Bane of my existence...

[Taushar]

I am talking about high level spells. It's rare that I see Specs or Runes drop in high level zone. And when they do, I have to compete for them with other casters and sometime other melees too on /random. I was able to win 4 specs and 3 runes in groups since the introduction of PoP. Last night I won a rune and I am about to give up.

Of 4 Specs I won, I got 3 Hammer of ****ation and 1 Supernal Light. Of 3 Runes, I got 3 Yaulp 6. Yaulp 6? There are 6 spells I can get for a Rune and I get 3 Yaulp 6 in a row? I know it's RNG but this is just too much. There has to be a better way to do this. At this rate I will never get all my spell. As of now, I only have half of my 63-65 spells.

Of course SoE says you can trade spells with other people but how can I approach someone and say "can I trade my Yaulp 6 with your Hand of Virtue?" I would be laughed at. Buying the spell is no solution since Hand of Virtue go for about 80kpp if they are on sale. If I got 3 spells I really need, I would have to spend over 150kpp to buy them. No way.

I wish they have a side quest to get the spell you want or another chance to trade in the spell for something else. I am getting very frustrated.

Taushar

[Tinile]

Yep, my spells are expensive too. I have less then half of my 63+ spells. I bought most of mine in bazaar. I buy them as I can, if I see a good deal. If it takes me a very long time to get them all I don't care. I can still play just fine and have fun without them. Sold an expensive pottered item this weekend which enabled me to buy 3 new spells, made me happy!

[Pojodan]

Geh... I can't imagine the burden of pure caster classes.
As a beastlord I have a total of 5 spectral spells and 2 runes spells.
2 of the spectrals are necessary (lvl 64 pet summon & Spiritual Dominion) and one of the runes is needed (65% slow).
Took me about 20 AA worth of grinding in BoT to get the spectrals I needed (I bought 2 of the spells and made up for the price selling extra copies I got before getting the full set of 5).
After nearly 50 AA of grinding I've seen a grand total of two runes drop after killed over 12 mini bosses, both of which I lost the roll to, naturally.
I bought a rune MQ from someone for 25k and got my other rune spell (Ferocity).
The 65% slow I've only seen for sale once for 75k and know two people who bought it, one for 75k, the other for 70k.

So, unless I just luck out big time three times over with a named kill, a rune drop, a winning /rand, and the right spell upon turn-in, I'm stuck to just wait till I get in a guild that raids PoP tier 3+ to have a chance at that last spell.