Red Rune-keeper

Red Rune-keeper ‘Cleansing Flame’ Build

By Aba of Arkenstone – Updated for Blood of Azog, U30.2

Trait Trees

Here is how Fire RK is traited:

This trait tree is for maximum DPS. It has full points into the Trait Closing Remarks, which increases the proc chance of getting that buff. I would use this Trait Tree for most Raid and Group situations.

Due to lack of points, Self Motivation Heal in this build is only 10% instead of 20%, but it is still instant and low CD heal, so it still should be usable.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers:

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners:

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. You can play around with these to get the numbers you want, but I would not recommend using any Mits virtues (apart from Fidelity) as you don’t gain much from them.

By using these Virtues, I reach my Stat Goals, while still maintaining a good Morale pool.

1. Honesty (Great for extra Outgoing Healing (through Tactical Mastery) and Critical Rating)
2. Wisdom (Great for Will/Mastery boost along with some Finesse)
3. Confidence (Great for extra Critical and some Finesse)
4. Wit (Excellent for Finesse, and good for extra Mastery/Critical) (I swap this to Fidelity for tougher fights)
5. Loyalty (Number 1 virtue for Morale, for any class)

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Tolerance
• Fidelity

Legendary Items

With new LI revamp, Fire RK legacies can built a lot more flexible. The Satchel (Class Item) can hold all the general Traceries which can be shared between Fire and Lightning Line without any cost. Choice of Words of Power Traceries can also be managed well, for example we can keep Fire Line specific Words of Power on Fire Rune Stone, such as Skill Induction Speed and Damage Over Time (both which are not needed for Yellow Line). And we can keep 3 other Words of Power on Satchel which both lines can benefit from (DoT Critical WoP should benefit EC DoT on both lines).

*Note: Please use Word of Craft Traceries as per Stat Goals. Generally Critical Rating is better to take from Word of Crafts, as you get more passive Mastery from Primary Stats. So Critical Rating from WoC will be better in the long-term.

Fire Rune-stone (Weapon)

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Eagle
Word of Power	Damage Over Time
Word of Power	Skill Induction Speed
Word of Mastery	Combustion Damage
Word of Mastery	Distracting Flame Cooldown & Damage
Word of Mastery	Essence of Flame Damage
Word of Mastery	Searing Words Damage
Word of Mastery	Wrath of Flame Damage Over Time
Word of Mastery	Writ of Fire Damage
Word of Craft	Ascendent Flame
Word of Craft	Ascendent Flame
Word of Craft	Empowered Destruction (To be unlocked with Gundabad)

Rune-keeper’s Rune-satchel (Class Item)

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Eagle
Word of Power	Damage Over Time Criticals
Word of Power	Single Target Attack Criticals
Word of Power	Single Target Attack Damage
Word of Mastery	Ceasless Argument Damage
Word of Mastery	Do Not Fall this Day Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Epic Conclusion Damage
Word of Mastery	Fury of Storm Damage & Critical Multiplier
Word of Mastery	Self Motivation Cooldown & Power Restore
Word of Mastery	Vivid Imagery Damage
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Empowered Destruction (To be unlocked with Gundabad)

*Note: Using this setup on Satchel, can allow this item to be shared with Yellow Line also.

Rotation

Before we begin the Rotation tips, here are a few things explained first.

Attunement Explained:

• Attunement is the class system for RK like Fervour is for Champion or Focus for Hunter, the higher the Attunement the harder you hit. 0 being the lowest (Healing line), 10 being Neutral and 20 being the highest (Red/Yellow line). It is important to make sure your hard hitting skills are used when Attunement is at its maximum level (20). There are Attunement spenders (which I will move onto shortly), which decrease or reset your Attunement back down to Neutral.

Animation Cancels Explained:

• The animation of Vivid Imagery and Epic Conclusion can be cancelled when you use Final Words or Armour of the Elements just after, speeding up your rotation and combining more skills together to maximize your dps.

*Notes:

• Red-line Rune-keeper DPS is very RNG, so no rotation is going to be the same. Decent DPS is anything over 200k over 3 minutes on the Dummy.
• Turn off Auto Attacks in settings (in Combat settings), this will allow you to use Scathing Mockery and Combustion simultaneously. After an Essay of Fire has been used, then queue up Scathing Mockery and hit Combustion as soon as the Essay of Fire induction ends.
• With having Closing Remarks traited, you are going to weave the skills; Ceaseless Argument, and Scribes Spark in-between your fire dot builders in the aim to get the buff to proc.
• Track the duration of Closing Remarks if you need to via a plugin, when it is about to expire use Epic Conclusion, which will provide a DoT if C&R is active and also consume Closing Remarks changing it to the buff: Aftershock.
• After using some Attunement spenders (Combustion or Epic Conclusion), then to quickly build up your Attunement, you can use Rune Stones, Essence of Storm, Vivid Imagery or crafted Enamels to quickly regain full Attunement.
• Swap to Yellow line and use Concession and Rebuttal (for the DoT from Epic conclusion when closing remarks has proc’d) and then switch back to Red-line and continue.

ROTATION

by Aba

There are a few different rotations depending on the circumstances of the fight, whether its a Boss pull, AoE situation or a Dummy parse.

This rotation is an example, Red RK rotation is very proc dependant and cannot be scripted but I will do my best to incorporate the Skill prioritisation for different situations, in summary for a beginner point of view, you want to use:

Single-target

Essay of Fire -> Scathing Mockery -> Writ of Fire -> Smouldering Wrath -> Fiery Ridicule or Distracting Flame –> repeat.

Essay of Fire -> Essay of Flame -> Ceaseless Argument -> Writ of Fire -> Smouldering Wrath (important you use this off of CD for maximum DPS)

Fiery ridicule -> Scribe’s Spark -> Distracting Flame (track this skill and don’t use again until its about to expire) at this point your DoT’s are up, you now need to tier Writ of fire and Fiery Ridicule up to Tier 3 (assuming Closing Remarks has proc’d)

You can fit in another Essay of fire -> Essence of Flame -> Smouldering Wrath -> go back into Writ of Fire -> Fiery Ridicule -> Ceaseless spam.

Essay of Fire -> Scathing Mockery (Closing Remarks has 2 seconds left) -> use Epic Conclusion (gain Aftershock and EC DoT). Attunement is now neutral, so now use Attunement builders.

After builders -> Smouldering Wrath (if off CD), if not refresh tier 3 Dots -> weaving through Ceaseless Argument and Scribe spark as Closing remarks can be proc’d and applied again as soon as Aftershock has ended -> Smouldering Wrath -> refresh Distracting flame -> weave through Writ of Fire -> Fiery Ridicule -> (no Closing remarks proc) -> Essay of Fire -> simultaneous Scathing mockery and Combustion- (Attunement now neutral)- Vivid imagery -> Final word animation interrupt -> Attunement builders or re-apply Tier 3 DoTs.

AoE

In an AoE situation, I prioritize getting Writ of Fire to Tier 3, and alternating with Fiery Ridicule and Distracting Flame.

Then use Essay of Fire -> Scathing Mockery combined with Combustion to spread the Writ of Fire dot to multiple enemies

Slam down Runestones for full Attunement -> Essence of storm and then use Smouldering Wrath.

Consumables

There are the consumables I use on RK:

1. This Enamel I use for a Dev. boost when there are Oathbreakers on the target.

And this is the food I use:

Updated as of U30.

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