Difference between revisions of "Runeword"

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Runewords were a feature added to Diablo II in the expansion pack, which used a combination of runes in socketed items to "craft" a completely new set of stats for it. This feature will not return in Diablo III, though there will be many other types of item crafting and creation.

There are runes in Diablo 3, but they are socketed into skills rather than items.

Removed from Diablo 3

The D3 Team's rationale for not bringing runewords back is based on several factors. The designers thought that RWs were overpowered and led to a lack of equipment variety, but more fundamentally, they think they've got better ideas for items in Diablo 3. Better item variety, and better forms of item crafting. Here's Jay Wilson speaking in December 2008.[1]

...we took a few things out, like Rune Words, essentially because Rune Words is a very simple crafting system, and we're planning to do something different there.

Diablo II Runewords

These runewords allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with impressive lists of stats, making them much like Uniques. Thanks to the new very high level runewords that were added in the v1.10 and v1.11 patches, runewords became the most powerful type of item. This caused some mudflation, especially due to all of the rune duping that went on to provide the extremely hard to obtain high level runes.

See a full listing of Runewords in the Diablo II wing of the DiabloWiki.

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-'''Runewords''' were a feature added to [[Diablo II]] in the expansion pack, which used a combination of runes in [[socket]]ed items to "craft" a completely new set of stats for it. This feature will not return in [[Diablo III]], and [[rune]]s now have a [[skill]]-related functionality.
+'''Runewords''' were a feature added to [[Diablo II]] in the expansion pack, which used a combination of runes in [[socket]]ed items to "craft" a completely new set of stats for it. This feature will not return in [[Diablo III]], though there will be many other types of item crafting and creation.
+There are [[rune]]s in Diablo 3, but they are socketed into [[skill]]s rather than items.
+==Removed from Diablo 3==
+The [[D3 Team]]'s rationale for not bringing runewords back is based on several factors.  The designers thought that RWs were overpowered and led to a lack of equipment variety, but more fundamentally, they think they've got better ideas for items in Diablo 3. Better item variety, and better forms of item crafting. Here's [[Jay Wilson]] speaking in December 2008.[http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=2&cId=3172030&p=]
+::...we took a few things out, like Rune Words, essentially because Rune Words is a very simple crafting system, and we're planning to do something different there.
 ==Diablo II Runewords==
-These {{iw|Runewords runewords}} allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with massive stats, unique-style stats. More powerful, higher level, rarer runes made items with better stats, and over time most of the best equipment in the game became runewords, thanks to [[mudflation]] and various [[duping]] exploits making the ultra-rare {{iw|runes runes}} common enough for most players to obtain them.
+These {{iw|Runewords runewords}} allowed players to socket certain sequences of runes into weapons, armor, helms, or shields, to create new items with impressive lists of stats, making them much like Uniques. Thanks to the new very high level runewords that were added in the v1.10 and v1.11 patches, runewords became the most powerful type of item. This caused some [[mudflation]], especially due to all of the rune [[duping]] that went on to provide the extremely hard to obtain high level runes.
-See a full listing of {{iw|Runewords Runewords}} in the Diablo II wing of the DiabloWiki.
-Runewords will '''not''' be returning in Diablo III, since the [[D3 Team]] thought they were overpowered and resulted in lacking character equipment variety. The designers have promised that we'll see a wide array of item variety, and that there will be new ways to customize and craft items, but details have not yet been released. All that's known about [[Items#Item Sockets|item socketing]] so far is that gems are returning.
+* See a full listing of {{iw|Runewords Runewords}} in the Diablo II wing of the DiabloWiki.
-[[Runes]] are found in Diablo III, but their function has changed. They are still small items that have no function on their own, but instead of being socketed into items, they are now socketed into active skills right in the skill tree interface, adding new properties or modifying the function of that particular skill. Details and many examples of how this works can be seen on the [[skill runes]] page.
 [[category:items]]
+[[category:runes]]
 [[category:Game terms]]
 [[category:Diablo II]]