Finding More Runestones?

DGVish · April 2014

So I've noticed Runestones are becoming increasingly more difficult to come by. I've found quite a few in dungeons through Heavy Sacks, but I am always short on Potency Runes. The ones I find in the sacks I can't use, and they seem to be very scarce out in the world. I would love to be able to craft over 100 glyphs and find a trading partner, but I can't because I have a total a 4 usable Potency Runes.

Salsadoom · April 2014

They seem more common around 'magical places' and ruins

DGVish · April 2014

Somewhat helpful, but they are still difficult to find. I have 3 points in seeing them from far away and I've wasted 3 points because I find one every 30 minutes as I am looking for JUST potency runes.

Kingcroft · April 2014

I feel like the enchanting in this game is the most cumbersome and least helpful craft. When you consider how much bank/bag space it takes and that most of the glyphs you can make are for jewelry, which you can't craft and you only have three slots for as opposed to seven for armor (and by the way there are only three armor glyphs, very rare by compare) I would give up on it entirely but I am a compulsive crafter and simply must try.

SexyVette07 · April 2014

Enchanting is ridiculous. Ive discovered almost all runes and deconstructed literally HUNDREDS of runes (not my own) and I just last night hit lvl 20.

Tanabe · April 2014

after i hit Vet zones, i find it alot easyere to find runes.

Cabot · April 2014

Tanabe wrote: »

after i hit Vet zones, i find it alot easyere to find runes.

Not many miner 'bots in Vet zones I'm guessing

dumbo · April 2014

The PTS notes imply they are looking at it (obviously this may not be the same as the live patch - but they're at least aware that some bits aren't working well):
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/87867/patch-notes-v-1-1-inc-craglorn-from-pts

Enchanting
Added additional runestone harvest nodes to all zones in the game.
We have reduced the variety of available essence runes in lower-level zones in order to improve chances of making a usable glyphs.
We have adjusted Essence runestones so the rate at which they appear is in the world is more in line with other types of runestones.
Slightly reduced the chance to receive a negative potency runestone while harvesting.
Fixed an issue where some Veteran Rank enchantment glyphs of different tiers shared the same name.
Fixed an issue where multiple ranks of enchantment glyphs had the same level range, but different power levels.
Updated the icons for Enchanting passive skills Aspect Improvement and Potency Improvement to more closely match their associated runestone shapes.
The Absorb Stamina enchantment now correctly absorbs stamina when it’s triggered.
Fixed an issue where potency runestone harvest nodes would sometimes give the incorrect level runestone.
Fixed an issue where enchantments that increase potion effectiveness were not correctly stacking.
The value of the potion effectiveness enchants has been doubled.
Fixed issues where potion effectiveness enchants were incorrectly increasing the effect of non-restoration potions.

Kalman · April 2014

They should just scrap the current system and make it like the other ES games. You "research" an enchantment on an item (just like traits). Once your "research" is complete you need a soul stone of the appropriate level to place that enchantment on an item.

Natjur · April 2014

I gave up harvesting for rune stones, just killing stuff in group dungeons drop a lot of enchantments which can be broken down. I end up with 30+ withing 2hrs, that's more then I can find spending the same time harvesting, plus you get all the other loot to sell and good exp breaking them down.

SirAndy · April 2014

Some zones are littered with them. Bal Foyen being one of them, for example ...
;-)

Aellaren · April 2014

I don't do much with enchanting, but the people I play with do. And I sincerely find at least 20 in a day, these things are everywhere. Maybe they re more scarce in the higher level zones (currently in Grahtwood) but I find them all over the place and of all different sorts. Sure the potency runes can be a bit more scarce but I still don't have much trouble finding them. I've also found that some nodes cycle through the types, ie. I pick it up the first time as an essence, 20 minuts later it's an aspect rune.
Maybe it's the zone Im in or I'm just lucky/attentive but Im constantly sending mail to friends with runes I find to clear out my bags

Dragonheart013 · April 2014

There are plenty around, you just have to look in all the nooks and crannies. Quite possibly someone else has simply been past recently and collected it so you never even realized there was a rune node there...

rrb167b14_ESO · May 2014

I've been farming runestones with lvl 5-7 alts for weeks now in the entry areas (Bleakrock, Khenarthi's Roost, etc.) and the good news is I've found TONS of nodes ... he bad news is 99+% of Potency runestones are all Tier 1 . I've a bunch of the tier 2 through 4 of the Aspect runes and a decent assortment of ALL the Essence runes (Though I do wish the ratio of ARMOR Essences would be higher).

It also really SUCKS that Potency runes only stack to 20! They should stack to 100 like everything else :-(

Sparkleav · May 2014

Quick question as I'm new to Enchanting, are the rune stones higher tier in higher level zones or are they literally random throughout Tamriel?

Woolenthreads · May 2014

Sparkleav wrote: »

Quick question as I'm new to Enchanting, are the rune stones higher tier in higher level zones or are they literally random throughout Tamriel?

Yes. The potency rune stones are tiered to match the region levels. I think it's actually the cause of people having problems finding runestones in the earlest regions because Enchanting is so slow to level and the potency runes so painful to find that you end up going back to the earlier regions to find potency runes you can use. That being said, deconning the runes Glyphs is the fastest way to level especially within the higher regions where runes Glyphs tend to be pretty common.

The Essence and Aspect rune stones are random across the regions.

Lupinemw · May 2014

1.1 patch is adding more nodes and making changes. Though I like that its not easy as it means it sells for more

slbrgt · May 2014

Strangely, and in contrast to the "more nodes" as announced in the patchnotes, it seems that after the patch I can hardly find any runestones. Made a tour around half of glenumbra, and where I used to find dozens of runestones that way before the patch, I now only found a single one.
Edit: I ve been to some other areas, and back to Glenumbra, and found that the relative lack of runestones seems to be limited to Glenumbra.

EternalDiva · July 2014

Im giving up on enchanting. I can find the square and triangle runstones pretty easy but Im level 19 character and havent made it past level 2 enchanting because I can never find ANY of the round stones. I quit.

AreoHotah · July 2014

Cabot wrote: »

Tanabe wrote: »

after i hit Vet zones, i find it alot easyere to find runes.

Not many miner 'bots in Vet zones I'm guessing

Actually its deserted. Hard to find peeps for dolmens and wb as well so yeah... you will have all the nodes to yourself.

SteveCampsOut · July 2014

You're just not looking very hard! I'm VR9, but I still go farm runes in Kenarthi's Roost, in my faction so no it's not a VR zone, or the other starter islands in the VR zones and you can't go very far without tripping over the damn things! You must wander around with your eyes closed!

Gokmak · July 2014

The people in my guild who don't do enchanting just dump their runestones in our guild bank. Our higher level enchanters make stuff for lower levels to decon.

failkiwib16_ESO · July 2014

I play AD, and it's easy for me to harvest nodes if I log on with a character and quickly go to find and harvest the nodes. - when I am done harvesting an area, I log off and on with another character that is not in the same area- then I log off and on again with my main character, and everything has respawned.
<< I only do that to gain higher level aspect runestones, nothing els. The easiest way to gain potency and essense runes is by entering a public dungeon, killing and looting - then sell everything els, repair and bank the glyphs. Continue to kill and loot, sell, repair and bank - 2-3 hours of AoE spam = some gold, lots of glyphs for deconstruction.

I have experienced loads of bots in all areas, but thereare also less players picking things in Cadwell's Silver and even less in Cadwell's Gold .... so you may get at chance to pick something up, that might not dissapear infront of your eyes.

There are some veteran areas, like Glenumbra, where it's relatively hard to finde a single rune to pick up, but the starter islands and other areas in the Covernant are more normal....

Synfaer · July 2014

DGVish wrote: »

Somewhat helpful, but they are still difficult to find. I have 3 points in seeing them from far away and I've wasted 3 points because I find one every 30 minutes as I am looking for JUST potency runes.

Are you just harvesting potency and leaving the rest? If you harvest all the rest they will have a chance of being a potency rune when re-spawned.
Also not sure what level potency you are after.
The starter islands are usually more populated with resource nodes which also re-spawn faster then other areas. If your after VR1-3 potency or VR5-6 runes use the starter islands of the respective alliances.
Other areas tend to have rune rich areas, you just have to find them.
An add-on like Harvester can help record the runes you find, so you can more easily find them after a re-spawn.