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Rune-keeper Rumination: The Return and My Love of Lightning

Tony posted this on December 16th, 2009. It has 4 Comments »
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Rune-keeper Rumi­na­tion has been out of com­mis­sion for a while. Pre­vi­ously I wrote about my expe­ri­ences play­ing as a Dwarf Rune-keeper named Risalin. Now I play as Elu­veril, an Elf Rune-keeper. In addi­tion to the race and gen­der change, I’m also on a new server. You can find me on Brandy­wine now.

Taking on a troll during a Skirmish.

Tak­ing on a troll dur­ing a Skirmish.

Elu­veril recently passed Risalin in level and is cur­rently in the high 40s. This has meant some new skills com­pared to Risalin, which has been great. I really love the class. It was fun when it was first intro­duced, but direct and indi­rect (specif­i­cally the com­bat change recently, which has sped things up for her) patches have made a greater difference.

It also means I’ve been work­ing on my Level 45 class quests, none of which I have actu­ally man­aged to fin­ish yet. As with every class, you’re stuck col­lect­ing some rel­a­tively hard to find mate­ri­als for new weapons and armour. I was a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed that, at least at this point, the weapon you receive is frost-based and not lightning-based.

I’m a big fan of the light­ning based rune-stones in the game.  While frost and fire­based attacks include more debuffs, light­ning skills are instan­ta­neous, which is a plus. Any enhance­ments a lightning-based rune-stone could offer are help­ful in this case. In addi­tion to this, a few Rune-keeper skills change based upon your cur­rently equipped rune-stone.

This actu­ally winds up mak­ing the Rune-keeper a some­what effec­tive crowd-controller on a small basis. No one is going to claim you’ll be able to match a Lore–mas­ter in this regard, but in smaller bat­tles (and par­tic­u­larly on a solo-scale), it can be a lifesaver.

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Rune-keeper Rumination: Volume 4

Tony posted this on March 19th, 2009. It has 4 Comments »
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I wasn’t expect­ing to write Vol­ume 4 of this col­umn so soon, but the XP curve change bumped me up a cou­ple of lev­els. Sev­eral quests later I found myself at Level 30. I fig­ured this was a good time for an update.

As you may or may not know, Rune-keepers have seen a bit of a bump in their dam­age out­put. Some of this was spe­cific to the class, but some of this is related to a change in melee/ranged DPS that left tac­ti­cal dam­age alone. While I’m sure there are those with other classes that aren’t too pleased, as a Rune-keeper I’ve been pretty happy with the change. Are we over­pow­ered now? I’m not quite sure, but as I was get­ting closer to 30 it was obvi­ous that we were def­i­nitely under­pow­ered. It was dif­fi­cult to even take out a cou­ple of ene­mies below my level simul­ta­ne­ously, which seemed kind of odd for a class with so many attack skills and even a cou­ple of area of effect abilities.

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Rune-keeper Rumination: Volume 3

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Rune-keeper Rumination: Volume 2

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Runekeeper Rumination: Volume 1

Tony posted this on November 19th, 2008. It has 5 Comments »
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