The Long Road

The runes, in order

Sedge → Brine → Umber, in sockets 1 to 3 of one item with exactly 3 sockets: a normal or magic weapon, off-hand and chest. The deepest of them, Umber, first drops on floor 22.

• 1. Sedgetier 2, from floor 5 · weapon +4% move speed · other -3% cooldowns
• 2. Brinetier 1, from floor 1 · weapon -2% cooldowns · other +3% skill area
• 3. Umbertier 5, from floor 22 · weapon +18% damage · other +10% skill area

The power

Each floor you go down without going home adds 2% damage, up to 20%, until you go home. The bonus reaches its cap of 20% after 10 floors down without going home; a town portal starts it again from nothing. It works for any hero.

Cut into a weapon, the runes add

+4% move speed, -2% cooldowns, +18% damage

Cut into other gear

-3% cooldowns, +13% skill area

Smith’s price to empty every socket

165 gold

An inscription is cut when an item has exactly as many sockets as the inscription has runes, every socket filled, in the inscription’s order. A 3-socket chest with Brine and Quill in its first two sockets spells nothing: the count must match too. The inscription’s power works only for the hero it is cut for; on anyone else the item keeps its rune stats and the power sleeps. Emptying one socket breaks the inscription at once, and the rune in it is destroyed, so set the runes in order and only into the item you mean to keep.

Other inscriptions

• Cinderwake (Wick → Soot → Flint, for the Mage)
• Rimecount (Brine → Quill, for the Mage)
• Marrowtithe (Loam → Marrow → Wick, for the Bonecaller)
• Hollow Choir (Hush → Gall, for the Bonecaller)
• Anvilsong (Flint → Tallow, for the Warrior)
• Last Light (Sedge → Hush → Thrum, for the Warrior)
• Lantern Debt (Tallow → Soot, for any hero)
• Graveglass (Sallow → Gall → Quill, for the Mage and the Bonecaller)