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Heroes VII · CREATURE PROFILE

Rune Priest in Heroes VII: stats, cost and abilities

Rune Priest in Heroes VII: Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 110 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Rune Priest needs line of sight to an important target.

Watch for: Distance, obstacles, engagement and ammunition are separate conditions.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Rune Priest — creature appearance in Heroes 7
Source · Game artwork

Fortress · Elite

Rune Priest

Base form

How to use this creature in practice

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Rune Priest needs line of sight to an important target. Position the screen against actual enemy reach; repeated ranged actions matter only when the enemy cannot quickly engage it.

Watch for: Distance, obstacles, engagement and ammunition are separate conditions. A ranged attribute alone does not guarantee full damage against every target.

Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan

Combat movement 4 and Initiative 24 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.

  • Rune of Balance: Enables a 3 × 3 aura sharing damage to an ally among allied stacks inside. Once per battle the rune can also remove enemy buffs and allied debuffs in range.
Attack
11
Defense
10
Health
110
Damage · Fire
14–16
Initiative
24
Combat movement
4
Ranged reach
Half
Morale
10
Luck
0
Base dwelling growth
2

Cost per creature: 1100 gold

Content: Trial by Fire

Growth 2 belongs to the basic recruitment line in the dwelling reference. It does not guarantee the same reinforcements after town, weekly and hero bonuses.

Recruitment-line growth reference ↗

Abilities and limitations

  • Rune of Balance

    Enables a 3 × 3 aura sharing damage to an ally among allied stacks inside. Once per battle the rune can also remove enemy buffs and allied debuffs in range.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

The building unlocks this form. Availability and hiring are separate.

Growth and construction prerequisites (2)

Growth support is not another recruitment site. A prerequisite may unlock one of the recruitment forms.

Reference stack cost and health

These values multiply every resource in the undiscounted reference price and full base health. Hero, equipment, spell, price and growth modifiers are excluded. This is neither final damage or battle survival nor a guarantee that the listed number is available to recruit.

Rune Priest · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 1,100 gold
110
5
  • 5,500 gold
550
10
  • 11,000 gold
1,100

Reading this profile correctly

Distinguish a base creature from its upgrade and an alternative Champion. Fortress and other content have edition labels. A warfare unit’s five scaling ranks are not creature counts.

Attack and defense are numeric attributes; damage also has its own type or element. Full and half ranged reach describe an attack mode rather than ammunition. Compare Champions with their mutually exclusive dwellings. Warfare units use separate control and scaling; the five stages in their tables are not creature counts.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

156 profiles: 112 base and upgraded town creatures from seven factions, 25 neutrals and 19 warfare units. Includes Fortress and other Trial by Fire creatures, separately identifying verified Lost Tales of Axeoth content. Historical Acid Cave stats include rebalanced Champions; this is not a UCP or Heroes 7.5 table. Base dwelling growth has separate references and is still missing for 14 profiles. Warfare units have their own stage 1–5 effect tables; their base parameters do not cover every Warfare level.