Runic Dust

The Affix Warding UI

Runic Dust is a material used in Crafting and Runecrafting, in particular Affix Warding. There are 5 types of Runic Dust available:

• Basic Runic Dust
• Unusual Runic Dust
• Singular Runic Dust
• Prime Runic Dust
• Mythical Runic Dust

Acquisition

Runic Dust can be bought in the Marketplace, found inside Dungeon Caches, obtained by Researching items, or acquired through Crafting and/or Combat. Explore the individual runic dust pages for further details.

Runic Dust	Item Rarity	Vendor Value	Market Price
Basic Runic Dust	Common	500	765
Unusual Runic Dust	Uncommon	1000	8,786
Singular Runic Dust	Rare	2000	29,996
Prime Runic Dust	Epic	4000	68,896
Mythical Runic Dust	Legendary	8000	399,976

Research

Researching items will typically produce runic dust until the research fails, a gear scrap (or transformation item) is produced and the item is consumed.

• Basic Runic Dust can be obtained from researching items with Common rarity.
• Unusual Runic Dust can be obtained from researching items with Uncommon rarity.
• Singular Runic Dust can be obtained from researching items with Rare rarity.
• Prime Runic Dust can be obtained from researching items with Epic rarity.
• Mythical Runic Dust can be obtained from researching items with Legendary rarity.

Crafting

There are several Crafting recipes for each tier of Runic Dust. They are found under the Runecrafting tab.

Icon	Name	Skill: Level	Experience	Recipe
	Basic Runic Dust	Crafting (Runecrafting): 1	40	x8
				x16
				x4, x16
				x2
	Unusual Runic Dust	Crafting (Runecrafting): 20	200	x8, x8
				x16, x16
				x16, x4
				x10
				x2
	Singular Runic Dust	Crafting (Runecrafting): 40	760	x8, x8
				x16, x16
				x16, x4, x4
				x10
				x2
	Prime Runic Dust	Crafting (Runecrafting): 60	1,800	x8, x8
				x4, x8
				x16, x16
				x4, x16
				x10
				x2
	Mythical Runic Dust	Crafting (Runecrafting): 80	4,000	x8, x8
				x16, x16
				x16, x4
				x10

Uses

Runic Dust can be used to craft other types of runic dust as seen in the crafting recipe table listed above. However the main purpose of runic dust is to apply powerful Affixes to equipment (possessing affix slots) corresponding to their rarity.

• Basic Runic Dust can only apply affixes to Common items.

• Unusual Runic Dust can only apply affixes to Uncommon items.

• Singular Runic Dust can only apply affixes to Rare items.

• Prime Runic Dust can only apply affixes to Epic items.

• Mythical Runic Dust can only apply affixes to Legendary items.

Conversely Runic Dust is used to clear or reroll affixes on equipment with existing affix enchantments.

• Basic Runic Dust is used with Common Gear Scraps to remove or reroll affixes from Common items.

• Unusual Runic Dust is used with Uncommon Gear Scraps to remove or reroll affixes from Uncommon items.

• Singular Runic Dust is used with Rare Gear Scraps to remove or reroll affixes from Rare items.

• Prime Runic Dust is used with Epic Gear Scraps to remove or reroll affixes from Epic items.

• Mythical Runic Dust is used with Legendary Gear Scraps to remove or reroll affixes from Legendary items.

See Also

• Affixes
• Combat
• Crafting
• Researching
• Ward Affixing