Runes and Runewords

Rune Explanation

Added in Patch 2.0 for the Vessel of Hatred, two runes can be combined to form a Runeword. There are two types of Runes, Ritual and Invocation. When slotted in an item together form a Runeword.

• Ritual Runes specify actions you must take to trigger them.
• Invocation Runes grant a powerful effect when you meet said trigger.

How Runes Work

When a Ritual and an Invocation Rune are slotted into the same item, it creates a Runeword. For example:

• If a Bac Ritual Rune and a Jah Invocation Rune are slotted into the same item, the Runeword is BacJah.
• Bac generates Offering of 50 every time you move 5 meters.
• Jah requires 500 Offering to activate so when the Bac Rune has generated 500 offering, the Jah effect will finally activate and teleport you when you evade and make you unstoppable.

Important Notes on Runes

• Runes can be traded.
• Runes are stackable in the socketable inventory tab.
• A maximum of 2 Runewords can be equipped
• The same Rune cannot be equiped twice.

BAC Ritual Rune	+	JAH Invocation Rune
Creates "BacJah" Runeword

Read Runewords Guide

Ritual Runes List

Below is a list of all the Runes of each type (Ritual/Invocation), their quality (Magic, Rare, Legendary), gains/requirements, and effects.

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Rune	Quality	Offering Gain	Effect
Ahu	Legendary	10	Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against Injured enemies.
Bac	Legendary	50	Travel 5 meters.
Cem	Legendary	50	Cast Evade
Cir	Magic	25	Cast the same non-Channeled Skill 3 times in a row.
Feo	Magic	1000	Become Injured or Crowd Controlled (Cooldown: 20 seconds).
Kaa	Rare	2	Lose 1% of your Maximum Life.
Lith	Legendary	25	Lose 1% of your Maximum Life.
Moni	Magic	10	Cast a Skill after moving. (Cooldown: 0.2 seconds)
Neo	Rare	300	Deal damage after not taking any within 5 seconds. (Resets if Invulnerable.)
Noc	Rare	5	Inflict a Crowd Control that isn’t Slow or Chill.
Poc	Rare	2	Spend 5% of your Maximum Resource.
Tam	Legendary	25	Cast a non-Channeled Core Skill.
Ur	Magic	10	Your Minion or Companion kills an enemy or dies.
Xol	Legendary	150	Evoke power from another Class.
Yax	Magic	100	Drink a Healing Potion
Yul	Legendary	50	Cast a Skill with a Cooldown.
Zan	Magic	150	Cast an Ultimate Skill.

Invocation Runes

Rune	Quality	Requires	Effect
Ceh	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Summon Multiple Wolves) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Summon a Spirit Wolf to attack enemies for 8 seconds.
Eom	Legendary	100 Offering (Overflow: Further Reduced Cooldowns) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Reduce your active Cooldowns by 0.25 seconds.
Gar	Legendary	25 Offering (Overflow: Gain Multiple Stacks). Cooldown: 1 Second.	2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.
Jah	Legendary	Requires: 500 Offering Cooldown: 2 Seconds.	Replace your next Evade with the Sorcerer’s Teleport, blinking further, dealing damage, and becoming Unstoppable.
Kry	Rare	500 Offering Cooldown: 3 Seconds	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Vortex, dealing damage and Pulling In enemies.
Kaa	Rare	2 Offering	Lose 1% of your Maximum Life.
Lum	Magic	Offering (Overflow: Increased Resource Restored) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Restore 1 Primary Resource.
Met	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration) Cooldown: 1 Second.	You leave the Necromancer’s Desecrated Ground behind you for 3 seconds, dealing damage to enemies within.
Mot	Rare	150 Offering (Overflow: Gain Multiple Shadows) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Gain a shadow from the Rogue’s Dark Shroud, reducing damage taken per shadow.
Ner	Rare	Requires: 700 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration) Cooldown: 6 Seconds.	Evoke the Rogue’s Countering Concealment, gaining Dodge Chance, Movement Speed, Unstoppable, and Stealth.
Ohm	Legendary	500 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration). Cooldown: 2 Seconds.	Evoke the Barbarian’s Enhanced War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt.
Ono	Magic	25 Offering (Overflow: Increased Bolts Spawned) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Druid’s Dancing Bolts, seeking and dealing damage to enemies.
Qax	Rare	Requires: 400 Offering (Overflow: Further Increased Damage) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Your next non-Basic Skill cast spends all of your Primary Resource to deal up to 100% increased damage.
Qua	Rare	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Restore an Evade charge and gain 6% Movement Speed for 5 seconds, up to 30%.
Que	Rare	800 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration) Cooldown: 1 second.	Evoke the Druid’s Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier.
Tal	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased Swarms Spawned) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Pestilent Swarm, dealing damage to enemies.
Teb	Magic	100 Offering Cooldown: 1 Second	Evoke the Necromancer’s Abhorrent Iron Maiden, counterattacking damage from enemies and Healing you when they die.
Tec	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased Size) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Barbarian’s Earthquake, dealing damage to enemies within.
Thul	Rare	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased Size) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting Freeze and Vulnerable onto enemies.
Ton	Magic	25 Offering (Overflow: Increased Meteorites Spawned) Cooldown: 1 Second	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Meteorites, dealing damage to enemies.
Tun	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased Grenades Spawned) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Rogue’s Stun Grenades, Stunning and dealing damage to enemies.
Tzic	Rare	250 Offering Cooldown: 1 Second.	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Concussive Stomp, dealing damage and Knocking Down enemies.
Vex	Legendary	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration). Cooldown: 1 Second.	Gain +3 to all Skills for 5 seconds.
Wat	Rare	100 Offering Cooldown: 1 Second	Evoke the Necromancer’s Horrid Decrepify, Slowing enemies, reducing their damage, and letting you Execute them.
Xan	Legendary	700 Offering Cooldown: 1 Second.	Your next Skill cast will be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower.
Xal	Rare	200 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration) Cooldown: 1 Second.	Gain 20% Maximum Life for 4 seconds.
Yom	Legendary	500 Offering Cooldown: 5 Seconds.	Evoke the Druid’s Petrify, Stunning enemies and increasing your Critical Strike Damage against them.
Zec	Rare	200 Offering (Overflow: Further Reduced Cooldown) Cooldown: 2 Seconds.	Reduce your active Ultimate Cooldown by 4 seconds.

Runes Archive

When Diablo 4 was first announced Runewords were in, then they were out, then they were rumored to be coming back sometime in the distant future, and then unexpectedly, they arrived. Below is the information released during that time.

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Runes do not appear in Diablo 4. This page details the runes that were teased early in development. Although they are not in the game now they haven't been ruled out. Full details on all that's been uncovered can be found in the Runewords page. Yeah, totally. How would I say this? We like rune words. They're very cool. We don't have anything to announce as far as if they're going to be in the game in the immediate future. We do think they're still a really cool idea, and that's all I'm going to say right now. Condition Runes AMN When you freeze an enemy, activate the next socketed rune. ELD When yu are stunned or frozen, activate the next socketed rune. ETH Every 3 seconds without moving, activate the next socketed rune. FAL When a pet dies, activate the next socketed rune. Effect Runes IST When active, your next thorns hit deals 30% more. KO When active, reduce a random skill cooldown by 15%. SOL When active, gain a random shrine effect for 7 seconds. THUL When active, gain 500 damage barrier.

Changes to Runes and Runewords

Patch 2.0, October 8, 2024

• Added in Vessel of Hatred