Which runes are worth keeping (i.e. crafting or the worth itself)

My rune mule is full to bursting point with

El,

Eld, ... to

Ko /

Fal. Which one should I keep and which one i can sell to

Akara?

Heckenklatscher wrote: 2 years ago

My rune mule is full to bursting point with

El,

Eld, ... to

Ko /

Fal. Which one should I keep and which one i can sell to

Akara?

Or... Or...
You make another mule

How much chars can I create?

Heckenklatscher wrote: 2 years ago

How much chars can I create?

20 I believe.

You can also cube your runes up to the next levels to make higher runes and save space! I wouldn't sell any of them...

Stormlash wrote: 2 years ago

20 I believe.

Ok, thank you!

N1ne2yaD0m3 wrote: 2 years ago

You can also cube your runes up to the next levels to make higher runes and save space! I wouldn't sell any of them...

And which of them are worth not to cube up? Such as

Ral (for crafting).

I cube up everything, but hold back one of each kind. Cube rune recipes at this link. Keep one of each rune back in case it is part of a runeword you need later.

https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/ ... Diablo_II)

Idk what others are doing, but this is how I have my setup: Each rune up to

Lem has it's own row taking up 1/2 of one of my shared stash pages. This gives me up to 5 of each rune for anything I need them for available on any character. If a row gets over 5 I cube it up until

Lum or so, since anything lower than that I find often enough anyway.

If anything

Lum+ gets over 5 it goes to my rune mule or is traded up, which is also where anything

Pul+ goes.

EnragedN3wb wrote: 2 years ago

If a row gets over 5 I cube it up until

Lum or so, since anything lower than that I find often enough anyway.

You don't care about the

Ral which are "more worth" because of the crafting recipes?

Not so far, but tbh I haven't really done much crafting in the past. If I do & need a bunch of

Ral runes at some point I'll probably see if I can trade a higher rune for a bulk of them or something. I always just traded for my high end gear since I never get lucky with rolls on anything I do find. >.>

Heckenklatscher wrote: 2 years ago

EnragedN3wb wrote: 2 years ago

If a row gets over 5 I cube it up until

Lum or so, since anything lower than that I find often enough anyway.

You don't care about the

Ral which are "more worth" because of the crafting recipes?

If you're getting up to

Lum then farming normal or nightmare countess for

Ral probably isn't difficult

Keep 3 and cube the rest =

El,

Eld,

Tir,

Nef,

Eth,

Ith,

Dol,

Io,

Lum,

Fal,

Lem (early value, later cube)
Save/sell to Crafters =

Tal,

Ral,

Amn
Save for valuble runewords =

Tal,

Ral,

Ort,

Thul,

Amn,

Sol,

Shael,

Hel,

Ko,

Pul and up

Deckard Cain, NA PC wrote: 2 years ago

Keep 3 and cube the rest =

El,

Eld,

Tir,

Nef,

Eth,

Ith,

Dol,

Io,

Lum,

Fal,

Lem (early value, later cube)
Save/sell to Crafters =

Tal,

Ral,

Amn
Save for valuble runewords =

Tal,

Ral,

Ort,

Thul,

Amn,

Sol,

Shael,

Hel,

Ko,

Pul and up

Thanks for your comment, it sounds very reasonable

I save four of each up to

Lem. From

Pul on, I save 2 of each. so far they all fit on one shared stash page.

I have a little rune library so I can keep 1 of each, and anything below

Ist gets upped.

I generally have plenty of lower runes floating around so I'm not stressed for the odd Stealth or Insight. Upping runes means I'm greedy for chipped + flawed gems, so a mule for that too. The rate at which I find them (even in Hell) exceeds the rate I pick up runes, so I wouldn't necessarily advocate trading for chippies -- though if you are keen I'd be happy to fleece you

I'm not one for crafting, and happy to let the opportunity cost of selling 40 Rals pass me by. My first big up session yielded two

Lem from all the rubbo runes picked up since launch, so whether it's worth it to you is debatable. For me that's plenty good enough

I started doing the same as alot of people here, saving all my low runes to cube them up when I could, hade a shared stash as well, but playing 2 month (consistantly tbh) with a blizzard firewall sorc (on my own) made me do quite a lot of runs of every zones you can imagine, so I made quite alot of drops (only item wise, didn't drop a single runes above

Pul, yeah 6hours minimum à day, in hell.. Not even a good hell forge) but had no use for any of them so I just started trading them the old school way making pub trade game for better runes, puls, ums, ists and finally got higher ones (before even knowing about d2.

Io). Then I met a great guy in a trade game a started playing with him for a bit, splitting each drop fairly when traded, or we'd pay each other half the price if we needed the item and then we dropped our first high runes, here a

Vex, there an

Ohm, oh look here is a

Sur rune my friend. So we continued splitting them, and we made another character (I did a

Frenzy barb and he did a light javazon) so we were in need of those runes for a bit until we lvled to 80~. Now I want to make another character so I spend my runes to make my end game on my barb (Enigma, double hoto, double Grief torch, Anni bk etc) so I don't really any of the lower runes anymore, so I keep only above

Ko and rals/sols and pameth and prubys for crafting caster amulets and blood rings. I also keep a mule full of

Tal

Thul

Ort

Amn (+

Hel) for some pack trades, and the

Dol for when I cross a

Chipped Emerald once in a while to cube in

Hel.. Other wise if I need any lower runes I'll go do some quick countess runs in normal or NM.. Anyway, everybody has their way but as I have like 3 mules full of sockets bases 1 for charmes, another just for skillers, 1 for crafting components, 1 for pgms to reroll my

Baal/diablo/

Nihlathak grand charms, 1 with my personal collection of uniques, 1 for my good tradable rares, 1 for my biggest failed drops, 1 necro mule full of necro related stuff, 1 Amazon mule same story, 3 lvl 80-92 (Paladin smiter, sorc and barb) and 2 mules I use to put my low lvl/low rolls to give away everyday.. Hope you don't mind the chunk of this post

I keep

Tal,

Ort,

Amn,

Thul,

Ral, and

Sol for selling to crafters and people who want to roll runewords.

I keep

Shael and

Dol so that I can cube them up into

Hel

I keep

Hel for rerolling runewords

and finally, I keep

Io-

Fal for their small value.

I only cube up

Shael ->

Dol ->

Hel and

Io ->

Lum , nothing else is worth wasting 3 runes to cube into the next rune.

I cube only and solely

Ko. Anything else is either not worth the time or too valuable as it is.

I collect every single rune and cube them up to

Fal

SuperIllu wrote: 2 years ago

I collect every single rune and cube them up to

Fal

I just think cubing up to

Fal makes you lose value on your runes.

A

Pul is usually worth anywhere from 20-30 Pgems. Since a

Lem is worth half a

Pul, a

Lem would be worth 10-15 PGems. You can buy a

Lem for 2

Fal, so a

Fal is worth 5-8Pgems.

Now I've personally sold

Lum for 3-4 Pgems and

Ko for 4-5 PGems. It would take 9 Lums to cube up into a

Fal. At 3-4 PGems per

Lum, that is a value of 27-36PGems worth of

Lum for 5-8Pgems worth of

Fal. You're losing about 80% the value of your runes by cubing up Lums. Its not so bad with

Ko, because it only takes 12-15Pgems worth of

Ko to cube up into 5-8 PGems worth of

Fal. You'd only be losing about 60% of your runes' value.

It isn't easy to trade multiple

Lum,

Ko,

Fal at a time, but if you have a WTS listing open all the time you can usually sell them individually over time.