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High runes- how many have you found, and where are you getting them?

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I thought it would be fun and informative to discuss where our high runes are coming from. So, how many have you found, and where? I consider "high runes" to be all runes starting at
Vex
and up, but if you have a different definition, that's fine! I'll start:

All high runes
Zod
runes found: 1
1st
Zod
: Battlenet players 1,
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine


Cham
runes found: 0

Jah
runes found: 3
1st
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Pit Level 2
, normal
Fallen

2nd
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine

3rd
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Chaos Sanctuary
, normal Venom Lord

Ber
runes found: 1
1st
Ber
: Battlenet players 1, the
Ancient Tunnels
, normal
Zombie


Sur
runes found: 3
1st
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)
2nd
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)
3nd
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)

Lo
runes found: 0

Ohm
runes found: 4
1st
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Arcane Sanctuary
, super chest
2nd
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, named unique
Hell Bovine

3rd
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Tristram
, normal
Fallen
(one of the ones guarding
Wirt's Leg
)
4th
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)

Vex
runes found: 2
1st
Vex
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine

2nd
Vex
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (horked)

So one thing I'm noticing from my own admittedly small and biased dataset is that that of the 14 high runes I've gotten, 8 have been off of normal monsters. Excluding the five HRs I've gotten off the
Travincal
High Council, only one HR has come from a champion/unique/boss- and I've done my share of Chaos,
Baal
, and
Mephisto
runs. For this reason, I have no desire to ever run something like a Pitzerker (which skips normal monsters)- unless maybe I was trying to complete a Holy Grail or something and I needed to find something like a
Griffon's Eye
.

Another thing I'd like to note: maybe
The Arcane Sanctuary
is good if you're on players 8 single player, always running the straight route, but in my experience, in players 1 Battlenet, the place is AWFUL. The ghosts are easily disturbed over the void where they drop nothing, and if you wait for them to get back to where they can drop loot, you might as well just be somewhere else killing 5 or 6 non-ghost mobs for better overall HR drop chances. AVOID THIS PLACE. In hundreds of runs of
The Arcane Sanctuary
players 1, the best rune ever dropped by a ghost has been an
Um
rune. ONE time. So, I'd say ignore those people who say
Arcane Sanctuary
is good for HR farming; maybe it's good in players 8 offline with a static map where you can farm the straight route over and over again, but it's just plain terrible on Battlenet under realistic (players 1) conditions.
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I thought it would be fun and informative to discuss where our high runes are coming from. So, how many have you found, and where? I consider "high runes" to be all runes starting at
Vex
and up, but if you have a different definition, that's fine! I'll start:

All high runes
Zod
runes found: 1
1st
Zod
: Battlenet players 1,
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine


Cham
runes found: 0

Jah
runes found: 3
1st
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Pit Level 2
, normal
Fallen

2nd
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine

3rd
Jah
: Battlenet players 1, the
Chaos Sanctuary
, normal Venom Lord

Ber
runes found: 1
1st
Ber
: Battlenet players 1, the
Ancient Tunnels
, normal
Zombie


Sur
runes found: 3
1st
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)
2nd
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)
3nd
Sur
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)

Lo
runes found: 0

Ohm
runes found: 4
1st
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Arcane Sanctuary
, super chest
2nd
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, named unique
Hell Bovine

3rd
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Tristram
, normal
Fallen
(one of the ones guarding
Wirt's Leg
)
4th
Ohm
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (initial drop, not horked)

Vex
runes found: 2
1st
Vex
: Battlenet players 1, the
Secret Cow Level
, normal
Hell Bovine

2nd
Vex
: Battlenet players 1,
Travincal
high council (horked)

So one thing I'm noticing from my own admittedly small and biased dataset is that that of the 14 high runes I've gotten, 8 have been off of normal monsters. Excluding the five HRs I've gotten off the
Travincal
High Council, only one HR has come from a champion/unique/boss- and I've done my share of Chaos,
Baal
, and
Mephisto
runs. For this reason, I have no desire to ever run something like a Pitzerker (which skips normal monsters)- unless maybe I was trying to complete a Holy Grail or something and I needed to find something like a
Griffon's Eye
.

Another thing I'd like to note: maybe
The Arcane Sanctuary
is good if you're on players 8 single player, always running the straight route, but in my experience, in players 1 Battlenet, the place is AWFUL. The ghosts are easily disturbed over the void where they drop nothing, and if you wait for them to get back to where they can drop loot, you might as well just be somewhere else killing 5 or 6 non-ghost mobs for better overall HR drop chances. AVOID THIS PLACE. In hundreds of runs of
The Arcane Sanctuary
players 1, the best rune ever dropped by a ghost has been an
Um
rune. ONE time. So, I'd say ignore those people who say
Arcane Sanctuary
is good for HR farming; maybe it's good in players 8 offline with a static map where you can farm the straight route over and over again, but it's just plain terrible on Battlenet under realistic (players 1) conditions.
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Teebling 6881Admin

Europe PC
Nice post, thanks for sharing :)

There was another topic specifically about solo play finds which you can read here - it reached 4 pages.

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Asha 396

Sorceress Europe PC
My cold/fire sorc found
Vex
, 2x
Ohm
and
Sur
(94,5lvls). Second (light 94lvl so far) -
Vex
, 2x
Lo
and
Ber
. And my druid shifter (93 lvl) got
Gul
,
Ohm
and
Ber
. Everything else (much more of value) was from many, many trades.
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Appreciate the effort you've put in, tatarjj!

I've found a
Zod
off a White mob in the Pit, a
Ber
off a ghost in
Chaos Sanctuary
, three
Sur
(one in
Travincal
, one off a chest in the
Plains of Despair
and one in the Pit off something, probably a regular monster).
Lo
and
Ohm
aplenty off White mobs and
Travincal
.
...Oh, yeah! I always forget that I got a
Jah
and a
Ber
within like two weeks of the game's launch from Council Members in Durance Level 3. Everything I mentioned above was afterward.

I'd say: don't look down on the Zerker. While
Travincal
is statistically the best place to farm, farming just one place is also statistically the easiest way to quit the game. I love switching it up with my Zerker doing the Pit, Chaos,
Pindleskin
, Nihlatak,
Izual
and a few other places.

Killing lots of monsters is obviously great, but there are two methods of combination farming that people often overlook because they haven't played enough
Berserk
barb.
Chaos Sanctuary
is an obvious one: you rush the seals bosses, hork them, target-kill bosses that you won't cover with the rush from the entrance to the final pop, hork those, then do the rush-pop, hork large piles of corpses, which is really fast with 105% FCR and finish off with Diablo. Super fast and offers lots of variety.

The other one is
Izual
: there are tons of boss packs on your way from the
City of the Damned
WP to Izzy. It varies from run to run, but I typically kill and hork 4-5 on average from the two areas. Then there's Izzy who shares the mob-instakilling wave with Diablo. Only his is smaller.
Plains of Despair
always have either Finger Mages, or Gloams, or both. Kill Izzy, circle around to check for immediate drops, hork.

Given that Diablo 2 is life and variety is the spice of life, variety is the spice of D2. Don't sleep on the Zerker!
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all on bnet p1, during 3 months of time I've found:
Sur
: durance lvl 3 by a high council
Vex
: cow
Ohm
: durance lvl 2 by some random mobs
Sur
:
Arreat Plateau
by trash mob

there are some guls or lower but never
Lo
or higher than
Sur
my luck isn't with rune dropping even though I'm decked out with Enigma and all that I need...
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Schnorki 3824Moderator

PC
I have yet to find a
Ber
. Ever. And I mean ever...in 20 years...

Also only ever found one
Sur
rune...on the PTR. -_-

Though I did get a few
Vex
,
Ohm
,
Lo
and the like from all over the place (CS, Pits, random other areas). And a number of
Jah
runes that coincidentally all dropped from cows (even though I don't actually run cows that much by comparison).
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Until two days ago only found a
Vex
(
Travincal
), but then in one night found
Lo
and
Cham
(again in
Travincal
). This is all for me currently
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Jah
and
Vex
both from
Travincal
bnet players 1.
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5
Vex

- Trash mob around Shenk
- Chest in
Arcane Sanctuary

- Trash mob around Countess
- Cow
- Trash mob in
Tristram


3
Ohm

- Countess
- Trash mob in Chaos (x2)

2
Lo

- Random trash mob in A5 (during my quests)
- Chest in
Arcane Sanctuary


2
Sur

- Cow
- Trash mob in Chaos

1
Cham

- Trash mob in
Arcane Sanctuary


Also found
Ohm
,
Lo
,
Sur
while playing with a friend, but I didn't note where these came from.
I also found a
Zod
back then in the original game, which means the only runes I never found are
Jah
and
Ber
. Just my luck, right?
I started running Travical lately, but so far it's been terrible (Best find =
Um
).
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OP
Ha, just got my first horked high rune, a
Vex
off the
Travincal
High Council, of course. To put this into context, after starting to run
Travincal
on my WW barb about a week and a half ago, I've found five high runes. In the previous five months, I had found 9 high runes total.
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Interesting topic.

I started playing on day 1, I am not a regular though. Average of 1 hour per day, sometimes I go several days withouth logging.

I have to say it does happen when I log in after several days I get a good drop. For instance i dropped an
Arachnid Mesh
on my first
Baal
run after days of inactivity.

Back to the runes:

All solo running - Blizzard+Firball Sorceress

1
Ber
- from a jar in the
Ancient Tunnels

2
Ohm
(s) - in the
Chaos Sanctuary

2
Mal
(s) - in the
Chaos Sanctuary

2
Um
(s) - farming keys from Nihlatak
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BaldurGK wrote: 2 years ago
Interesting topic.

I started playing on day 1, I am not a regular though. Average of 1 hour per day, sometimes I go several days withouth logging.

I have to say it does happen when I log in after several days I get a good drop. For instance i dropped an
Arachnid Mesh
on my first
Baal
run after days of inactivity.

Back to the runes:

All solo running - Blizzard+Firball Sorceress

1
Ber
- from a jar in the
Ancient Tunnels

2
Ohm
(s) - in the
Chaos Sanctuary

2
Mal
(s) - in the
Chaos Sanctuary

2
Um
(s) - farming keys from Nihlatak
Can anyone else confirm this is their experience? Regarding getting better drops after days of inactivity? I played D2R a little bit when it first released, but I had gotten so sick of never finding anything that I just quit. When I got back into it finally, (about the same time I joined diablo2.io), suddenly I got a
Gul
Rune and a
Sur
Rune on the same day. Encouraging, so I've been playing a lot lately, but haven't found anything.

I had become so convinced that I would simply never see a HR, ever, that I blinked several times when the
Sur
rune dropped off of a weapon rack out of nowhere in the Mauseleoum.

Being somewhat serious here, could there be a hidden algorithim we don't know about that "tweaks" the odds after a certain period of inactivity - in an attempt to bring players back into the game? (it worked for me, that drop was encouraging enough to result in tons of playtime since then).

Edit: So in total, for me, I have found 1
Sur
rune, from weapon rack, mauseleum.
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Playing since 1 day too - on average over this time I´d say one hour per day.

HRs found so far:
1
Ber
in CS (2 Player Game; shared profit with my friend)
1
Ber
in
Travincal

1
Sur
in Pit from White Monster
1
Lo
in WSK 2 from White Monster
1
Cham
from White Monster around Eldritch

All Runes except the first
Ber
in 1 Player B.Net games

Apart from that i found several
Vex
,
Ist
, Mals etc. but not considering them as HRs ofc

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2
Cham
2
Ber
1
Sur
2
Lo
5
Ohm
Only 1 I really can pinpoint was a
Ber
rune I found in the very first basket I kicked after entering the sewer in kurast bazar. I was almost leaving it because it wae such a casual / surreal drop..

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Cham
in The Pit
7
Jah
x3: 2chaos, 1trav
Lo
x3: 1WSK, 1chaos, 1cows
Vex
x1:
Halls of Anguish
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Ber
: P1 Cows
Vex
x2: 1 in the
Pit Level 2
Sparkly Chest, 1 in Cows
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Jah
P1 trav
Sur
P8 trav
Ohm
P1 trav, P1 Chaos
Gul
Hellforge quest x2

All with a WW barb at the time (now zerker), except
Ohm
from P1 Chaos with
Poison Nova
necro off a White ghost mob
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