Runes of Magic US / AU

I managed to get one quite by chance when Hodu spawned his second boss.

I do agree about the drop rates on older stuff though:

• Drops should be a guaranteed purple from every boss in level 50 and below instances;
  
• Level 25, 35 & 50 elite mats (old way).

OK, that's just 2 items, but I could easily lengthen that list. Basically, whilst the level 55+ stuff has received a lot of attention and effort to improve things, there's a complete lack of attention to the lower level stuff.

how do you know there isnt a trick to getting that rune crystal? find the oldest crafter on ur server. rarer still as not many crafters from open beta days left anymore.

true true. just sayin, i have a guildie who has had every crafted piece from windmill. has the accessories up for sale on ah occasionally.

Its only the purple rarity items you need the rune crystals for, if your guildie is making that many purples I call haxx lol. I tried for years to get that thing myself with no luck.

Ive got 5 of them on Indigo, two of them were made into weapons way back in the day, the other 3 are just sitting on a mule lol

guildie of mine has the accessory set still. seems indigo had better luck farming them?

I agree that below lvl 55 instances need drop rate re-tooling to make them interesting for lower-level toons.

Question for OP: What level is your toon running the Wind-Mill? Normally if your toon is higher than the level of the instance the drops rates are poorer. If you have access to the stats you could twink out a lower level toon maybe improve your chances.

There is actually a trick to running the WM instance to get a better chance, and probably most of the people who didnt play back in ch 1 know about it. I haven't tested it recently as i don't really need it anymore (wish they would change it so the weapons crafted could come out orange/brown) but this is it.

Get yourself a full party. When you loot the chest or the boss at the end (can't remember which one) everyone in the party gets rewards from the chest.... so if you have a party of 5 people, all 5 people have a chance to get the rune crystal. Also the people don't have to go through the instance, you can have them sit at the entry way.

I use to pay low lvl people with the blue gear that dropped to sit in there and give me the mats they got.

Granted getting the rune crystal to drop is a lot like farming the moa core. You are going to have a lot of fun waiting for it to drop.

Try using a teaching certificate.... that might help and as many luck runes as you can load up on.