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Rune Crafting

Learn about Rune Crafting in Beyond Sosaria

Rune Crafting allows you to create extremely powerful gear on Beyond Sosaria. While you may see some players walking around with crazy gear, bear in mind - it came at quite a gamble.

Rough Stones

Rough Stones are used to create blank runes (not to be confused with runes that go in runebooks, they're completely different). You can craft these using the Rune Crafting menu, accessed by using a Rune Chisel.

Rune Chisel

Rune Chisels can be purchased from any NPC scribe. They have uses, just like any other tool and will break when the uses run out.

Required Skills

Rune Crafting

Once you have crafted a rough stone into a blank rune, choose the enhancement you wish to craft. Each rune has a syllable associated to its affect on gear. You can find the list at the bottom of this page.

Rune Quality System

All crafted runes can have different quality levels which affect their effectiveness when applied:

The rune quality is determined by your Inscription skill when crafting, with higher skill increasing the chance of better quality runes. The appearance of the rune changes based on its quality, making it easy to identify valuable runes.

Quality Effects

The quality multiplier directly affects the power of the rune's enhancement when applied to an item. For example: * A Legendary sar-rune (inc. weapon damage) will provide twice the damage bonus of a Normal one * A Poor gra-rune (hit leech hits) will only provide half the life leech of a Normal one

Applying Your Rune To Gear

Double click the crafted rune and target the gear you wish to add the attribute to.

Be careful! If the rune fails to apply to the gear, your gear and the rune are destroyed forever!

Rune Combining System

The Rune Combining system allows players to fuse two basic runes into more powerful composite runes. This advanced crafting requires:

How To Combine Runes

  1. Double-click the Rune Combiner
  2. Select the first rune when prompted
  3. Select the second rune when prompted
  4. The system will attempt to combine them based on your Inscription skill

Combination Success and Failure

Composite Rune Quality

Combined runes typically have their quality determined by: * The average quality of the two component runes * A 10% chance for quality upgrade (up to Legendary)

Composite Runes

Composite runes provide multiple effects in a single rune application.

Break Chance Formula

Remember, when we say chance, it's actually a dice roll each time you apply a rune. When it comes to dice rolls, 1/100 doesn't mean 1 out of 100. It means that 1/100 chance every time you apply, it can break. This means, you can sometimes go 200 times without a break, if you roll the dice right.

With that being said, this is the explained formula used when applying runes to equipment when calculating break chance:

Dice Roll a random number between 0-1, ex. 0.3.

double DestroyChance = Utility.RandomDouble();

If Inscription is 105 or greater, add skill bonus to the DestroyChance (Inscription skill * 0.001).

if(from.Skills[SkillName.Inscribe].Value >= 105.0)
{
    DestroyChance += from.Skills[SkillName.Inscribe].Value * 0.001;
}

If the perk for better Runecrafting is enabled, add 0.1 to DestroyChance.

if(perks.BetterRuneCrafting > System.DateTime.UtcNow)
{
    DestroyChance += 0.1;
}

If DestroyChance is less than 0.4, OR a second dice roll of a random number between 0-1 is less than 0.02 (2% floating chance to break, no matter what), destroy the item. If your DestroyChance variable is greater than 0.4 (with it's added bonuses listed), the rune applies to the gear.

Note: The quality of the rune doesn't affect break chance, but higher quality runes provide stronger enhancements when successfully applied.

Syllable - Effect List

Composite Rune List (All Available)

See in-game for exact effects and requirements for each composite rune.