Soul Warding Rune – Season of Discovery (SoD)
This guide will cover how to get the Soul Warding rune for Priests in Season of Discovery. We’ll go over all of the locations and requirements in the walkthrough below as well as any useful tips and tricks.
- Rune: Soul Warding
- Engraving: Engrave Cloak – Soul Warding
- Class: Priest
- Slot: Back
- Added: Phase 4
- Level: 55 (Recommended)
How to Get the Soul Warding Rune
As of Phase 6, all runes and skill books can be purchased from Rune Brokers in starting zones and major cities for 1 copper a piece. Each of these vendors is simply named “Rune Broker” and can be easily spotted by their purple glow, lurking very close to where new characters enter the game. You can see all of their locations in our guide below.
Original Discovery Method
For the Soul Warding rune, you’ll be collecting echoes like you did for the Pain Suppression Rune.
Head to the Stratholme (Living) dungeon and kill Postmaster Malown to loot his three mailbox keys. Do not kill any other bosses yet. Find each of the mailboxes and loot them for a Stratholme Shadow Jar.
You’ll find three pedestals near Cannon Master Willey on the far west side of the dungeon. They will give you riddles to solve which provide hints about the echoes you’ll need. Here are the riddles and the bosses they’ll point you to:
| Riddle | Boss | Echo | Dungeon Wing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy furor purges sin and yet a shadow lurks within. | Balnazzar | Echo of Dathrohan | Living |
| A champion of wicked malice, hulking horrors guard his palace. | Baron Rivendare | Echo of Rivendare | Undead |
| A specter cursed to guard a tower. No solace gained from Wealth or power. | Baroness Anastari | Echo of Anastari | Undead |
| The smell of brimstone fills the room. This zealot greets you with a boom. | Cannon Master Willey | Echo of Willey | Living |
| The people looked to him to lead in their hour of greatest need. | Magistrate Barthilas | Echo of Barthilas | Undead |
| Among the dead this mortal dwells with acolytes and icy spells. | Malekithe Palad | Echo of Maleki | Undead |
| The ancient kingdom rediscovered. Trades one master for another. | Nerub’enkan | Echo of Nerub’enkan | Undead |
| Built from flesh, a sin of science hunted by Forsaken’s finest. | Ramstein the Gorger | Echo of Ramstein | Undead |
Kill the bosses that are indicated in your riddles and use the Stratholme Shadow Jars you collected from the mailboxes to loot their echoes. Remember that you only have 3 jars, so you want to be sure you’re looting the correct 3 echoes.
Once you’ve collected all 3, you’ll need to use each of the echoes on the matching pedestal (the one with the associated riddle) in the table above. If done correctly, the rune will appear in the middle of the room and you can loot it along with 2 Tarnished Undermine Reals, which your whole party will get.
This guide is wrong dont use it.
There is 8 bosses and you need to kill 3 out of em, the one you need to kill are according to random pillars.
so first check what pillars you have then you will know what bosses to kill for the echo.
or better follow the guide on wowhead as it is correct.
Thanks for the heads up, I’m correcting the info!
can a priest join the already cleared ID with the rune already spawned on t he ground and loot it or do they have to be in the group before it spawns?