Barrier Rune

For the EBF4 boss-unrelated Rune with same elemental affinity, see Sacred Rune.

Barrier Rune
Other Names	Holy Rune (EBF3)
Group	Runes
Roles	Foe, Boss Helper
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Barrier Rune, also known as Holy Rune, is a foe in Epic Battle Fantasy 3 and, since the Battle Mountain update, Epic Battle Fantasy 4. It appears only as a helper to the Protector boss.

Appearance

The Barrier Rune is made up of two light beige stone constructs: a disk and a sphere. Two white crystals are perpendicularly protruding out of the top and bottom of the Rune.

Overview

This Rune specializes in reducing and mitigating the damage inflicted to the enemy wave, although it can also inflict a fair amount of damage with a non-elemental physical stab attack and a blast of Holy magic that has a good chance of inflicting debuffs or status effects, depending on the game. Like all Runes, it can also self-destruct when low on HP, dealing a good amount of magical Bomb damage to a single player.

In EBF3, the Holy Rune only uses its Prick attack when suffering from Syphon; otherwise, it uses its magic to support the Protector. Its Energy Shot can greatly lower the target's Magic Defence, which is especially dangerous if the Protector has charged up a laser attack. On the other hand, it can give itself and its allies a substantial heal or a buff to both defenses, making them much harder to wear down. As such, it should be destroyed quickly (or at least forced to self-destruct) by exploiting its significant weaknesses to Bomb, Dark, and especially Water.

When it returns for EBF4, the Barrier Rune loses its healing skill and has a slightly weaker defensive buff (although it also boosts Evade on higher Difficulty levels), but gains a stronger multi-hit physical attack in addition to its normal Prick. Its Energy Shot now inflicts Syphon instead of debuffing Magic Defence, and its self-destruct move is more powerful and has a chance to Stagger the target. It now absorbs Holy and is immune to Fire, Thunder, Earth, and Poison, but it is very weak to Ice, Bomb, Wind, and Water. In terms of status effects, it is immune to Burn and Poison while being vulnerable to Dispel and Syphon.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

	Holy Rune	Magic Cannon Ball	EBF3
	Casts holy spells. Suicides at low HP.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	Gold
	180	4	4	6	4	4	5	15	1.5	9
Elemental Resistance
	-	-	-	-120%	-	-	100%	-100%	-	-60%
Status Resistance
	100%	-	-	-	100%	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-	-	-
Name	Talisman	Pearl	-	-	-	-	-
Chance	100%	5%	-	-	-	-	-

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Barrier Rune	EBF4
	Uses defensive buffs and holy attacks, and will self destruct at low HP.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	129	4	4	4	4	4	4	17	2	2	22	50
Elemental Resistance
	100%	100%	-80%	100%	100%	-80%	-80%	-80%	200%	-
Status Resistance
	100%	-	-	-	100%	-50%	-	-50%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-	-	-
Name	Paper Talisman	Rainbow Gems	-	-	-	-	-
Chance	50%	10%	-	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
Immune	Immune	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Barrier Rune	EBF4
	Uses defensive buffs and holy attacks, and will self destruct at low HP.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	129	4	4	4	4	4	4	17	2	2	22	50
Elemental Resistance
	100%	100%	-80%	100%	100%	-80%	-80%	-	100%	-
Status Resistance
	100%	-	-	-	100%	-50%	-	-50%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-	-	-
Name	Paper Talisman	Rainbow Gems	-	-	-	-	-
Chance	50%	10%	-	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
Immune	Immune	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Attacks and Abilities

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Prick	Single	30		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Is used only while under the effect of Syphon.
Energy Shot	Single	35		100%	100%	50%		100%	10%	10%
Heal	Allies	3333	--	----	--	3x		--	--	0%
Buff	Allies	--	--	----	--	30% 30%		--	--	--
Self-destruct	All	50		100%	--	--	--	120%	10%	10%
Notes: The user dies during this attack.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Prick	Single	20		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Pricking Barrage	Single	30/5		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Energy Shot	Single	25		100%	100%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Buff	Allies	--	--	----	--	20% 20%		--	--	--
Notes: On Hard and Epic difficulties, adds 20% Evade buff on top of that.
Self-destruct	Single	70		100%	60%	--		100%	10%	10%
Notes: The user dies during this attack. Prior to the v2 update, had no usage conditions set, and therefore could not be seen during normal gameplay.

Battle Logic

The following describes general logic of the enemy and attack patterns, with chances of each attack to be used. Conditions are listed from highest to lowest priority unless specified otherwise.

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

• ≤18.5% HP → Self-destruct;
• Syphoned → Prick;
• >18.5% HP → Energy Shot (1/3), Heal (1/3), Buff (1/3).

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked or/and Syphoned → Pricking Barrage;
• ≥32% HP → Prick (1/4), Pricking Barrage (1/4), Energy Shot (1/4), Buff (1/4);
• <32% HP → Self-destruct.

Prior to the v2 update, a coding mistake caused the Barrier Rune to use Pricking Barrage over and over at <32% HP instead of Self-destructing.