What Are Runewords in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (& How Do They Work)

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If you’ve spent time playing the previous Diablo titles, then you probably recognize Runewords. Runewords essentially take up the sockets in your gear to give each item more benefits by creating additional abilities on top of the ones you’ve chosen from the skill tree. In general, Runewords can be super valuable since each of the abilities they provide are fully passive with automated effects. Let’s take a look at all the Runewords in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred and what they do.

How Runewords Work

Runewords are created when two Runes, and Invocation and Ritual Rune, are combined in a piece of gear’s sockets. The Ritual Rune, which goes in the top socket, describes a requirement to collect a certain amount of Offering. Some may require you to cast a skill with a cooldown, or even deal damage without taking any for a certain amount of time to collect various amounts of Offering. Each Invocation Rune, which goes in the bottom socket, requires you to earn so much Offering in order to trigger a passive effect, like gaining Crit Strike Chance for a few seconds, reducing your active cooldowns, or using an ability.

If you happen to generate more Offering then your particular Invocation Rune needs, a mechanic called Overflow goes into effect. Overflow allows your Invocation Rune to use more Offering than required in order to apply a bonus to its effect, making them more powerful or longer lasting.

All Ritual Runes

Rune	Rarity	Requirements	Offering Gained
Yul	Legendary	Cast a Skill with a Cooldown	50
Cir	Magic	Cast the same non-Channeled Skill 3 times in a row	25
Ahu	Legendary	Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against Injured enemies	10
Neo	Rare	Dead damage after not taking any within 5 seconds	300
Tam	Legendary	Cast a non-Channeled Core Skill	25
Xol	Legendary	Evoke power from another Class	150
Zan	Magic	Cast an Ultimate Skill	150
Feo	Rare	Become Injured or Crowd Controlled	1000
Noc	Rare	Inflict a Crown Control that isn’t Slow or Chill	5
Cem	Magic	Case Evade	50
Bac	Legendary	Travel 5 meters	50
Ur	Magic	Your Minion or Companion kills an enemy or dies	10
Yax	Magic	Drink a Healing Potion	100
Poc	Rare	Spend 5% of your Maximum Resource	2
Moni	Magic	Cast a Skill after moving	10
Kaa	Rare	Lose 1% of your Maximum Life	2
Lith	Legendary	Stand still for 0.3 seconds	25

All Invocation Runes

Rune	Rarity	Offering Requirement	Effect
Lac	Rare	800	Evoke the Barbarian’s Challenging Shout, reducing your damage taken
Ohm	Legendary	500	Evoke the Barbarian’s Enhanced War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt
Vex	Legendary	400	Gain +3 to all Skills for 5 seconds
Gar	Magic	25	Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%
Xan	Legendary	700	Your next Skill cast will be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower
Que	Rare	800	Evoke the Druid’s Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier
Yom	Legendary	500	Evoke the Druid’s Petrify, Stunning enemies and increasing your Critical Strike Damage against them
Eom	Legendary	100	Reduce your active Cooldowns by 0.25 seconds
Lum	Magic	5	Restore 1 Primary Resource
Qua	Rare	400	Restore an Evade charge and gain 6% Movement Speed for 5 seconds, up to 30%
Xal	Rare	200	Gain 20% Maximum Life for 4 seconds
Wat	Rare	100	Evoke the Necromancer’s Horrid Decrepify, Slowing enemies, reducing their damage, and letting you Execute them
Teb	Magic	100	Evoke the Necromancer’s Abhorrent Iron Maiden, counterattacking damage from enemies and Healing you when they die
Qax	Rare	400	Your next non-Basic Skill cast spends all of your Primary Resource to deal up to 100% increased damage
Zec	Rare	200	Reduce your active Ultimate Cooldown by 4 seconds
Ner	Rare	700	Evoke the Rogue’s Countering Concealment, gaining Dodge Chance, Movement Speed, Unstoppable, and Stealth
Mot	Rare	150	Gain a shadow from the Rogue’s Dark Shroud, reducing damage taken per shadow
Jah	Legendary	500	Replace your next Evade with the Sorcerer’s Teleport, blinking further, dealing damage, and becoming Unstoppable
Thul	Rare	400	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting Freeze and Vulnerable onto enemies
Tzic	Rare	250	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Concussive Stomp, dealing damage and Knocking Down enemies
Kry	Rare	500	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Vortex, dealing damage and Pulling In enemies
Ono	Magic	25	Evoke the Druid’s Dancing Bolts, seeking and dealing damage to enemies
Tec	Magic	100	Evoke the Barbarian’s Earthquake, dealing damage to enemies within
Met	Magic	100	You leave the Necromancer’s Desecrated Ground behind you for 3 seconds, dealing damage to enemies within
Tun	Magic	100	Evoke the Rogue’s Stun Grenades, Stunning and dealing damage to enemies
Ton	Magic	25	Evoke the Sorcerer’s Meteorites, dealing damage to enemies
Tal	Magic	100	Evoke the Spiritborn’s Pestilent Swarm, dealing damage to enemies
Ceh	Magic	100	Summon a Spirit Wolf to attack enemies for 8 seconds