These runes are used alot in mid/support and they cost a total of 820 IP each so a full set of them costs 7,390 IP TOTAL I'm not on everyday and it's so hard to get that much IP for full rune sets. I'd like to buy more rune pages but Runes cost more than the pages themselves. Flat armor runes are 102 IP per and to get all 9 of them it only costs 918 IP which is reasonable.
Handy Sandy 1 votesArmor only works against a couple champions, health works against pretty much all champions. It only makes sense that it costs more.
Hammermancer3 voteswhile that makes sense on an item, I would venture to say that all the runes should cost roughly the same within their own category, by importance, So yeah attack speed reds are correctly priced but attack speed yellows could be cheaper, Ability power blues should cost the same as attack damage reds
Realistically though, it boils down to: IP is something that is attained through grinding, and before you have that amount of IP you are at a disadvantage to every person you lane against.
Since runes have massive impact (And honestly the current system should be replaced), then we can't really justify the items being so... gated.
Just give everyone all the tier 3 runes, there is literally zero reason as to us not having them all.
OR
Incorporate the mastery system with the rune system, unlock up to seven quints starting with just one. Store the quints on the champ
Tupaco2 votesI'd love having Rune freedom and just imagine the more detailed page setups the would pop up for certain champions