Rune system
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The subject of this article is exclusive to World of Warcraft Classic: Season of Discovery. |
- For other uses, see Rune.
Runes are a new system introduced in World of Warcraft: Classic Season of Discovery that complement talents. They change how your class is played by altering existing abilities or providing new ones. These changes can be minor, such as increasing spell crit but also mana cost, or major, such as creating an entirely new role not typically performed by the class (such as warlock tanks).
For the additional normal abilities introduced in the Season of Discovery, see Season of Discovery abilities.
Usage
Upon learning a rune, you can apply it to a piece of equipment, after which you will be able to freely use that rune's ability as long as that item is equipped. Each piece of equipment can only have one rune at a time, and each rune can only be applied to a specific slot. There is no cost to change runes, though it cannot be done in combat.
Priests have an additional requirement to Meditate to learn certain runes.
List of Runes
Season of Discovery runes
[45] 
[25] 
[50] 
[6] 
Patch changes
Patch 1.15.2 (2024-04-02): Additional runes added for head and wrist items. - Patch 1.15.1 (2024-02-06): Additional runes added for waist and feet items.
- Patch 1.15.0 (2023-11-14): Added.