Like all the classes in WoW Classic Season of Discovery, Rogues have their own unique runes they can discover and engrave on their chest, legs, and gloves. Best of all, the rune’s abilities vary, so they can suit almost any play style.
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How to engrave runes in WoW SoD
To engrave runes in WoW SoD, you must have the rune you want to engrave and the designated piece of equipment. Once you have both, you can engrave the rune by following these steps:
- Open your character information sheet (you can do this by pressing ‘C’ on your keyboard).
- Select the new rune tab to open your runes
- Choose the rune you want
- Apply it to its corresponding gear
And that’s it. If you’re unsure whether you engraved the rune, you can check the equipment. If you see the rune’s icon in the right-hand corner of your gear, it has a rune engraved on it. But if there’s nothing, like in the image above, you haven’t engraved anything.
WoW SoD Rogue Runes: abilities and locations
In WoW SoD, Rogues can discover 12 class Runes, each with a unique ability suited to a DPS or Tank Rogue. While most of these runes can be obtained via quests and throughout the starter zone, others require you to complete various tasks, raise your Honor, and even take out multiple mobs.
| Rune | Ability | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Deadly Brew Rune (Chest) | This improves your poisons. When you inflict poison on a target, you’ll also inflict Deadly poison. If your weapon doesn’t have poison applied to it, there’s a chance it will trigger Instant Poison as if it was applied. These poisons, Deadly Poison and Instant Poison will get increased damage from your Attack Power. | Horde and Alliance: 1. Once you hit level 20, you’ll get a letter in the mail titled, ‘An offer.’ 2. Head to Pyrewood Village in Silverpine Forest (coordinates 46.6 and 74.2). 3. Obtain the quest, The Horn of Xelthos, from inside a chest within a hut near Shadowfang Keep (it’s the little castle just above Pyrewood Village). 4. You must complete and turn in the Horn of Xelthos quest. 5. The next time you’re in a major city, you’ll get another letter in the mail with a location for the rune, which is in the same hut outside Shadowfang Keep. |
| Just a Flesh Wound (Chest) | You’ll take 20 percent less physical damage while Blade Dance is active. You’ll also have a six percent less chance of getting hit by critical melee strikes, your threat is increased, and your Feint is replaced with Tease, which means you taunt your target into attacking you. But if they’re already attacking you, this taunt won’t work. | Alliance: You can purchase this rune from the Azeroth Commerce Authority for four gold and 50 silver. However, you need to be Honored with them. There are three representatives. However, the easiest to find is Elaine in Stormwind (coordinates 54.4 and 60.2) Horde: You can purchase this rune from the Durotar Supply and Logistics for four gold and 50 silver. However, it would be best if you were Honored with them. There are three representatives. However, the easiest to find is Jornah in Ogrimmar (coordinates 51.6 and 64.6) |
| Quick Draw (Chest) | This costs 25 Energy, is an instant cast, and requires a ranged weapon. You’ll draw your ranged weapon and fire an attack at an enemy. This causes normal ranged weapon damage, and the target’s movement speed is reduced by 50 percent for six seconds. In addition, you’ll get one combo point. | You must collect four pieces of a map (top left, bottom left, top right, and bottom right) from the same area, meaning you must create a map of either Dun Morogh or Durotar. You can’t combine pieces of the two. To get the pieces, you need to pickpocket or kill mobs in the region. Dun Morogh Map pieces can be obtained from the following: – Troggs – Trolls – Leper Gnomes – Dark Iron Dwarves – Treasure Location: Under the Ironforge bridge (coordinates: 46.96 and 43.73) Elwynn Forest Map pieces can be obtained from the following: – Kobolds – Gnolls -Defias Bandits – Murlocs – Treasure Location: By a stump near Ridgepoint Tower (coordinates 80.30 and 79.42) Teldrassil: Map pieces can be obtained from the following: – Blood feathers – Viscious Grells and Rascal Sprites – Timberlings – Gnarlpines. – Treasure Location: In the hollow stump behind a building in Rut’theran Village (coordinates 55.33 and 90.84) Durotar Map pieces can be obtained from the following: – Sailors in Tirisgarde Keep – Burning Blade Cultists in Thunder Ridge – Quilboar near Razor Hill – Trolls in Echo Isles – Treasure Location: Southern part of the Echo Isles at the foot of the statue (coordinates 63 and 94). Tirisfal Glades Map pieces can be obtained from the following: – Rot Hide Gnolls North of Brill – Murlocs on the Northern coast – Scarlet humans to the West – Human Farmers to the West. – Treasure Location: Under the Tirisfal Glades bridge (coordinates 52.9 and 54.0) |
| Slaughter from the Shadows (Chest) | This rune reduces the Energy cost of your Backstab and Ambush abilities by 20. | Alliance: – Dun Morogh: There is a chest on Kharanos Inn in Kharanos (coordinates 47.4 and 52.6). – Elwynn Forest: North of Goldshrine Inn, there’s a house at the coordinates 46.0 and 62.2. Use the crates by the home to climb on the roof to find the chest with the rune. – Teldrassil: Found inside the Gnarlpine Caches inside the Barrow Den of Darnassus (coordinates 45.0 and 61.4). You may have to check several caches before finding the rune. Horde: – Durotar: The rune is found inside a chest in Drygulch Ravine (coordinates: 53.8 and 27.0) – Tirisfal Glades: You’ll find the rune inside a Relic Coffer in Agamand Crypts (coordinates 52.5 and 25.8), located northeast of Agamand Mills. However, you will need an Agamand Relic Coffer Key to open the Relic Coffer. This key can be looted from nearby mobs like the Rotting Ancestor (coordinates 51.2 and 31.6). |
| Between the Eyes (Legs) | This costs 35 Energy, is an instant cast, and requires a ranged weapon. Between the Eyes is a ranged finishing move that deals increased damage for every combo point you have and increases your Stun duration. | Alliance: – Ironforge: Get the rune from the Dusty Chest (coordinates 51.9 and 12.8)— it’s just outside Forlorn Cavern. Once you’ve looted the chest, two Cut-throat Muggers will spawn, and you must defeat them to get the rune. – Stormwind: Get this rune from the Dusty Chest in a house in the Dwarven District (coordinates 61.9 and 29.3). The chest is by the bed on the first floor. Once you’ve looted the chest, two Cut-throat Muggers will spawn, and you must defeat them to get the rune. – Teldrassil: You’ll get the rune from a Gnarlpine Stash (coordinates 37.9 and 82.5). But you’ll need the Stash Key to open it. You can get this from any Gnarlpine enemy in the area, like the Gnarlpine Augur (coordinates 45.6 and 59.6). Horde: – Orgrimmar: This is found in The Drag, next to the house of Zilzibin Drumlore (coordinates 56.6 and 46.4). – Tirisfal Glades: This is found in a Shipwreck Cache underwater in Tirisfal Glades (coordinates 65.9 and 25.6). However, to open the cache, you need to get the key, which can be pickpocketed from any Murloc in the area. |
| Blade Dance (Legs) | This costs 25 Energy and is an instant cast. Blade Dance is a finishing move that increases your Parry chance and duration per combo point. | Alliance: – Darkshore: Kill the Naga at Cliffspring River Cave in Darkshore (coordinates roughly 55 and 33) until they drop a key. At the end of the cave, there’s a ledge with mobs and a chest with the rune. – Loch Modan: You’ll need to pickpocket any of the Dark Iron Dwarves, like the Dark Iron Raiders (coordinates 63.0 and 65.8), in Loch Modan until you get a Dark Iron Lockbox. However, to get the rune inside, you need to have a lockpicking level of one. – Westfall: Pickpocket any of the Defias in Westfall, like the Defias Smugglers (coordinates 47.8 and 37.6), until you get the Discreet Envelope. A message from Emily and an Equipment Stash Key should be inside the envelope. The message will show you the rune’s location, and the key is to unlock the stash. But the chest’s location is outside the Deadmines (coordinates 40.81 and 80.23), meaning you don’t need to go into the mines to get the rune. Horde: – The Barrens: You must pickpocket any of the Southsea pirates, like the Southsea Cannoneed (coordinates 64.2 and 47.6) to the south of Ratchet to loot a Buccaneer’s Matchbox. On the hill, there is a camp area with a gunpowder bucket (61.78 and 45.80). Click the bucket to blow it up, open the chest, and get the rune. |
| Envenom (Legs) | This costs 35 Energy, is an instant cast, and requires a melee weapon. Envenom is a finishing move that deals poison damage instantly and is based on your target’s Deadly Poison doses. After Envenom, the frequency of applying Instant Poison increases, and it increases by one second for every combo point. | Alliance and Horde: 1. Purchase ‘Hot Tip’ for 75 silver from the vendor behind the building with Tog’Thar (coordinates 79.6 and 39.6) in Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills. 2. Open the ‘Hot Tip’ to receive Safe Combination. 3. Head North until you enter the Western Plaguelands. 4. Before the lake, there’s a waterfall where you’ll see the Rusty Safe (coordinates 59.4 and 84.6) 5. Open the safe to get the rune. |
| Mutilate (Gloves) | This instant cast requires you to be within melee range. Mutilate instantly attacks for increased damage, and this damage is increased by 20 percent if the target is poisoned. You’ll get two combo points with this rune. | Alliance: – Dun Morogh: Kill the Dark Iron Spies (coordinates 77.8 and 62.0) south of Helm’s Bed Lake in Dun Morogh until you get Blackrat’s Note. While stealthed, talk to Blackrat at Misty Pine Refuge by a boat near the frozen lake (coordinates 57.2 and 45.2) to get the rune. Ensure you have at least one slot in your inventory, or you won’t get the rune. – Elwynn Forest: Pickpocket Garrick Padfoot (coordinates: 57.4 and 48.6), then deliver the note to Cutty. Cutty is stealthed on the south side of the wall, just up the river from Crystal Lake (coordinates 49.8 and 52.0). Hand over the note, and he will give you the rune. – Teldrassil: The rune is a drop from Lord Melenas in the cave north of Dolanaar in Darnassus (coordinates 51.6 and 51.6). Horde: – Durotar: You need to find Ba’so, who’s stealthed (coordinates 52.0 and 58.4). You’ll pickpocket any Burning Blade thugs above Razor Hill (coordinates 55 and 36), and you will get a note. Turn in the note to Ba’so, and you’ll get the rune. – Tirisfal Glades: Pickpocket Captain Perrine (coordinates 51.8 and 67.4) to get his signet ring. Take the ring to the Brill town hall to get a forged document. Then, take this document to Jamie in Brill (coordinates 60.8 and 50.4) to get the rune. |
| Shadowstrike (Gloves) | This costs 20 Energy, is an instant cast, requires a melee weapon, and you must be stealthed. You’ll teleport behind your target and attack, which will cause 150 percent weapon damage to the target. And you’ll get one combo point. | Alliance: – Dun Morogh – Obtain the quest, Thrice Stolen, from the Rogue trainer Solm Hargrin (coordinates 28.4 and 67.6). You’ll learn that the Frostmane stole the rune, and you’ll need to get it in the Coldridge Valley caves near Grik’nir the Cold—it’s on a ledge to the side (rough coordinates 30.6 and 80.2). – Elwynn Forest – Obtain the quest, Thrice Stolen, from the Rogue trainer Jorik (coordinates 50.6 and 40.0). You’ll learn that the Defias stole the rune. And you can find it in a chest near the outhouses (coordinates 52.5 and 51.9). – Teldrassil – Obtain the quest, Second-Story Work, from the Rogue trainer Frahun (coordinates 59.6 and 38.6). You’ll find the rune in a hidden compartment inside an owl statue on the roof of the building (coordinates 59.70 and 42.58). It’s not on the same roof as the trainer, but the next one. You have to jump onto the lower rooves until you see the owl. (You’ll also see the owl and stone circle on the ground from this spot). Horde: – Durotar – Obtain the quest, Atop the Cliffs, from the Rogue trainer Rwag (coordinates 41.2 and 68.0). During this quest, you must open a chest in cliffs almost directly above and to the right of where Rwag is (it’s still within the Valley of Trials). – Tirisfal Glades – Obtain the quest, David (coordinates 32.6 and 65.6). You’ll need to pickpocket or kill Sarclet Converts in eastern Deathknell until you get the rune (coordinates 38.6 and 67.0). |
| Saber Slash (Gloves) | This costs 45 Energy and is an instant cast that requires a melee weapon. You’ll attack an enemy for 130 percent of your weapon damage and cause Bleed, based on a percentage of your attack power, every two seconds for twelve seconds. And this can stack up to three times. You’ll also get one combo point. | Alliance: – Darkshore: The rune is located in a pile of dirt by the roots of the Auberdine Lighthouse’s tree (coordinates 32 and 37). – Loch Modan: The rune is located inside the Stonemason’s Toolbox on a platform at the Stonewrought Dam (coordinates 46.4 and 12.7) – Westfall: Behind the Sentinel Hill Inn, there’s a Defias Scout (coordinates 51.2 and 47.0) with an Escape Plan buff (if they sense danger, they’ll run). Use Stealth to avoid detection, pickpocket the Defias Scout, and take your rune. Horde: – The Barrens: Head to Northwatch Keep (south of Ratchet). You’ll see a stable with a chest on the roof as you go through the main gate. To get on the roof, hop up on the wall, and you can jump onto the roof. However, you must have a lockpicking level 80 to open the chest to get the rune. – Silverpine Forest: Head to Shadowfang Keep’s entrance and use Sprint (or any movement speed buff) to jump onto the platform to get to the Rusty Chest (coordinates 45.2 and 67.2) with the rune inside. |
| Shiv (Gloves) | Must be in melee range and is an instant cast. You’ll instantly attack with your off-hand weapon, and there’s a 100 percent chance you’ll apply poison from this attack to your target. However, slower melee weapons require more energy, and you’ll get one combo point for this rune. | Alliance and Horde: 1. Pickpocket Defias Night Runner (coordinates 23.8 and 64.4) in Duskwood until you get an Engraved Gold Ring and equip it. 2. At Raven Hill Cemetery, find the statue in the middle of the cemetery (coordinates 19.9 and 45.5), kneel before it, and get your rune. |
| Main Gauche (Gloves) | This costs 35 Energy, has an instant cast, and has a 20-second cooldown. You’ll instantly hit your opponent with your off-hand weapon and increase your parry chance by 10 percent for 10 seconds. And you’ll get one combo point. | Alliance and Horde: You can purchase this rune from Grizzly in Ratchet in the Barrens (coordinates 61.8 and 39.4). But you need to complete Grizzly’s following pre-requests to do so: 1. Shredder Turbochargers 2. Dark Iron Ordinance 3. Fish Oil You may be able to get most of these items off the Auction House to complete the quests. |
One of the hardest things we Rogues will have to manage with these runes are our combo points and how we spend them because they can determine how much extra damage we do or even increase stun duration, which will be crucial during our raids and dungeon dives.
These Rogue runes (and learning what they do in WoW Classic SoD) should help.
