102537-low-level-runesrather-useless

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			So it seems that low level runes are completely useless with even standard rune fragments having a ~1% drop chance and costing 23g on the commodities broker. Honestly its a little frustrating I know the character is going to out level the crafted item in a couple levels but its the principal of the matter, honestly i feel that either make runes easier to acquire/craft or just remove the rune slots and add to the base stats of the item. I cant help it but when im given the option to rune a nice crafted item that will help me grind to storm and cant without either epic luck or a capped character to bank roll it.	
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			23g is completely insane. The main source for rune fragments is meant to be salvaging, and a price that high means almost no one on your server is salvaging anything. There are a couple topics around here that have the actual math, but I believe it was something like if you're paying more than 1.5g or 2g per fragment, you're better off buying level 15 vendor gear and salvaging it. If you're a gear crafter of any kind, the threshold is even lower, because you should be able to craft gear at the same level for cheaper than the vendor. If you're feeling particularly ambitious, you could make some good money crashing your server's rune fragment prices this way too.	
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			I havent put a single rune into my gear as I have levelled for that very reason.	
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			They recently stated they are adding weaker runes in that can be storebought that will be less expensive, look up j-tal posts for actual citations.	
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So it seems that low level runes are completely useless with even standard rune fragments having a ~1% drop chance and costing 23g on the commodities broker. Honestly its a little frustrating I know the character is going to out level the crafted item in a couple levels but its the principal of the matter, honestly i feel that either make runes easier to acquire/craft or just remove the rune slots and add to the base stats of the item. I cant help it but when im given the option to rune a nice crafted item that will help me grind to storm and cant without either epic luck or a capped character to bank roll it.
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			If low level runes are going for 23g on the cx I would go and buy lvl 15 gear from a vender for 20 silver ish each and salvage the crap out of it, you can make a nice chunk of cash that way, just a good tip	
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			Yeah...I wish the price was that high on the AH on stormtalon. The rune market has crashed at around 1.6 gold per fragment and it's not worth salvage farming them anymore really. There are ways of easily getting mats to craft things that salvage into runes, you just need to play around with it.	
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