenarios when a character is better off using the base skill than one of the rune effects.
 The rune effects become available gradually, as a character levels up. All of the basic skills are available by level 30, but a character must reach level 60 to gain access to all of the rune effects, with at least 1, and usually 2 or 3 added each level up from 6 to 60. There is no set pattern or regular system to when the rune effects become available. Characters do not get another rune effect in a skill every 6 or 8 levels, for instance.
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 Players once assumed that a sixth rune would be added in the [[Diablo III expansion]], but with the final game system this seems unlikely, as all the rune effects are now customized to each skill, rather than each runestome type adding a semi-predictable effect to any skill it was added to.
 ==Rune Basics==
 The final game rune system was introduced in early 2012 in [[Beta Patch 13]], where players were first able to try them out for themselves<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/video-journal-3-new-skill-interface-rune-system New Skill Interface and Rune System] -Diablo.incgamers, 20/2/2012</ref>. Runes are now effects in skills, can be switched between freely, and are entirely divorced in organization from the old runestone items system.

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-'''Runestones''' are small items that can be applied - one each - to any [[skill]], but not to [[passives]] or [[item]]s. Diablo III's skill runes grant special bonuses to the skills with which they are used, altering their effects and generally enhancing them, although the changes that a rune makes to a skill may dramatically alter its utility.
+'''Runestones''' is the old name for [[Skill Runes]], which provide five different functions for every skill in Diablo III. All rune forms offer some sort of upgrade over the original skill, and there are virtually no scenarios when a character is better off using the base skill than one of the rune effects.
 * See all [http://diablo.incgamers.com/categories/category/runestones/ news related to runestones in Diablo III].
-* [[Rune Archive]] -- Runes evolved greatly during the development of Diablo III. See the archive page for a history lesson.
+* [[Rune Archive]] -- Runes evolved greatly during the development of Diablo III. See the archive page for a detailed history lesson.
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 [[File:New_runes.jpg|left|thumb|115px|The five Runes.]]
-The runes changed drastically after the [[Beta Patch 13]], where players were first able to try them out for themselves<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/video-journal-3-new-skill-interface-rune-system New Skill Interface and Rune System] -Diablo.incgamers, 20/2/2012</ref>.
+The final game rune system was introduced in early 2012 in [[Beta Patch 13]], where players were first able to try them out for themselves<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/video-journal-3-new-skill-interface-rune-system New Skill Interface and Rune System] -Diablo.incgamers, 20/2/2012</ref>. Runes are now effects in skills, can be switched between freely, and are entirely divorced in organization from the old runestone items system.
-Runes are a component of the [[skill]] system that allows a player to alter a skill, whether that alteration is major or minor. Some runes, such as the [[Bash]] rune [[Unleashed (rune effect)|Unleashed]], won't change the basic functionality of the skill, and offer a bonus such as increased [[resource]] generation, or increased damage. However, other runes can drastically change the way a skill operates, such as the [[Witch Doctor]]'s [[Rain of Toads]] rune for [[Plague of Toads]], which instead of having a few frogs hop across the ground in an erratic pattern, the frogs then fall from the sky in a directed assault.
+Runes are now a component of the [[skill]] system that allows a player to alter a skill. Some runes, such as the [[Bash]] rune [[Unleashed (rune effect)|Unleashed]], do not change the basic functionality of the skill, simply increasing the damage or duration, or lowering the resource cost. Other rune effects do much more, entirely changing the function of skills from offensive to defensive, or changing the function greatly, such as the [[Witch Doctor]]'s [[Rain of Toads]] rune for [[Plague of Toads]]. That rune takes a short range, slow, erratically-moving projectile attack and changes it to a ranged attack with almost full screen range that deals heavy damage to a targeted location.
-The five runes, currently, do not have individual names.  This can make communication with other players somewhat confusing.  However, each rune's effect on a skill is named. For example changing the Barbarian's skill [[Cleave]] into Broad Sweep, Gathering Storm, Scattering Blast, Reaping Swing or Rupture by activating the appropriate rune will apply additional bonuses.
+The five rune effects lost their individual, unifying names during development, and there is no longer any way for players to refer to something like, "the [[Crimson Rune]] effect in [[Cleave]]." All the rune effects are simply referred to by their own names now, such as Cleave's rune effects, [[Broad Sweep]], [[Gathering Storm]], [[Scattering Blast]], [[Reaping Swing]], and [[Rupture]].
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 [[File:Rune_ui.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Socketing a rune.]]
-Runes are automatically unlocked upon a pre-determined level. Each skill will list what levels each rune will unlock at, and after the level requirement is met, the skill can then be altered by activating the rune. Runes can be changed at any time, but changing a rune will trigger a 15-second cooldown, during which time the skill or spell will not be available for use.
+Runes are automatically unlocked at predetermined levels. Each skill lists what levels each rune unlocks at, and players receive notification of the new runes that have become available each time they level up. Runes can be changed at any time, but changing a skill or rune while not in [[town]] will trigger a 10-second [[cooldown]], during which time the skill or spell will not be available for use.
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 The runes changed drastically after the [[Beta Patch 13]], where players were first able to try them out for themselves<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/video-journal-3-new-skill-interface-rune-system New Skill Interface and Rune System] -Diablo.incgamers, 20/2/2012</ref>.
-Runes are a component of the [[skill]] system that allows a player to alter a skill, whether that alteration is major or minor. Some runes, such as the [[Bash]] rune [[Unleashed]], won't change the basic functionality of the skill, and offer a bonus such as increased [[resource]] generation, or increased damage. However, other runes can drastically change the way a skill operates, such as the [[Witch Doctor]]'s [[Rain of Toads]] rune for [[Plague of Toads]], which instead of having a few frogs hop across the ground in an erratic pattern, the frogs then fall from the sky in a directed assault.
+Runes are a component of the [[skill]] system that allows a player to alter a skill, whether that alteration is major or minor. Some runes, such as the [[Bash]] rune [[Unleashed (rune effect)|Unleashed]], won't change the basic functionality of the skill, and offer a bonus such as increased [[resource]] generation, or increased damage. However, other runes can drastically change the way a skill operates, such as the [[Witch Doctor]]'s [[Rain of Toads]] rune for [[Plague of Toads]], which instead of having a few frogs hop across the ground in an erratic pattern, the frogs then fall from the sky in a directed assault.
 The five runes, currently, do not have individual names.  This can make communication with other players somewhat confusing.  However, each rune's effect on a skill is named. For example changing the Barbarian's skill [[Cleave]] into Broad Sweep, Gathering Storm, Scattering Blast, Reaping Swing or Rupture by activating the appropriate rune will apply additional bonuses.

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 Note that this system is still theoretical, it has not been implemented or tested and it is unknown whether it will be released in any form.
-The proposed change does not fundamentally alter the function of runes.'www.diabloiiigold.com' or 'www.powerleveldiablo3.com' is good? The core function of socketing a rune into a skill to change how the skill works is still present.
+The proposed change does not fundamentally alter the function of runes. The core function of socketing a rune into a skill to change how the skill works is still present.
 However, the "color" system of the runes would be dropped in favor of runes that are "Unattuned". The player would "attune" the rune by socketing it into a skill. Whatever effect the rune would have on the skill would not be known beforehand, making runes sort of similar to [[Jewel]]s in Diablo II.
 In addition to this, each rune, once attuned (or identified to follow Diablo parlance) would also have another passive benefit on it, such as an increase to [[Attack]] or another [[stat]]. This is perhaps an attempt by the development team to add in more customisation after the loss of [[Charms]] and the [[Talisman]]. Once the rune is socketed and attuned, it would then be permanently fixed, unless they chose to add in a crafting recipe to "wipe" the rune back to a blank slate.
 ===Early Functions===

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 ==Rune Basics==
-[[File:Runes5.jpg|left|thumb|115px|The five Runes.]]
+[[File:New_runes.jpg|left|thumb|115px|The five Runes.]]
-Runestones come in five types, and a particular kind of bonus or alteration is typical of each. For instance, the [[Crimson Rune]] generally adds damage or a fire effect. However the effects that runestones have vary greatly with the skills themselves - a skill that doesn't deal damage may not gain a damaging effect from a Crimson Rune, but rather be altered in some other way.
 ===D3 Runestones vs. D2 Runes===
-[[Diablo III]]'s Runestones are nothing like the '{{iw|runes runes}}' found in [[Diablo II]]. In D2 there are thirty-three kinds of runes, which are small items that have no use on their own, but can be placed in item sockets to add various bonuses to those items, and in certain combinations produce {{iw|Runeword RuneWords}}, which add powerful, predetermined sets of bonuses, provided that the item has precisely the right number of sockets.
+[[Diablo III]]'s Runes are nothing like the '{{iw|runes runes}}' found in [[Diablo II]]. In D2 there are thirty-three kinds of runes, which are small items that have no use on their own, but can be placed in item sockets to add various bonuses to those items, and in certain combinations produce {{iw|Runeword RuneWords}}, which add powerful, predetermined sets of bonuses, provided that the item has precisely the right number of sockets.
-Since just the word descriptions aren't that informative, most players will want seek out additional information from a wiki or video of the skill in action. Or simply plan on testing out a lot of rune functions before deciding on what they want to use long term.
+==Earlier Rune Development==
-==Runestone Functions==
+===Runestone Functions===
 Runes have no function on their own, other than beautifying your inventory. They are only useful once they're [[socket]]ed into a skill, where they alter the skill's function. All runes improve the base skill effect, and in every known case any rune is better than no rune at all.
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 Devising and implementing the effects of the Runestones was a tremendous amount of work for Diablo III's developers and artists; there are nearly 120 skills in the game, each with a basic function which is modified in at least four or five totally different ways by each runestone.
 ===Proposed Changes to Rune Functionality===
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-==Early Functions==
+===Early Functions===
 Prior to Blizzcon 2010, the Runestones (which had different names at the time) were generally accepted to do the following:
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-==Runestone Scarcity==
+===Runestone Scarcity===
 [[Image:IconRunestones.png|right]]
 There are seven Runestone quality levels, roughly distributed so that levels one and two are found as a character progresses through Normal, three and four are found in Nightmare, five and six in Hell, and the final seventh rank is found exclusively in [[Inferno]] (each Runestone's quality can be determined by the number of points around its edge). It's not known how common or rare Runestones will be, or whether or not all five types will be equally difficult to find. The most recent information about the subject came from a forum post by Bashiok in January 2011.<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/runestone-info-galore/ Bashiok forum post] - Blue Tracker, January 12, 2011</ref>
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 It's not known if the Mystic can upgrade the quality of runestones though, as the [[jeweler]] can by combining three [[gems]] of the same type/level to create one of the next higher level.
-==Easy Socketing==
+===Easy Socketing===
 [[Image:Runestone_ui.jpg|frame|The [[interface]] for runestone socketing.]]
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-==Confirmed Runestone Examples==
+===Confirmed Runestone Examples===
 While one or two rune properties are known (or can be easily guessed) for most skills, Blizzard has only revealed all five runestone effects for a few skills. There may yet be additional changes to these effects, as development continues up to and even after release. With the release of the Beta, Blizzard revealed the [http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/ build calculator], which has detailed information on all of the current rune enhancements. See below for some examples (historical and current).
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-==Runestone Videos==
+==Skill Rune Videos==
 In May 2011 Blizzard released a set of five videos, one for each of the classes, demonstrating various runestones in a single skill each.
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 Image:Rune-minor-hydra1.jpg|The since-renamed Hydra Rune.
 File:Runestone1.jpg|Crimson rune, August 2010 design.
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