Warlocks, Priests, Paladins, and Mages all have a rune that is locked behind warlocks or mages using items they get through RNG farming/camping methods to summon an elite mob to kill…FOUR TIMES FOR ONE RUNE!
Mages can decipher certain scrolls with a chance of getting the right scroll to then summon the mob. Not too bad when it comes to time spent running around and between zones but could definitely be a major gold sink if unlucky.
Warlocks have to get the Explorer Imp first (extremely easy to do so no complaints on this part) then find little fel portals that pop up in 3 different zones. Azshara, Feralas, and Blasted Lands. Not only do they have to compete with other warlocks for these portals but they also have to compete with people using the Scroll of Spatial Mending to close the portals. (This gives mages another rune but does nothing for warlocks if they were to use it on a portal.) Only 1 portal will spawn per zone at a time (no clue on respawn time tbh but I camped a spawn point for almost an hour and had 2 spawns in the first 20 minutes i was there then nothing afterwards). Did you find a portal? Great! Summon Explorer Imp and send it in. Wait 20 mins then summon it again and he will give you a bag of treasures. Inside the bag of treasures there is only a 10-15% chance that ONE of the fragments needed will drop. So while warlocks might not have to spend gold on deciphering scrolls, they need to spend HOURS searching for portals and then pray to RNGesus that they get a fragment from the bag.
Priests and paladins have to rely on mages and warlocks to do the summoning to get their rune. No way for them to farm an item that will summon the elite mobs.
In the end, all 4 classes have to kill four different elites and 4 different locations meaning the group needs at least 4 summoning items to get the rune.
I am all for making content that requires groups but this is just extreme overkill for a rune and needs a major redesign. Maybe just require only 1 leyline elite needing to be killed or increase the spawn rate/amount of portals per zone or both.
