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Commento di 1610

Shares its cooldown with Demonic Runes, but not with potions.

Amazing item for healers in raids; I highly advise picking these up off of the AH or running Scholomance a few times and stocking up on them.

Commento di 5429

The damage effect can crit.

Commento di 53109

One time, I was bored, and had a thought: Can this item actually kill you, or does it act like a warlock's lifetap spell? (Doesn't take HP when the amount to be taken is greater than your current health, and displays 'Fizzled' as an error message)
To test this theory, I got:
-One dark rune I got in Scholomance before.
-My level 4 mage alt :D

-Walked into the 'center' of stormwind's trade district in case I did happen to die.(I wanted to make people say "WTF?" as always)
-Used it, bam, instant death, it was like I just feigned death, exept, obviously, I -was- dead :P

I don't believe it did armour damage, since it is effectively a 'suicide effect' (Much like when I hellfire myself to death)

Commento di 51067

does this trigger the global cooldown, or can you use this instead of lifetap / dark pact to get a little more mana and not waste spellcasting time?

Commento di whalestory

Does this proc earth shield or prayer of mending?

Commento di 40551

To answer the questions of Syrah and wutdaheck:

Firstly, after testing with two runes and watching closely, I found that this item does NOT trigger the global cooldown.

Additionally, this does not proc Earth Shield when it harms you. I would then guess that it also does not proc Prayer of Mending. For Priests, though, remember that Shadow Word: Death does proc Prayer of Mending, so that's an alternative.

Commento di 53267

After reading that it is possible to die from these, I'm wondering: what happens if a level 20 naked Bloof Elf Mage (least stamina) uses these in Arathi Basin? Can they then commence the flag-ninja trick? Or has Blizzard countered this somehow?

Commento di 94722

This is a werry hard item to get when you realy need it, you need 5 of them for the paladin epic mount q and they never drop once you need em, and the fue thats on AH sells for insane prices up to 40g sometimes. I recomend you paladins out there to get a guildrun in Scholo and just farm farm farm it will take a day, maybe 2 but you get your Runes.

Commento di defektunge

Be very careful when sending these to bank alts. Accidentally rightclicked one when I was going to AH it, and my bank alt now lies dead on the auction house floor...

Who would have thought trading in necromantic items was such a dangeous business? ;)

Commento di 104412

I sold one for 25g, sold within 20 minutes. I thought I'd sold it too cheap but obviously not. A very common drop in scholo.

Commento di laerhof

Funny thing with Dark Runes is that they turn extremely dark when you pick them up inside your inventory. This is because of the black/blue combination, but one doesn't see it with many items.

Adds to the Darkness! (6)

Commento di jaxsonbateman

Fantastically useful item for paladins of any spec, as it can refund up to an extra 100 mana thanks to Spiritual Attunement (provided someone else heals the paladin after use). For holy, extra mana is extra healing, and always welcome. For prot, extra mana is extra threat, and there aren't a lot of fights where a 1k health hit at a controlled, appropriate time (ie. near full health) is going to cause a death. For a ret paladin, their gear lacks pretty much any mana regen, so having these available is a great way to further increase dps.

Actually, now that I think about it, they're really useful for pretty much any mana using class in the game, save locks. ^^ Any serious raider should get a few of these (or Demonic Runes as I prefer, due to the fact that these AH for a bundle and Demonic Runes are soulbound ^^) for use on at least progression fights.

Commento di 148161

Amazing item to give to lowbies who beg for free things whenever you're in a city.

Commento di theslish

I have been saving up for my Pally's epic mount and this is the only thing that is eluding me. On my server, these babies are selling for 25g if you are lucky. The whole deal is that since these are from Sholomance, they are pretty rare on the AH (then again my serer is pretty lame). So far, I have 2 and am bidding on a third though they are just so expensive for a 55 who's guildmates decided to stop playing once they got their epic flyings... The point is, no guild wants to farm these babies because there is not point in farming a pre BC endgame dungeon. Until Wrath comes out, no one is going to be able to handle it alone, either. So, either find a guild that will roll with you on it or just keep finding groups for them. AH prices are rediculous...

Commento di 153483

i just gave this to a lvl 16 whoa sked for gold, said to use it it would give him money. he died and i laughed for 2 minutes straight. priceless.

Commento di Ansawa

We've decided that these may be useful for the Kaz'rogal fight in Mount Hyjal. Given the critical importance of mana-based DPS keeping themselves topped off on mana on this fight, and the relative lack of widespread raid damage to stress healers and make bandaging impossible, having an item that refunds mana without consuming a potion cooldown would be very nice to have for hunters, shaman, and druids in the raid.

Commento di Thottbot

Actually a more useful item than many people reasise. I use them for my priest for MC all the time (easier to farm these than the demonic runes).

Low on mana, burn one of these and gain say 1200 mana, use 300 of that to renew myself to recover the lost HP and go on healing.

I love them

Commento di Thottbot

Dark Runes are required for some of the quests in Silithus. They are needed to create a crest of Fire/Air/Water beckoning.

Commento di Thottbot

On Mal'Ganis, I got 15g for mine. Others were selling theirs for 20g. They are definitely worth some money it seems.

Commento di Thottbot

Someone Traded me one of these......
Used It as a lvl 15 rogue for a laugh.................

Dead

Commento di Thottbot

It appears that at least one of the summonable bosses in the new tier 0.5 set questlines will do some insane shadow damage, so keep these for the stygian gear. Stygian gear is to shadow as Dark Iron is to fire (sort of).

Commento di Thottbot

After the patch, has anyone noticed a major drop in Dark Runes in Scholomance? Did a run last night and only one dropped... I also noticed an increase in its AH price.

Commento di Thottbot

Were we in the same run? Cleared more than 50% of scholo and only 1 dropped. What gives Blizzard?

Commento di Thottbot

thanks a lot blizzard for nerfing the droprate to hell and then requiring that many for the BE mount quest. We're by Rattlegore now and ZERO drops so far.

Commento di Thottbot

In my experience the drop rate is lower than it's here but maybe I was just unlucky. I went 5 runs and keeled 19 dark summoners/necromancers each.

1st run got 1 Dark Rune (5% drop)

2nd run got 3 Dark Rune (16% drop)

3rd run got 0 Dark Rune (0% drop)

4th run got 0 Dark Rune (0% drop)

5th run got 1 Dark Rune (5% drop)

So out of 95 mobs I got 5 drops, which is 5,3% drop rate.

Commento di Thottbot

The price of these has soared from like 2g to 20g with the pally epic quest, and also because of the fact that nobody runs scholo anymore for any reason. You can't find these in the AH and you won;t be finding groups to run through scholo either. I had my alt hunter farm the trash mobs that drop these but it was difficult and they have a low droprate. Sucks if you don;t have a high level alt.

Commento di Thottbot

Using this while in a divine shield? I am completely unsure as to whether the health loss would still occur or not. I mean, divine shield by its very nature makes you immune to all damage (even fall damage which no other damage prevention technique can stop, ie PW:S or even BoP), but in order to keep things fair, you'd think that you should still take damage. Anyone wanna try it out? I would, but it's hard enough getting them anymore as is.

On that note, anyone know if you still take damage from BoSac with divine shield on? Though that is getting off topic...

Commento di Thottbot

Needed 5 for my pally quest, i couldnt get them to drop off the necromancers very often, it seems they are more likely to drop off of bosses now since it has apparently been updated a few times. If i had to guess i say each boss has a 40% and the necromancers and some of the others have like 5%, regardless of what the old statistics say.

Commento di Thottbot

For the Price I've seen Dark Runes in the ah going for, it was cheaper for me to pay some level 70's to run me through Scholo a few times.

Price for 5 in ah:200 gold (40 a piece)
Cost of getting 4 70's to run me, 60 gold 15 a piece.

Might have cost me more to get the runes from runing, since they were charging by the run, but about 30 had dropped by the end, so I gave my spares to level 59-60 pallies.

Commento di Thottbot

This is how I make money on Alliance. I farm the hell out of these, and transfer them to my Horde account through the BB AH. They sell like hot cakes over there, netting me a good 10g each.

Commento di Thottbot

I swear to god - Blizzard is pure bloody evil for doing this to palidans, especially ones on low pop servers. On mine - Scholo is lucky if it gets run once - even twice a day. THerefor there are very rarely to never any of these in the ah, itss nearly impossible to get a group to run it - and the drop rate is so horrendous -

I ran the begining and middle parts of this instance twice and only saw it drop once - I had to roll against another palidan to recieve it - I was fortunate to get one at all - the other guy walked away empty-handed -

Blizzard - from the bottom of my heart - **ck you.

Commento di Thottbot

Wow! I was just reading the first posts to the last. The drop rate must have dropped dramaticly from when they were first put in. That is not very bright of Blizzard. By the way, pallys are not the only ones who can use these; tailors and blacksmiths can use them too, for some rather nice recipes. True pallies are having a difficult time but then they should set up a party to do it, (explain the need to the other party members, first, so no one gets ticked about you needing all the time) I'm planning to set up a party with guild members so i can get the blacksmithing recipes from a ghost vender found there.

Commento di Thottbot

Tips if you are a lvl 70 farming for your alt paladin you'll need 5 of those for the quest so here we go:
First of all you must be a lvl 70 for fast farming once you enter scholo you kill the 4 first guards once you enter you can skip the first chamber without touching any mob in there, in the second chamber where the dark-summoners are is your objective i cleared that room 4 times and got 5 dark runes don't go further than this once you clear the room zone out reset and do the same till you get all dark runes, dark-summoners have a really nice drop rate plus the nice runecloth drop rate , nice silver drop, got 2 blues in my 5 runs, 2 greens and some crap well that's up to you now, it shouldn't take longer than 30minutes.
Note: if you are a warlock don't use the aoe dot or you somehow will aggro mobs from another room.

Commento di Thottbot

Thank god they aren't BoP. With the current drop rate and the fact that no one really runs scholo anymore, finding some of these on the AH as a BE pally makes the epic mount quest so much easier. They're going for around 12g each on Moonrunner, horde side.

Commento di Thottbot

IF you horde try to pick some up at neutral AH. They are a little cheaper on ally side since they dont use them for pally quest.

Commento di Thottbot

Boulderfist has them for 35g per...sucks. I wish there was a way to get em at lvl 60 without having to find a group and run scholo. Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep LFG...

Commento di Thottbot

THIS IS INSANCE BLIZZARD !@#$ U! u can never find em at AH but if u do they cost 60g on my server EACH a stack costs 150g! its insane

Commento di Thottbot

I soo need thease for my lvl 58.....I went to scholo with my friend (LvL 70 Hunter) and we did like 4 runs and none of thease (Not full runs we did up to rattlegore) There so friggin' rare!

Commento di Thottbot

theres one more issue to add on to this, getting the key. no one i know ever gets the key. also no one on my server sells these, so my only hope is to get a 70 guy to run me who had wow before bc.

Commento di Thottbot

Still wonderful in the burning crusade to supplement mana pots b/c they dont share CD. Got 2 on my rogue running scholo yesterday, and several others dropped I didn't get.

Commento di Thottbot

Just found out now, you need your Epic Mount training to get your Flying Mount training. While it may seem easy enough to solo through some of these areas, it's by no means any cheaper to acquire the Arcanite Bars, nor is it any fun to run back to all the old stomping grounds just so you can actually get around Blade's Edge. Thinking it may be cheaper in the long run to get a Choco-Epic rather than this pally chain...and the Pristing Black Diamonds, hell if I can find those cheap on the AH, let alone try and farm them. Oh well...

Commento di Thottbot

friken stupid! these runes are goin for 100g A PEICE on my server nevermind stacks of five!

this is bs, farming this stuff on my 70 takes forever!

BULLSH*T

Commento di Thottbot

Farmed these for my blood elf pala with my main, full blue prot warrior. I tried both dual wield and 1h+shield combo and the shield was better at the bigger pulls. You kill a little slower but you don't have to spend much time eating.

What I do is first I kill the two skeleton guards closest to the first door, run down the stairs and bypass the groups on each side of the second door, just run in the middle between them and open the door and they won't aggro.

Now you have reached the place to farm Dark Runes, each group has one summoner in it. Clear the pats so you get as smooth farming as possible. Then go ahead and kill the groups. Be aware that the summoners walk a few steps between their summonings, so having improved shield bash could help giving you enough time to pull them away from the other groups. IF you would aggro too many mobs then just run up and straight out. It doesnt matter if you pull any additional mobs, they can't kill you.

When you are done with that room go ahead and open the third door. This room can be annoying if you pull in the wrong order so make sure you can LOS pull them into the previous room, these guys run at low health.

I just cleared these two rooms ONCE to get all my dark runes, so the drop rate must've been buffed and not nerfed as some ppl claim here. The drop rate must be at least 10% from my experience. The low drop rate might be because of old data from the glory days when Scholo were as Kara is now.

Do note that this is written out of the perspective of a protection warrior with no spectacular gear at all. I think a dps warrior would experience it easier due to faster kills.

Also, this is nothing I have tried on Scholo but it works on Dire Maul locked doors, if you don't have the key you can kite a mob from Sorrow Hill (or maybe the lake if there's any mobs there, never checked) and let it kill you near the door. Then run with your corpse inside the door and rez. Tada! No need to get the key. As I said this should be confirmed by someone as I only did this on DM. Be sure to unequip your precious gear before doing this.

Commento di Thottbot

im a 68 rogue and my friend is a 60 palli. he needs these for his palli mount. on our server aggamagan they havn't been up on the AH for a while so we diceded to 2 man Scholo. I would just tank the mobs while he healed me {hes ret too} we'd get to the room with the summoners and kill everyone in there and just reset the instance then juts do this continuisly til he got all 5 Dark Runes.

Commento di Thottbot

I got stack of 4 with 15 g in my ah in Executus

Commento di Thottbot

Trick to get into Scholo if you have no key is, i Rode on my My mount, with all my Armor off, near the door, there is a Ledge you can keep riding off to take dmg, till your less then 1 hundred health if you time it correctly. then run up the stairs and Jump off the Building near the entrence. Unfortunatly my 64 Warrior is not enough to kill groups of 3 or more. and i cant just walk through the doors passed the guys. But just thought i would post a Helpful note on getting in with no Key

Commento di Allakhazam

Requires 5 of these Dark Runes, I tried solo on here as a 66 Protadin, it does not work! Most mobs are green and there a truckload of casters in every room, which even though is bad, is kinda good also, as the only 2 normal mobs that can drop these are either the Necromancers or the Dark summoners in scholomance + 4 bosses which are:

Instructor Malicia in Scholomance
Lady Illucia Barov in Scholomance
Lorekeeper Polkelt in Scholomance
The Ravenian in Scholomance

Cleared virtually every room to Rattlegore and I got 2 runes so far, making the droprate teh suxx (worst possible), sadly the 3 others I went with where 55-56ish and could not offer so much dps wise making the farming run tedious and so long that i grew tired after 3 hours give or take some, but then again, getting any lvl 60+ in a pug wanting to go there is virtually impossible, except if they are BE Paladins - but really, would you like to roll on the 5-6 that drop in 1 run?

Commento di Allakhazam

Wanna buy 5 of em! Runetotem horde, Nicolai /w me plz!

Commento di Allakhazam

WTB 5 dark rune :/ The Venture Co horde EU servers :/ if some1 have /w Icex

Thx

Commento di Allakhazam

Also used in the Armor Upgrade quests... at least the rogue one... though i thought they would all be the same... but w/e yeah dont let casters tell u that only they get to roll :P

Commento di Allakhazam

... finished run i got 5 runes out of 6... do you call that luck? :P

Commento di Allakhazam

It's been so long since I've been to scholo, or the plaguelands.

Do these only drop inside Scholomance, or is there a chance elsewhere? (I only see scholo listed in the drop table, but i don't always trust everything i see online)

Edited, Oct 8th 2007 3:27am by ffenderx

Commento di Allakhazam

Very easy, all dung soled by 70 lvl rogue ^_^

Commento di Allakhazam

On the US server Uldum horde side I am looking to buy 4 of these. If you have either send them C.O.D or wisper to Paledin will pay a good fair price. Thanks

Commento di Allakhazam

There are apparently some new tailoring and blacksmithing patterns that need these as materials, so they're not just spellcaster loot. I was in a scholomance run where a spellcaster insisted that only spellcasters rolled on them. Don't let them do that if you're a blacksmith or a tailor. Tell them about these patterns.

Commento di Allakhazam

if blizzard makes it tailor-only or profession-specific, then they might as well remove the quest from silithus that allows you to make the signets. :(

Commento di Allakhazam

Five of these are used in the blood elf paladin epic mount quest as well:

A Gesture of Commitment

Commento di Allakhazam

Man I went into Scholo on the bugged mobs and they dropped on everyone of them. Got the Stygian leggings pattern in the bag from the Chapters Quest in Silithus and sent it to my alt. Drop rate for this week should be 100%. Tailors/ BSers should be the only ones to roll for them now for the patterns, unless Blizz adds some enchantment recipe later for weapons.

Omicron/Dyst
Lothar (Horde)

Edited, Thu Oct 13 09:42:29 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

These are for killing your level 1 alt at the IF bridge to insult someone else who passes by there often.

Commento di Allakhazam

I DON'T HAVE ANYMORE <3

Edited, Jul 9th 2007 8:19pm by UberDeathrow

Commento di Allakhazam

Drop of Kazzak to

Commento di Allakhazam

Why does blizzard insist on ripping me back into Scholo well after I'm finished with that place.

Commento di Allakhazam

Well, the .02% drop must have been buffed cuz i was in Scholo yesterday and about 3 of them droped in one run. Mobs were also dying standing up, so maybe the patch bugged it a bit. GET EM NOW!

Commento di acidratm

I can confirm that Dark Runes no longer have huge drop rate on necromancers/summoners as they did before phase 5. It could be that Blizzard nerfed it because of bots, but it might be just a normal change for this phase too.

Commento di BishopUSA

With the release of Ahn'Qiraj, the drop percentage has decreased 2.5 times and is ~~ 17%

Commento di Kanariya

Drop rate nerf for Phase 5 is Blizz-like, as they had nerfed it with the Ahn'Qiraj patch in 2006.

Patch 1.9.0: Drop rate of Dark Runes in Scholomance has been reduced.

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