Runes of Magic US / AU

In this guide i'm going to show you how to stat out an item with green stats as well as make your higher tier mana stones and make combination runes. Please bear in mind that this guide is meant as an introductory guide to help new players understand the basics of using the AT not as a be all to end all guide to stating/tiering/runemaking.

Before i begin let me inform you that each item has a total of 6 slots not including ghost stats or rune slots
. Ghost stats and rune slot stats DO NOT carry over if you decide to make a mana stone out of an item with existing stats on it.

Also keep in mind when stating out items if you it looks like the item will have more than 6 named stats on it that the game only lets the item keep the 6 LOWEST stats .ie higher lvl stats get bumped off if there isnt room.

When looking for items you want to stat out, my advice to you is to ONLY stat out items that have no stats on them to begin with and have over 100 durability(overdura) that way you dont have to waste golden repair hammers to gain the +20% power modifier.
(if you have the advanced auction mod installed when looking thru item categories you can put $clean and $dura in the filter boxes to have it only Search for clean over dura items).

****** Epidemic Stats referenced in this guide have now been renamed Stormstrike in game.************

Dirty Stats: Green stats with names next to them for example Epidemic X, Stamina I, Strength I , Energy I. these stats DO count against the total on an item and each one uses one slot. ( ie:any green stat that isnt a ghost stat.)

Ghost Stats: Stats gained by refining items with jewels OR that come on some crafted and dropped items in instances by default. these stats do NOT have a name next to them on the right side of the item and they DO NOT count against the total stats for the item.ie they dont take any slots.

Clean Stats: Yellow stats that usually have two stats for each one name for example Barbarian has strength and physical attack, these stats are usually found on set items, crafted items or instance drops.each one of these counts for 1 slot but since they have two stats per one name you can fit 12 of these on an item, it's the ideal way to stat out your gear if you plan on keeping it for a LONG time as it does get expensive. There are also Orange stats that count as clean stats too but they only drop off of the demonlord instance in the volcano zone so far, each one of these has 3 stats per name so you can fit up to 18 stats on an item using these.

Fusion Stones: Stones bought either from the enchanting vendor in towns or off of auction house that contain from 1 to 3 green stats on them usually lvl 1 higher lvl stats on fusion stones is a rarity.And to my knowledge only gained thru buying random fusion stones.These stones are used along with stated items to make mana stones.

Mana Stones: Stones created by transmuting Fusion stones and items with stats on them together using the arcane transmutor and then used to either make higher tiered mana stones or stat out an item.Keep in mind the tier of the item you transmute your fusion stone with will indicate the tier of the mana stone you will make, ie Tier 3 is the most commonly used.

Arcane Transmutor: Device unlocked in varanas at lvl 10 that comes with 10 charges which you will use to transmute items to make mana stones and to stat out your items, tier them out and make runes, each use takes charges which can be obtained thru daily tokens at the rate of 30 per 1 charge from the NPC in varanas that originally unlocks it , OR 300 for 10 from the item shop or 29 diamonds for 10 from the item shop as well. On average if you make the mana stones yourself to stat out an item each item is going to cost you 4 charges 3 to make the mana stones and one to put the stats from the mana stones on said item.



Now onto the actual guide part of this post

Dirty stating an item:
Or as some call it Green stating an item, or junk stating.
(keep in mind this is assuming you have an item with no stats on it to begin with and that this item is overdurability ie over 100 durability).

1. Purchase 3 fusion stones with matching stats on them , ( if using advanced auction mod you can put Fusion Stone into the search box and each of these stats into the filter box to have it search for fusion stones with ONLY these stats on them for example Strength I, Stamina I and Dexterity I which i will be referencing these stats for the rest of this guide).

2. Purchase 3 items with single green stats on them that are all tier 3. For the purposes of this guide i will be using Epidemic IX , Epidemic X and Physique Ionce again if you have advanced auction you can put these stats into the filter boxes check the or boxes next to the 2nd and 3rd ones and leave the search field blank and go thru each item category one at a time to find your items with stats on them.) The reason i chose these stats is because they're relatively cheap to purchase and i have experience stating out a rogue/scout so substitute you're classes stats where needed .

3. Open the arcane transmutor and place one fusion stone in one of the four boxes around the middle box, then place one of the single green stated items into the middle, i'm going to use the item with Epidemic X on it for this example. There should now be a tier 3 mana stone show up in the preview box that has Strength I , Dexterity I, Stamina I, and Epidemic X on it. Click confirm and make your mana stone.

4. Repeat this process with the remaining two fusion stones and the remaining two items until you have a total of 3 tier 3 mana stones. that should look like this : All should have Strength I, Dexterity I and Stamina I on them, one should have these stats + epidemic X on it, another should have them + epidemic IX on it, and the last one should have them +Physique IX on it.

5. Place the 3 tier mana stones into the transmutor in the boxes surrounding the middle one and the item you wish to stat out into the middle box, the item that is in the middle box should show up in the preview box with the following stats on it, Strength I , stamina I, Dexterity I,Epidemic IX , Physique IX , and Epidemic X. Confirm and you have your item.

Now as stated above these stats were purely used for the example substitute your needed stats if they are different, the overall premise remains the same tho .


Creating higher Tier mana stones to Tier out an item:

The whole concept of tiering only applies to weapons and armor not accessories or trinkets because when you tier out an item ie increase its tier level , the base attack and mattack on weapons increase and the phys/magic Def on armor increases , since accessories and trinkets have none of these its useless to tier them out beyond whatever tier mana stones you use to put stats on them in the first place.

This process assumes you've read the first part of this guide and know how to create tier 3 mana stones, if not go back an read it.
Also please bear in mind this example is to give you a basic understanding of how to tier something out NOT a be all to end all.

1. Create 3 tier 3 mana stones with matching stats on them clean dirty etc doesnt matter, however if they're clean you may wanna make 3 stones with 12 stats on them instead.

2. Throw these 3 stones into the arcane transmutor together and a tier 4 mana stone with all the stats the tier 3 stones had on them should show up(this is why i said to make them match so you still only have 6 slots worth of stats for when you eventually use them on the item you want tiered out).Confirm and you have your tier 4 mana stone, repeat this process two more times with the same stats you had on your first 3 tier 3 mana stones to gain 2 more tier 4 mana stones, and then you can make them into a tier 5 mana stone, and so on until tier 9.

Thats basicly it to tiering all you do when you reach the desired tier of stone and have 3 of them with matching stats is transmute those stones with the item you want tiered out and it will make the item whatever tier mana stone you have used + add the stats you have on those stones to that item.



Rune Forging:

This is cake , all you have to do is find two runes of the same lvl that will actually transmute into a combo rune or another rune of the type desired and transmute them, OR if you want to make your runes higher level before doing this, you get 5 of the same lvl rune and turn them into one of the next lvl up rune.

Now for those that need a more detailed explanation i'm going to use resistance III and endurance III runes in my example.

1. Put the resistance III and endurance III runes in the outside boxes of the arcane transmutor , an atonement III rune will show up in the preview box which is a two stat rune. confirm and you've made your rune.

2. Leveling up a rune : take 5 resistance III runes stacked and put them into the arcane transmutor , a resistance IV rune will show up in the preview, confirm and you've made your resistance IV rune.

3. Also when rune forging combo runes if i had 5 of each of the runes in my example, the transmutor would have then made 5 atonement III runes at once, however it would have cost me 5 charges.

Here is a link to the runeforging tables on romwiki for reference: http://www.theromwiki.com/Transmutation_Chart

thanks, i was perusing the other guides for it around here an figured that some new players might have a hard time grasping the concepts so i figured i'd simplify it as much as possible .

thanks, and i use dirty to refer to ANY green stat on an item or stone, basicly any stat that isnt Yellow or Orange. or ghost. which is why i defined most of the terms i would be using in the guide at the beginning sorry if it was still unclear.

Quoted from "Jayleia;273343"

If you define dirty as ANY green stat, methinks you're writing a guide for people that don't need a guide not an "AT for new players" guide...

New players would kill for a Physique XI "dirty"...heck, some endgame raiders wouldn't mind that.

EDIT: There's a number of places to get fusion stones, starting at the Naga Dog Tags event in WC. Then the Bridge event in SL (never seen that one), the John Linus Events in Aotulia (don't bother), 2 bandit events and the cockroach event in Thunderhoof.

And you can make your own custom-made three stat fusion stones with an X, IX and VIII stat using mementos from HotO+ instances.

And...wow...you want NEW players tier up using matched stones too?

the guide was meant as a simple introductory guide to using the AT for the 3 things it was meant for, not as a be all to end all, the examples i provided are the quickest and easiest examples i could think of that would be available to a new player , not someone who's been around for 50 levels or even 35 by which point you most likely know how to use the AT anyway if you've bothered to stat anything out or make your own runes, i was lucky i had a buddy of mine show me how to use it at lvl 1 even tho i didnt start stating anything out until around lvl 15 or so at which point i dirty stated it and used 6 green stats some were big some were little, which in the circles i run in dirty stating is stating anything with a green stat or getting an item that already has a green stat on it, that isnt a ghost stat or in a rune slot.

I apologize if the intent of my guide was unclear however it's a basic run thru of using the AT for each of its intended uses, nothing more, so if this being mistook as a be all to end all guide once again i apologize.

To clarify the reason i used matched stones for tiering out in my example is so that at some point you could actually have 3 tier tones of tier 9 with useful stats on them to tier something out instead of a bunch of I stats thrown on the stones to cheaply increase the tier level.


As to the post about specifying that rune slots arent included in the 6 slots , i put that at the beginning of hte guide, however i will make an edit and add that the rune slots and ghost stats don't carry over if you make a stone out of a stated item, thanks for pointing that out.

****** Edit ****** there guide modified for a bit more clarity so things won't be misunderstood and important points not missed, thanks to those that have been pointing things out that i may have missed, your input is appreciated.

think this guide is good enough for a sticky ?

AWESOME! thanks for the sticky

as an addendum to this i'd actually suggest waiting til you have a couple yellow stats to throw on along with those XI's which you an get from running clops /HOTO in your stated overdura whites .

Quoted from "gatotsu312;291098"

Hi all,

I've read this post many times, but I think it'd be helpful if the author or soemone out there had a screenshot guide of what he's talking about. (green named stats, epidemic I or all that) I still dont' totally understand everything.

Is there someone out there who is doing this process that could simply Screenshot their process so we coudl all benefit (particularly the difference of the 'dirty' vs 'puri' products?

Thanks,

Shif actually did this in the guide he/she wrote here's the link to the thread http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=36490