As a tank player, who is just wanting to play a tank, these awfully designed, pointlessly difficult quests are unbelievably frustrating, made doubly so by being Horde and having zero access to any nearby flightpaths.
No one wants to help with these (and why would they?), so the only option I have as a broke level 25-27 is to somehow broker a deal with a higher level to come assist me, or wait days more to finally be able to partake in the only role in this game that I want to play.
This sort of quest line makes sense for some sort of prestigious, powerful item. Not the most fundamentally basic thing you need to simply fill the role you’re intending to fill.
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Well, finding the power to turn into a Demon sounds pretty powerful to me… Personally, I have really enjoyed the lengthy rune quests they have added.
I do understand your point though, it is an extreme way to gate you from tanking and would have been better suited to a equally as game changing but less required rune or a cool warlock weapon or something.
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Warlocks don’t tank. This rune gives you what makes warlocks unique in sod. It should be difficult and long. Get 40s to help you.
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Like most SoD quest chains, it’s made to waste your time as much as possible. The meta rune is definitely one of the worst offenders with that
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You know, playing games is a waste of time really, so I find it funny that you don’t like it when a waste of time wastes your time.
I found the long “time wasters” quite enjoyable.
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Yeah having you run back to the quest giver 3-4 times in a row and then AFK flight paths or auto run while doing something on another screen is totally fun and engaging gameplay.
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Just get to 40 or even your mid 30s and go back and solo it. You missed the train the first time around when everyone was raiding bfd constantly in p1. Sucks but it is what it is. Then go back and tank SM/RFD for your preraid and then find a raid. It’s not rocket science.
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if you don’t understand logically why this is a stupid design, I don’t know what to tell you lol
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I tried to solo it at 25 but those mobs with the magic resist in the courtyard did me in. I’ll try again at 40. The long run back isn’t fun, either.
To be fair blizz is on the record saying the would make old runes easier to get and they did nothing 
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Could be worse, you could have been a warlock who desperately wanted to tank back in the first week of Phase 1, only to discover that Blizzard in their infinite wisdom made the meta rune one of only two runes to be INSIDE Blackfathom Depths, lmao.
And the other rune in the raid was just Earth Shield, to add insult to injury.
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I think Meta should have been doable at 15 rather than 20+.
People want to level with certain runes but then it’s either impossible due to quest level restrictions or bare minimum requires having a higher level friend carry you earlier on.
Starsurge was one of the few runes meant for a higher level that was still solable at level 1 via death zerging. It also made leveling more fun, which seems like it should have been a goal for a lot of runes.
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That was me. I had foolishly hoped it would have been available around level 16, so I could level and tank dungeons.
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I’m a lock tank main on horde, but this statement is a bit disingenuous. Yes, the items from the towers are unfortunately far out of our way, but everything else is fairly close to the objectives for us.
- Camp T
- Zoram Strand
- Splintertree
- Sepulchre
If you’re on Wild Growth, I’ll help. For free.
Aside from the BFD elites and SFK, you can solo everything at 25 without any BFD loot. Bloods just take patience and picking the right mobs to attack (orange), towers have a trick you can use (rez in the right spot, fear a caster, loot, and run), and the final part just takes some micromanaging of your VW, clever use of terrain, and correct runes (can jump in green pool nearby to heal or resummon VW if needed).
I actually liked the quest text with this one, but I know that’s not something people tend to care about. I do agree it was somewhat disappointing you couldn’t tank sooner, too. That being said, unless you have some +spell damage gear already, you’re likely going to be struggling for threat early on.
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Youre really complaining about getting that rune in p2? Skill issue
is so fun to run back and forth
like the rogues runes that makes u go to a major city to recieve a message and go back to the same f hut thats like 10 mins away, so 20 mins walk TO GET A SINGLE INTERACTION
I had to do this for one rune on p1 and now is the same for shadowstep, and know what? I quit instead of going to that f hut again like a dumbass.
tbh this is not even fun anymore, was all good with the experiment, but they f up all my characters so I spent 2 months getting gear to get nerfed and forced to only play one spec that they invented and is really BORING.
Im not leaving because my dps is low, im leaving because the game and decisions turned it BORING.
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Technically it would be easier to get it at 40. So by raising the level cap they kept their promise in a way lol
If you’re playing classic to solo content and do it quickly, you’ve already screwed up.
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