Hearts of Stone -expansion introduced us to new game mechanic with the addition of Runewright, who can add powerful Runewords to your swords and handy Glyphwords to your armor. This addition brings new possibilities for enhanced builds!
Basic information:
- The cost is extremely high!
- Runes+Glyphs required are required for crafting
- Tiers will be unlocked after 5000 -> 10000 -> 15000 crown investments…
- Requires 3 free rune/glyph slots on equipment and after placing runeword/glyphword, those 3 slots will be destroyed
- Additional slots can be crafted, but it’s costly
- Only armor and swords can have 3 slots, meaning you can have maximum of 2 runewords and 1 glyphword active at the same time!
- But in the end, they provide astounding benefits!
This guide will firstly provide “Hall of Fame” -categories for those runewords/glyphwords which I’m anticipating to be most useful for builds. Then lastly all the runewords/glyphwords will be listed down below with befitting tiers.
Hall of Fame
Heft – Balance – Levity
These three glyphwords are probably the most game-changing of them all! Placing this glyphword to armor will make every piece of your gear counted as heavy, medium or light armor. This brings countless new possibilities to the table for new builds! Mixing one or two or all pieces of armor from different weight class and different stats/buffs increases variability greatly.
Severance
This runeword deserves its own section. After testing this out, you will find little to no reason to use anything else with your combat build using Whirl and Rend! This turns Geralt into a very frightening beast letting no enemy to get even near him!
Prolongation
This enchantment is tremendous on Whirl builds! This keeps your potion duration going on until the battle ends! Combine this with White Raffard’s decoction and Superior Blizzard and be ready to wreak havoc! This tip was taken from this youtube video.
Ignitation – Rotation – Eruption
Boosting the strongest damaging sign with these glyphwords could totally be worth it! It will be interesting to see how they’ll work and will they really work as imagined… At least they’ll nonetheless look beautiful and powerful!
Usurpation – Beguilement – Possession
Breathing new life to Axii sign – these glyphwords can prove to be essential to every sign build focusing on Axii. Letting your mind-control to spread and set fear on your opponents sounds to be totally worth it!
“Convenience”: Preservation, Deflection, Protection
These are meant for those kind of builds which really won’t benefit much from any other possibility OR just to get rid off few nuisances in the standard play. Getting bored to always search Armorer’s Table and Grindstone before battle? Getting annoyed of those archers disrupting your killing-spree? Tired of always forgetting cast Quen before battle? Look no further – you’ve found your solution.
Those were all the categories I have at the moment. Just remember: even I listed just a few, that doesn’t mean I find rest of the runewords/glyphwords useless! I just wanted to especially point up those which have most potential to be significant with builds in mind.
Here’s the list of every one of them. Besides of the basic information, I’ve shared my opinion of its usefulness ranging from 1 to 5 stars!
Runewords – Tier I
Name: Preservation ★★★
Effect: Armorer’s table and grindstone bonuses never expire
Name: Dumplings ★
Effect: Consumed food restores 100% more vitality
Name: Placation ★★
Effect: Once Adrenaline points max, they slowly decline. During this time Vitality, stamina and toxicity will regenerate faster
Runewords – Tier II
Name: Rejuvenation ★★
Effect: Each fatal blow dealt restores 25% of your Stamina
Name: Elation ★★
Effect: Each Fatal blow dealt with your sword give 0.1 to 0.25 Adrenaline points
Name: Severance ★★★★★
Effect: Increases the range of Whirl by 1.1 yards and Rend by 1.9 yards
Runewords – Tier III
Name: Replenishment ★★★★
Effect: After you cast a Sign, an Adrenaline Point is consumed and your next sword attack is charged with the power of that sign
Name: Invigoration ★★★
Effect: When at maximum Vitality, any Vitality regeneration turns into added damage (up to 50%) on your next strike
Name: Prolongation ★★★★★
Effect: Each unblocked blow increases potion duration time by 0.5s
Glyphwords – Tier I
Name: Deflection ★★
Effect: Armor deflects all arrows
Name: Heft ★★★★★
Effect: All equipped armor is treated as heavy.
Name: Depletion ★★★
Effect: Hitting enemies with Aard reduces their Stamina by 50%.
Name: Usurpation ★★★
Effect: When an enemy affected by Axii dies, the effect transfers to another.
Name: Ignitation ★★★
Effect: Enemies set alight by Igni have 25% to set other enemies on fire within 2 yards.
Glyphwords – Tier II
Name: Rotation ★★
Effect: Igni’s basic attacks strikes all opponents in 360-degree radius butt no longer applies the Burning Effect
Name: Entanglement ★★★★
Effect: When a trap set by Yrden hits an enemy, a Yrden glyph is placed at that position
Name: Beguilement ★★★★
Effect: Enemies affected by Axii will be affected for 2s longer for each blow they land
Name: Protection ★★★
Effect: When you enter combat, there’s a 100% chance you will automatically get a Quen shield without using any Stamina
Name: Balance ★★★★★
Effect: All equipped armor items are treated as Medium armor
Glyphwords – Tier III
Name: Retribution ★★★
Effect: Gives a 30% chance of returning a portion of damage received to the attacker
Name: Levity ★★★★★
Effect: All equipped items are treated as Light armor
Name: Possession ★★★★★
Effect: When an opponent influenced by axii dies, the effect transfers to a nearby target. The effect’s duration increases by 2 seconds for each blow the affected target lands
Name: Eruption ★★★★★
Effect: Foes set alight by igni explode when they die and ignite nearby foes
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