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.

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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