Can never find a high level rift to send it into. Can’t farm for the dagger or the rune item for backdraft. Appears to only be 1 per zone and the 3 zones they spawn in are absolutely crawling with locks and mages. Either they need to be multi-use, more need to spawn, or at the very least the rune items need to be a much higher drop!
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To make things worse, one of the portal spawn points in Blasted Lands is in the middle of The Tainted Scar which is crawling with level 60+ elites. The icing on the crap cake is that portal doesn’t give a higher chance of getting the items you need. I went to it twice and got nothing but gray and white junk.
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yeah those things will 1 shot a pre-bis meta lock like nothing!
im at about 50 portals done now and can attest to this mechanic being awful. feels really bad waiting 30 minutes to find a portal, waiting 20 minutes for the imp to get back just to get a grey skull worth 7 copper and 2 mageweave cloth.
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there are several spawns in the zones it can spawn in not just the elite area? and it has a rune and blues and some other such neat things even an epic can drop.
If it spawns in the area with the elites, it will not spawn elsewhere. Only one portal is up at a time from what I have seen.
Once you get the Felguard rune, everything else has a stupidly low drop chance. This also mean World Core Fragments for the Backdraft rune. I don’t think most Warlocks at the moment care about the other stuff that can drop.
isn’t it literally, literally, free loot for doing nothing? maybe it’s okay if you rarely encounter one?
i’ve done like 40 portals and have gotten 2 worldcore fragments and 1 blue. move this designer to something else for next phase please don’t let him touch runes
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I got the dagger today and I still absolutely hate the mechanic. It needs to be removed from the game.
i mean i got 3 blues so far from 5 portals… thats pretty decent imo, and epics im sure are rare as they are purple but. probably not incredibly rare that u cant ever attain one if you put work into it, and theres other zones besides badlands with portals? and we arent even 100% sure how the portals work it could be character specific or zone wide idk but ive not had much trouble finding them myself.
i’m gonna assume you aren’t posting in bad faith and are just legitimately clueless
dps locks’ bis helmet rune is tied to this portal mechanic. early estimates i’ve seen place the worldcore fragment drop rate at about 1/7 from the highest tier portal, but i bet there are people in this thread who would strongly disagree with that figure
and we need 4 of those in order to get the rune
so if we assume one drops every 7 portals (lol), we find a portal IMMEDIATELY after receiving loot from the previous one (LOL), and it’s 20 minutes for the imp to get back from an expedition, that’s 28 portals * 20 minutes per portal = 560 minutes = 9 hours and 20 minutes of interacting with this mechanic for ONE RUNE
and that’s not counting actually traveling to the 4 leyline crystals and fighting the bosses these worldcore fragments spawn
that being said, that math assumes you’re playing true solo self found and not receiving help from other players in any way
what a lot of people don’t understand is that it’s not 4 worldcore fragments per player to get this rune. it’s 4 fragments across the entire group combined and you CAN do this in a raid group
so i’m pretty sure blizzard’s intent with designing this rune was for the guild sweatlords to actually acquire the mats for this, then form a raid with all the mages and locks and priests (and paladins if you’re playing the wrong faction) they can find and everyone knocks out the rune in one fell swoop
so… yeah. lot more going on there than just “a little bit of free loot here and there”
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I agree with everyone. Needs to be fix and increase drop rate of world core fragments. At this point I literally don’t care about anything else.
I’ve had backdraft since a few days in on my lock, but I’ve been farming them since day 1. But the best lock tank dagger is locked behind these portals and honestly, I wish they’d buff the dagger’s drop chance since .15% is awful on a random spawning portal you have to pray you can make it to before other locks use it.
Except we need to hit about 50 portals to get our DPS head rune