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How to Get Runes in Diablo 4

Here's everything you need to know about Runes and Runewords in Diablo 4 season eight.

Amitesh Dhar

Published: May 2, 2025 05:07 am

Just like Gems, Runes are items that give your weapons and armor pieces additional bonuses in Diablo 4. Introduced with the Vessel of Hatred update, these Runes have replaced Gems for the most part, thanks to the value that they add to any build.

Where to Farm Runes in Diablo 4

The easiest way to farm Runes is by heading into the Kurast Undercity activity. This is an endgame activity, where you must complete three levels in a dungeon within a stipulated time. Before you start the run, you can use a Tribute of Harmony with it, which ensures that you get guaranteed Rune drops if you complete the activity within the stipulated time.

Kurast Undercity entrance — Image by Blizzard

Alternatively, opening chests in the Helltide and defeating the Blood Maiden Helltide boss are also good sources of Runes. You can also get Runes from Whisper Caches at the Tree of Whispers, but the drop rates are low from this source.

How to Use Runes

There are two types of Runes that you will find in Diablo 4: a Ritual Rune and an Invocation Rune. Together, these runes form Runewords, which you can use with your gear. Since this is a combination of two items, you can only use them on gear with two sockets.

You’ll generate a certain amount of offering whenever you perform a specific action based on the Invocation Rune you’re using. Once the offering matches or crosses the threshold the Ritual Rune requires, it’ll trigger a certain effect.

All Runes in Diablo 4

Ritual Runes

Rune	Rarity	Offering	Criteria
Cir	Magic	50	Cast the same non-Channeled Skill 3 times in a row
Zan	Magic	150	Cast an Ultimate Skill
Cem	Magic	75	Cast Evade
Yax	Magic	200	Drink a Healing Potion.
Moni	Magic	25	Cast a Skill after moving. (Cooldown: 0.25 seconds)
Neo	Rare	200	Deal damage after not taking any within 2 seconds. (Resets if Invulnerable.)
Feo	Rare	1000	Become Injured or Crowd Controlled (Cooldown: 10 seconds).
Noc	Rare	10	Inflict a Crowd Control that isn’t Slow or Chill.
Poc	Rare	5	Spend 5% of your Maximum Resource.
Yul	Legendary	50	Cast a Skill with a Cooldown.
Ahu	Legendary	10	Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against Injured enemies.
Tam	Legendary	25	Cast a non-Channeled Core Skill.
Xol	Legendary	150	Evoke power from another Class.
Bac	Legendary	50	Travel 5 meters.
Lith	Legendary	25	Stand still while fighting for 0.3 seconds.

Invocation Runes

Rune	Rarity	Offering Required	Cooldown	Effect	Overflow Effect
Gar	Magic	25 Offering	1 Second	Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.	Gain Multiple stacks
Lum	Magic	5 Offering	1 Second	Restore 1 Primary Resource.	Additional Resource restored
Teb	Magic	100 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Necromancer’s Abhorrent Iron Maiden, counterattacking damage from enemies and Healing you when they die.
Tec	Magic	100 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Barbarian’s Earthquake, dealing damage to enemies within.	Size of the Earthquake radius increased.
Tun	Magic	100 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Rogue’s Stun Grenades, Stunning and dealing damage to enemies.	Spawns additional Grenades.
Ton	Magic	20 Offering (Overflow: Increased Meteorites Spawned)	1 Second	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Meteorites, dealing damage to enemies.	Spawns more Meteorites
Tal	Magic	100 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Pestilent Swarm, dealing damage to enemies.	Spawns additional Swarms
Ceh	Magic	100 Offering	1 Second	Summon a Spirit Wolf to attack enemies for 8 seconds.	Spawns more Wolves.
Lac	Rare	800 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Barbarian’s Challenging Shout, reducing your damage taken.	Challenging Shout effect lasts longer.
Que	Rare	300 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Druid’s Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier.	Barrier duration is increased.
Qua	Rare	50 Offering	1 Second	Gain 7% Movement Speed for 5 seconds, up to 30%.	Movement speed duration is increased.
Xal	Rare	200 Offering	1 Second	Gain 20% Maximum Life for 6 seconds.	Maximum Life duration is increased.
Wat	Rare	100 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Necromancer’s Horrid Decrepify, Slowing enemies, reducing their damage, and letting you Execute them.
Qax	Rare	400 Offering	1 Second	Your next non-Basic Skill cast spends all of your Primary Resource to deal up to 100% increased damage.	Increases damage.
Zec	Rare	200 Offering	2 Seconds	Reduce your active Ultimate Cooldown by 2 seconds.	Reduces cooldown even more
Ner	Rare	600 Offering	6 Seconds	Evoke the Rogue’s Countering Concealment, gaining Dodge Chance, Movement Speed, Unstoppable, and Stealth.	Increases duration of buffs.
Mot	Rare	150 Offering	1 Second	Gain a shadow from the Rogue’s Dark Shroud, reducing damage taken per shadow.	Gain multiple Dark Shroud shadows.
Thul	Rare	400 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting Freeze and Vulnerable onto enemies.	Increases size of Frost Nova.
Tzic	Rare	250 Offering	1 Second	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Concussive Stomp, dealing damage and Knocking Down enemies.
Kry	Rare	300 Offering	3 Seconds	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Vortex, dealing damage and Pulling In enemies.
Ohm	Legendary	600 Offering	2 Seconds	Evoke the Barbarian’s War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt.	Increases the duration of War Cry.
Vex	Legendary	1000 Offering	1 Second	Gain +3 to all Skills for 7 seconds.	Increases duration of skill buff.
Xan	Legendary	800 Offering	1 Second	Your next Skill cast will be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower.
Yom	Legendary	500 Offering	5 Seconds	Evoke the Druid’s Petrify, Stunning enemies, and granting 100 Resource.
Eom	Legendary	100 Offering	1 Second	Reduce your active Cooldowns by 0.1 seconds.	Reduces cooldown duration even further.
Jah	Legendary	400 Offering	2 Seconds	Replace your next Evade with the Sorcerer’s Teleport, blinking further, dealing damage, and becoming Unstoppable.

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