Guide: Runic Hammers

halygon

halygon

Grandmaster
Runic Hammers

Runic hammers are rewards for turning in certain Build Order Deeds to NPC blacksmiths. There are eight (8) different types of runic hammers based upon ingot colors (note there is not an iron runic hammer).
  • Dull Copper
  • Shadow Iron
  • Copper
  • Bronze
  • Gold
  • Agapite
  • Verite
  • Valorite
Runic hammers can be used to craft exceptional magical weapons and armor. Each of these will have additional modifiers based on the type of runic hammer. The more rare the color of the runic hammer, the better modifiers it grants to weapons and armor. Below are a list of the modifiers received per runic hammer:


Weapon Properties
  • Dull Copper: Durable Accurate
  • Shadow Iron: Durable Ruin Accurate
  • Copper: Fortified Ruin Surpassingly Accurate
  • Bronze: Fortified Might Surpassingly Accurate
  • Gold: Indestructable Force Eminently Accurate
  • Agapite: Indestructable Power Eminently Accurate
  • Verite: Indestructable Power Exceedingly Accurate
  • Valorite: Indestructable Vanquishing Supremely Accurate
The biggest advantage of runic weapons are that since they are crafted by blacksmiths, they can have the exceptional modifier on top of the properties provided by the runic hammer. This means that runic weapons are much more powerful than a magical weapon with the same durability, damage, and accuracy modifiers.

Example:

Vanquishing War hammer
  • +9 damage modifier (vanquishing) = +9 damage modifier total
Valorite Runic War hammer
  • +9 damage modifier (vanquishing) + 4 damage modifier (exceptional) = +13 damage modifier total
*See the Guide: Weapon and Armor Specifications page for more details on weapon modifiers.
 
Tantreghan

Tantreghan

Grandmaster
are the stats that the hammer gives when made a chance to get?

approx how many weps with runic stats will a hammer yeild?
 
Bromista

Bromista

Grandmaster
Tantreghan said:
are the stats that the hammer gives when made a chance to get?

approx how many weps with runic stats will a hammer yeild?
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Runic properties are fixed. Every swing is the same.

Val - 10 swings
Verite - 15
Agapite - 20
Gold - 25

So on and so forth.
 
halygon

halygon

Grandmaster
You can however make a weapon without the exceptional bonus because that is based off of your smithy skill and not the hammer. Tbh, without the exceptional bonus, a runic weapon is no better than a run of the mill magic weapon - so make sure to use an ancient smithy hammer for difficult items.
 
Tantreghan

Tantreghan

Grandmaster
ok so whats the difference between an ancient smithy hammer and a runic? do i make the item with the ancient smithy to increase my odds first then use a runic on the item to get the stats?
 
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