Lost Ark Skill Runes Guide

What Are Skill Runes?

Skill Runes are yet another way to customize your character in Lost Ark. These are a natural extension of the skills your character can use. Each skill has Tripods that can be chosen, much like talent points that alter the way the skill works. In addition to these Tripods, Skill Runes can also be added.

In general, Skill Runes give small boosts to the skills of your choice. If you already have a rune unlocked, you can equip it on any skill you wish. These are not permanent choices and therefore you can take them on or off of certain skills, and customize or change you mind later!

Where To Get Skill Runes

You can obtain Skill Runes through a variety of sources. Like many other systems in Lost Ark, there are so many ways to obtain these. Each way is unique and an adventure all on its own.

You can only acquire each Skill Rune once. There are multiple rarities of each rune, with multiple sources of obtain them. Though we will list the sources of where to get each rune, just remember that you only need to obtain it from one of these sources.

Increases skill cast speed by 5% / 8% / 12% / 14 %.

• Common:  Raid Level 1 Guardian Raids
• Rare Option 1:  Raid Level 2 Guardian Raids
• Rare Option 2:  Raid Level 3 Guardian Raids
• Epic Option 1:  Raid Level 4 Guardian Raids
• Epic Option 2:  Raid Level 5 Guardian Raids
• Legendary:  Raid Level 6 Guardian Raids

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Chance to gain 8% / 12% / 16 % Attack Speed and Move Speed for 6 seconds when skill is used.

• Rare:  Tier 1 Chaos Gates
• Epic:  Tier 2 Chaos Gates
• Legendary:  Tier 3 Chaos Gates

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Increases Identity Gauge by 10% / 20% / 30% / 40% on hit.

• Common Option 1: Stronghold Merchant Tuleu
  • Cost: 420 Adventurer’s Seal
• Common Option 2:  Tooki Island
  •  Slay Tooki King for potential drop
• Rare Option 1: Stronghold Merchant Tuleu 
  • Cost: 700 Adventurer’s Seal 
• Rare Option 2: 5 Giant’s Hearts
• Epic Option 1: Secret Map #34
• Epic Option 2:  Iar Kaya Boss Spawn
• Legendary: 5 Omnium Stars

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Chance to reduce all Cooldowns by 8% / 10% / 12 % when skill is used.

• Rare Option 1: Shadespire Tower Floor 45 (Item Level 520)
• Rare Option 2: Fatespire Tower Floor 25
• Epic: Shadespire Tower Floor 45 (Item Level 1020)

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Inflicts a bleeding Damage over Time for 4 / 5 / 6 seconds on skill hit.

• Rare:  Tier 1 Field Bosses
• Epic:  Tier 2 Field Bosses
• Epic:  Receive from Lutia via Rapport
• Legendary:  Tier 3 Field Bosses

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70% chance to remove a debuff when skill is used.

• Epic: 5 Ignea Token

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20% / 30% / 40% chance to gain Conviction Buff for 3 seconds on skill hit.

• Rare: 2,850 Adventurer’s Seal from Stronghold Merchant Roehn
• Epic: Masterpiece x24
• Legendary: 27,000 Adventurer’s Seal from Stronghold Merchant Marte

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Reduces damage taken by 5% / 8% / 16 % while casting the skill.

• Common: Stronghold Merchant Duekhyeon
  • Cost: 1,420 Adventurer’s Seal
• Common:  Tooki King random drop chance on Tooki Island 
• Rare:  Night of Walpurgis Boss Rasakiel random drop chance on Walpugis Island
• Rare: 20% North Vern Adventure Tome Completion

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Increases Stagger damage by 5% / 10% / 20% / 30%.

• Common Option 1: Field Boss Kagros potential drop on Spida Island
• Common Option 2: Stronghold Merchant Duekhyeon
  • Cost: 1420 Adventurer’s Seal
• Rare Option 1: Black Marketeer
  • 36,000 Pirate Coins
• Rare Option 2: Complete 10% of Shushire Adventure Tome
• Epic Option 1: Complete 30% of Feiton Adventure Tome
• Epic Option 2: 3 Omnium Stars
• Legendary Option 1: Stronghold Merchant Borza 
  • Cost: 27,000 Adventurer’s Seal 
• Legendary Option 2: Anguished Isle Exchange 
  • Cost: 3,600 Crimson Skein 

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Gain 5% / 8% / 12% of your Max Health as a Shield while casting the skill.

• Rare:  Field Boss Adrinne chance drop - located on Phantomwing Island
• Epic: 50 Island Tokens
• Epic: Quest “Blade with the Blue Flames”
• Epic: Reed Field Treasure Chest
• Legendary: 7 Omnium Stars

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20% / 30% / 40 % chance to consume Conviction Buff to gain Judgment Buff for 6 seconds. This buff increases mana recovery by 100% and reduces skill cooldowns by 15%. There is a 30 second internal cooldown for Conviction and Judgment when the buffs are first applied.

• Rare: Earn Trusted Rapport with Ealyn in North Vern
• Epic: Earn Trusted Rapport with Marie in Eternity Isle 
• Legendary: 44 Masterpiece (Adventurer’s Tome)
• Legendary: 27,000 Adventurer’s Seals from Stronghold Merchant Marte 

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Reduces mana consumption of skills by 10% / 20% / 30% / 40%.

• Common: Field Boss Kagros chance to drop on Spida Island  
• Common: 1,420 Adventurer’s Seal from Stronghold Merchant Borza 
• Rare:  Field Bosses Beast Kings of Light or Darkness on Unknown Island  
• Rare: 2,850 Adventurer’s Seal from Stronghold Merchant Borza 
• Rare: Truested Rapport with Azena in Rohendel  
• Epic: 13 Giant’s Hearts
• Epic: 8,100 Adventurer’s Seal from Stronghold Merchant Borza 
• Legendary: Secret Map x42

How To Use Skill Runes

You can use a Skill Rune by first opening your Combat Skills page using the “K” hotkey as default. Choose which skill you want to use your rune on, and click it. Then on the right side of the UI, you will be able to select with Skill Rune you want to use with that skill, and click Apply.

Make sure you click “Save” when you are finished!