DT effects visible?

[Wizzly_Bear]

I combed the release notes to find out if runes are now identified, but this is all I could find...

Crafting

• A new recipe has been added to the Dragontouched Sovereign Altar to shatter a undesired Sovereign Rune into ... something else. Any Sovereign Rune can be placed in the Altar with one Draconic Rune to activate this recipe. The Sovereign Rune will be destroyed, and Runes of some sort will be returned, but the recipe is unpredictable.

So are they identified now or not?

[Raegoul]

I combed the release notes to find out if runes are now identified, but this is all I could find...

Crafting

• A new recipe has been added to the Dragontouched Sovereign Altar to shatter a undesired Sovereign Rune into ... something else. Any Sovereign Rune can be placed in the Altar with one Draconic Rune to activate this recipe. The Sovereign Rune will be destroyed, and Runes of some sort will be returned, but the recipe is unpredictable.

So are they identified now or not?

Eldritch, Tempest, and Sovereign Runes are now named.

[Kromize]

They are identified now. But still bound to character.

[Coldin]

Yep, you can see what they are now. The one I have says "Eldritch Rune of Greater False Life"

And to think I was waiting on that one to smash together a tempest.

[Wizzly_Bear]

Deal

[Symar-FangofLloth]

Example of both the new DT naming and the Binding clarification.

[Barumar]

They are identified now. But still bound to character.

And that leaves just one thing to confirm (sorry if I missed it, but don't think anyone talked about seeing inside the chest with multiple players Sovereign Runes in it).

CAN YOU see what a Sovereign Rune has on it in the chest, and swap it (or give it) to another Player in your party?

Barumar

[khaldan]

Argh why have I seen healin amp in every screenshot so far

/rant off

Anyone happen to know what 'tempest rune of empowered healing' does? I can't check, my character with it doesn't have DT armor.

[dkyle]

Anyone happen to know what 'tempest rune of empowered healing' does? I can't check, my character with it doesn't have DT armor.

It's probably the Efficient Metamagic - Empower Healing II rune. Reduces Empower Healing's cost by 2 sp.

[Coldin]

Argh why have I seen healin amp in every screenshot so far

/rant off

Anyone happen to know what 'tempest rune of empowered healing' does? I can't check, my character with it doesn't have DT armor.

It gives you Improved Metamagic: Empower Healing. Spells cast with Empower Healing cost 2 sp less. (Or something like that).

I got it on a couple melee characters. So annoying.

[sephiroth1084]

Argh why have I seen healin amp in every screenshot so far

/rant off

SERIOUSLY! I've used something like 40 runes trying to get 10% healing amp on my barbarian's docent with no luck.

[PopeJual]

So has anyone copied their character to Llamaland just to see what runes are in their backpack yet?

[Irinis]

Yeah, I have a bunch of runes sitting in a bag waiting for the update. Squeee!

[Stormanne]

Now that we will have identified runes, maybe we can get DT shields added to the game...

[AaronB]

I'm really excited about this change, since I have dragontouched armor but haven't done much grinding for good runes yet. This and the ability to search the AH give me something to look forward to in this update (my main is a dark monk).

A big question regarding DT though - the release notes mentioned that effects added to melee attacks are fixed to stack correctly. Does this mean Sovereign rune Destruction will work with monk unarmed attacks? I was thinking of going for radiance guard, but if this has been fixed I think destruction would be great.

[Carpone]

Runes of some sort will be returned, but the recipe is unpredictable.

Any details on the quantity or types of runes acquired from this process?

[Kintro]

I like

(Standard): Dragontouched Sovereign Altar success with Sovereign Rune Shattered! Consumed: Sovereign Rune of Spell Power, Draconic Rune. Created: Eldritch Rune of Resistance, Eldritch Rune of Acid Resistance, Eldritch Rune of Featherfalling.
(Standard): Dragontouched Sovereign Altar success with Sovereign Rune Shattered! Consumed: Draconic Rune, Sovereign Rune of Ice. Created: Eldritch Rune of Lionheart, Eldritch Rune of Skill: Charisma, Eldritch Rune of Skill: Charisma.
(Standard): Dragontouched Sovereign Altar success with Sovereign Rune Shattered! Consumed: Draconic Rune, Sovereign Rune of Air. Created: Eldritch Rune of Skill: Charisma, Eldritch Rune of Threat.
(Standard): Dragontouched Sovereign Altar success with Sovereign Rune Shattered! Consumed: Draconic Rune, Sovereign Rune of Flame. Created: Eldritch Rune of Skill: Wisdom, Eldritch Rune of Deathward.
(Standard): Dragontouched Sovereign Altar success with Sovereign Rune Shattered! Consumed: Draconic Rune, Sovereign Rune of Sound. Created: Eldritch Rune of Deathward, Eldritch Rune of Lesser Healing Amplification, Eldritch Rune of Skill: Dexterity.

Looks like 1 sovereign rune becomes 2-3 eldritch runes. Very low return but better than junking a useless sovereign. Also low enough that you'd give it to someone who needed the effect instead of looting it to smash.

[Valindria]

In my testing 1 Sov + 1 Drac = 2 Eldritch.

All of them are named and they bound to character (a little disappointed by this).

Overall excellent changes!!!


I havent tried EtK yet. The biggest dissapointment was bring my paladin over who is looking for 20%, and 10% healing amp to see it was not 1 of the ~16 tempest runs he had.

[Kintro]

Also:



Shame we can't buy sovereign runes like that anymore

[Bolo_Grubb]

**** maybe I will get dragontouch on all my toons after all