Runic Re-forging

Properties by Name | Tinker Crafted Items | Semmerset’s Reforging Charts

By Petra Fyde, January 2012

Information taken from officially released documentation with additional findings from players

For Stygian Abyss accounts, players may now use Runic Hammers to “re-forge” items
Re-Forging requires:

• that the user use a Runic tool near a Soul Forge
• that the user have 65% or higher imbuing skill ( The higher the character’s Imbuing skill the more options will be available.)
• a non-magical craftable item that is not made from special materials

Re-Forging will consume one or more charges from the runic tool to add magical item properties to the item
The user chooses from a number of options to affect the results of the re-forging
Each option selected increases the charges required to perform the action
If no options are selected, the tool will add item properties randomly to the item, similarly to classic Runic crafting
If a Runic tool is used away from a Soul Forge, or by a non-entitle account, it behaves as a classic Runic crafting tool

Soul Forge bonuses DO NOT apply to Runic Re-Forging

Using the ‘help’ button on the gump will give access to the following information:

• Powerful Re-Forging: causes the item to have slightly more magical power
• Structural Re-Forging:causes the item to have more magical power, but the item will be Brittle
  • Fortified Re-Forging: causes the brittle item to have higher durability
• Fundamental Re-Forging:causes the item to have significantly more magical power, but the item cannot be repaired. Its durability will be increased.
  • Integral Re-Forging: further increases the durability of the “cannot be repaired” item
• Grand Artifice: guarantees that the resulting item will have one name, either a prefix or a suffix
  • Inspired Artifice: allows you to choose which name will be added to the item.
  • Exalted Artifice: guarantees that the item will have two names, both a prefix and a suffix
    • Sublime Artifice: allows you to choose a name to be added to the item. You must use both Inspired Artifice and Sublime Artifice in conjunction if you wish to choose both names to add to the item

 

Some options require other options to be set:

• Fortified Re-Forging requires Structural Re-Forging
• Integral Re-Forging requires Fundamental Re-Forging
• Inspired Artifice requires Grand Artifice
• Exalted Artifice required Grand Artifice
• Sublime Artifice requires Exalted Artifice

Higher-level tools:

• Have higher budgets for adding item properties
• Grant more properties
• Runic tools can be combined together if they are exactly the same type
  • Their charges will be combined into one tool
  • Only works if the resulting tool has 100 or less charges
  • To combine tools, double-click one tool while near a Soul Forge and target the other tool

The following less obvious items can be reforged.

• Leather, studded or ringmail Blacksmith Gloves of Mining
• Unconverted Juka Lord Bows
• Weapons having split physical/elemental or 100% elemental damage but no other modifiers.

The table below is compiled from feedback submitted by players, it does not necessarily represent all possible outcomes.

Some properties appear to not be linked to a name and only appear when re-forging is not constrained by them, example, Reflect Physical Damage. Except in the case of Vampiric/of the Vampire some properties in the group can appear on any item type, additional properties appear only on specific item types.  Where ‘Eater’ is listed as a property this can be either Damage Eater, Kinetic Eater, Fire Eater, Cold Eater, Poison Eater or Energy Eater.

Reforging Properties by Name
Name	All Types	Weapon	Armor	Shield
Mighty/of Vitality	Hit Point Increase, Hit point regen, str bonus	hit life leech	Eater	eater
Mystic/of Sorcery	Int Bonus, Lower Mana Cost, Mana Inc, Mana Regen	Mana Leech	no additional properties	Soulcharge
Animated/of Haste	Dex Bonus, Stamina Inc, Stamina Regen	Stamina Leech, Swing Speed Increase	no additional properties	no additional properties
Arcane/of Wizardry	Int Bonus, Lower Mana Cost, Mana Increase, Mana Regen	Mana Leech, Mage Weapon, Mana Drain	Casting Focus, Lower Reagent cost	no additional properties
Exquisite/of Quality	Durability, Lower Requirements	Elemental Damage, Mage Weapon, Velocity (bows), Random Slayer	Self Repair, resists	Self Repair
Vampiric/of the Vampire	None	Hit Fatigue, Hit Life Leech, Hit Mana Drain, Hit Mana Leech	N/A	N/A
Invigorating/of Restoration	Hit Point Regen, Mana Regen, Stamina Regen	no additional properties	Eater	Eater, Soul Charge
Fortified/of Defense	Resists	No other properites	Eater	Eater
Auspicious/of Fortune	Luck	no additional properties	no additional properties	no additional properties
Charmed/of Alchemy	Enhance Potions	Balanced (bows)	no additional properties	no additional properties
Vicious/of Slaughter	Hit Chance Increase	Damage Increase, Hit (elemental type) damage, Hit Fireball, Hit Harm, Hit Lightening, Hit Magic Arrow	no additional properties	Damage Increase
Towering/of Aegis	Defense Chance Increase	Hit Lower Attack	Casting Focus	Soul Charge, Reactive Paralyze

Tinker Crafted Items

From Publish 85 the following items can be reforged using smith, carpentry or masonry runic tools

Carpentry 

• nunchaku

Masonry

• Gargish Stone Amulet

Blacksmith

Smith Hammer Sledge Hammer Pick Axe Pitchfork Butcher Knife Cleaver

Skinning Knife Hatchet Gargish Necklace Gargish Glasses Gargish Amulet Gargish Earrings