Templier de l'effroi – Cursory Overview of Gold Rune Mechanics

Player Runes

• Reduces damage taken per hit by exactly 1.

• Roughly doubles bullet time meter refilled on kills.

♦ Conseil: Good synergy with the « Néo » rune.

• Doubles the chance of certain other runes’ on hit / on kill effects proccing.

♦ Conseil: Only affects the « Rappel », « Fatalité », et « Lucky Arrow Bag » runes.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – renders you immune to slows, and slightly buffs movespeed.

♦ Conseil: Speed boost is slight, but significant enough to make disengaging melee enemies easier just by backpedalling.

• Does absolutely nothing.

Katana Runes

• Katana melee kills give you Inferno Gauntlet ammo proportional to the health value of the unit you killed.

• Katana melee kills heal you for 1 HP.

• Drastically buffs katana melee damage (from what I can tell, it straight up doubles it).

• Makes your swords red.

♦ Conseil 1: Even though it consumes 100 ammo per shot, you can activate the Inferno Gauntlet with even 1 munitions. This makes melee combat with this rune well worth the risk.

♦ Conseil 2: Any kills your « Son of Djookholu » rune minion gets count as melee kills.

• Does NOT increase katana throw damage.

• Does NOT increase trap launcher lightning damage.

• Killing an enemy with your katana throw will stun all adjacent enemies in a decently large AOE, similarly to your Trap Launcher.

♦ Conseil: Even if you max out your katana’s throwing damage, c'est’t going to kill anything lategame in one hit. Soften up enemies prior to throwing so it isn’t wasted.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – you have a slight chance of your throwing katana returning to your hand upon getting a kill with it.

♦ Chance is doubled with the « Trèfle à quatre feuilles » rune.

• Makes your swords purple.

• Very slightly debuffs enemy health on katana throw, by about 20%.

♦ Time to kill against most hit targets is not significantly reduced. Up to you if it’s worth it to utilize this instead of just shooting them.

• User takes 40% less damage from all sources when katanas are drawn.

Sidearm Runes

• Replaces your pistols with a pair of stronger, Ralentissez, piercing projectile handcannons that don’pas besoin de recharger. Consommer 4 pistol ammo per shot.

♦ Conseil: The main reason you would choose this over other runes in the same slot is for comboing with other burst damage weapons.

• Reskinned Hellscreams that deal about 3x the damage and only consume 1 ammo per shot.

♦ Overpowered joke weapon.

• Replaces your SMGs with dual miniguns, which fire about FOUR TIMES (4X) as fast, et don’pas besoin de recharger. Damage per bullet consumed is the same, donc ça’s a direct upgrade.

• Increases total pistol ammo capacity by 100.

♦ Strongest weapon in the game for the brief period you’ll be able to fire it.

♦ Conseil: Silver runes which buff your Inferno Gauntlets’ ammo capacity also buff your bullet capacity. Toi’ll want to use those if you intend to use this.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – makes you not have to reload your SMGs or pistols.

♦ Made redundant by « Hurricane ».

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – increases your bullet ammo pool by 200.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – massively buffs pistol damage during bullet time.

♦ Conseil: Decently strong early-mid game gimmick and boss killer if you use other bullet-time buffing runes.

Shotgun Runes

• ̶D̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶e̶x̶un̶c̶t̶je̶oui̶ ̶w̶h̶un̶t̶ ̶je̶t̶ ̶s̶un̶oui̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶je̶n̶.̶ Makes the pump shotgun your bread and butter weapon you will use always for everything ever.

• Peut’t tell if this does anything at all.

♦ Si c'est le cas, il’s nowhere near strong enough to be worth it.

• Reduces Super Shotgun damage by 33%, but lets you fire twice in rapid succession, only consuming 1 shell per shot.

♦ Good ammo efficiency, if you intend to caveman your way through the game using only one weapon.

• For about one second after hitting an enemy with the Super Shotgun, your Pump Shotgun will deal at least 3x its normal damage to them.

♦ Seems to be bugged on occasion. Initially thought it did nothing because of this.

• Increases pump action shotgun damage by 50% and slows targets for 2 secondes.

• Consommer 2 shells per shot.

♦ Conseil 1: Slowing enemies makes them much more approachable for melee combat.

♦ Conseil 2: Crazy synergy with the « Mortel » rune.

♦ Conseil 3: Consider buffing your shell capacity if you intend to use this just for the (de)amateurs.

• Switches out the SSG for the Cutter, a close range lasergun that rapidly fires wide, piercing projectiles.

• Has a shell capacity of 9, consuming 3 for each shot.

• Each shot deals about 30%~ more damage than an SSG blast, has no falloff within its effective range, and can reliably hit multiple things at once.

• Range is remarkably short. Projectile phases out of existence very quickly.

♦ Conseil: This weapon is extremely powerful, but not very ammo efficient, and subjects you to danger. Use it wisely.

Black Bow Runes

• Multiple successive hits exponentially increase damage dealt.

• Vous ne’t need to hit the same target repeatedly for the buff to take effect, il’ll carry over to other monsters.

♦ Charging your bow after the initial shot will reduce overall damage output – aim for face and spam left click as fast as humanly possible. Most reliable in Bullet Time.

• Just about doubles the single target impact damage of an unupgraded bow, and adds a splash radius which hits adjacent enemies

• Explosion will damage you for about 7 damage if you’re caught up in it.

♦ « Steel Shield » rune further reduces this self damage to 0-1.

• Hitting an arrow shot has a slight chance of returning an arrow to your quiver.

♦ Chance is doubled with the « Trèfle à quatre feuilles » rune.

• Absolutely massive damage buff against enemies with half health or less.

♦ This is your boss killer. Quiver-dumping an adequately damaged boss will hurt them severely.

• Slightly buffs damage of bow and katanas. À propos 30% for the bow, et 10-15% for your swords.

♦ Only use this if you intend to melee enemies. Other bow options do more.

Trap Launcher Runes

• Drastically increases impact damage, and reduces enemy health by 20%. Straight upgrade to the normal trap launcher.

• Trap launcher projectiles now emit several explosions in rapid succession, mais ne’t stun.

• Does not directly damage or stun, but sets up a rooted turret where you fire, that deals about half the damage of a shotgun blast for each projectile it shoots off.

• Turret does not draw enemy fire or take damage, but eventually fades out.

• You can set up multiple turrets at once.

• Consommer 2 ammo per shot.

♦ As already mentioned, this has great synergy with the « Bloodthirsty » katana rune, since turret kills count as melee kills, giving you Inferno Fist ammo.

• Does not directly damage or stun, but sets up a temporary barrier of protection. Réduit les dégâts subis par 40% when you stand in its radius.

♦ Damage resistance does not stack with « Melee Body » du tout.

Rocket Launcher Runes

• Does exactly what it says on the barrel.

♦ Which admittedly isn’t much since some levels hardly have barrels, si pas du tout, and blowing them up isn’t even guaranteed to give you anything.

• Reduces self damage from all of your weapons by 85%.

• Does not reduce self damage taken from barrels.

♦ Almost Completely surpassed by « Stalactite » rune, spare for the fact it affects the « Explosion » rune for the Black Bow.

• Reduces self damage by 100%.

• Increases blast radius of Rocket Launcher.

• Tri-Rocket missles become heatseeking.

• Visual is not required, blind fire works.

• Rockets may not all go toward the same target.

• Tri-Rocket now fires 5 missles per shot, but consumes 5 ammo instead of 3.

♦ Cone of fire is significantly wider to where you can’t even hit some targets point blank.

Inferno Revolver Runes

• Revolver now has a decent chance of instagibbing non-boss monsters.

♦ Chance is doubled with the « Trèfle à quatre feuilles » rune.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – double damage against frozen and stunned targets.

♦ Conseil: Crazy synergy with « Frost Banshee ».

• Every pull of the trigger now fires 3 bullets in rapid succession.

Inferno Fist Runes

• Damaging enemies with either of your Inferno Fists will restore a MASSIVE amount of health to the player.

♦ Conseil: Works best with the left-handed magenta gauntlet if you’re just aiming to keep your health pool up while consuming minimum superweapon ammo.

• Does exactly what it says on the tin – turns bosses into a joke.