Runic armor

Runic Armor is a craftable Hardmode armor set made from Ancient Runes and Ethereal Embers. It takes a total of 34 Ancient Runes and 12 Ethereal Embers to craft a full set.

It consists of a Runic Hood, Runic Plate and Runic Greaves.

The Runic Hood gives 12 defense and 15% increased magic damage and 5% increased movement speed; the Runic Plate gives 14 defense and 8% increased magic critical chance; and the Runic Greaves gives 9 defense, 10% reduced mana cost, and 10% increased magic damage.

A full set provides a total of 35 defense, 25% increased magic damage, 8% increased magic critical strike chance, 5% increased movement speed and 10% reduced mana cost. Its set bonus summons explosive flame runes that spawns randomly from the player that attack nearby enemies which explodes it and deals damage to them.