Armor Runes - Guide

Just like weapons, armor can be carved to gain passive options and powers. Every carve resolves as a success, fail, or ruined — and the effects you get are random. Here's the whole loop at a glance:

1Take an armor to a Rune Carver NPC (hero level c30 required) and pay the gold + materials to carve.

2Each carve adds a random effect — or amplifies one you already have. Your armor holds up to 3 effects, each up to level 6.

3Every 3rd carve can roll a Rune Power instead (max 2 per armor) — the special defensive procs shown at the bottom.

Shared mechanics

Armor runes work exactly like Weapon Runes — same carving NPCs, same success/fail/ruin system. The difference: armor holds 3 effects (weapons hold 5) and has its own effect and power lists, shown below.

Where to Carve

To carve a rune you need hero level c30. Head to one of the Rune Carvers below. If you don't like the effects you rolled, a Rune Removal Hammer lets you wipe them and start over.

Rune Carver

Martas

Olorun Village

Olorun Village

Rune Carver

Quartermaster Marto

Dragonveil — left side of the map

Dragonveil

🛡️ Safety net — protect your gear

• Rune of Fortune Scroll — pre-apply it for a 1,000,000 Gold buffer against a ruined rune. Sold by Logotor & Quartermaster Marto.
• Repair Rune Anvil — repairs gear whose rune was ruined so you can keep carving, for 10,000,000 Gold. Sold by Logotor & Quartermaster Marto.
• Rune Removal Hammer — wipes the current effects if you don't like the roll, letting you start the rune over.

Rune Effects

The mechanics of armor rune effects follow the same path as weapons: every effect is added randomly — you can't choose it. Rolling the same effect again amplifies it, up to level 6.

Rune Effects

Gear can hold up to 3 different effects. Pick one to see how it scales from level 1 to 6.

13 Effects

Defense

Survivability

Evasion

All Defence Powers

Defense

Raises every defence power (melee, ranged & magic) by a flat amount.

Value at level 6

+300All Defence Powers · Lv 6

Scaling by level

Effects are added at random when carving. Rolling the same effect again amplifies it — up to level 6.

Carving Odds & Cost

Every carve resolves as success, fail (nothing happens) or ruined. A ruin doesn't cost you any rune levels — it flags the armor and blocks further carving until one Repair Rune Anvil clears it. Set your current and target level below and the simulator works out the average and worst-case cost of the run.

Protection

Rate event

Current

+0

→

Target

+9

≥90% success≥50%≥20%≥5%<5%

Best case

every attempt first try

9

attempts

10.59kk gold

Typical

average over the odds

36

attempts

47.12kk gold

Worst case

every level hits pity

105

attempts

139.88kk gold

Shopping list for +0 → +9	Best case	Typical	Worst case
Upgrade gold	1.59kk	11.39kk	34.88kk
Consumable gold	9kk	35.73kk	105kk
Total gold	10.59kk	47.12kk	139.88kk
Loa Runic Powder	270×	1072×	3150×
Dragon Gem	105×	482×	1435×
Dratanium	36×	249×	748×
Ancient Dragon Runestone	4×	33×	97×
Rune of Fortune Scroll1kk ea.	9×	36×	105×

Gold and materials are spent on every attempt, win or lose, and so is the protection scroll. Total gold prices the scrolls at their NPC cost, because over a long run those outweigh what the window charges — the farmed materials aren't priced.

Per-level breakdown (+0 → +9)

Step	Success	Fail	Ruin	Pity	Cost / attempt
+0 → +1	100%	—	—	—	30× 10× 1× 3k
+1 → +2	90%	10%	—	1	30× 10× 1× 16k
+2 → +3	79%	17%	4%	2	30× 10× 10× 1× 1× 99k
+3 → +4	65%	30%	5%	3	30× 10× 1× 55k
+4 → +5	45%	49%	6%	5	30× 10× 1× 110k
+5 → +6	25%	68%	7%	11	30× 10× 12× 1× 1× 280k
+6 → +7	20%	72%	8%	14	30× 15× 1× 220k
+7 → +8	15%	76%	9%	20	30× 15× 1× 310k
+8 → +9	7%	83%	10%	40	30× 15× 14× 2× 1× 500k

Rows marked ★ need a rarer milestone material. A pity of n means the (n + 1)-th consecutive miss at that level is a guaranteed success — and it rescues a ruin too, since the forced result overwrites the roll. Pity lives on the item and is bound to the account that built it, so handing a half-pitied piece to someone else wipes the counter.

Do you actually need a protection scroll?

Because a ruin only costs you a repair — never carve levels — this is pure arithmetic, not a gamble. A Rune of Fortune Scroll is spent on every carve; an Repair Rune Anvil is only spent when you ruin, and it costs 10× as much. So protection pays off once the ruin chance passes roughly 1 in 10:

• Up to +8 the ruin chance is under 10% — carving unprotected is cheaper.
• From +8 onward ruins are frequent enough that scrolls come out ahead, and the gap widens fast.

Flip the Protection control above to compare the totals for your own range.

Rune Powers

Rune Powers are special effects obtained — instead of a normal effect — randomly every 3 carves. Like effects, powers stack when rolled again; an armor can hold a maximum of 2 powers. They activate on defence:

Armor Rune Powers

Pick a power, then step through its levels to see how each effect scales.

10 Powers

Power of Cleansing Armour

Buff⏱ 5.0s

Effect at level 1

Blocks 1 bad effects up to level 4.

100% resistance to the effect: Power of Cleansing Armour (Level 1) and lower.

Scaling by level

Effect	L1	L2	L3	L4	L5	L6
Blocks × bad effects up to level 4	1	1	2	2	2	3

× marks the value that grows as you level this power.