Rakeipa Drop Rate?

Alastrine · February 2017

I've been farming heavily since the update and have found only 3 (THREE) Rakeipa on rune nodes.
Given they are used in so many recipes and blueprints it seems odd.. they are hard to get than the other so-called 'rare' items.
Possibly people are farming the nodes and just removing the Rakeipa leaving the rest which is something I was aftaid of but given how many nodes I have harvested in the last 2 and a half days I should have found more than 4.
Just wondering about the drop rate. Makes a huge number of the blueprints and recipes I have found and bought completely unuseable. I don't mind farming for stuff, love it in fact, but c'mon.. there is not hardly any in stores and the few that are there are asking prices like 20 for 20K. Doh.

Nestor · February 2017

I need to sell some, I have hundreds of those.

Alastrine · February 2017

Would love to buy some, ingame is @Alastrine.
As long as it isn't 20 for 20K lol. Looking for a stack, possibly 2 then I won't be worried any more.
FYI if pple think I want them to sell, I don't.. I have 2 kids to make stuff for their houses and a couple homes of my own.
Thanks!

Thanks, for now I have obtained some but I still think they need to do something about the drop rate. Or find a way to keep people from just taking them off nodes and leaving the rest, if that's what is happening. I picked a LOT of nodes though, they couldn't all be 'half taken'.
Bump up their drop rate please!

driosketch · February 2017

If I had known, I wouldn't have thrown so many away in the past. Now that there is need for them, they do seem awfully scarce.

Alastrine · February 2017

I've found a work around of sorts... use a low level toon to buy the 37g Flame glyphs from the enchanter, then use my high level enchanter to decon them. About a 45 - 50% return rate on the Rakeipa which makes them cost about 77-80g each. Still better than the guild prices BUT should be able to farm enough or almost enough to get buy rather than do this. Had to clean out my bank so I could transfer big lots from low level to the high level.

redspecter23 · February 2017

You can just buy really low level runes from the NPC vendor and deconstruct them. Isn't the cost like 50g or something like that?

Alastrine · February 2017

Not low level runes, low level glyphs. That's what I was saying.. the lowest is level 1 at 37g each. And the decon recovery is not 100%, after two batches of 100 glyphs I recovered 48 and 47 Rakeipa. Only 48-49%.
The NPC doesn't sell the Essence runes themselves, sadly.