How did you find your most useful runes?

some days ago i had a godlike run -> Andi Soj -> Travi ->

Jah rune +

Tal amu ->Dia nothing -> way to

Baal Soj ->

Baal ->Heavens Light -> Cow

Ohm+

Tal armor ... best run i ever had i think

Dang didn't quite make the cut,

Charsi?

Lo Hell Countess

Ist Hell Countess

Ber Chest behind

Mephisto

Lo Hell Cows

Mal Hell Cows

Gul Hell Cows
Looking for another

Ber at the moment.. xD

Lo dropped in

Lower Kurast from a corpse poppable. I was alone in the game. Also had a perfect

Gheed's drop in

Catacombs Level 2 or 3 from a poppable. Both times my reaction was "wat?"

MattMakesPhotos wrote: 3 years ago

P2Mc28 wrote: 3 years ago

Note: I still haven't seen a shaco drop in D2R. What even is this game.

Found my first and only

Shako within the hour of purchasing one. Act 1 hell, random mob that I blasted on the way to

The Countess tower.

LOL I did this but with a

Tal's Ammy xD

Found a

Ber yesterday while getting the amulet in the temple of the claw vipers.

Best drop by far yet and keep's the Enigma Dream alive.

Back in the old days when i (and i think most of all the other ppl in here xD) was young, i never found a HR.
I once tradet a

Ber and a

Jah in open Bnet, but the Eni i made didnt worked out - i dont know why. Maybe the Runes were duped or sht.
Now in D2R my brother and I start farming together and we found these:

1

Jah - Cow lvl (2 ppl)
1

Ber -

Travincal (only me in the game)
1

Cham - wave 3 baals room
1

Vex - Mepple mob (only me in the game)
2

Gul - HFQ (we both found one)
4

Ist - 2 Countess, 1 HFQ twink, 1 Cow lvl

I am Sorc so i dont need eni, my brother made an eni so we could start farming way faster in AP noed. These two were the first HR we found in d2r ^^ after about 1 1/2 weeks.
I tradet a

Vex i build from 2

Gul runes +

Tal amu for an

Ohm and created our first CTA: 6/3/4.
The Hoto i made in a

Flail after found the

Vex is still a Hoto38.
Also tradet a Hoto31 for

Gul+

Um and a CTA 3/2/1 for 3

Ist.
Explaining my wife why i escalated a little after pick up the

Ber Rune was quite fun tho - she was unaware of istgulvexohmsurloberjahchamzod is just a real word to explain how lucky i was .

Found

Ber,

Ist and

Um in the span of ~8

Nihlathak runs.

so i had to build my Barb a Chains of Honor with it.

Same here.
I never found Hr when I was young.
But now I can tell you I found 4 hrs.
First was

Ohm it dropped in Worldstone lvl 2 - I like to farm here with fire sorc dropped from little mob with knife.
Second was also

Ohm it dropped from mob looking like council before

Mephisto.
Third was yesterday

Sur - Durance lvl 2 from

Zombie it was so lucky I wasnt killing mobs but I just kill some when I was teleporting looking for lvl 3 Durance.
4th today

Lo rune. I tried to equip Treachery on my low Amazone and also took

Eth Titans and goes

Chaos Sanctuary. Lucky drop.

My friend hate me for that .

Awesome topic guys, would love to see more of the same! Love everyone's answers so far.

i found 3

Lo runes in the span
of 3 days, 2

Gul runes, 1

Ohm rune and yesterday i dropped a

Cham rune

First high rune drop for me. I was just thinking if killing the meph guards is a wate of time. This dropping one of the guards - ow darn. Will keep doing them for now on definetly just because

My first

Um in D2R was in NM hellforge, after that I never got anything close in any other hell or nm forge thus far.

Found a bunch of

Lem, some

Pul, and a

Mal off of Countess

Found a

Gul while doing a Countess run

Found more puls and mals in A1

That's about it so far

Countess runs: Found a

Sur on Level 1 from a devilkin and a

Lo from

The Countess. Also 2

Gul (a bunch of

Ist

Mal

Um and

Pul that I dont remember, leveled up my sorc here from 75 to 91)

Chaos Sanctuary: Found a

Vex in a chest, a

Ohm from Diablo and a

Jah from Vizier of Chaos

Travincal: Horking until Lvl 93.25 (from like 87) has gotten me 3

Sur, 1

Lo, 2

Gul

Halls of Pain: 1

Ber

This has been on 4 months of continuous play (since day 1)

Vex - Undead outside at

Pindleskin

Lo - Tomb at

Nihlathak

Sur - Cows

Jah - Cows

Right now I'm on a dry streak, no major drops in weeks

Despite many hours of farming for runes and gear I got the most useful drops while simply playing the game and finishing up quests.

-

Griffon's Eye on the way to

The Hellforge with my sorc. This was with my first char and greatly helped in getting me started though knowing what I know now I could have gotten more out of it. Still a very lucky drop so I'm not complaining
-

Lo on the way to

Anya with my Paladin. Since he found it I made him a Grief with it
-

Stone of Jordan while on the way to the

Ruined Temple for

Lam Esen's Tome which I in turn traded for an

Annihilus.

Used to play my gold barb on hell diff. Got a

Jah from common monke in

Lower Kurast.

I guess first

Jah i found also there 2 months before.

Jah -

Chaos Sanctuary

Sur - Large Urn,

Ancient Tunnels

Vex' -

Arcane Sanctuary/Cows

Cham - Think it was in World Stone Keep

Ohm - forgot where it dropped... ^^

Ber - Doing

Anya quest (Hell)

Jah -

Arcane Sanctuary (Rushing a friend)

Jah -

Tristram looking for wirt leg

Lo -

Arcane Sanctuary (farming runes xD)

Lo -

Nihlathak (Farming Keys)

Ohm -

Arcane Sanctuary (farming runes)

Vex -

Chaos Sanctuary (pop farming)

Found a

Sur and a

Ber in about 250

Travincal runs.

Lo in

Chaos Sanctuary
Found a handful of

Vex runes in places like Chaos,

Ancient Tunnels, Cows.

Gul runes seem to drop from chests for me, one near

Mephisto and another in cows, as well as one from a goo pile!

I cannot believe my luck. After about 500 hell cows runs i was just thinking

"man, will i ever get anything remotely useful here?"

Then for a change of scenery i've decided to do LK runs.

I get my Zealot, set players 8, hit the first super chest and BAM

I see that orange flash. That indistinguishable less-than-a-second orange on the screen that comes and goes in an instant and makes you think about all the things you could have done in your life with the time you've spent in this game. That moment i knew what was about to happen.

I run around a bit to pickup all the gold so i can see the rune. Not enough. I pickup all the potions and drink them like they're water and i'm on a desert. Not yet. How many useless cracked axes have dropped from this?

Then i remember there is a new zoom feature. I hit F and there it is!

A beautiful, sexy

Eth Rune.

Finally got me some Malice.

Been absolutely destroying Act 1 Normal Fallens since then