Crystals and Kanji Runes

Crystals
Crystals are new items that are used to cube Kanji Runes. They are found in Ores which serve as a container for them. Crystals are extracted by cubing the ore with itself. An empty ore is used to create a corruption orb:

The amount of crystals contained in an ore are randomly determined, similar to variable mods on a unique item. An ore may contain only one crystal, or even no crystal at all. All monsters have a very slim chance to drop an ore. This chance is doubled in Nightmare and tripled in Hell. These ores may contain 0-12 chipped crystals (0-2 crystal of each kind), but 3-5 crystals on average.

Listed below are some particular bosses that have an extra chance to drop a higher quality or a 'boss' ore.

There is no difference in appearance between normal ores and boss ores, but the latter tend to contain more crystals.


 * Boss ores have a high chance to contain a kind of crystal related to that boss (1-3).
 * Boss ores have a mid chance to contain 3 kinds of crystals loosely related to that boss (0-2).
 * Boss ores have a low chance to contain other 9 kinds of crystals (0-1 or 0-2, depending on the type).

In theory a boss ore can contain 20 crystals at best, but 5 to 9 on average.



Kanji Runes

 * 2 Wo Runes -> Null Rune
 * Null Runes cannot be downgraded
 * Can be stored in Rune Stocker (H).


 * Null Rune + 1-4 Crystals -> Kanji Rune
 * Crystal Can + Kanji Rune -> Crystal Can + Null Rune (Crystals are stored in Crystal Can)
 * Kanji Runes can't be upgraded or downgraded.

Kanji Runewords (revamped in 5.2D2)
Below is a list of the new stats of all new Kanji runewords, they were reworked in 5.2D and now offer special oskills that unlock new builds or special stats that can't be found anywhere else.