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[Above Good and Evil]

Barring demons and undead the corruption rune seems to cover everything whether it be dragons, Venatori, red templars etc etc. Even the best fire rune (which I use since I want to play up the Herald of Andraste image) has about half damage compared to the best corruption rune.

[Esteed789]

From a gameplay standpoint, they're pretty freaking good, yeah.  However, in-universe, they require red lyrium to make, and I can see some Inquisitors not wanting anything to do with that.

[SandiKay0]

I like to use the cleansing rune on red templars myself.

[Dave of Canada]

From a gameplay standpoint, they're pretty freaking good, yeah.  However, in-universe, they require red lyrium to make, and I can see some Inquisitors not wanting anything to do with that.

 

You wouldn't want the rune in your sword to go out of control and turn you into a lawn ornament? Where's your sense of adventure?

[herkles]

I prefer the cleansing runes.

 

that and most of my inquistors want nothing to do with Red Lyrium.

[Above Good and Evil]

It doesn't help that for whatever reason most Rare weapons seem to have it. Hell the ancient Elven Suvelin blade also has it despite that not making sense lore-wise. 

[Knight of Dane]

Dual dagger, corruption rune on one dagger, demon-slaying on the other.

 

Mayhem ensues.

[Above Good and Evil]

Dual dagger, corruption rune on one dagger, demon-slaying on the other.

 

Mayhem ensues.

 

I did that for Cole. I thought it made a certain ironic sense. Anyway, do demon-slaying runes also buff up base damage or just against Demons?

[Knight of Dane]

I did that for Cole. I thought it made a certain ironic sense. Anyway, do demon-slaying runes also buff up base damage or just against Demons?

The dps is raised on the weapon, but I don't know if it actually only applies to demons.

[Andres Hendrix]

It's just somehting video gamey. The red lyrium wepons, for instance, they were free dlc if you did that dumb mini-game (watching the videos and clicking fade smoke lol).

[Esteed789]

You wouldn't want the rune in your sword to go out of control and turn you into a lawn ornament? Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[EmissaryofLies]

You wouldn't; it's too f*cking pretty and it's too f*cking good.

 

My plot armor protects me! Get on my level!

[crimzontearz]

No monster is vulnerable to corruption which means you do not get a multiplier for it


Just saying

[Colfer]

You wouldn't want the rune in your sword to go out of control and turn you into a lawn ornament? Where's your sense of adventure?

You know what I think from your comment that staff from skyrim. The one that did random stuff. God it screwed me over it summoned a giant.

[Green Wyvern]

Yes, if there was any better then Rune of Corruption like... Rune of Sweet Rainbow which would turns any *hitted* male into sweet gay couple with words "Make love- not war" I would pick it any time~

 

Prolly Krem will resist tho.

 

Obv. joke.

[Esteed789]

You know what I think from your comment that staff from skyrim. The one that did random stuff. God it screwed me over it summoned a giant.

 

Well, what did you expect from a gift of madness itself?

[Xenoseroster]

My understanding of the corruption runes is that they work vs. non-magical/corrupted etc. beasts and normal humanoid mobs only.

 

Meaning they have no effect on dragons, undead, demons, darkspawn, or red templars.  

 

So that leaves us with random beasts (Most are very easy) or random humanoid NPCs (venatori, bandits... that's about it).

 

The dragon slaying rune is somewhat frustrating as it only has an effect on dragons, but the fact that it exists would lead me to believe with 99% certainty that Corruption runes don't affect dragons, and indeed dragons are not listed anywhere in the item summary for the corruption rune as being affected.

 

So unfortunately, while they are (IMO) probably the most useful of the "slaying" style runes given the very large amounts of normal human & beast mobs in the game, they are not quite as all-encompasing as one would think they would be after you look at how each rune only covers 2 types at most.

 

A question that I'm curious about is how many of the "large lizards" in the game are coded as "dragons" as opposed to "beasts".  I would assume dragonlings,  Wyverns & their variations are coded as dragons in addition to the obvious High Dragons.  But there's several large lizard-ish mobs that IDK where they would fall.  Gurguts, lurkers, phoenix, and varghest all seem like they could theoretically be coded under dragons, though only varghest and gurguts have any connection spelled out in the codex as being related.  I've never looked, does the tactical camera view tell you what enemy type they are when you look at them?  If so I may scope it out later.

[TheJediSaint]

Go fire or go home.  That's my view on runes.

[panda_express12]

I personally use a demon-slaying or cleansing rune for role playing reasons. The corruption runes break immersion when I am playing a character that is against red lyrium use.

 

The game is honestly easy enough at later levels that you don't need corruption runes to kill things quickly, even on Nightmare.

[Sully13]

You know what I think from your comment that staff from skyrim. The one that did random stuff. God it screwed me over it summoned a giant.

You got Wabajaked.

[5ubzer0]

I use whatever rune adds the prettiest glow effect to my weapon. During my first playthrough everyone had either ice or cleansing runes slotted. While not particulary effective, it did look nice.

[RedWulfi]

MASTER FIRE RUNE