CS: +135 - TD: +38 + CvA: +17 + d100: +68 == +182
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll guard's rune staff, shaking his grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +135 - TD: +50 + CvA: +25 + d100: +78 == +188
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll cleric's rune staff, shaking her grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +145 - TD: +72 + CvA: +18 + d100: +99 == +190
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll scourge's rune staff, shaking her grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +145 - TD: +30 + CvA: +18 + d100: +60 == +193
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll cleric's rune staff, shaking his grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +145 - TD: +60 + CvA: +20 + d100: +93 == +198
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll cleric's rune staff, shaking his grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +120 - TD: +35 + CvA: +17 + d100: +99 == +201
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll cleric's rune staff, shaking his grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.

CS: +145 - TD: +54 + CvA: +20 + d100: +92 == +203
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on the troll empath's rune staff, shaking her grip on it until the staff falls to the ground.


You swing the rosewood runestaff at the cyclops, but it has no effect!

So, what's the deal here? If a rune staff is an innately magical weapon, why doesn't it work to hit a cyclops? If it is not an innately magical weapon, why does 1002 not destroy them?

If that is the case it seems odd to me that grims would spawn with enchanted rune staffs, and only enchanted rune staffs. In the log I pulled those from I had 204 casts hitting rune staffs from five different camps with 0 destroyed.

My bard is 1x in manip lore at 25. But regardless, even with no manip lore a 200+ endroll should shatter a weapon. I figured everybody knew how 1002 worked so I left out the shots I initially had in the first post of me popping other weapons in those camps on endrolls as low as 111.

Runestaffs are generally inherently magical.

Coase

Like blink weapons, bardsongs aren't spells. They are handled differently.

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I know sonic runestaves flared when using bardsongs when runestaff flares were first released.

It appears that bard songs are no longer interacting with runestaves at all. I decided to run a test myself.

I did over 250 casts of 1002 using a sonic runestaff, no flares. I did over 150 casts each of 1002 and 1001 using a mana flaring runestaff, no flares. And then I hit the really damning (and obvious) one. I used a 0x ebladed runestaff and did over 250 casts of 1002 - my eblade only gives 116 charges and it was still on the runestaff.

I have bugged this in game as well.

You can tell the rogue GMs from their sonic runestaves.

Grutik shamans have runestaves that can be popped. Practically every runestaff my shattered bard came up against could be popped. Any plain 0x store bought runestaff can be ebladed. I do not think almost all runestaves are as magical as you think they are. Nor do I think they should be considered magical weapons for 1002 purposes unless they are actually enchanted, like normal weapons.