Lately there were some Threads complaining how much time and IP one have to pay to fill Runepages. On top of that Runepages are not cheap either.
It should not give you easily a lot of Runes, but should be enough to relieve one a bit of the IP grind.
Assuming this would be after they get reworked, it would need to be only 4 types of drops (or however many types there will be) for mark, seal, glyph, quint. If it drops a specific rune shard it would just suck and be as much of a noob trap as the rune combiner.
I kinda feel like there are too many runes that are not used for this to really be effective. Maybe if you would get enough shards to craft a Mark, Seal, Glyph, or Quint, then you get to decide what specific rune under that classification you craft. Otherwise, the rate at which specific runes drop would need to be pretty common in order to have any actual value. Then if they are too common, you would have all of the runes in no time.
I could see them reworking the system in a way that something like this could work, but based on the way Runes, and Rune Pages are now, I believe we are better off just grinding for IP, then picking which specific one you want.
On this account I have the maximum amount of pages you can have (10 I think), and I have more than enough runes to fill all of them in different combinations.
Attack Damage/Armor/Magic Resist/Movement Speed Attack Damage/Mana Regeneration/Magic Resistance/ Movement Speed Hybrid Penetration/Mana Regeneration/Ability Power/Ability Power Hybrid Penetration/Percent Health/Ability Power/Percent Health Attack Damage/Percent Health/Magic Resistance/Percent Health Hybrid Penetration/Scaling Mana/Ability Power/Scaling Mana ...
I don't remember all of them off the top of my head to be honest, but there are definitely some that I don't even use, unless I'm just trying to have fun.
Your suggestion is nothing but a band-aid solution to the ip grind, it does not solve how horrible a system runes currently are.
