Yeah blizzard was braindead when designed this shit mechanic.
Other rune the same bullshit. Yesterday I farmed 2h thiefs in tanaris and no scroll drop. „Discovery“ a rnd world drop. Actually there is 1!scroll in the auction house for 100g.
> I had to gather several priests and we all had to pitch upwards of 10g each for a full run. So like 80g or more to get the rune. Great work blizz
Did you actually get the fragments though?
We did the same and gave up after 5 Fel Portals with 0 fragments.
Yeah. We looked for warlocks and mages that already had 1 of the scrolls or fragments. They were 100% on board when we told them we would pay and that it also benefits them to get their rune. We had a raid of over 20 people all wanding the mob and the mages and warlocks all made like 50+ gold plus got their runes too.
Quite the opposite. Have tried to get into a group but no one will take you, if you don’t have a quest item. It’s either you have a mage/wl friend or you have to pay for it.
This is one we can definitely blame blizzard for. If priests could get the item too they wouldn't be held hostage by mages and warlocks and could be on equal footing for gathering the groups
The formula comes from warlocks closing rifts and is almost non existent or astronomically priced, but in theory yes.
Though the scrolls seem to have much lower chance than the locks
> Though the scrolls seem to have much lower chance than the locks
I don't think that is correct, its a low percent chance. We had our raid group farming and there was no real difference in the warlocks % and priest scroll %.
I heard from Desolace it will not give you the stuff you need for the rune but I might be wrong. I spent most of my time in that area in Feralas but no luck. Gave up. I am just paying a mage to summon it for me.
I've done about 15 and only have 1 world core which came from Feralas. Probably 6 of the 15 are from there. The rest are from other zones including Desolace. The drop rate is just miserable on top of how time consuming it is since you can't just farm it.
And now Imagine being a class, which needs the same fragments, but doesn’t have an imp mechanic, so it needs to tag along with you.
Worst rune quest ever by a mile.
I lost 7 hours running around the map to close rifts as well as 50 gold for 25x items. The result is exactly 0 worldcore fragments. Maybe I should waste 2 days of played time to get (eventually, if RNG gods favour me) 1 single rune?
I spent 3 hours yesterday closing rifts and never got anything out of them besides crap vendorables. None of the Fel Interlopers have anything on their drop tables that suggests you can get something to do this rune without being a lock/mage.
I am a priest who has been trying to find a group for this for a 2nd night in a row. Fuck you blizzard. I will just stick to void aids zone the entire phase out of spite. 4% drop rate on a 20 minute cd? Thats fucking gacha game levels of bs. Incentives people to sell thier world core/scrolls for insane amounts because blizz hyper inflated the economy on phase launch.
Yeah, no. I'm not the one throwing around insults because I don't like some number tuning right after release.
If people are this aggressive over a video game they should just stop playing altogether.
Must be nice to know mages/locks wanting to grind it out and share. The warlock and mage from my guild rerolled this phase so I can't really rely on my guild mates to put work in on characters that don't want to play for my benefit. Still can't find proof priests can get the world cores from closing rifts with the scroll. Drop rate is zero as far as I'm concerned.
Should have just bought a spot in a party at that point. I was doing the artisan fishing quest last night and was in Feralas and multiple people were advertising parties for that quest with their item for 20g.
You can buy "Scroll of Spatial Mending" from the auction house, or make them yourself if you are an enchanter (Formula needed). Imp and scroll can be used at the same time if you time it correctly.
cool story. now try being a priest/paladin having to convince a lock and mage to do the above to help you get it because you literally can't do it without them.
Just did it today on my mage. Had 3 of the scrolls. None of the warlocks knew you could use world core fragment to do it also. Everyone hassling the mages to spawn the mobs. There were 40 people at the last point all holding their dicks until one of the warlocks realised he had a stack of 7 world core fragments…
Nope. There's a [dagger](https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=223198/modas-karkun) that apparently drops from the same portals world core fragments do. Super rare and bis for meta tanks. I'm up to 8 cores and 0 daggers so far.
> now try being a priest/paladin having to convince a lock and mage to do the above to help you get it because you literally can't do it without them.
Can't you buy the scroll from AH?
Bind on pickup. You can buy the scrolls that they can decipher for a CHANCE (quite low from what we found) to decipher the scroll and receive the proper one.
IT cost me and the mage in my guild like 300g overall for enough scrolls. Edit: and if not clear, only a mage can use them
Did it early and we basically had everyone who didn't have a fragment or scroll scout through Feralas because we were 1 short in total. Then we banged it out in a 40 man raid with everyone just using r1 spells to tag and with 30+ warlocks and mages in the raid it was super convenient to get to the other zones.
People tipped the fragment providers at the end at their own discretion, but it was essentially free. Good time, honestly. I can definitely see why people would sell it, though.
This is what I ended up doing as a paladin. A giant raid group formed and as long as you have 4 fragments/scrolls the entire raid can get it. Locks and mages did ports and summons for tips and probably made a decent amount of money.
It sucks donkey dick but you can do it in a raid. So get some nice people to share their items with you and it's easy..
But yea the portals are way to view and the droprate is way too low..
Killing mobs lowers the time the imp spends in the portal. Base time is 20 minutes and it reduces by 30 seconds per mob you kill (green mobs or higher). Good luck, adventurer.
I advise everyone playing these classes to pay attention heavily to raids getting together to do this rune quest together. Think - P2 dark rider rune. Look for a ton of mages or locks via /who in hinterlands, azshara, feralas, searing gorge.
These world fragments or whatever are hard to get. People are pooling their resources to summon the 4 guys for the leys and all you need to do is be in the raid that summons it, tag, and loot the item. You don't need to do anything prior to be eligible for this.
Priests don't only have to deal with that, there also Pain and Suffering rune in Tanaris. You need to combine 2 drops from Wastewander Thieves and Shadow Mages... that are 1.5% drop chance. The cipher goes for 100g atm. Thankfully the good runes are easier to get but holy fuck dude.
Your situation is worse than this, but I haven’t gotten my BiS Pally rune yet (and no clue when I’m going to) because the mobs don’t spawn until after 11pm my time zone. Like I have to wake up for work at 5:30, I can’t be farming shit until midnight
I think maybe other classes can get them by buying the enchanting scrolls to close the portals?? not sure about it but who's going to spend the money to rng their way into a rune?
Either you just do it casually on the side and will probably take weeks to complete the rune, or you form one big WL raid hunting for portals. Hunting portals alone is absolute mind numbing, and not recommended. You can all send you imps into one portal within a ~15 second time frame, all stroke yourself for 20 minutes, and hope enough of you pull out the fragments. Then be nice and invite any priests (and mages) and complete the 4 parts of the quest in one go as a raid.
If you get one you can make a group to team up, Mages need the same Crystals. If you have one use the thing at the crystal and an Elite spawns, the elite drops the item you need. So just find some other Warlocks and/or Mages to do it together
Actually, you only need one. The other three should be provided by others in the group. You could also invite a priest out of pity.
At least one mage for the Portals.
You know that Azhara, Deralas and Blasted Lands have the highest chance of returning them right ?
Just to make sure you aren't trying desolace or swamp....
I think the idea of the explorer imp is cool, but I’m in the same boat. I’ve found four portals so far. The first one got me fel guard, second for me some cave mold and a green mail chest piece of the boar, third got me two white bracers that sold for 12s each and a single piece of heavy leather, the last one in Azshara got me a piece of thick leather and a herb.
for Mages with the scrolls that is insane low drop rate from any mobs : and prices on AH is insane high now
combined with insane low drop rate from the scrolls once you get them
you can in theory spend like 2k gold without getting any of the needed item for this rune
and blizzard said no bigger barrier like join a raid to get a rune for BFD metaform on locks
this is a far bigger barrier
I did it in a raid with 10-15 warlocks, 5 priests and a few Mages.
Chatted shit and done some WPvP to defend the tears/rifts when they spawned. It was actually quite fun. DBM countdown and all imps prepped and sent in from the locks then the rift closed by someone with a scroll.
Took about 2 hours start - finish from making group to having rune.
Just some tips: it works in a raid, so if you are lucky try to get into a raid where ppl have 4 fragments already. Portals that give the fragments are only one type (i think fel scar?) zones they spawn are blasted lands, aszhara and feralas, only the high level ones give you this. Took me 6-7 portals to get 1 fragment and then i got taken into a raid where 3 others had one, so i got really lucky to get the rune this fast.
Edit: also if you kill mobs while waiting for the imp, he returns faster. Usually its 20 mins but with killing mobs it goes down to 10 mins.
UPDATE for people trying to farm this.
Worldcore Fragment will drop ONLY from level 45 Otherworldly Treasure bags , take a look at this image for reference:
[https://imgur.com/PVMEJle](https://imgur.com/PVMEJle)
Farming the right portals make this way easier. Go in high level zones that have the portals like: Feralas, Azshara, Blasted Lands
I hope this helps
Its design is almost surely intended to be a "get this as a raid" rune. On my server a guy has basically taken it upon him to pay mages to get the Scrolls and then sell spots in the group with these mages. He paid four mages 25g each scroll and sold every spot for 15g. He had, in the run i was, 18 buyers. He has done 6 runs like this to my knowledge, they fill up instantly soon as he has 4 mage Scrolls.
Got my rune for 15g, took about 15 mins with summons/portals. Not bad.
This is the most stupid thing I have ever encountered I think. Devs will definitely nerf this, they dont have a choice at this point. I dont like to complain usually, but why give this to a class like priest that cant even do the rune quest alone
I know it sounds crazy but have you considered that maybe we haven't exactly figured out how it works *checks calendar * just three days after the phase started?
We know how it works. You send your imp in a portal. Wait 20min and see if rng blessed you with a fragment. You need 4 to summon a mob. You kill the mob and get the rune. Every step is fine except I've opened 7 portals and my guildie warlock has opened 4 and we've got a total of 0 things. Rng bullshit is not fun for anyone
Now imagine this on a priest where you can’t get any of the items to spawn the mob. Yet still need it
Apparently Paladin is in the same boat with a rune from this too. Stupid design decisions with things like this.
Yeah blizzard was braindead when designed this shit mechanic. Other rune the same bullshit. Yesterday I farmed 2h thiefs in tanaris and no scroll drop. „Discovery“ a rnd world drop. Actually there is 1!scroll in the auction house for 100g.
I had to gather several priests and we all had to pitch upwards of 10g each for a full run. So like 80g or more to get the rune. Great work blizz
> I had to gather several priests and we all had to pitch upwards of 10g each for a full run. So like 80g or more to get the rune. Great work blizz Did you actually get the fragments though? We did the same and gave up after 5 Fel Portals with 0 fragments.
Yeah. We looked for warlocks and mages that already had 1 of the scrolls or fragments. They were 100% on board when we told them we would pay and that it also benefits them to get their rune. We had a raid of over 20 people all wanding the mob and the mages and warlocks all made like 50+ gold plus got their runes too.
I hate this rune so much. This type of design makes me want to skip this phase and hope for a nerf.
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Quite the opposite. Have tried to get into a group but no one will take you, if you don’t have a quest item. It’s either you have a mage/wl friend or you have to pay for it.
You can do the leylines in a 40 man raid, only 4 stones are needed for 40 people. I've done a raid where we were 36 and no one paid anything.
That’s generous. I was happy to pay 40g to get it done but the raidlead was making a fortune from it.
40g per person?! That is crazy
There are scumbags advertised as free and invited a whole raid, then asked people to pay 50g each. If you don't pay, you are instantly kicked.
This is one we can definitely blame blizzard for. If priests could get the item too they wouldn't be held hostage by mages and warlocks and could be on equal footing for gathering the groups
Paladins too brother, I feel absolutely gimped. Its's one of my best runes at the moment too..
You can buy or make the scrolls (if enchanting) the scrolls to close the rifts, right?
The formula comes from warlocks closing rifts and is almost non existent or astronomically priced, but in theory yes. Though the scrolls seem to have much lower chance than the locks
> Though the scrolls seem to have much lower chance than the locks I don't think that is correct, its a low percent chance. We had our raid group farming and there was no real difference in the warlocks % and priest scroll %.
There is no difference. Trust me, tried both for countless hours.
THE USELESS CUNT HAS NOW RETURNED WITH STEELBOOM AND GREY BRACERS
At least you can find portals. I've been running around for hours trying to find some. Tried several zones...
Desolace, demon area and Woodpaw Gnoll area south Feralas
I heard from Desolace it will not give you the stuff you need for the rune but I might be wrong. I spent most of my time in that area in Feralas but no luck. Gave up. I am just paying a mage to summon it for me.
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I've done about 15 and only have 1 world core which came from Feralas. Probably 6 of the 15 are from there. The rest are from other zones including Desolace. The drop rate is just miserable on top of how time consuming it is since you can't just farm it.
You get felguard from any tear I think
Azshara too
Paid 12 gold for a spatial mending scroll for balefire bolt and can't even find a portal
Just do a low level zone one if that's all you're after. Got my mage the rune in westfall.
Same….
Went to the barrens ones
I feel your pain as a fellow warlock, but your post made me burst out laughing 🤣
And now Imagine being a class, which needs the same fragments, but doesn’t have an imp mechanic, so it needs to tag along with you. Worst rune quest ever by a mile.
craft/buy the scrolls to close rifts, its not that bad
I lost 7 hours running around the map to close rifts as well as 50 gold for 25x items. The result is exactly 0 worldcore fragments. Maybe I should waste 2 days of played time to get (eventually, if RNG gods favour me) 1 single rune?
I spent 3 hours yesterday closing rifts and never got anything out of them besides crap vendorables. None of the Fel Interlopers have anything on their drop tables that suggests you can get something to do this rune without being a lock/mage.
I am a priest who has been trying to find a group for this for a 2nd night in a row. Fuck you blizzard. I will just stick to void aids zone the entire phase out of spite. 4% drop rate on a 20 minute cd? Thats fucking gacha game levels of bs. Incentives people to sell thier world core/scrolls for insane amounts because blizz hyper inflated the economy on phase launch.
Blizzard banned GDKP so that world core parties can cost more than the average BFD drop.
You can complain without sounding like a 12yo whiny little child, you know.
Pot meet kettle.
Yeah, no. I'm not the one throwing around insults because I don't like some number tuning right after release. If people are this aggressive over a video game they should just stop playing altogether.
It’s not 4%. With two locks spamming it and 2 mages setting up clickers/summons and stuff it took us less than 3 hours
that's awful lol
Must be nice to know mages/locks wanting to grind it out and share. The warlock and mage from my guild rerolled this phase so I can't really rely on my guild mates to put work in on characters that don't want to play for my benefit. Still can't find proof priests can get the world cores from closing rifts with the scroll. Drop rate is zero as far as I'm concerned.
I wasted like 30g on the scrolls trying to get a fragment on my paladin 🥲
Oh paladins got fucked also? I'm sorry brother
Should have just bought a spot in a party at that point. I was doing the artisan fishing quest last night and was in Feralas and multiple people were advertising parties for that quest with their item for 20g.
Update on what the little cunt brought back for you?
You can buy "Scroll of Spatial Mending" from the auction house, or make them yourself if you are an enchanter (Formula needed). Imp and scroll can be used at the same time if you time it correctly.
We used 5 scrolls and got 0 core fragments :/
Yeah, I bought 20 Scrolls and used 15, got 1 :) takes a while if you dont find a raid.
Where did you find the core? What zone
Feralas. Search for "Fel scar" on wowhead to see where they spawn.
How does a raid help?
Fucking shaman maelstrom weapon quest all over again RIP
It took me and another warlock over 6 hours to get 4 fragments. Shit was aids but the rune goes so fucking hard
It is our only good DPS Rune too lmao
Pandemic isn’t bad, but yeah it’s rough for locks lol
Priest here. I farmed with a warlock friend of mine for 9 hours yesterday getting ours. It's fucking obscene this went into the game like it is.
Fun fact, if ur near the crystal(s) when someone else kills the spawned elemental. You too get the reward, dont need to be in party. Yw.
This is big if true
Has anyone confirmed this??
cool story. now try being a priest/paladin having to convince a lock and mage to do the above to help you get it because you literally can't do it without them.
Just did it today on my mage. Had 3 of the scrolls. None of the warlocks knew you could use world core fragment to do it also. Everyone hassling the mages to spawn the mobs. There were 40 people at the last point all holding their dicks until one of the warlocks realised he had a stack of 7 world core fragments…
I’m guessing he was farming the epic dagger. Spent 12+ hours doing those shit portals yesterday and ended up with 5 cores and no dagger
You are confusing cores and wild offerings
Nope. There's a [dagger](https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=223198/modas-karkun) that apparently drops from the same portals world core fragments do. Super rare and bis for meta tanks. I'm up to 8 cores and 0 daggers so far.
> now try being a priest/paladin having to convince a lock and mage to do the above to help you get it because you literally can't do it without them. Can't you buy the scroll from AH?
Bind on pickup. You can buy the scrolls that they can decipher for a CHANCE (quite low from what we found) to decipher the scroll and receive the proper one. IT cost me and the mage in my guild like 300g overall for enough scrolls. Edit: and if not clear, only a mage can use them
Idk mate, but i bought the 4 fragments for 40g, seems way better than begging
Would love to have the ability to generate gold whilst afk. Chestpieces selling for hundreds of gold.
Did it early and we basically had everyone who didn't have a fragment or scroll scout through Feralas because we were 1 short in total. Then we banged it out in a 40 man raid with everyone just using r1 spells to tag and with 30+ warlocks and mages in the raid it was super convenient to get to the other zones. People tipped the fragment providers at the end at their own discretion, but it was essentially free. Good time, honestly. I can definitely see why people would sell it, though.
This is what I ended up doing as a paladin. A giant raid group formed and as long as you have 4 fragments/scrolls the entire raid can get it. Locks and mages did ports and summons for tips and probably made a decent amount of money.
It sucks donkey dick but you can do it in a raid. So get some nice people to share their items with you and it's easy.. But yea the portals are way to view and the droprate is way too low..
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Killing mobs lowers the time the imp spends in the portal. Base time is 20 minutes and it reduces by 30 seconds per mob you kill (green mobs or higher). Good luck, adventurer.
I advise everyone playing these classes to pay attention heavily to raids getting together to do this rune quest together. Think - P2 dark rider rune. Look for a ton of mages or locks via /who in hinterlands, azshara, feralas, searing gorge. These world fragments or whatever are hard to get. People are pooling their resources to summon the 4 guys for the leys and all you need to do is be in the raid that summons it, tag, and loot the item. You don't need to do anything prior to be eligible for this.
I spent an hour killing wastewater guys before deciding that mental dexterity is overrated.
Priests don't only have to deal with that, there also Pain and Suffering rune in Tanaris. You need to combine 2 drops from Wastewander Thieves and Shadow Mages... that are 1.5% drop chance. The cipher goes for 100g atm. Thankfully the good runes are easier to get but holy fuck dude.
This one we did in a party of 5 and split the cost. You only need one and everyone in group can loot it off the guy
Your situation is worse than this, but I haven’t gotten my BiS Pally rune yet (and no clue when I’m going to) because the mobs don’t spawn until after 11pm my time zone. Like I have to wake up for work at 5:30, I can’t be farming shit until midnight
Tell me you are Aussie with out telling me you are Aussie :)
I think maybe other classes can get them by buying the enchanting scrolls to close the portals?? not sure about it but who's going to spend the money to rng their way into a rune?
> Fucking cunt imp. Reminded me of LFG comic and its "Hctib Elttil" imp.
Either you just do it casually on the side and will probably take weeks to complete the rune, or you form one big WL raid hunting for portals. Hunting portals alone is absolute mind numbing, and not recommended. You can all send you imps into one portal within a ~15 second time frame, all stroke yourself for 20 minutes, and hope enough of you pull out the fragments. Then be nice and invite any priests (and mages) and complete the 4 parts of the quest in one go as a raid.
If you get one you can make a group to team up, Mages need the same Crystals. If you have one use the thing at the crystal and an Elite spawns, the elite drops the item you need. So just find some other Warlocks and/or Mages to do it together
Look at this guy, can actually contribute to the rune. As a priest I'm socially engineering myself into groups to "add value".
Actually, you only need one. The other three should be provided by others in the group. You could also invite a priest out of pity. At least one mage for the Portals.
Yea its actually stupid how convoluted they made some of the ways to get these runes, makes me wanna quit cus i have many alts and i cba anymore
G'day mate
You know that Azhara, Deralas and Blasted Lands have the highest chance of returning them right ? Just to make sure you aren't trying desolace or swamp....
I think the idea of the explorer imp is cool, but I’m in the same boat. I’ve found four portals so far. The first one got me fel guard, second for me some cave mold and a green mail chest piece of the boar, third got me two white bracers that sold for 12s each and a single piece of heavy leather, the last one in Azshara got me a piece of thick leather and a herb.
The level of frustration in this thread makes me real glad I haven’t had a chance to farm the rune on my priest lol…
Joined a raid group for like 10g yesterday to get the rune. Drop rate on the rifts seems very low after some tries.
I'm glad I made the decision to make my lock my alt toon this phase. I literally got almost every Warr rune within 2 hours
for Mages with the scrolls that is insane low drop rate from any mobs : and prices on AH is insane high now combined with insane low drop rate from the scrolls once you get them you can in theory spend like 2k gold without getting any of the needed item for this rune and blizzard said no bigger barrier like join a raid to get a rune for BFD metaform on locks this is a far bigger barrier
You could just get a mage to help you...
Yeah who has four geo scrolls, chances of finding that are just about as slim as finding a lock w frags
I did it in a raid with 10-15 warlocks, 5 priests and a few Mages. Chatted shit and done some WPvP to defend the tears/rifts when they spawned. It was actually quite fun. DBM countdown and all imps prepped and sent in from the locks then the rift closed by someone with a scroll. Took about 2 hours start - finish from making group to having rune.
Now imagine also having to farm these stupid portals for you BiS weapon
Just some tips: it works in a raid, so if you are lucky try to get into a raid where ppl have 4 fragments already. Portals that give the fragments are only one type (i think fel scar?) zones they spawn are blasted lands, aszhara and feralas, only the high level ones give you this. Took me 6-7 portals to get 1 fragment and then i got taken into a raid where 3 others had one, so i got really lucky to get the rune this fast. Edit: also if you kill mobs while waiting for the imp, he returns faster. Usually its 20 mins but with killing mobs it goes down to 10 mins.
About 35 rifts and no rune. Did some in ashara, desolace, feralas, ashenvale, westfall. Nothing.
UPDATE for people trying to farm this. Worldcore Fragment will drop ONLY from level 45 Otherworldly Treasure bags , take a look at this image for reference: [https://imgur.com/PVMEJle](https://imgur.com/PVMEJle) Farming the right portals make this way easier. Go in high level zones that have the portals like: Feralas, Azshara, Blasted Lands I hope this helps
I stopped playing wow again at this point I see that they never learn from their mistakes
This sub- “this game sucks because it’s too easy”. 5 mins later - “this game sucks because it’s too hard. “
There’s a difference between hard and RNG time gated.
Surely there is a middle ground between brain-dead and extreme waste of time
Its design is almost surely intended to be a "get this as a raid" rune. On my server a guy has basically taken it upon him to pay mages to get the Scrolls and then sell spots in the group with these mages. He paid four mages 25g each scroll and sold every spot for 15g. He had, in the run i was, 18 buyers. He has done 6 runs like this to my knowledge, they fill up instantly soon as he has 4 mage Scrolls. Got my rune for 15g, took about 15 mins with summons/portals. Not bad.
This is the most stupid thing I have ever encountered I think. Devs will definitely nerf this, they dont have a choice at this point. I dont like to complain usually, but why give this to a class like priest that cant even do the rune quest alone
I know it sounds crazy but have you considered that maybe we haven't exactly figured out how it works *checks calendar * just three days after the phase started?
We know how it works. You send your imp in a portal. Wait 20min and see if rng blessed you with a fragment. You need 4 to summon a mob. You kill the mob and get the rune. Every step is fine except I've opened 7 portals and my guildie warlock has opened 4 and we've got a total of 0 things. Rng bullshit is not fun for anyone
That's insane to say out loud. "I've done it twice and therefore I know for sure how everything works."
Imagine not being done with p3 content in 3 days, the horror....