Abyssal Rune

[Aradar]

Can anyone confirm this actually drops from the 2nd boss(es) in regular ToC?

I'm up to 23 kills with no trinkets and of course I only need 4, lol. I hope the weapons aren't this bad in heroic since I need 5 or it will take over a year.

[yaki]

Normal Eadric or Confessor, yes. No drop on Heroic.

Probability per kill is about 15%, meaning that you will on average see one every 6 2/3 kills. Funny story, there's a 2.4% probability that you won't see one at all for 23 kills in a row, and a 20% probability that you won't see one in a given block of ten kills. It sucks, but that's RNG for you. IMO they should have a pseudo-random system that has mercy on the long-suffering instead of trying to mimic random events - but I didn't code it.

[Malekyth]

IMO they should have a pseudo-random system that has mercy on the long-suffering instead of trying to mimic random events

Sooooo agreed. Blizzard has a lot of things down pat, but something they don't quite understand (as bits of them still want to be older MMOs) is, every moment of a game should be fun. Corpse-running, inventory management and totally random drops are the next to go, I predict, though maybe not soon.

As for the rune, I've got it on one single character and I've been running regular ToC a lot lately. It's pretty scarce.

[Fuzzyboy]

It took me exactly 29 runs to get all 4 for my shamans, but the first three dropped in a row. Avoiding randomness completely (for instance having badges for all loot) would be perhaps a bit too predictable? A masochistic part of me sort of enjoys the grind - reminds me of the totem of the void farm :P

[yaki]

There are already a non-random systems in parallel (badges, crafting, PVP points) which are useful to varying degrees.

You can have the appearance of randomness without being completely random - it is a piece of software, not a coin flip. This goes double for collection quests. A simple method would be to use the number of kills against a mob type in the drop probability formula. The catch is that you have to deal with loot tables - you don't want something that drops 30 different items to start dropping the whole table at once just because it's seen by someone that's killed it 100 times.

[Volch0k]

I did 34 runs for 4x SP daggers in heroic...

RNG SUCKS in toc >_>

[Marathon]

I have it on one of my shamies.

[Jubber]

I was trying to get the banner from her on my pallies. Instead I wound up with 6 abyssal runes. LoL.

[yaki]

I was trying to get the banner from her on my pallies. Instead I wound up with 6 abyssal runes. LoL.

This is where the Law of Universal Perversity comes into play. The guy that doesn't want it always gets the best RNG.

[Noids]

I have it on my 4. Only ever saw it drop from the Confessor however, so assumed Eadric did not drop it. Once I had the stam trink on my tank I just farmed the first and second bosses and if Eadric popped I would reset without killing him. Got them all in a days farming in the end.