How would this benefit Alora?: It looks like the only way to make them currently is via scar ess, even though yama drops Aether catalyst, magic imbue doesn't work on alora.
After reading this post, I am now the first player in Alora to post Aether Runes for sale on the Trading Post. I put up 18k Aether runes and will put in more later this week after those have all sold. Problem solved. The Invisible Hand of Economics solves many demand/demand problems in economies. Something Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela is learning the hard way.
I set the price high so that it will show up later on the TP history high and encourage others to post theirs for sale too.
Obviously, no support. This suggestion is on the same level as making everything below shop-buyable too. Below are other high-end consumable items.
Sunfire Splinters
Sunfire Runes
Wrath runes
Dragon dart tips
Various Implings
Divine Super Combat Potions
Bastion Potions
Stamina Potions
Crystal shards
Ultra Compost
Rune Bars
Ancient brews
Bracelets of Slaughter
Dodgy Necklaces
Revenant Ether
Zulrah Scales
Alora's Economy is important. Many people come to Alora because it has one of the best economies of the RSPS's. In most RSPSs without an economy the dark truth there is the only good way to make gold is to attend drop parties, ask for handouts, or god forbid, beg.
Everything other than Wrath runes are avaliable in shops, but these have other ways to obtain them so its not that much of an issue.
These runes only coming from Yama (which atm is bugged anyway), it makes sense to have another option to get these when all other runes are avaliable.
The above comment doesnt make much sense listing out other consumeable items, these are not relevent to runes, which have every other variant avaliable by more than one means.
For those that don't know, Aether runes are a combined soul and cosmic rune. It is also uniquely, the only non-elemental combination rune in the game. The best it can do is save one inventory slot in niche content. The above comment does not make much sense because:
1) The elemental combination runes cannot be created in Alora so shops were initially (and still are to this day) the only procurement option unless you for example killed smoke devils for smoke runes or dust devils for dust runes, etc. Aether runes however are different. Like Sunfire runes, they can be created and they are uniquely not a cheap elemental rune.
2) Aether runes are not a required feature for any ingame content. Aether runes are something we've lived without just fine for years if not a decade. However they are available now, so no need to live without them if you don't want to.
If it's true that Yama is bugged as one poster said, then the solution is to fix Yama, not to devalue its drop table and devalue Alora's Eco like less popular RSPS's and the Venezuelan government like to do.