Talk:Runes/@comment-31152623-20170126113659/@comment-3444820-20200105201456

A few years late, but it might help someone else with the same questin.

If this is the message:

"Rune damage: +400 damage from equipped rune items! 100 damage from enemy equipped rune items was resisted!"

This refers to their resistance (level 1-4), that is purchased in the guild shop, and equiped like any other skill (heal, polymorph, whirlwind, etc). (if you're a math wiz, you can tell what level resistance an opponent has, as each level adds 5% rune damage resistance, so 5-10-15-20%)

If the above example had no resistance, it would have simply read:

"Rune damage: +500 damage from equipped rune items!"

One thing of note: what doesn't appear is the base damage, which is ~40 points higher without resistance (since resistance also reduces the base damage), so resistance saved that person ~140 damage on that particular hit.

Their damage rune only affects you if you lose to them and it was equipped (in which case you take the damage as if they hit you). Which is why sometimes when you lose, you only take 100 damage, and sometimes you take 500 (just throwing out a number).

The only way your damage rune can do damage to an attacker is if you have a general which reflects damage based on your damage rune (Daphne, Tora, Persephone). Otherwise, it doesn't factor into battle. Attack and defense runes just add to your natural statistics (you can think of it as a "power suit" if you will... it makes you stronger than you are without it).