Weapon's Runes - Guide

Introduced in Act 7, Runes are passive upgrades linked to your equipment — like the orange (BCard) effects on gear, they work automatically without being activated. Weapon runes boost your offense; every carve resolves as a success, fail, or ruined, and the effect you get is random. Here's the whole loop at a glance:

1Take a weapon 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 weapon holds up to 5 effects, each up to level 6.

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

Shared mechanics

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

Where to Carve

To carve a rune you need hero level c30. Talk to the Rune Carver 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

🛡️ 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.
• Repair Rune Anvil — repairs gear whose rune was ruined so you can keep carving, for 10,000,000 Gold. Sold by Logotor.
• Rune Removal Hammer — wipes the current effects if you don't like the roll, letting you start the rune over.

Rune Effects

Each rune effect is added randomly with every carve — you can't choose it. Rolling the same effect again amplifies it. You can hold up to 5 different effects; once all 5 slots are filled, further carves amplify one of the existing effects (up to level 6).

Rune Effects

Gear can hold up to 5 different effects. Pick one to see how it scales from level 1 to 6.

15 Effects

Damage

Accuracy

Utility & SP

All Attacks

Damage

Raises melee, ranged & magic attack by a flat amount.

Value at level 6

+250All Attacks · 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 weapon 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

47.07kk gold

Worst case

every level hits pity

104

attempts

138.6kk gold

Shopping list for +0 → +9	Best case	Typical	Worst case
Upgrade gold	1.59kk	11.38kk	34.6kk
Consumable gold	9kk	35.69kk	104kk
Total gold	10.59kk	47.07kk	138.6kk
Loa Runic Powder	195×	966×	2880×
Moritius Obsidian	195×	966×	2880×
Black Titanium Bar	57×	342×	1007×
Beast King Horn Fragment	1×	14×	41×
Magic Divine Crystal	3×	19×	55×
Rune of Fortune Scroll1kk ea.	9×	36×	104×

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%	—	—	—	15× 15× 1× 3k
+1 → +2	90%	10%	—	1	15× 15× 1× 16k
+2 → +3	79%	17%	4%	2	15× 15× 20× 1× 1× 99k
+3 → +4	65%	30%	5%	3	15× 15× 1× 55k
+4 → +5	45%	49%	6%	5	15× 15× 1× 110k
+5 → +6	25%	68%	7%	10	30× 30× 19× 1× 1× 280k
+6 → +7	20%	72%	8%	14	30× 30× 1× 220k
+7 → +8	15%	76%	9%	20	30× 30× 1× 310k
+8 → +9	7%	83%	10%	40	30× 30× 18× 1× 1× 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; a weapon can hold a maximum of 2 powers. The chance to trigger a power scales with its level (e.g. a level 4 power has a 4% chance):

Weapon Rune Powers

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

10 Powers

Apocalypse Power

Debuff⏱ 10.0s

You burn with Apocalypse Power.

Effect at level 1

Fire resistance is decreased by 5.

Every 2 seconds HP is reduced by (Level * 10).

Below level 4 the chance of getting a bad effect is increased by 10%.

Scaling by level

Effect	L1	L2	L3	L4	L5	L6
Fire resistance is decreased by ×	5	7	10	15	25	30
Below level 4 the chance of getting a bad effect is increased by ×%	10	15	20	25	35	50

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