Dragontouched Armor Runes working as intended?

[Wolfen719]

So my fighter has been grinding for his Sovereign Rune of Levik for nearly 3 months now.

I've quite literally spent well over 100 hours grinding for it and have gotten 70+ sovereign runes, yet I have never seen the Levik drop.

The way the system is currently set up it is quite possible to NEVER get the rune you need, no matter how much time you spend grinding.

So is this system working as intended? Is this system meant to be this way, where you can literally spend 100 hours and have made no progress? Is the system meant to have the possibility of never acquiring the rune you need?

If that's the case, if you really intend for this game to have incredibly long grinds with no gains, then no fix is required.

However, if spending 100+ hours with no gains is not what was intended then a fix is in order.

I have a few ideas that would fix this.

1 - make the Runes Bind To Account instead of Bind To Character on Acquire. (not a real fix as you still may end up spending hundreds of hours and never see anything for your time and effort)

2 - make the Runes unbound so you can freely trade them on the Auction House (I really would not recommend this one as it completely ruins the sense of accomplishment for completing your Dragontouched armor)

3 - Have the game keep track of how many Runes you acquire (whether you keep them or not), and after a certain amount of Runes you get to choose 1 Rune of your choice (not from a random list but a specific Rune from the entire list). This would be for each of the 3 different Runes. For instance once you have acquired 30 sovereign Runes you get to choose a Sovereign Rune of your choice.

4 - Add a token system to the Runes where you collect these tokens and use those tokens to buy specific Runes of your choice (Eldritch, Tempest and Sovereign)

Number 4 here is In My Opinion probably the best option, even though it does not help my fighter who has already spent WAY TOO MUCH time for no gain trying to get a single Rune.

[Valindria]

I wish at the very least Drac runes were BTA or unbound. I would support BTA on the other runes.

[JOTMON]

Make all runes BTA including the Draconic's

Add 20th completions to Each of the quests to offer end reward choice of a token that can be used to purchase the rune of your choice from that area.

Turn in 30 Runes to purchase a rune of your choice of same type rune (30 sovergn runes gets you 1 sovergn of your choice).

This way it still takes some work to get your item but the item you want is acheiveble without relying on luck of the dice.

[Wolfen719]

Make all runes BTA including the Draconic's

Add 20th completions to Each of the quests to offer end reward choice of a token that can be used to purchase the rune of your choice from that area.

Turn in 30 Runes to purchase a rune of your choice of same type rune (30 sovergn runes gets you 1 sovergn of your choice).

This way it still takes some work to get your item but the item you want is acheiveble without relying on luck of the dice.

I like all of that, and I think it would go a long way to improving the Dragontouched Armor.

The only problem I see with that is having to keep all those runes in your bank, that would take up a lot of space...maybe they could be kept in a special "Rune Vault" or something.

Also...and this is just a personal thing...but I would need this to be retroactive and to be given all my crunched up Sovereign Runes back (which will never happen) because I really don't relish the idea of doing any more grinding for Draconic Runes of any kind...all the grinding i've done for this with no gain whatsoever has already turned me off this game and I have little to no desire to play any longer.

[AMDarkwolf]

I'd be happy for a new sovereign rune recipe: Any 5 runes = 1 random rune(u can either trade in 5 sov or u can break them down and recombine from the bottom back up to sov, same effect either way, with the 5 sov to 1 sov being the 'more expensive' route, but faster)

That or a new similar to the mabar event trade in thing: Any 5 stacks fo 5 runes = any rune u want

[Wolfen719]

So, after nearly 3 weeks of giving up on my Dragontouched Armor and seeing as my subscription will be expiring in a few weeks I decided to try a few more runs to see if I could actually get my sovereign rune...

And lo and behold I DID NOT get it, instead I got 4 Sovereign Runes of Frost in a row...NO I'M NOT KIDDING. I got the same useless (to me) sovereign rune 4 times in a row.

Now I've calculated that I've spent about 140 hours on my fighters and about 30 hours on my monk trying to get the proper Sovereign Runes but all with no luck...for those of you wondering that equals (if you were to play non-stop with no sleep, eating or anything of the sort) 7 days of straight play... 1 full week with absolutely nothing to show for it, NOT EVEN PROGRESS towards the proper runes, just WASTED time and the possibility that if I continued to grind for the sovereign runes I could spend another 1000 hours and still never get them.

[sirgog]

Just run 6-player Stealer of Souls runs, and form the group so that noone else wants the rune you want.

You will get it.

I always laugh at people that run Prey for Sovereigns now.

[Wolfen719]

Just run 6-player Stealer of Souls runs, and form the group so that noone else wants the rune you want.

You will get it.

I always laugh at people that run Prey for Sovereigns now.

I do run SoS 6 man, i've run it about 12-15 times (6 man every time), but running SoS doesn't make the chance of getting the rune you want any better, and the DT rune system is still broken.

But tell me, why did you assume that because I've spent so much time on this that I don't run SoS?

[FastTaco]

I like the idea of number 2, we need plat to increase in value so the price of everything will drop more. Not enough trading in this game imho. It seems alot of people like it that way though.

[countfitz]

Hmm... I say make SoS into a "raid" and give it a 20th completion reward of "most" of the soverign runes, so that you're pretty much going to get it by run 40. Works like any other raid, which SoS is SO as hard as.

Also, since they're tweeking quests that aren't broken anyway, make SoS into a raid. Like, 12 man raid, and a universal flag like any other chain's end raid, so we can do it more often. I do it once per toon, even though it is a blast of a quest, since I can't stand the other quests to flag for it.

[BladeTricks]

****, I can't believe you have that much patience. I gave up after 2 SoS runs...