Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "Lateralus923;514423"

I think they're losing potential sales by doing this, since I'm hesitant to buy an Advance X now to sit on...

That makes sense, but why are they losing sales on Potential? :p

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2 Questions for people who have been around a while:

1) Do they ever sell Recon X runes?
2) Do they ever sell Shield X runes?

Understood, sales are a little different than when the game was run by FA, but I'd like to get advice as to whether I should buy anything or wait?

Thanks!

We only had X runes once and it was exact same selection as we have now. You might want to ask EU folks, since we are following EU sale practices, but I dont believe they had the runes you mentioned either. Take this with grain of salt, though, I didn't follow EU sales before we synced the sale offers with them.

dont expect Recon or Shield runes at all, ever. at least not anything higher than tier 3 for a load of rubies. Official FEU policy to shield and therefore recon, because its made out of shield is to let the higher runes disappear over time. We had Shield V/VI ONCE, thats over a year ago now. One or two times Shield III runes for almost the same price as the old V/VIs, and a lot of the times Shield III runes for (i think) 299 Rubies / 3 pcs.

Reason given were the oh so many complaints about being able to create permanently negative aggro that way with high recon runes.
So the majority of players is running around with Recon V/Vi, even most single-rune DPS are.

just a lil comparision in gold from my server:
any X rune ~6mil, Potential a bit more.
Shield VI 20mil, Shield VII 100mil+ IF ever sold by anyone.

Quoted from "YomanROM;514448"

dont expect Recon or Shield runes at all, ever. at least not anything higher than tier 3 for a load of rubies. Official FEU policy to shield and therefore recon, because its made out of shield is to let the higher runes disappear over time. We had Shield V/VI ONCE, thats over a year ago now. One or two times Shield III runes for almost the same price as the old V/VIs, and a lot of the times Shield III runes for (i think) 299 Rubies / 3 pcs.

Reason given were the oh so many complaints about being able to create permanently negative aggro that way with high recon runes.
So the majority of players is running around with Recon V/Vi, even most single-rune DPS are.

just a lil comparision in gold from my server:
any X rune ~6mil, Potential a bit more.
Shield VI 20mil, Shield VII 100mil+ IF ever sold by anyone.

And that is weird becouse australian serves have all this runes in tier X from some time now:
http://www.runesofmagic.com.au/au/news,i…es_special.html

don't ask me. hey, i found it weird too that we only had VI runes for 200 dias and US had VII runes for 59 dias in the past, so maybe ask the persons who are/were responsible for the IS

I can only tell you what we're being told, but they also said that if the communitys stance on Recon runes changed, we should tell them. In other words, get a 100 page QQ thread about those runes running within a few days and expect them to appear again in future sales. Simply put: copy mages.

I know it hits the classes that can only use 1 Recon hard but i kinda think the recon VII+ where a little too OP... negative agro shouldnt exist. if knights are having issues holding agro maybe its time their skills where adjusted to keep up with the massive buffs mages, rogues and warriors have gotten recently.

This sir makes too much sense, you have to look at it from a buisness point of view. Make instances so hard to complete you have to have super op damage and uber expensive gear. Super op damage and uber expensive gear generates super aggro, hence the income they make from selling recon and hatred on top of what is generated from making uber gear. To balance the knight would cause a loss of income generated from those runes. It is not going to happen.

Quoted from "silverjeff;514578"

This sir makes too much sense, you have to look at it from a buisness point of view. Make instances so hard to complete you have to have super op damage and uber expensive gear. Super op damage and uber expensive gear generates super aggro, hence the income they make from selling recon and hatred on top of what is generated from making uber gear. To balance the knight would cause a loss of income generated from those runes. It is not going to happen.

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