Runes

Runes are equipable items which grant your heroes increased stats and effects. Equipped runes always grant stats. Effects however, only activate when specific Rune Sets are completed. Removing Runes costs silver.

Runes are split into rarities and star ratings.
There are four **Rarities**, commonly referred to as: Whites or Normals, Greens, Blues or Rares, Purples or Heroics and Legendaries. There are two indications of the rarity: Firstly, the color, which matches the rarity and secondly, the amount of substats on a rune. Higher rarities allow for more substats on creation (Whites = 0, Legendaries = 4) **and** higher ranges for substat rolls on those substats.

**Star ratings** refer to the amount of stars on a rune. They can reach from 1★ to 6★. The higher the star rating, the higher the range of stats.

*The best available runes are legendary 6★ runes. They offer the highest main stat, four substats and the highest stat ranges.*

**Runes are mainly acquired through the three Rune dungeons.** However, Adventure stages yield up to green 5★ runes in Hell mode. There are also Rune vouchers acquirable through ingame activities such as Quests or Events which give you a random rune.

## Runes stats

Possible stats of runes include flat HP, HP%, flat Def, Def%, flat Atk, Atk%, Speed, Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Resistance, Accuracy. Generally, the use of %-stats is advised as they yield a greater stat gain than flat stats due to the low base stats of heroes. *For heroes below 6★ however, flat stats are more beneficial as they outperform the % stat gain due to low base stats.*

Rune Sets consist of two to four runes of the same type. You can run a single rune of any set for the stats, but you will miss out on the specific effect.

Runes consist of:

1. The main stat
	1. Any stat can be a main stat. Main stats can be increased by upgrading a rune.
2. The secondary stat (or inbuilt stat)
	1. Any stat can be secondary (or inbuilt) stat. These stats can not be upgraded or changed in any way.
3. Substats
	1. Up to four substats are rolled randomly when acquiring a rune. When upgrading a rune to +3,+6,+9 and +12, a random substat value increases.
4. Set Effect
	1. These include further stat increases such as (+12% CRI Rate) or completely new effects such as (25% chance to stun enemies on hit).

There are 6 Rune slots on any hero. Certain slots only allow for specific rune stats, while others allow for variation. **There can never be duplicate stats on any rune.** However, the combination of flat stats and percentage stats of the same type is possible (e.g. ATKflat and ATK%)

### Rune Slots

Rune Slots and their stats
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### Roll Ranges

On Rune creation, Substats have ranges which they are rolled from. This also applies to upgrades at +3, +6, +9 and +12. The following list shows ranges for legendary 6★ runes. Reducing the **Star rating** also reduces the ranges.

There are 18 types of runes in the game.

### Sets

The following table shows the list of runes, their respective set effects and the drop location.

# Rune Management

Kingdom of Heroes offers a built-in Rune Management tool. To use it, press on the Rune tab.

On the left side you see your selected Hero and it's runes. White stats refer to the total stats while the green stats in brackets refer to the additional stats gained from runes and other boni.
There are options to *change runes and artifacts*. Both of these will open the respective inventory for you to select and filter from. **Equipped runes of other heroes will not show up.**
*Exchange Runes* allows you to change the whole rune page with another hero while *Instantly Upgrade Runes* allows you to upgrade all runes on specific heroes at once.

In the center of the screen you see equipped runes of your hero. The top half represents your current runes while the lower half represents your changes. These changes will also be visible on the left with colored in- or decreasing stats.

The inventory on the right shows all runes and artifacts currently not equipped on any hero. You can filter Rune slots, Star rating, Rarity, specific Rune sets and even their Main and Substats, as well as upgraded stage. Furthermore, you are able to sort the runes based on your filters. This way you can find the rune with the highest stat you want!

# Rune Tips

When starting off, Rune effects will yield the most stat increase because you won't own many runes with insane stats. As you progress through the game, your rune quality and quantitiy will gradually increase and allow for customization.

As a general rule: damage-oriented heroes want damage-oriented stats such as ATK and CRI Damage while defensive heroes primarily want HP and DEF. Speed, CRI Rate, Accuracy and Resistance are usually good on anyone with varying degree.

For example, Esperanza wants ATK,Speed,CRI Rate and CRI Damage as her primary stats because she is a damage-oriented hero, also known as DPS or attacker.