Some runes will always be scarce so long as items like shroud and starless exist. Those are top tier items and getting them to drop with mutiple GA’s can carry even the worst builds.
I agree some runes should be scarce, no doubt. But S8 they were practically non-existent. All season I got 7 total legendary runes. And that includes recrafting.
I guess that is my biggest complaint against the dev team - they can never seem to find a happy medium.
I was able to make quite a few mythics for testing after about 3 weeks of farming. I am angled quite a few through rune crafting though most were not for the items I wanted to craft.
Mythic items in general weren’t a problem for me either, but I didn’t get many desired mythics either. Way too many selig amulets which would be more exciting if a regular spark dropped.
I have played a ton and unless something fundamentally changed then it will still all be this phony dance where junk is heavily weighted to drop almost all the time, especially for 3GA plus items. Blizzard making it appear that you are getting something when in fact you really aren’t.
Any 2GA or 3GA that doesn’t crit on the important affix is still worse then any single GA that does.
The only way I got Mythics for S8 was Traded people Runes for Runes. It was pretty rough.
S8 was the only Season where I didn’t stay up all night with random friends I’ve met in past Seasons and chilled in Duriels chamber and farmed Mythics. That used to be fun. We didn’t have that kind of normal D4 fun in S8.
Plus, I didn’t care for Belial so I only killed him 1 time in T4 and never wanted to go back in there.