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Rune of Power

Rune of Power
30 yd range
1.5 sec cast
Requires Mage
Requires level 90

Places a Rune of Power on the ground for 3 min which increases your spell damage by 15% while you stand within 8 yds. You may place up to 2 Runes of Power at one time.

Spell Details

Duration

3 minutes

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Create Area Trigger (304)
Value: 2

Effect #2

Dummy
Radius: 8 yards
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Effect #3

Summon (Rune of Power)
Value: 2

Flags

Aura cannot be cancelled

Guides

Mage DPS Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Mage Changes

[Outdated] Arcane Mage
PvE Guide 5.4

Comments

Comment by Toldry

It would probably be a good idea on some fights to put the two runes in a Blink distance between each other.

Comment by Toldry

This is what I always wanted Demonic Circle: Summon to be ;_;

Comment by Ravagus

do you get 30% damage if the runes are stacked on each other?

Comment by mjacksongt

Looks to me like we'll be seeing very few Patchwerk/Ultraxion/etc. style fights (Ultraxion added for those who forgot or weren't around for Patchy).

Comment by iamleejn

Simple analysis of Rune of Power:
Offers high, passive mana regen and the least micromanagement but requires the mage to be fairly sessile or able to quickly move between runes. Should interact well with arcane mechanics and moderately with fire and frost mechanics.

The continuous, high mana regen will make pooling mana easier, enabling the arcane mastery to be more fully effective.

Comment by linkforest

With the glyph of evocation you also recover 1% of your hp each second on your own rune, making a good continous self heal for mages since they can can use every 6 seconds and lasts a minute.

Comment by Beltane

The buff does NOT stack if you put them on top of each other.

Comment by Chromell

Interestingly, the heal type described on the combat log is listed as Arcane - instead of Holy or Nature -, so you're basically healing yourself for 1% maximum health Arcane every second you stand on the rune.

Little trivia: this skill is homonymous to the Rune of Power used by the Assembly of Iron encounter in Ulduar. It's also worth noting that their functionality is quite similar, save the boss one does not regenerate health and does work for anyone standing on it, not just the caster.

Comment by Taraezor

The 5.1 change removed the 6 second cooldown. You must be standing exactly in the marked area to receive the health and damage boosts. At 6 seconds I never had to worry about placement for clearing "more difficult" dungeon trash and at 0 seconds now it is perfect for every trash pull, so long as I don't mind losing a GCD right at the start of the fight.

The GCD will always remain or otherwise we would be using it in macros just prior to any of our casts, and that would just be so ridiculous. As it is now, sacrifice 1.5 seconds of damage (the GCD) for a 15% spell damage buff lasting 1 minute... yup!

The issue I am having is the strict player placement required to get the buff. Sure we can lay down two but when we are having to move around a lot then it is not so good.

As a fire mage you do NOT need the mana regeneration afforded by this. Best in this case as Fire is to test your damage on dummies. The decision will be all about damage in non-movement intensive fights. The health regen? See the comment below re the Glyph. You will have Ice Barrier always up and you won't be standing in rubbish. Will you?

Comment by Taraezor

AddOn and Macro authors note: The spell ID of Rune of Power is this spell ID - 12051 for in game testing which is actually the Evocation spell ID. So to be sure whether players have Rune of Power or Evocation, you really need to check the talents. To display a guaranteed Rune of Power icon you should display spell 116011 and for Evocation 56380 which is actually the .

Comment by HaleStorm87

As of the PTR for the 6.0 prepatch, you cannot target the location for the rune. It will always be planted at the toon's feet. Can't remember if live had it place able by a target location.

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