Rune Power

[Morgan77]

Anyone know how rune power works?
It seems to work like energy but i'm not sure, anyone know?

[Noru]

The Rune System
The resource mechanics for death knights are runes and runic power. A skilled death knight makes efficient, timely use of runes and runic power to maximize his or her damage-dealing or tanking abilities.

Runes: Every death knight ability requires runes, which come in three varieties: blood, frost, and unholy. Depending on the ability, it may require runes of a single type or a combination of types. When a rune is used, it has a cooldown period before it can be used again. Death knights can customize which array of six runes to have available at a given time, which can aid their ability to perform certain roles. For example, a tanking death knight may wish to load his or her rune array with more Frost runes.

Runic Power: As rune abilities are used, the death knight also generates another resource called runic power. The death knight will have certain abilities that consume all available runic power, with varying levels of effectiveness based on total runic power spent. Similar to a warrior’s rage, runic power decays over time if not spent.

afaik

[Morgan77]

Thank you very much!
where did you find that?

[Noru]

got it from a post in my guild forums.
but I think you'll find it on the offical WotLK-Page blizz made
edit: there
http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/feat...t/gameplay.xml

[BlazerWithTheLazer]

to make it very simple.

rune power works liek the warriors rage, certain abilitys cost rune power instead of runes and some rune abilitys become more effective the more runepower you have.

as for runes each rune has a 10 sec cooldown and if an ability cost one frost rune and you only have one frost rune on your blade that means you can't use that ability more than one time every 10 sec. but if you for some odd reason have 6 frost runes on your blade you could spam this ability ever 1,5 sec 6 times and then not be able to use it for 1 sec and then it starts all over.

now DK have alot of cool abilitys so it's not very likely you will end up only using one ability but you get the point.
there are some abilitys that cost 2 runes of 2 different types.

when you deal dmg to a target you gain rune power and the abilitys that cost runes generate a fixed amount of rune power when used.