Runes of Magic US / AU

Hiya RoMage,

This is mainly due to balancing reasons. They are sometimes offered in the item mall, but are not available for crafting in game so we can maintain control of the advantages given by them. So the only recourse for those who seek the disabled runes currently is to wait for a special offer in the item mall.

Hope this clears things up for you,
~Aetherth

This thread is way way short on angry outbursts from our resident conspiracy theorists about how this is just another blatant attempt by Frogs/RW to rip off playing public. Come on, guys... Can I have at least one QQ about the travesty of disabling the potentially craftable rune so that the only way to obtain it is by paying diamonds for it?

I can completely understand that Loot runes being disabled, as they offer a significant advantage, while not being an actual damage/protection modifier. IMO "Loot" runes are vanity items, and SHOULD be only sold in the CS. However, I am a little baffled as to why weapon runes like fatal, wrath, burst & miracle can't be made. Personally, I think "Hatred" & "Reconciliation" should be added to the blocked list and sold exclusively in the CS as well...

Bah bigger things to worry about other then locked runes, like future patches! I'm just waiting for a good R/S nerf to make the forum exciting again!

Any I think Curse and Raid should also be locked, BUT with the disclaimer a weapons rune should work on ALL weapons including bow. I know runewaker is terrified of scouts of magic again but now its "Rogues of Magic" so still technically RoM.

If they buff warriors we can be "WoM" heck we have alot of mages now, lets just be "MoM"...
Was that close enough to QQ for you...meh just more nonsense.

Keep it soggy!~

Quoted from "Aetherth;514890"

Hiya RoMage,

This is mainly due to balancing reasons. They are sometimes offered in the item mall, but are not available for crafting in game so we can maintain control of the advantages given by them. So the only recourse for those who seek the disabled runes currently is to wait for a special offer in the item mall.

Hope this clears things up for you,
~Aetherth

Several posts already deleted...

Let us see if they are honest enough to answer THIS question them:

If the main reason is due to balancing reasons, the why does Frogster even continue to offer them for sale in the Cash Shop, every few month?

Quoted from "Whippingboy;514944"

Several posts already deleted...

Let us see if they are honest enough to answer THIS question them:

If the main reason is due to balancing reasons, the why does Frogster even continue to offer them for sale in the Cash Shop, every few month?

Cause with great money comes great imbalance of power! Isn't that what spidermans uncle told him?

Quoted from "regentego;514947"

Cause with great money comes great imbalance of power! Isn't that what spidermans uncle told him?

I LOLed!~

the only true issue with disabled runes are block and shield.

if you think about it, we wanna be able to make them, ok. we want to be able to get hatred/recon when they aren't on special. those runes take soooooooo freakin many charges to make anything decent, there's no reason for them to be disabled.

takes block and shield to make recon and hatred. block is a nice rune. shield isn't, but hey, to make that rune you need...

crit, mdmg, pdmg and loot runes, by all means, as they add a substantial immediate advantage to classes. curse only shows up in the long term, i'm almost questioning why i made a curse VII instead of staying with curse VI.

but remember frogster, you're losing out on massive charges purchases by putting some of the essential runes on a disabled list. it takes far more than 199 dias to make some of these VI runes sometimes. and takes many, many, many more to make some of the insane ones.

I have been trying to make a low ranked Experience Rune (...and with the servers moved to Florida as of recently and the new IT guys saying that they cannot figure out how to do Double Experience weekends like the IT guys in California did...) it falls to wonder why making Experience Runes should be disabled when Double Experience weekends were far more imbalanced than just having a rune that does far less than that. In order to have double experience on all the time, you would have to have an Experience X rune which by far would be ridiculous to craft and very costly by themselves (price of the charges to use, the price of the other runes to combine, the time involved to build your rune collection to get what you needed, etc.)

As for Loot rune, Loot I only improves drop rates by 10%, but in order to double the drop rate, you would have to have a Loot X rune.

Which by far isn't likely to happen in game and even then, when crafted, most of these disabled runes often end up in the Auction House being sold for MILLIONS (in which a reasonably lower level character would have no chance of buying them. Talk about imbalanced!)

If loot runes are CS only for balance then its very strange that they always appear in infinite amounts. The true reason for them not being craftable is obvious, but not unreasonable. Frogster has to make their money.

"I can completely understand that Loot runes being disabled, as they offer a significant advantage," I must say, with all due respect, that I completely disagree with that. What possible 'advantage' could there be, if anyone who knew how to craft runes could make them? That would make things much more fair for everyone, wouldn't it?

I think the lack of QQ is because everyone decided to finally leave rather than QQ o.O

Quoted from "dexhunterz;528044"

I think the lack of QQ is because everyone decided to finally leave rather than QQ o.O

Yeah its getting pretty bad on Artemis, people are leaving in record numbers, the release of two new games isn't helping. I'm sure frogster is feeling it.

Quoted from "regentego;514937"

Bah bigger things to worry about other then locked runes, like future patches! I'm just waiting for a good R/S nerf to make the forum exciting again!

a r/s nerf would be unforntuate. They aren't the biggest dps combo in PVE nor are they usually near the top of the number of kills in siege.

Quoted from "vfwiffo;514917"

This thread is way way short on angry outbursts from our resident conspiracy theorists about how this is just another blatant attempt by Frogs/RW to rip off playing public. Come on, guys... Can I have at least one QQ about the travesty of disabling the potentially craftable rune so that the only way to obtain it is by paying diamonds for it?

in the end apparently rogues of mages isnt a free to play game.

its not even an imbalanced rune because of the way it works ... and its a weapon rune on top. so there is no real reason not to create it, even if someone was crazy enough to build lets say Loot VIII.

Actually buying them with your own or someone elses diamonds IS cheaper just like with any other Rune of Tier6/7+, so im perfectly fine with them being offered in CS, but i just cannot see any balancing reasons. Its probably more or less just legacy crap never anyone looked into since it has been disabled since --- dunno? release and was only available in beta? or was it still craftable in chapter1? in chapter2 it was disabled already