There are few things in this game that absolutely baffle me, as to why the devs would make such a dumb decision. This is one of those things. I’m way late on this, as I just got Shadowlands, but I’m currently doing the Maldraxxus questline.
The second I saw that a quest resulted in me getting a cool looking runeblade, I was extremely stoked for it. I happily did the quests to get the materials and everything, watched the cutscene, thinking to myself “That’s one of the coolest items they’ve added in years”.
Doing the following quests, I thought to myself, “One of these is probably gonna finally let me use this sword”. I was a little disappointed when I saw a quest rewarding green quality swords, “Aw, this sword is just a random green” I thought to myself, then I looked at the disgusting model of the green swords, and realized, they were not that super good sword, they were inferior, bad looking weapons.
It seriously is mind boggling that they made a model for this super cool sword, and chose to never let the player use it, but instead, literally make it a worthless plot item used in a couple of cutscenes. When I do quests involving a cool looking sword, I want to get the cool looking sword! I did that quest for a runeblade, not for a really bad looking bone machete!
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Not just anybody can wield the rune-Maguffin…
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But we are the Mall Walker!
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we aren’t allow to have cool lore important weapons anymore, bacause they don’t want to balance them, that’s why they killed artifacts on legion
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At first I thought we were going to get it as a weapon
Then I was a little letdown and thought that maybe they’d let us use it as temporary power
Then we didn’t do anything with it
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You know what they’ll do. Later in SL they’ll drain the power of the sword and give you a grey quality runeblade as a souvenir. 
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100% percent locked in
OP, I am 100% locked in
I agree with you. I wanted that sword.
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True, I suppose this is another case of “FUN DETECTED”
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Ssadly yes. It would be amazing if the Runblade would have been the covenant power of all classes instead of the stupid fleshcraft shield.
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As soon as I saw that glowing green blade… i was like, i want that
Oh, same for the kyrians. There’s a few awesome swords or spears they have. We just dont get them. It’s sad. We want them! We did our quests to OBTAIN items like this!
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that big a** trident is the one I want instead that awful hammer we got for twohander
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That’s what stung the most, doing like 5 quests around one sword, only to never obtain it.
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All the cool things are just for the incredibly stupid, yet very wise and ancient NPC’s, so they can conveniently McGuffin when the plot calls for it.
Case in point the ‘Mourneblade’ and this stupid ‘Death Magic’ and somehow pooping a blue crystal out of the ether makes a ‘Mourneblade’ special.
It’s just so stupid now–I can’t believe Blizzard can hold a straight face trying to tell this story.
The Blade of the Primus unlocks an ability you won’t have access to in 10.0.
So, the reward is just temporary.
Meanwhile, let’s say you obtained the Blade of the Primus and could transmog it for all time. Now that would be cool.
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These days, Blizzard is afraid to give players important lore items (or even just cool items in general) outside of raids, even then, it’s rare that they give them in a raid. Sulfuras, The Corrupted Ashbringer, Thunderfury, Shadowmourne, Gorehowl, were all only available in raids, and all of those raids were early ones.
The artifacts were the last time I remember getting a cool item in general, because after that, Blizzard became scared to give players something cool.
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I am still mad at the fact that I throwout the AShbringer to the trash, with the motherhecking sargeras staff
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Pretty much. At least you can transmog Ashbringer if you want.
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that is the only thing That kept me going. TBH the convenant weapon from each sactum are cool, it’s a shame it dosen’t have lore.
It would be cool if those weapons had a little bit of flavor text.
“Maldraxxus glaives are an award to those who fight with reackless abbadon, using powerful, and agile blows”
“The crystal of this hammer empoweres their spells as prism, are used by the powerful casters of the house of rituals”
“The two massive blades of the axe are made with an extraordinanrry alloy of the most resistant and heavy matterials found on the Maldraxxi many battles outside the realms of death”
stuff like that
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The Blade of the Primus has green runes and glows green. That’s just… we needed that weapon, Blizz. Come on.
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On my Necrolord Covenant character, as I’m going into the Sanctum, one of the NPCs often makes a comment akin to “That’s a fine blade you have there”. It took me a while to realize that he’s probably trying to refer to the runeblade, and that even then it’s a bit baffling, because I’m not showing it anywhere.
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