For a massive ARPG like Diablo 4, the smooth running is inseparable from the coordination of various mechanisms and systems in the game, because only when they are closely linked to each other can your character be able to upgrade and fight normally in the game. Therefore, you cannot ignore any of these mechanisms, and you should pay attention to its changes in time with the change of seasons, such as runes.
Runes are actually new features added in DLC, but they have quickly been well received by players. In Diablo 4, they can play their respective roles by being inserted into the slots of your weapons or armor, thereby further expanding your possibilities for creating builds and enriching your gaming experience. In order to ensure the availability of runes, Diablo 4 will regularly add new runes to the new season after the DLC, and the recent Season 7 is naturally the same.
How Do Diablo 4 Runes Work?
You can actually think of runes in Diablo 4 as special items, and all slottable runes can be divided into Ritual runes and Invocation runes, which bring new modifiers that can affect all Diablo 4 classes in different ways. In addition, specific runes can be combined to form Runewords that provide additional effects, bringing you more unexpected combat bonuses.
What Is The Overflow Mechanism Of Runes?
Activating Invocation runes requires you to generate offerings for them, but sometimes you may generate too many, and then the overflow mechanism will come into play. This mechanism applies an additional bonus to the effect of the summoning rune, temporarily increasing the power of these runes for a short period to ensure that your excess offerings are not wasted.
Rune Rarity
Ritual runes and Invocation runes can be paired arbitrarily to provide you with greater flexibility in the use of runes. In addition, the power of runes will increase as the rarity increases, and the rarity levels from low to high are magic, rare and legendary. In fact, the rich levels also further expand the possibilities of rune pairing.
How To Farm Runes?
After unlocking the Runeword in the DLC campaign, you can get the loot by defeating bosses, farming Whispering chests or strongholds, etc. These loots include runes in addition to the common Diablo 4 Gold, but the best way to farm runes is Undercity activity.
As for the unlocking of Runeword, it can be done by completing the quest received from Ormus in the council hall of Kurast Undercity. In addition, you can also find tributes in Undercity and other activities to increase the rune rewards you get after completing the quest.
How To Create Runeword?
Creating a Runeword requires a Ritual rune and an Invocation rune, as well as a piece of equipment with two slots. Then, add the runes to the slots to create a Runeword successfully, thereby expanding the effects of the two runes. Available equipment usually includes helmets, chest armor, leg armor, and two-handed weapons.
Ritual runes will generate offerings for you when activated, with the number generated depending on the rune type and rarity. Once the required number of offerings is reached, Invocation runes will begin to take effect, and these effects are very diverse, ranging from single-target skills to area-of-effect skills, which can maximize the enhancement of your equipment.
What New Runes Are There In Season Of Witchcraft?
When the rune system was first launched, there were 28 Invocation runes and 17 Ritual runes. With the arrival of Season 7, three new runes have been added to the game, namely Chac, Igni and Nagu. Chac is an Invocation rune, while Igni and Nagu are Ritual runes. The specific modifiers they provide are as follows:
- Chac: Casts Lightning Bolt on nearby enemies. Requires 20 offerings.
- Igni: Passively stores offerings every second, and it grants you stored offerings as long as you cast any skill other than basic skills. A total of 25 offerings are generated.
- Nagu: This rune generates offerings for you as long as the summon is active, and each additional summon generates more offerings. You can generate up to six summons for a total of 100 offerings.
Best Uses
As you can see from their use, Chac rune is great with any class that can generate offerings quickly, automatically casting Lightning Bolt whenever you reach the required threshold for this rune. If this rune is affected by the overflow mechanic, it can also cast more Lightning Bolt.
On this basis, Igni rune works perfectly with Chac rune, as long as you can stack a lot of offerings over time, and continue to cast Lightning Bolt while casting non-basic skills. This attack mode allows you to stack up to 500 offerings to fully utilize the overflow bonus to clear enemies.
Nagu is probably the best rune for summoning classes such as Druid and Necromancer, as they can always maintain the maximum number of summons required to generate the most offerings. In fact, you can also pair new runes with old ones to create some new and powerful Runewords, which may further enhance the strength of your usual build.
Of course, the premise for enjoying the benefits of Season 7’s new runes is that you must not only understand them but also understand how the entire Diablo 4 rune mechanism works. So we hope that this guide we provide can really help you, and I wish you a happy new season!
