Potency Runes -- is it just me?

Abigail

This is a question for other dedicated gatherers.

In the zones where I gather, Potency Runes have always spawned in disproportionately greater numbers than either Aspect or Essence Runes. However, since the last patch I've noticed they've been spawning in even greater numbers than before.

At first, I thought it was because other gatherers, like me, have stopped going out their way to collect them; hence, they just remain uncollected for longer periods. Notwithstanding, on a couple of my collection routes there are Rune nodes that are infrequently farmed, if ever, by anyone but me and I've noticed these too are now spawning Potency Runes much more frequently than before.

Has anyone else noticed the change?

nudel

I have not had that experience.

All hail the capricious RNG!

Keredh

I could happily use more potency runes.

hauke

opposite with me i have everything but potency runes, potency runes are rarest

Abigail

Must be a zone thing. My Enchanting mule has 40 stacks of Potency Runes, evenly divided. At this point I either don't harvest them or do so then NPC them. One of my collection routes has five rune nodes in close proximity; starting with the last patch it's not uncommon to find Potency Runes on all of them serially.

Drachenfier

I can't find potency runes to save my life. I have Aspect and Essence spilling out of every orifice, but I rarely find potency runes.

Iluvrien

I have multiple stacks of negative potency runes. However I seem to have real difficulty getting positive ones. At the moment I would sell organs for Odra runes.. can't find any though.

I have multiple tracks I run, Bleakrock, Stonefalls, Deshaan and I am now working out a new run in Shadowfen. Positive potencies? Not blasted likely.

Abigail

This is pretty typical of one of my runs (though my inventory filled more quickly due to an inordinate number of available treasure chests).

6 - Essence
8 - Potency (3 Jode, 5 Jora)
6 - Aspect (4 Ta, 2 Jejota)

I bypassed a couple of Potencies in lieu of taking chests instead.

Given the diverse types of Essence runes, one might expect they'd be most prevalent, but I've never found that to be the case.

Either the devs need to tweak the spawn tables or we need a universal marketplace that allows us to trade/balance these disparities more efficiently.

EDIT: Just completed a second inventory-filling run, with these results. As I was on a route with fewer treasure chests, I was able to collect much more of other items.

18 - Essence
27 - Potency (13 Jode, 14 Jora)
16 - Aspect

Routes run this morning were in Khenarthi's Roost, AD

Eyil

I almost never find aspect runes, actually, so I've almost never been able to level enchanting! Now that I do have a small pile of aspect runes, all of my potency runes are beyond my enchanting level... I dropped myself right into it there.

IronMaiden_burnout

Abigail wrote: »

This is pretty typical of one of my runs (though my inventory filled more quickly due to an inordinate number of available treasure chests).

6 - Essence
8 - Potency (3 Jode, 5 Jora)
6 - Aspect (4 Ta, 2 Jejota)

I bypassed a couple of Potencies in lieu of taking chests instead.

Given the diverse types of Essence runes, one might expect they'd be most prevalent, but I've never found that to be the case.

Either the devs need to tweak the spawn tables or we need a universal marketplace that allows us to trade/balance these disparities more efficiently.

EDIT: Just completed a second inventory-filling run, with these results. As I was on a route with fewer treasure chests, I was able to collect much more of other items.

18 - Essence
27 - Potency (13 Jode, 14 Jora)
16 - Aspect

Routes run this morning were in Khenarthi's Roost, AD

wait until you get to potency improvement 2 runes, you will be no doubt crying that the spawn rate is too low.

Abigail

IronMaiden_burnout wrote: »

wait until you get to potency improvement 2 runes, you will be no doubt crying that the spawn rate is too low.

Insinuating I'm crying about anything is both uncalled for and condescending. I merely started this thread to share an observation about changed spawn rates since the last patch. Please take your attitude and sit on it. Thank you.

Gillysan

You are over reacting and taking it personally. He is correct and he was only making a statement for dramatic effect.

You may have found a nice place for Tier 1 Potency Runes but once you go to the higher levels the story will change. The moment I saw your post I was wondering where this great potency rune place is that you are talking about. It wasn't until later that you mentioned Khenarthi's Roost & that made all the sense in the world to me. Well the main population blob is now more congregated in the some higher level zones. So unless the botters are really active you should have the pick of the runes there in the Roost.

Also it's how the runes make combinations. If you look at my spreadsheet (the 2nd tab) you will see why Potency runes appear to never be enough. I haven't done a rigorous survey, but my suspicion is that the rune types drop equally. It just comes down to the fact that per each tier you only have 4 Potency runes vs 17 Essence. On top of that the Essence are good for any tier of Glyph crafters can make while the Potency runes are the ones that determine the level of the Glyph. Thus they become the ones you need the most, that is the bottle neck in the system.
http://tinyurl.com/GillysansEnchanterLeveling

I don't think the full details of their spawn distribution has been figured out just yet.

nudel

Drachenfier wrote: »

I can't find potency runes to save my life. I have Aspect and Essence spilling out of every orifice, but I rarely find potency runes.

I have to know.... did the censoring replace your wording with 'orifice' or did you do that yourself? The former would be pretty hilarious. Though the latter makes you a clever chap.

Lol'd in either case.

reggielee

I have potency and essence runes out the ying yang but a dearth of aspect

Ardeni

I've found an abundance of essence runes, to be honest. I counted that I have over 350 of them laying around a few days ago, and currently I might even have more. As of now, it is actually the potency runes that slow down my enchanting progress. That and the lack of higher tier aspect runes. I have ~150 Ta runes but I loathe to use them for crafting with the little amount of potency runes that I have since deconstructing the white glyphs seems to yield very little experience unless you deconstruct dozens of them.

Squishy

I'm having some difficulty with Aspect and potency, while I have a collector edition of essence runes.... Over 50 of most of them now :S.

As far as I know, things are going to be scaled on the next patch, so less essence drops, and more aspect/potency, with also more nodes (how many however is still not communicated).

In VR6/7 areas, I'm really struggling to find rune nodes, yet, I do not seem to be seeing many players at all.

I also noticed that some nodes, are close to mini/elite bosses, as in, within half a meter, which makes harvesting those, hard if not impossible while you solo... unless we have to group in VT zones to gather runes also? that could be fun, having to battle for a single rune node .

I've been running and horsing around the VT7 area, and I can see wood, clothier materials, virtually everywhere, but the runes seems to be in hiding :-).

In forest areas, I also noticed that the glow around the runes, can be non present, or useless due to the vegetation. Some runes are surrounded by vegetation, and because it is taller than the rune, and quite dense, you only see a faint bit of the glow, but only from certain angles. Same goes when they are hidden between roots of trees :S.

I found that doing a rune hunt, is a lot better at night, because the glow effect is then visible, and actually lights up the area. But at day time, unless you know where the nodes are, you'll miss most of them.

I'd also like to know why some runes can only be stacked to 20, while others are over 50 so far (so most likely 99 in a stack)?