I don’t think this is consistent between alts because I have higher level alts who don’t have this restriction, can get Runed with Carved per usual. Is my alt broken? Is this somehow operating as expected?
Alt is Jihi on Azjol-Nerub.
The only thing I wonder about is that fact that she has 1 or 2 Hero pieces, but they are baseline from World Boss fights.
I’d first check to see if everything is at the right ilvl. 606 is the threshold to get Harbinger of the Carved, which will allow Carved to Runed. Anything below that including crafted gear will not unlock Carved to Rune transmutation.
1/6 Hero track gear starts at 610 so it shoots past that requirement on it’s own.
And every slot has to be correct armor type for your class. A Paladin wearing cloth shouders (lookin’ at you, Leeroy) won’t trigger the feat of strength to unlock crest trade ups until they put on plate shoulders of the correct item level. (Never mind all the other ways it’s a bad idea.)
There is a simple script you can run that will show what you are missing. All of these achieves has a similar script someone nice placed in comments. Here is the one for carved:
/run local n=tInvert(Enum.ItemRedundancySlot),a;for i=0,16 do a = C_ItemUpgrade.GetHighWatermarkForSlot(i); if a < 606 then print(a, n[i]) end end
Lorethon here is missing a waist piece, while Elehan, my druid, has it done. For weapons it lists all options, you just have to have one done. Anyway, perhaps that helps.
It’s also slightly more, in that every item also has to be intended for your class to wear. No leather armor for warriors, caster DPS trinkets for DHs or tank trinkets for priests as examples, they don’t count.