We can summarise it:
The new crafting system is rubbish!
Previously, even if you were unlucky and/or didn’t have the gear for dozens of overbosses, you could just do the (green) seasonal journey a couple of times and use four sparks to craft EXACTLY the Mysthic you wanted.
Was easily possible for anyone with a little time.
Now you have two options:
- Waste two sparks and 50 million gold to get the item you want with an 11% chance. (And we know the Blizzard maths, so even with infinite sparks and gold you’re not guaranteed to get the item you want).
- You use real money to buy the runes that nobody can get in sufficient numbers on their own. Trading in the game doesn’t work because everyone wants the exact same rune, so you cannot farm enough gold for all runes (except you make dozens of good T4 hordes).
In fact, there are no other options!
With Paragon 230, I only have one Lith and two Eom runes, even though I’ve also done targeted tributes in the Undercity, used the opals and did about 100 boss runs.
My chances of being able to make a Harlequin or Tyraels this season are therefore somewhere between winning the lottery and flipping a coin that remains on the edge.
Of the five Mysthics I’ve found so far, two were the same and all three were not only useless for the Spiritborn, but completely useless because of the new scrap system.
PS: The fact that there are about eight more runes than there are places in the inventory is well known by now, but I would like to mention it again because it is so rarely stupid.