What to do with low level runes?

I have bunch of runes stacked up and the highest one is a Mal. What should I do with all of these lower runes? Should I cube them to higher ones?

wower3 wrote: 5 months ago

I have bunch of runes stacked up and the highest one is a Mal. What should I do with all of these lower runes? Should I cube them to higher ones?

Cube them. Remember that after Ort, you need gems as well. If you will ever need low rune for a runeword, just do some countess run and you will find that ez.

Online: I would not cube runes (except very specific ones like Dol). Most runes have a sink (a recipe they are used for or a rune word). so people are interested in them and buy them in bulk for high runes.
Offline: if you don't plan to use the recipe cube the runes.

For example Hel is used to remove jewles/runes from sockets, usually 40 Hel = 1 Ber.

Even runes such as El and Eld have buyers.

missusecel wrote: 5 months ago

Even runes such as El and Eld have buyers.

They usually have even higher value than Ort, Tal, Shael, Lum etc. I often sold 20 El or Eld for a Vex.

you could try your hand at crafting amulets (or rings.) I'd cube the tals to give you 9 rals total and prepare to be disappointed over and over but there's a chance of a banger ammy

I like to collect the lower lvl runes as early on they can be useful for runewords. Later I give them out free if people need and/or upgrade to higher runes.

Gotta collect 'm all.

With the new rune stashtab I am on a mission to get 99 of all low runes. Because reasons.

In the new "Warlock expansion", with the "stackable stash", I'm just accumulating them for now... I'll decide what to do later...

Before the expansion:
- El to Tir: cube
- Nef: Recipe: Blood Gloves
- Eth to Tal: cube
- Ral: trade pack for Ist (with people that do Recipe: Caster Amulet)
- Ort, Thul: cube
- Amn: Recipe: Hit Power Ring
- Sol: Recipe: Blood Ring
- Shael, Dol: cube
- Hel: trade pack for Ist
- Io to Fal: trade for Perfect Gems

Step 1: Get RotW for stacking
Step 2: Keep stacking them up
Step 3: As you hit 99, add a loot filter to hide the rest so they stop wasting your time
Step 4: Once you get enough Hel runes stacked up (those def. seem to be the limiting factor for low runes), have some fun with 99 Spirit or Insight rerolls as you hunt for that perfect outcome
Step 5: Remove the reroll-fodder used runes from the loot filter so you see them again
Step 6: Go to step 2

At least that's my new approach.
The old approach was just "ignore drops".

Schnorki wrote: 5 months ago

Step 1: Get RotW for stacking
Step 2: Keep stacking them up
Step 3: As you hit 99, add a loot filter to hide the rest so they stop wasting your time
Step 4: Once you get enough Hel runes stacked up (those def. seem to be the limiting factor for low runes), have some fun with 99 Spirit or Insight rerolls as you hunt for that perfect outcome
Step 5: Remove the reroll-fodder used runes from the loot filter so you see them again
Step 6: Go to step 2

At least that's my new approach.
The old approach was just "ignore drops".

Tsts, these guys who swim in Jah and whose lootfilter only shows TC87 uniques and runes from Lo onwards

Ral, Tal, Amn & Thul especially are worth keeping for the add sockets recipies, especially if you find something like an ethereal Cryptic Axe and want 4 sockets.

Or Archon Plate and rolling for 3 sockets.

good call

in additional, I always keep:
- 1 of each low rune (who knows...)
- runes for 2 of each socket recipe ( Recipe: Add Sockets to Normal Body Armor, Recipe: Add Sockets to Normal Weapon, Recipe: Add Sockets to Normal Shield, Recipe: Add Sockets to Normal Helm)
- 2 Ral for Recipe: Fully Repaired Armor

Drakenden wrote: 5 months ago

Ral, Tal, Amn & Thul especially are worth keeping for the add sockets recipies, especially if you find something like an ethereal Cryptic Axe and want 4 sockets.

Or Archon Plate and rolling for 3 sockets.

fredkid wrote: 5 months ago

In the new "Warlock expansion", with the "stackable stash", I'm just accumulating them for now... I'll decide what to do later...

Before the expansion:
- El to Tir: cube
- Nef: Recipe: Blood Gloves
- Eth to Tal: cube
- Ral: trade pack for Ist (with people that do Recipe: Caster Amulet)
- Ort, Thul: cube
- Amn: Recipe: Hit Power Ring
- Sol: Recipe: Blood Ring
- Shael, Dol: cube
- Hel: trade pack for Ist
- Io to Fal: trade for Perfect Gems

I am low rune buyer.

El Eld Eth Ort Thul Amn Sol , you can collect 40 mix . I can pay Ist for it.

it is before expansion. Not warlock.

Ral is different pricing, everyone will interest in it.

Most importantly, dont farm those runes. You can pick them occasionally. I only take few of them .

Sometimes I like to play some runeword that I never play before and probably find out I dont have those.
The need for lowest rune is tiny. Month or several month Consume 1. But it will annoy if you want play something but find out that you dont have 2 of it.
Meaning once you use it, there is no way to counter emergency situation.

For this reason, I usually recommend people to keep every rune at mini count 3.

And please understand, DLC market and expansion market pricing is different.

Thul and Ral have higher value in warlock market but people sometimes buy those and resell into warlock market. So the price will balance again.
And I also don't like to collect Ral, Thul even Nef in expansion non dlc market. Nef is kind of different , not that obvious but it is higher in warlock market.

Other rune , none dlc non warlock have higher value.

As for craft ring, it is 4 randon affix and very hard ,
craft ring need is Amn Sol. Amn is very cheap but I craft like 5000-20000 ring , I dont count, around that in my feeling. Only get 1 okay melee 2 l/all resist battle ring.
I feel it is just equal to my random find 6 affix hit okay roll rare ring.
As for tri-resist okay roll fcr ring, no, not even mid roll. But see few low roll cannot use ring.

Advise, if your ring is very bad, you can try. i.e. 6 affix you only get 3 hit good, it is consider as green light. Other case, 4 affix ok ring. advise, not touch craft.