Metamorphosis Warlock Rune Discovered - Season of Discovery

Classic Posted 2023/12/03 at 7:20 PM by Rokman

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Loot the Orb of Des at the top of the Tower of the Ilgalar in Redridge Mountains and Bough of Altek at the top of the Tower of Althalaxx in Darkshore. Both items will be needed later in the quest.

Complete The Orb of Soran'ruk at 49,57 in The Barrens, which requires items from both Shadowfang Keep and Blackfathom Deeps.

This leads to The Conjuring follow-up quest, which requires looting Blood of the Legion from demons at Demon Fall Ridge in northern Ashenvale.

After obtaining the blood, interact with the altar to begin a ritual, summoning a few waves of demons that must be defeated using Drain Soul while standing inside the purple rune on the ground. Defeat the final Searing Infernal this way to trigger the Mysterious Traveler quest.

Return to the Barrens and turn in the quest to receive the final step, Raszel Ander, which will grant the rune.

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Comment by DeBronkoThat you have to get into a raid is a bit cringe yes but what upsets me more is that you have get into deep alliance territory to get the 2 items in the first place. I mean wtf i had to kill like 5 players which wanted to find out.Comment by WaffleDinoYou know what's really funny is Blizzard literally can't do anything cool because any time they do there are whiners with their hand held out demanding they be handed the cool thing without doing the cool work to earn it.

This is how retail got like it got; People literally can't handle not having instant gratification anymore. sad.Comment by AkecheSo... to even be able to tank. Warlocks have to go into the raid. Meaning they have no possibility of tanking any of the dungeons prior to BFD while leveling to 25.

Edit: For reference, I was wanting to roll Horde and try out tanking on a Shaman but my friend insisted Alliance. "Hey that's alright, Warlock will get to tank!" Except no, not really. Not for most of Phase 1 anyway. When if I was a Shaman I could've just used Purge on a wandering elite and instantly had the main rune I needed to tank.Comment by KruggovThat you have to get into a raid is a bit cringe yes but what upsets me more is that you have get into deep alliance territory to get the 2 items in the first place. I mean wtf i had to kill like 5 players which wanted to find out.Comment by FlyingToasterThat you have to get into a raid is a bit cringe yes but what upsets me more is that you have get into deep alliance territory to get the 2 items in the first place. I mean wtf i had to kill like 5 players which wanted to find out.Comment by ChanchiThat you have to get into a raid is a bit cringe yes but what upsets me more is that you have get into deep alliance territory to get the 2 items in the first place. I mean wtf i had to kill like 5 players which wanted to find out.Comment by YummkaAt this point I am convinced devs are testing via SoD what is and isn't acceptable by players.

Tbf this is just dumb. People made rogues and warlocks on launch in order to tank as them and they were left disappointed. How is this decision respectful towards players? How is it "good" in any way to lock these particular specs behind daunting rep grind and raid drop, while for example arcane mage is able to be a healer and druids got free Wrath on lvl 4?

I will sound like I hang around twitter a lot, but this is no longer a spec imbalance, but spec discrimination.Comment by Cridi1so why this classic secondary game gets all that cool sh!t while in retail we have boring same mythic plus content for years.. i would play retail as a warlock tank or mage healer, why is that not in the retail game?Comment by jeciseb7Raid requirement is stupid, no other class has a single rune that needs a raid, especially for such an important rune such as allowing TANKING.

People are already SELLING cleared raids for GDKP to Warlocks.

This idiotic design choice needs to be fixed. Or add a rune for every other class to the raid.Comment by yummymilkersSeems a bit weird Warlock can't actually tank until they've basically completed phase 1.

It's a neat, unique unlock. But still a bit weird. Curious what's gonna happen if people start in later phases, if they'll still have to do BFD when nobody's running it anymore.Comment by trinotronRetail players are used to having everything given to them. I hope Blizzard ignores these babies and continues to make these runes extremely difficult to obtain. No one cares about your raid comp, change it and work together to get the rune. This is the coolest thing Blizzard has done for years and the fact they got wowhead to not leak everything on launch like they usually do is incredible. Maybe they will take this approach for future releases.
Wowhead has fundamentally changed the way WoW is played, for better or for worse. I do wish they stuck to being a database post-launch, only posting things once they're discovered in game and restrained from data mining every detail of a whole expac/patch before it's released.Comment by kellar
And when you're level 40 you're going to be able to just go in and 1 shot everything like it's a dungeon.Comment by ludekcortexTbh it just kinda looks like and incompetence on Blizzard side, not an actual intended plan to lock the rune behind the raid.

The overall gist of the requirements is to visit classic demon infested mage towers and and do a Warlock class quest.

The only reason why this rune requires a raid, is because they forgot that BFD is no longer a dungeon in SoD, and the players are now just reminding them about (this also affects any standard BFD quest).

The easiest solution would just to have a difficulty toggle for BFD, like a separate portal so you can decide if you want to go to the dungeon or raid version of it.Comment by AxeOfAxeIs it really that bad? You just loot two items in world, run a dungeon that you would run anyway, then you run a raid that you would run anyway, and you finish it up you get the rune and can tank now yay! Feel free to do the dungeon and raid again as a tank if you miss that opportunity :D
You guys have to realize stuff like this is what makes classic appealing, the fact that in retail there is nothing like this is why retail feels so bland. Its completely okay that someone has it easier than someone else, thats what makes it cool. (Im warlock and Im pissed i have to do all this to tank xd)Comment by tensu950Very disappointed that its locked behind doing BFD, Been spamming LFG trying to get into a BFD run and get ignored. GG was fun for a bit SoD.Comment by tensu950Is it really that bad? You just loot two items in world, run a dungeon that you would run anyway, then you run a raid that you would run anyway, and you finish it up you get the rune and can tank now yay! Feel free to do the dungeon and raid again as a tank if you miss that opportunity :D
You guys have to realize stuff like this is what makes classic appealing, the fact that in retail there is nothing like this is why retail feels so bland. Its completely okay that someone has it easier than someone else, thats what makes it cool. (Im warlock and Im pissed i have to do all this to tank xd)Comment by AxeOfAxeIs it really that bad? You just loot two items in world, run a dungeon that you would run anyway, then you run a raid that you would run anyway, and you finish it up you get the rune and can tank now yay! Feel free to do the dungeon and raid again as a tank if you miss that opportunity :D
You guys have to realize stuff like this is what makes classic appealing, the fact that in retail there is nothing like this is why retail feels so bland. Its completely okay that someone has it easier than someone else, thats what makes it cool. (Im warlock and Im pissed i have to do all this to tank xd)also you have to remember this is now locking core content behind Pve content what about players who just want to pvp? Are they screwed out of these runes and any future phase runes that are locked behind raids?what if blizz decided down the line to go "Want this rune well hit high warlord/grand marshal to be able to buy it from the PVP vendor."Comment by SnippeyIs it really that bad? You just loot two items in world, run a dungeon that you would run anyway, then you run a raid that you would run anyway, and you finish it up you get the rune and can tank now yay! Feel free to do the dungeon and raid again as a tank if you miss that opportunity :D
You guys have to realize stuff like this is what makes classic appealing, the fact that in retail there is nothing like this is why retail feels so bland. Its completely okay that someone has it easier than someone else, thats what makes it cool. (Im warlock and Im pissed i have to do all this to tank xd)Comment by AxeOfAxeIs it really that bad? You just loot two items in world, run a dungeon that you would run anyway, then you run a raid that you would run anyway, and you finish it up you get the rune and can tank now yay! Feel free to do the dungeon and raid again as a tank if you miss that opportunity :D
You guys have to realize stuff like this is what makes classic appealing, the fact that in retail there is nothing like this is why retail feels so bland. Its completely okay that someone has it easier than someone else, thats what makes it cool. (Im warlock and Im pissed i have to do all this to tank xd)Comment by TokenScramblesGotta be honest. The people making decisions like "I'm going to be a lock tank" without even knowing how the rune was going to be acquired are the real dummies. You can say Blizzard bricked your guild, but you were the ones that went in blind without even know how this was going to work. I'll be happy to watch the lock tanks that prevail next phase and onward. Also to be fair, the way you aquire this one seems so much more thought out than the rest. As a Priest, when the majority of my runes is "find off dead mob and hope you have Priest buffs", it makes me kinda of envious that some class had to actually do things for their runes. Makes em more special imo.

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