so maybe in all of the chaos of everything that is happening . . . this maybe is a crazy ask. but it seems to me like an oversight.
runes seem to be pretty important. has it ever been discussed by devs of having them show up with a star on the map like orange items? or is it something in my settings i am missing?
I reported runes not showing up (or going to your temporary stash tab like oranges) as a bug during PTR. Guess it wasn’t a bug.
I agree, the mini map should have an icon for them and on the play screen maybe a glowing aura or small glow line for them.
I’m constantly finding them after backtracking through areas I recently cleared, so I imagine I’ve missed a lot over time.
this is exactly what happens to me. when backtracking through map to go a different way i sometimes spot them. so i have no idea how many i have never picked up . . .
Maybe no one else has noticed but they have a rarity ring on the ground showing them. Orange for Legendary, Yellow for Rare, Blue for magic.
i think you are right about that. and maybe i am asking too much? i just think it would be nice for runes to have the same graphical icon type stuff as orange items. and also if you missed them have them show up in your inventory just like the orange ones pop up. they seem like an important enough item and rare enough for this. i do not know if it is easy - because there must be some code already written for the orange items that can be reused? or if i am wrong and it would be an incredible amount of work
Ah, thank you for pointing that out.
Just running a helltide now and see that they do emit a very small glow around the itemn, but it’s so insignificant compared to what may be going on around them . . . however, I stll believe they should absolutely be given notice markers more like the compasses get, where they at least get a mini glow thread coming up off them to make them more noticeable as well as a mini map icon.
Why not just have Runes go to your stash, like Legendaries and Uniques do? That’d save you from missing them.
Because I believe there would still be a huge chance you miss those runes because they wouldn’t be grabbed by the missed equipment feature, and the onscreen markers aren’t as visible as they should be so you don’t physically miss seeing them.
That missed equipment tab doesn’t always do what that above statement is saying. I can literally be standing next to a chest I just opened in a helltide which dropped 3-4 legendaries next to me, and without picking them up portal back to town, and my missed equipment tab when I open my stash in town isn’t there because it’s completely empty, I portal back and all the legendaries are still right next to the chest.
So I’m not exactly sure what triggers it all the time it does grab missed items, as I have had many instances where there were several to a full tab (which I know when it is full you get a warning popup that it’s full), but I do know it doesn’t always grab items even when it’s not full or completely empty.
I would rather have a simple fix to place a rune marker on the mini map, which then I’d never miss another opportunity to see there was a rune that I had accidentally missed.