All Diablo 4 Runewords and how to farm them

The new Runeword system in 's Vessel of Hatred expansion is a lot of fun. These special stones slot into your armour and let you pinch skills from other classes, provided you generate enough of the Offering currency to fuel them. It seems a little complex at first, but the principle is actually very simple.

Runewords are made up of two runes, one which produces the Offering resource when you do a thing, while the second spends that resource to provide its effect. There are other certain intricacies, but that's about it. Here I'll run through how they work in a bit more depth below, the best ways to farm them, and at the bottom I'll include a full list of runes you can get.

How do Runewords work?

Runes are a little like gems in that you can slot them onto your gear to provide secondary effects. There are two types of rune:

• Ritual Runes produce a certain amount of "Offering" based on something you do
• Invocation Runes spend the Offering you produce to provide the additional effect or ability

Some of these effects are class skills, while others are simply passives, but you need to slot both a Ritual Rune and an Invocation Rune together on a two-slotted piece of gear—such as legs, helmet, chest, or two-handed weapon—in order for them to work. If you provide more Offering [[link]] than is needed to an Invocation Rune, it'll also gain an additional Overflow effect. 

There are some other important details to remember about runes as well:

• You can trade runes
• You can equip a maximum of two Runewords, i.e two sets [[link]] of two runes
• You can't stack rune abilities

You can also use three runes of the same type to craft a new different rune, with a chance to create a rune of a higher rarity. Lastly, you can also craft Mythics—the new name for uber uniques—at the jeweller using runes.

How to farm runes

Once you unlock Runewords in the Vessel of Hatred campaign, when you visit the council in the city of Kurast, you'll be able to get them through a variety of sources such as defeating bosses, whisper caches, strongholds, or as random drops from elites. The best way to get runes, however, is via the new Undercity activity. You can unlock this through the Kurast Undercity quest you can get from Ormus in the council chamber after you arrive there in the campaign.

You can also find Tributes in the Undercity and through other activities, which increase the rune rewards you get for completing the activity. Long story short; the Undercity is where you want to be if you need runes.

Diablo 4 Runeword list

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Invocation Runes

Rune	Rarity	Cost	Cooldown	Skill
Ohm	Legendary	500 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	2 seconds	Evoke the Barbarian's Enhanced War Cry, increasing your movement speed and damage dealt.
Vex	Legendary	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	Gain +3 to all skills for 7 seconds.
Xan	Legendary	800 Offering	1 second	Your next skill cast will be a guaranteed critical strike and overpower.
Yom	Legendary	500 Offering	2 seconds	Evoke the Druid's Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a barrier.
Eom	Legendary	100 Offering (Overflow: Further reduced cooldowns)	1 second	Reduce your active cooldowns by 0.25 seconds.
Jah	Legendary	500 Offering	2 seconds	Replace your next evade with the Sorcerer's Teleport, blinking further, dealing damage, and becoming unstoppable.
Lac	Rare	800 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	Evoke the Barbarian's Challenging Shout, reducing your damage taken.
Que	Rare	800 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	Evoke the Druid's Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a barrier.
Qua	Rare	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	Restore an evade charge and gain 7% movement speed for 5 seconds, up to 30%.
Xal	Rare	200 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	Gain 20% maximum life for 6 seconds.
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 (Overflow: Further increased damage)	1 second	Your next non-basic skill cast spends all of your primary resource to deal up to 100% increased damage.
Zec	Rare	200 Offering (Overflow: Further reduced cooldown)	2 seconds	Reduce your active ultimate cooldown by 4 seconds.
Ner	Rare	700 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	6 seconds	Evoke the Rogue's Countering Concealment, gaining dodge chance, movement speed, unstoppable, and stealth.
Mot	Rare	150 Offering (Overflow: Gain multiple shadows)	1 second	Gain a shadow from the Rogue's Dark Shroud, reducing damage taken per shadow.
Thul	Rare	400 Offering (Overflow: Increased size)	1 second	Evoke the Sorcerer's Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting freeze and vulnerable onto enemies.
Tzic	Rare	250 Offering	1 second	Evoke the Spiritborn's Concussive Stomp, dealing damage and knocking down enemies.
Kry	Rare	500 Offering	3 seconds	Evoke the Spiritborn's Vortex, dealing damage and pulling on enemies.
Gar	Magic	25 Offering (Overflow: Gain multiple stacks)	1 second	Gain 2.5% critical strike chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.
Lum	Magic	5 Offering (Overflow: Increased resource restored)	1 second	Restore one primary resource.
Teb	Magic	100 Offering	1 second	Evoke the Necromancer's Abhorrent Iron Maiden, counterattacking damage from enemies and healing you when they die.
Ono	Magic	25 Offering (Overflow: Increased bolts spawned)	1 second	Evoke the Druid's Dancing Bolts, seeking and dealing damage to enemies.
Tec	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased size)	1 second	Evoke the Barbarian's Earthquake, dealing damage to enemies within.
Met	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased duration)	1 second	You leave the Necromancer's Desecrated Ground behind you for three seconds, dealing damage to enemies within.
Tun	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Increased grenades spawned)	1 second	Evoke the Rogue's Stun Grenades, stunning and dealing damage to enemies.
Ton	Magic	20 Offering (Overflow: Increased meteorites spawned)	1 second	Evoke the Sorcerer's Meteorites, dealing damage to enemies.
Tal	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: increased swarms spawned)	1 second	Evoke the Spiritborn's Pestilent Swarm, dealing damage to enemies.
Ceh	Magic	100 Offering (Overflow: Summon multiple wolves)	1 second	Summon a Spirit Wolf to attack enemies for eight seconds.