Skills, class traits, and the secret to Epic conclusion

BASIC RUNEKEEPER SKILLS

Chill of winter set:

Chilling Rhetoric
obtainable at level 4
Induction: 0.5 sec
Slows your enemy and does slight frost damage. Damage to the enemy will return their speed.

Essence of Winter
obtainable at level 18
Induction: 1.5 sec
AOE skill that does frost damage to your enemy. Lowers your enemy's incoming healing and increases their skill power cost.

Flurry of Words
obtainable at level 40
Induction: 2 sec
AOE skill that deals frost damage over time and reduces your enemy's evade chances.

Frozen Epilogue
obtainable at level 32
Induction: 30 sec
AOE skill that deals frost damage and applies effects of writ of cold and essence of winter to the area infront of you. Reduces incoming healing, increases power cost, attack duration, and skill induction.

Writ of Cold
obtainable at level 12
Induction: 0.8 sec
Deals frost damage, can be tiered up to three times. Increases skill inductions and attack duration.

Fury of Storm set

Ceaseless Argument
obtainable at level 2
Induction: immediate
Deals lightning damage, increases fury of storm critical hit chance, reduces fury of storm power cost. If the class trait Harsh Debate is equipped there is a 15% chance of increasing skill damage.

Epic conclusion
obtainable at level 20
Induction: immediate
Deals high lightning damage, increases fury of storm critical hit chance, increases power cost by 50% for 10 sec.

Essence of Storm
obtainable at level 12
Induction: immediate
Deals lightning damage, increases fury of storm critical hit chance, decreases fury of storm power cost.

Scribe's Spark
obtainable at level 1
Induction: immediate
Deals lightning damage, increases fury of storm critical hit chance, decreases fury of storm power cost. When the class trait Thunderous Words is equipped there is a 15% chance to apply +1800 target all skills resist rating.

Shocking Words
obtainable at level 6
Induction: immediate
Deals lightening damage with 7% to stun.

Vivid Imagery
obtainable at level 56
induction: immediate
AOE stun attack. When the legendary trait Perfect Imagery is equiped it will increase your fury of storm critical hit chance.

The Middle Path set

Armour of ________
obtainable at level 10
induction: immediate
Depending on what type of elemental stone you have equipped this skill will cover your body with elemental armour.
armour of storm will apply a 30% chance of a 5 sec daze against melee attacks, and increases your lightning resistance.
armour of flame will apply a damage over time fire based skill against melee attackers, and increase your fire resistance.
armour of winter will reduce your enemy's frost defence against melee attackers.

Calming Verse
obtainable at level 26
induction: 1.5 sec
Reduces your threat from both damage and healing.

Distracting Winds
obtainable at level 30
induction: immediate
distracts your enemies causing them to focus less on you. Also reduces target run speed.

Final Words
obtainable at level 52
induction: immediate
interrupts inductions and removes up to 3 corruption effects from the target.

Nothing Truly Ends
obtainable at level 20
induction: 5 sec
Out of combat resurrection of a defeated ally.

Self Motivation
obtainable at level 14
induction: 1.5 sec
This skill returns power to yourself.

Shocking Touch
obtainable at level 8
induction: immediate
Single target daze.

Weapon of ________
obtainable at level 34
induction: immediate
Depending on what type of elemental stone you have equipped this skill will make you or an ally's melee weapon reduce a foe's elemental defence. Lightning for lightning, fire for fire, and frost for frost.

Visions and Foretellings set

Do not Fall this Day
obtainable at level 50
induction: immediate
In-combat revive of an ally. This skill must be applied just before an ally's defeat.

Do not fall to __________
obtainable at level 46
induction: 1.5 sec
Depending on what type of elemental stone you have equipped this skill will absorb the next elemental attack. Lightning for lightning, fire for fire, and frost for frost.

Fall to ____________
obtainable at level 8
induction: immediate
Depending on what type of elemental stone you have equipped this skill will reduce your enemy's resistance to that element. Lightning for lightning, fire for fire, and frost for frost.

The blade will not Wound
obtainable at level 40
induction: 1.5 sec
When applied the next wound based attack will remove a pre existing wound. This skill can not be used at the same time as The fang will not Poison skill.

The Fang will not Poison
obtainable at level 44
induction: 1.5 sec
When applied the next poison based attack will remove a pre existing poison. This skill can not be used at the same time as The blade will not Wound.

Words of Grace set

All Fates Entwinded
obtainable at level 54
induction: immediate
The runekeeper will take 10% of the fellowship's damage, and resist 10% of all incoming damage. Damage will not interrupt your inductions.

Epic for the Ages
obtainable at level 38
induction: 4.5 sec
Single target healing skill

Essay of Exaltation
obtainable at level 42
induction: immediate
Your fellowship gains the effects of Words of Exaltation as well as a powerful heal over time. After use this skill will cause all healing attunement skills to increase the power by 50% for 10 sec.

Glorious Foreshadowing
obtainable at level 58
induction: 1.5 sec
Increases incoming healing on target.

Mending Verse
obtainable at level 10
induction: 2 sec
small heal over time that stacks with itself.

Prelude to Hope
obtainable at level 1
induction: immediate
small heal over time that can be used on the move.

Rousing Words
obtainable at level 22
induction: 6.5 sec
Fellowship heal over time during induction.

Rune of Restoration
obtainable at level 4
induction: 1.5 sec
A stone that heals your fellowship over time. A runekeeper may only have one stone active at a time.

Words of Exaltation
obtainable at level 28
induction: immediate
Greatly reduces your target's incoming damage. Lasts 2 seconds longer for every tier of Writ of Health on target.

Writ of Health
obtainable at level 16
induction: 0.8 sec
Heal over time based skill that can be tiered up to three times.

Wrath of Flame set

Distracting Flame
obtainable at level 60
induction: 1 sec
Distracts enemies, reduces threat over time, and deals a fire based damage over time skill.

Essence of Flame
obtainable at level 36
induction: 3 sec
Deals a fire based damage over time skill. The damage increases for every tier of Writ of fire on target.

Fiery Ridicule
obtainable at level 1
induction: 3 sec
Deals a fire based stackable damage over time.

Scathing Mockery
obtainable at level 24
induction: 3 sec
AOE fire based attack that deals damage over time.

Smouldering Wrath
obtainable at level 40
induction: 8 sec
Fire based skill that deals damage over time during the induction period.

Writ of Fire
obtainable at level 14
induction: 0.8 sec
Fire based damage over time skill that can be tiered up to three times.




RUNEKEEPER CLASS TRAITS

Solitary Thunder set

Thunderous Words
obtained by: Striking with Scribe's spark 125 times
Scribe's spark has a 15% chance of putting the Thunderous Words buff on you. This buff increases tactical resistance.

Harsh Debate
obtained by: Striking with Ceaseless argument 750 times
Ceaseless Argument has a 15% chance of putting the harsh debate buff on you, which increases tactical damage.

Closing Remarks
obtained by: Striking with Epic conclusion 150 times.
Epic conclusion deals 50% more damage for each of the Thunderous words and Harsh debate buffs currently active. Cooldown on EC is also decreased.

Tale of Storm
obtained by: Striking with Fury of Storm skills
Fury of storm skills have a chance to apply the charged runes buff on you, which increases the critical hit chance and decreases power cost.

Winder Storm
obtained by: Use fury of storm or chill of winter skills 500 times
Fury of storm skills have a chance to stun enemies under the effects of writ of cold.

Icy Discourse
obtained by: Striking with chilling Rhetoric 500 times
Chilling Rhetoric will leave a 30% slow on foes

Confounding Principles
obtained by: Striking with shocking touch 125 times
Shocking Touch dazes for 5 seconds more, also reduces shocking touch resist rating.

Master of Tragedy
obtained by: 500 critical hits with fury of storm skills
Increases base tactical critical rating

Cleansing Fires set

Conflagration of Runes
obtained by: Strike with fiery ridicule 375 times
Firery Ridicule deals 40% addition damage if target has any other wrath of flame effects on it.

Writ of Blazing Fire
obtained by: strike with writ of fire 250 times
Writ of fire will now tier down instead of dispelling. Cooldown is decreased.

Scathing Retort
obtained by: strike with smouldering wrath 200 times
Smouldering wrath reduces target's fire mitigation.

Tale of Rage
obtained by: Strike with wrath of flame skills 500 tmes
Wrath of flame skills have a chance to put the Enflamed runes buff on you, which can stack up o five times. Each buff increases fire damage by 3%.

Frost Burn
obtained by: strike with writ of fire or writ of cold 200 times
Enemies struck by writ of cold will have the duration of your writ of fire effects refreshed. This will not increase the writ of fire tier.

Overflowing Confidence
obtained by: Use self motivation 350 times
Self motivation now puts the motivated buff on you, which reduces skill cost.

Linnod of Subtlety
obtained by: Use calming verse 350 times
Calming verse has it's duration increased, reduces threat generation from damage, and increases runekeeper skill namage

Master of Connotation
obtained by: Have your battle skills resisted 500 times
Reduced change of target resisting skills.

Benedictions of Peace set

Memorable Prose
obtained by: use mending verse 250 times
mending verse will increase the max. morale of it's target by 15 seconds

Writ of Well-being
obtained by:
Writ of health will tier down instead of dispelling.

Author of Exaltation
obtained by: Use word of Exaltation 500 times
Word of Exaltation protects against 10% more damage and lasts 5 more seconds.

Terse Narrative
obtained by: Use epic for the ages 350 times
Epic for the ages will apply Prelude to Hope, takes less time to use and has it's recovery time removed.

Rune of Endurance
obtained by: Use rune of restoration 125 times
Rune of restoration heals 30% more

The Prophetic Word
obtained by: Use visions and foretellings skills 250 times
All visions and Fortelling skills recover 20% faster

Linnod of Peace
obtained by: Use calming verse 250 times
Calming verse is instant to use, and reduces a greater amount of threat generated by healing.

Master of Allusion
obtained by: Use any words of grace skills 200 times
Threat generation and power cost is decreased for all skills.



LEGENDARY SKILLS AND TRAITS

Steady Hands
obtained by: Completing the book Whispers in the Dark
Gives skill Steady Hands.
induction: 1.5 sec
On use attunement is brought back to a steady state. Skills will cost no power for 15 sec and the runekeeper can not be silenced.

Mystifying Flame
obtained by: Complete the epic deed The mines of Moria, volume II, books I-VI
Must have 5 class traits in Cleansing Fires set slotted
Upgrades your Distracting Flame skill. Distracting flame now almost fully draws your enemy's attention from you. Damage is increased, foes have reduced tactical resistance.

You shall Fall To our Wrath
obtained by: Completing the book Thunder and Flame
Gives skill Fall to our Wrath
target has reduced tactical resist rating and a 10% chance to recieve a powerful attack.

Wonderous Foreshadowing
obtained by: Complete the class quest Secrets Long Forgotten
Glorious foreshadowing will now affect all in your fellowship instead of a single target. Must have 5 traits in Benedictions of Peace set slotted.

That which does not Kill Us
obtained by: Complete the class quest Deep secrets of Rune-craft
Gives skill That which does not kill us.
Induction: 1.5 sec
Allies regain morale over time and will revieve a powerful heal over time the next time they are struck.

Perfect Imagery
obtained by: Read the book 'On the patterns of Wind and Rain' given by the Iron Garrison Guards of Moria
Upgrades your Vivid imagery skill to Perfect Imagery.
Induction: immediate
Increases your critical hit chance for all fury of strom skills. Dazes longer, deals more damage, recovers faster.

Martial Training
obtained by: completing the book Golu O Maeth
Increases melee damage, increases base melee critical rating, increases maximum morale and power, and increases in combat power regen.


OF EPIC CONCLUSION

Aaah yes, Epic Conclusion. The name itself makes Creeps of the Ettenmoors shake in their boots. But then why, you may ask yourself, is my Epic conclusion only dealing 500 damage?! The secret is all in the timing and in the traits.
The traits that you should have slotted to make the most of your EC is as follows:
Thunderous Words for the Thunderous Words buff which reduces your target's tactical resistance
Tale of Storm for the charged runes buff which increases the critical hit chance
Harsh debate for the Harsh debate buff which increases your tactical damage
Closing Remarks which allows EC to deal 50% more damage for any of the afore mentioned buffs active
Master of Tragedy which increases your base tactical critical rating

You should also have a lightning based stone equipped for the skill "fall to storm"
The next thing you need to do is watch. Watch for the buffs to appear before you use EC. You do not need all of the buffs to be present, but the more there are the higher your EC damage will be. A quickly placed Fall to storm and Fall to our wrath will also help up the damage.

Epic conclusion has a nasty habit of making every skill you use after it cost twice as much in power for 10 seconds, so make sure that the time that you choose to use it isn't during a time when you will need to conserve your power.

Good luck in your Runekeeping skills!