Augment Runes Issues

Community WoW Community Council
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Currently in Dragonflight, there is no way to obtain this consumable unless you use the LFG tool to queue for dungeons or LFR playing a role that’s high in demand (generally tank or healer) thanks to the Call to Arms mechanic.

This means there’s no realistic way for a DPS player to get runes, unless there’s somehow a short supply of them in LFG (which, let’s be honest, basically never happens), or having to spend nearly 2k gold per rune, which is absurd considering they only last for an hour and do not persist through death.

What ends up happening now, is that a lot of geared tanks might just queue for Normal/Heroic dungeons with Call to Arms, and basically full clear those by themselves, possibly ruining the dungeon experience for other leveling players, an issue I’ve seen being brought up multiple times on places like Reddit for instance.

At least in Shadowlands, augment runes could be obtained through the mission tables, so anyone had access to them.

I do wish they could be crafted through professions or at least being obtainable by anyone from open-world content, such as WQs, rares or chests. Another alternative could be to have something similar to the Alchemical Flavor Pocket, an optional reagent that could be added to crafted gear that can make augment runes persist through death.

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Indeed. As a tank main, I love how I can just make a profit for very little effort. I have yet to see a benefit to using them vs selling them for gold.

I do think that this should be more readily available for everyone to acquire, and not only the AH for dps players.

Adding it to quests was going to be by basic idea as well, but never thought of adding it this way which is a wonderful idea to be honest!

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Alternate sources should be added 100%! Maybe just random world-content like rares, chests etc?

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What is missing these days:
Something like the buff from Legion/Broken shore adding augment rune drops from WQs.
The mission table that would also allow you to gain several runes per day account-wide.

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I don’t think it should be random. I think it should be a targetable thing to acquire and not a surprise.

If you’re a DPS player, you should have ways to gain what you need per week by going to that thing and completing that thing to get the runes that you need.

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