Runeforging

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Runeforging is a skill specific to death knights, involving the affixing of runes to the death knight's weapon. It requires a runeforge, which can be found in three places: The upper chamber of Acherus: The Ebon Hold in the Eastern Plaguelands, the Shadow Vault in northern Icecrown, and the fortress structure at Mord'Rethar: The Death Gate in southeastern Icecrown. After a small quest chain, the Shadow Vault - inhabited by hostile Scourge - can be captured to serve as a questing hub for the Knights of the Ebon Blade, allowing ease of access to the Vault's runeforges.

Contents 1 The Engraving Process 2 Limitations 3 Runes 4 External links

The Engraving Process

To engrave a rune on your weapon(s), open your spellbook to the General tab and click on the Runeforging icon. You'll get a list of Runes that you know. Choose a rune, then click the Engrave button. Your mouse pointer turns blue -- use it to click on the weapon you want the Rune engraved upon. It helps to already have your character or bags open.

Limitations

Runeforge enchants will count as a permanent enchant, and thus overwrite any regular enchants such as Mongoose or Executioner.

Runes

As of Patch 3.2.2, there are nine different runes that can be affixed to your weapon. Four are for both one- and two-handers, two are for one-handers only, and three are for two-handers only. The current PTR build of Patch 3.3.0, a third one-handed rune is available. Only one rune may be affixed to a weapon at a time.

Icon	Rune of	Type	Level	Weapon Type	Description
	Cinderglacier	Frost	55	Any	Has a chance to increase the damage by 20% of your next 2 spells that deal Frost or Shadow damage. Lasts 30 sec.
	Razorice	Frost	55	Any	Causes 2% extra weapon damage as Frost damage and has a chance to increase Frost vulnerability.
	Spellbreaking	Unholy	57	One-handed	Deflects 2% of all spell damage.
	Spellshattering	Unholy	57	Two-handed	Deflects 4% of all spell damage.
	Lichbane	Blood	60	Any	Adds 2% extra weapon damage as Fire damage or 4% versus Undead targets.
	Swordbreaking	Blood	63	One-handed	Increases Parry chance by 2% and reduces duration of disarm effects by 50%.
	Swordshattering	Blood	63	Two-handed	Increases Parry chance by 4% and reduces duration of disarm effects by 50%.
	Fallen Crusader	Unholy	70	Any	Has a chance to heal you for 3% and increase total Strength by 15% for 15 sec.
	Nerubian Carapace (PTR)	Frost	72	One-handed	Increases defense by 13 and total stamina by 1%.
	Stoneskin Gargoyle	Frost	72	Two-handed	Increases defense by 25 and total stamina by 2%.

External links

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