Runeforging: armour in, Runic Ward out, costs and Forge button
Path of Exile 2 · Trade / Economy
Art style Realistic 3D
About this game
Developer: Grinding Gear Games · Publisher: Grinding Gear Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Trade / Economy
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What to study
Runeforging states its whole contract in one sentence and two slots. The panel's subtitle is the recipe, 'Reforges any Armour to grant Runic Ward', the left slot shows the craft already crackling with blue energy, the right slot previews the armour it produces, and between them the price is itemised in three currencies (2,026 / 8 / 1) above a single gold FORGE button. There is no inventory to dig through and no confirm dialog: input, output, cost, commit, in one plaque that opens next to the physical forge table in the world. Frame at 3:11.0 in the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (manual extraction; the scene-change pass never fired inside the crafting sequence). Disclosed: the trailer caption 'NEW CRAFTING SYSTEMS' is burned into the bottom of the frame.
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
crafting-panel item-slots cost-list single-action
Components
Parts on screen.
Screen inventory
- a spiked black-iron panel titled 'RUNEFORGING' in pale blue, with an info badge at top-left and a red X close button at top-right
- a one-line recipe statement directly under the title: 'Reforges any Armour to grant Runic Ward'
- two vertical item slots joined by a bridge of blue lightning: the left slot churns with blue energy (the input at work), the right slot shows the resulting armour piece
- a cost row under the slots with three currency icons and their amounts: 2,026, 8 and 1
- a single gold 'FORGE' button under the costs, one verb commits the craft
- the panel opens inside the world: the rune-carved forge table and its keeper stand at right, in the ruined hall where the crafting happens
Top 3 colors
#18171a 21%#121010 20%#222023 20%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile 2 screenshot: Return of the Ancients Official Trailer and Fate of the Vaal League Trailer (Steam), Grinding Gear Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: manual extraction (manual-runeforging-191_0.png @ 191.0s, MD5 dc6ecbb0c74bc56fbea5aed01cf3cdb1) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); 'RUNEFORGING' title, 'Reforges any Armour to grant Runic Ward', both item slots, cost row (2,026 / 8 / 1) and FORGE button all legible. Disclosed: the trailer caption 'NEW CRAFTING SYSTEMS' is burned into the bottom of the source frame
no published policy found (checked 2026-10-24); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h
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