Did your Rogue DPS just got some sweet epic items? Then you must rune them! Runes are consumable items that get attached to your items. Runing your items can be a bigger upgrade than getting a tier 2 raid item.
For example the Lustrous Rage Runeshard will provide you with an additional 43 attack power, and you can use up to 4! And Lustrous Deft Rune will give you +55 Dexterity on your shoulders :).
Some item slots do not have Rogue specific runes. In this case we fall back to Warrior runes, for example Lustrous Potent Rune for Strength on helmet.
These lustrous runes are expensive but remember that you can transfer them to new gear with a Rune Unsocketing Apparatus….
- Lustrous Runes are worth +- 330 platinum
- Sometimes Runes can be found cheaper on Auction (due to loot chests)
- Almost all of these runes have cheap Auroral versions costing you only 10-20 platinum!
- Rune Unsocketing Apparatus can retrieve your rune from items
- Rune Unsocketing Apparatus can be bought in the Rift store>Services for credits
- Players sell Rune Unsocketing Apparatus for platinum
- Crafting dailies are a great way to gain reputation with the factions (600-1600/quest)
If you want the rogue dps best in slot runes, then get these items:
Helmet | Lustrous Potent Rune |
Cape | Qaijiri Rune of Dexterity |
Shoulders | Lustrous Deft Rune |
Chest | Lustrous Wrathful Rune |
Belt | Caretaker’s Rune of Dexterity |
Gloves | Lustrous Steadfast Rune |
Legs | Lustrous Stalwart Rune |
Feet | Lustrous Intrepid Rune |
Main Hand | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
Offhand | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
TWo hander | Lustrous Rage Rune |
Ranged | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
Neck | Survivor’s Rune of Dexterity |
Rings | Achyati Rune of Dexterity |
Trinket | Empyreal Rune of Dexterity |
Seal | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
Some of them can be crafted, others require reputation. Since not everyone had the required reputation I have provided a list of craftable, honored and glorified runes for your convenience!
Crafted runes can be bought on the auction house or crafted by players with the Runecrafting Profession. All Lustrous crafting runes require the following:
- 3 dreaming stars (240p)
- 3 empyreal planar dust (6p)
- 2 branching star (2p)
- 1 ethereal shard (1500 slayer marks or 80p)
Therefore total cost are about 330 platinum.
Helmet | Lustrous Potent Rune |
Shoulders | Lustrous Deft Rune |
Chest | Lustrous Wrathful Rune |
Gloves | Lustrous Steadfast Rune |
Legs | Lustrous Stalwart Rune |
Feet | Lustrous Intrepid Rune |
Main Hand | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
Offhand | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
TWo hander | Lustrous Rage Rune |
Ranged | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
Seal | Lustrous Rage Runeshard |
These runes require honored reputation with Qaijiri, Caretekers, Achyati, Eternal Cit Survivors, or the Empyreal Alliance factions. Buy them from the Rift store>Equipment>Runes.
Cape | Qaijiri Rune of Minor Dexterity |
Belt | Caretaker’s Rune of Minor Dexterity |
Rings | Achyati Rune of Minor Dexterity |
Neck | Survivor’s Rune of Minor Dexterity |
Trinket | Empyreal Rune of minor Dexterity |
These runes require glorified reputation with Qaijiri, Caretekers, Achyati, Eternal Cit Survivors, or the Empyreal Alliance. Buy them from the Rift store>Equipment>Runes.
Cape | Qaijiri Rune of Dexterity |
Belt | Caretaker’s Rune of Dexterity |
Rings | Achyati Rune of Dexterity |
Neck | Survivor’s Rune of Dexterity |
Trinket | Empyreal Rune of Dexterity |
Thanks for reading this article, if you have any additional questions feel free to post them in the comments.