If you're playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, chances are you've come across these items known as Runestones. Still, the game doesn't exactly do a great job explaining their importance. Runestones are your ticket into Wizarding Challenges and will determine just how hard the Challenges inside a Fortress will be, as well as what rewards you can earn. Here's what you need to know about Runestones in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Where to find Runestones in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
You find Runestones primarily in Treasure Trunks, which you earn by returning Founadbles. Each time you return a Foundable or add a sticker to your Registry, your rank will increase in that particular area of expertise, which the game refers to as a "Family." When you return enough Foundables, your rank will go up and reward you a Runestone in that area of expertise. You can also receive Runestones in Gifts from friends or even, rarely, by using Port Keys. If you aren't finding enough Runestones that way or just have a little extra to spend, you can also buy a bag of ten Runestones in Diagon Alley for 40 Gold.
What kind of Runestones are there?
There are 11 Families in the game right now, and they are as follows:
- Care of Magical Creatures
- Dark Arts
- Hogwarts School
- Legends of Hogwarts
- Ministry of Magic
- Magizoology
- Magical Games and Sports
- Mysterious Artefacts
- Wonders of the Wizarding World
- Oddities
- Brilliant
Each of these corresponds to a different area of your Registry, as well as the Brilliant Event pages. Each variety of Runestone comes in ten different ranks, with ten being the rarest and most difficult.
What do Runestones actually do?
Runestones are used to enter Wizarding Challenges at the Fortresses you find on the map. To enter a Fortress Chamber and start a Wizarding Challenge, you'll need to pay one Runestone. It can be any Runestone you have, but the Runestone you choose makes a big difference.
The level of the Runestone you use to enter a Chamber determines the difficulty of the enemies you face — the higher the level of Runestone, the harder the enemies will be. While your level also determines the difficulty, the Chamber you choose, and the levels of other players you take on the Fortress with, your Runestones make an appreciable difference as well, so make sure you don't choose too high a level Runestone!
Upon completing Challenges, you will be rewarded with XP and Fragments. The family of the Runestone determines the type of Fragments you can earn, so if you used a Magical Games and Sports Runestone to enter a Chamber, you would earn fragments for Magical Games and Sports pages. Of course, with greater risk comes greater rewards, meaning when you use higher-level Runestones, you'll earn more XP and better fragments.
The amount of XP you will earn multiplies based on the Fortress Level and the Runestone Level you choose:
| Fortress Level | Base XP | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruins 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 |
| Ruins 2 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 60 |
| Ruins 3 | 5 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 75 |
| Ruins 4 | 5 | 18 | 36 | 54 | 72 | 90 |
| Ruins 5 | 5 | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 |
| Tower 1 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Tower 2 | 15 | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 150 |
| Tower 3 | 15 | 35 | 70 | 105 | 140 | 175 |
| Tower 4 | 15 | 40 | 80 | 120 | 160 | 200 |
| Tower 5 | 15 | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
And the XP only multiplies higher for higher Fortress and Runestone Levels!
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