Rune Traders, Yay or Nay ?

My personal Opinion on the matter is that they ruined the entire market and not only the market for runes but the point of runes.

Runes were ment to be hard to find and difficult to recover. What is point of buying an expert salvage kit or locating runes if for a mere 120 gp I can buy some of the rune my characters can use. Hell even a superior is going for 2k. Why waste our time with salvaging runes, if we can buy them for less then it cost to locate and salvage them.

Beyond the simple point that they unlock options in pvp characters runes have become worthless.

the simple point that they unlock options in pvp characters runes

Well, now it's easy for me to unload the less popular runes, and I can get a "fair market" price for the ones I want to sell. I found a major fire rune yesterday. I haven't decided whether or not I want to use it, due to the health hit. I have a major vigor that helps offset the cost of my major energy storage. But 2 majors? I don't think it's worth the decreased hp, especially when I'm one element for all of about a week. I'm constantly using my refund points and changing things. But the first thing I did when I got it was check the trader. I can unload it quick for about 3k.

rune trader's are crap! trying to sell my superior fast casting, its going for less than 1k at trader!!!!! perty soon minors are going to be better than superiors!
totaly agree when the runes should be hard to find.

I like it. Finding them is boring.

I like it. My characters feel competent now.

Yes and no. While I tire of keeping runes around in a vain hope that I will eventually be able to sell them, I want to sell them for more then 25 gc. Especially the Majors.

And it seems no one in my guild wants me runes either. I literally can't give these bastards away.

What's the point of selling them for more if the main reason for getting cash is to get runes? Personally, I think that it makes the game more fun for those of us who don't want to farm. I don't want to see runes turn into SoJs.

Yay for concept, nay for the crazy low prices for major runes, etc.

They should have a price that major runes cannot be under (say 500) and for superior (1k?)

some superiors suck, and that's why they cost/sell for so little.

Yeah, who really wants superior strength or beast mastery

i hate dealing with the clowns hoarding, driving up the prices, and scamming newbs. i sell all my runes to the trader just because its easy. i have no patience for bartering.

the ppl who complain the most were selling gold to IGE.

i dont mind the rune traders, its actually making it a lot easier to get through the game with my second PvE character. I just wish I could have gotten some kind of warning before this happened because right before the patch I was whoring superior runes like there was no tomorrow (just cause I finally had the money to buy them from people) and planned on selling them for higher prices and get RICH! but guess what, that superior strength rune I just bought for 12k is worth about as much as a bleached carapace now =/


EDIT: and yeah I know there probly was a heads up on the whole rune trader thing on the official GW website or somethin, but I'm lazy and would prefer some ingame notices or somethin instead

I love the rune trader, its really helped to settle the economy, which was quickly becoming rune based.

but have you check the prices for major runes or different type of runes that is being brought; some of them cost at least 1 plat or more. If rune trader did something is to make people wanting to get much gold as possible to buy those runes (than again, what the difference before the traders when you got people spamming msg for major runes +20 armors, max hammer skills for 10k or 10 platinum or any other runes for high price)

Im all for the rune trader because Im impatient. Now, when I want to switch out my skills, or make a new char, I just go to the rune trader rather than sitting in LA dist 1 or Asc dist 1 for 2 hours trying to get the right crap.

Yay *_*

The rune trader also auto-adjusts it's price. The more often a particular rune is bought, the higher it's price, also the more it'll give you if you sell it a rune. Minor beastmastery, 25gp, minor marksmanship probably 300gp or so.

I don't like it. Runes weren't difficult to get in the first place, any rune I'd ever needed, EVER, I could get from a guildmate and/or find relatively quickly in Lion's Arch from someone, and not for a high price even. Now people find runes and want to sell them and nobody wants to buy them because they can just get them from the trader. So when the guy wants to go sell it to the rune trader he gets 25g for it. Wow, that's a profit. You can find a staff in less than 3 minutes that sells for more than the rune that took you 9 hours to find.

They do, however, even out the economy.

One thing that bothers me though---before hand, PvP people who wanted runes had to go unlock them in PvE. PvE people who wanted to use them in PvP had to go get them as well. Now the PvE people can buy them and use them on that character for PvP. And the PvP people would still need to unlock them on their own for the PvP characters since they don't use the PvE characters for PvP...am I right on this or did I miss something? Because to my knowledge buying from the rune trader does not unlock for PvP.

Then again...I don't really care. I only use two minor runes anyway. The superiors aren't worth the health decrease, and since superior vigors are so high in price you can't even it out. And now since runes sell for a crap price at the rune trader you can't get the money to buy them that way. Might I add that I've unlocked a total of 3, now 3. (Two up until last night where I unlocked my 3rd), and NONE of them salvaged. How screwed up is that? I'm just doomed to get screwed, I know it. That's got to be it.

They're alright. I'm just unlucky.

yes i like it in a certain way. Because now you got a nice price check, as with the dyes and the materials. Only negatif thing is that the whole concept of runes being rare and hard to find is wasted. But i still like it when i find them and salvage them when i can.