The Crafter's Anvils

Learn how to unlock and utilize Sealed Runes with the Crafter in Lords of the Fallen. Discover rune types, levels, and their effects on weapons, shields, and armor.

Shortly after defeating the third boss in Lords of the Fallen, you will encounter the Crafter. This NPC allows you to unlock Sealed Runes, which you can then use to enhance your equipment. Once you defeat the fourth boss and return to the Crafter, you can summon him from any Anvil in the game to modify your gear.

Runes come in different levels of quality and offer various enhancements. The levels are: Lesser, Common, Higher, and Flawless. You can increase the chance of obtaining better quality drops by banking some of your accrued XP into a rune before unlocking it.

There are several classes of runes, each with unique effects:

• Power: Increases physical damage on weapons, poise on block for shields, and physical defense on armor.
• Magic: Increases base attack power, magic block defense on shields, and magic defense on armor.
• Poison: Adds a poison damage over time debuff to weapons, increases poison block defense on shields, and increases general poison defense on armor.
• Fire: Adds fire damage to weapons (and burning damage over time to susceptible enemies), increases fire block defense on shields, and increases fire resistance on armor.
• Luck: Increases the attribute scale on attribute-based weapons, reduces energy loss while blocking with shields, and increases your weight capacity when assigned to armor.

The following tables detail the bonuses provided by each rune level and type when applied to weapons, shields, and armor:

Weapon/Gauntlet Bonuses

Shield Bonuses

Armour Bonuses