Fun topic - Let's speak about unused runewords on the game files

We have cool names here, like Serendipity (When you make a new discovery accidentaly)

  • Serendipity
  • Shadow
  • Shadow of Doubt
  • Siren’s Song
  • Sorrow
  • Starlight
  • Still Water
  • Storm
  • Tempest
  • Temptation
  • Terror
  • Nightfall
  • Oblivion
  • Obsession
  • Hatred
  • Flickering Flame
  • Fortune’s Favor
  • Nature’s Kingdom
  • Glory
  • Amity
  • Armageddon
  • Authority
  • Beauty
  • Blood
  • Broken Promise
  • Chance
  • Sting
  • Darkness
  • Daylight
  • Deception
  • Desire
  • Despair
  • Destiny’s Daughter
  • Dread
  • Dweomer
  • Envy
  • Heaven’s Will
  • Holy Tears
  • Humility
  • Hunger
  • Innocence
  • Jealousy
  • Judgment
  • Knight’s Vigil
  • Law
  • Lightning
  • Loyalty
  • Lust
  • Madness
  • Mist
  • Morning Dew
  • Mystery
  • Patience
  • Pattern
  • Penitence
  • Peril
  • Pestilence
  • Piety
  • Pillar of Faith
  • Plague
  • Praise
  • Prayer
  • Prowess in Battle
  • Punishment
  • Purity
  • Question
  • Reason
  • Red
  • The Lovers
  • Thirst
  • Thirst for Knowledge
  • Thought
  • Thunder
  • Time
  • Tradition
  • Trust
  • Truth
  • Unbending Will
  • Valor
  • Vengeance
  • Victory
  • Voice
  • Void
  • War
  • Water
  • Whisper
  • Widowmaker
  • Wings of Hope
  • Winter
  • Wisdom
  • Woe
  • Wonder
  • Youth
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A good place to see some unfinished things, https:// tcrf. net/Diablo_II/Unused_Objects#Unfinished_Runewords - Hard to say what 99.9% of any of them were, armageddon was like runeword 2, that seems strongly worded, I have a feeling some might have been like 5% chance to cast a decent strength fireball when hit, or something that could be gamed, and then just abandoned. Probably a few were transforms.

Widowmaker is in there
Voice and reason are there = voice of reason

Just stuff I notice. I’m sure there’s more but it doesn’t matter.

Pattern and Plague are actually enabled in some version of LoD. You can look up there stats in runes.txt from those versions as well. From memory Plague had something interesting on it but they were both overall not very strong.

Ive used Plague with pretty good success. It was enabled on the SlashDiablo servers and for the most part everyone enjoyed it. It’s not really game breaking or anything.

The runeword named “Still Water” remembers me of Syrio Forel from the Ice and Fire Chronicles. “You must be calm as Still Waters.”