Which runes are worth to pick up?

Hello everybody,

I would like to know, which runes you typically pick up and which ones you ignore?

Until now I've picked up everything >=

Ral. I don't need them for any runewords, only just to cube them to better ones. But, in hell it's hard to find chipped gems and meanwhile, I think it's not worth the time it takes to get some better runes.

Since many trades start at

Fal, I am considering collecting only from this rune.

Best,
Zoe

Uncommon crafting =>

Nef,

Ith,

Sol : not really valuable
Reroll Insight =>

Ral

Tir

Tal

Sol : not really valuable

Reroll Spirit =>

Tal

Thul

Ort

Amn : always valuable

Caster Amulet =>

Ral : Most valuable

Dol => not valuable but you can cube into

Hel
Unsocketing =>

Hel : Most valuable

Fal => not valuable but you can cube into

Lem

Lem to

Mal => valuable, can always trade for

Ist

Like mockingbirdreal said. I for myself collect every rune and cube them to those runes he mentioned. You get pretty good offers in ladder right now for them. You only need to search for games and be fast, when someone is searching for them. I have seen 10x

Hel for

Ist, 20x

Sol, or 20x

Ral traded between

Pul -

Ist, 30x

Tal /

Ort /

Amn going between

Pul -

Ist , 40x

Nef, or 40x

Ith for

Pul -

Ist. Every rune before and after those runes can be cubed normally. I found

Thul the hardest to trade, but its worth in mass too. Its all up to your inventory space and the right moment to sell. Farming chipped in Normal Akt 1 or 2 is always worth the time (for me and others, as long you are not really wealthy

Sol is used in crafting

Blood Ring which makes it a worthy pickup. Those rings may be worth a lot. I use to skip the

Dol and upgrade everything

Io+ so i have a column of restockable flawed gems in one of my shared stashes. The Spirit reroll Runes make sense to store and collect on ladder, but not on non-ladder as prices for Spirit are just not worth the effort imo. I collect

Tal only to upgrade to

Ral. One honorable mention is

Eth runes, used for

Blood Boots. I switched to crafting rings, tho

About runes below

Lem:

Tal,

Ral,

Thul,

Amn for socketing normal weapons, armors, shields and helmets.

Ral,

Ort for repairs, if you have need of that.

Crafting:
-

Ral, for caster amulets
-

Nef, for

Blood Gloves
-

Sol, for blood rings
-

Ith, for caster belts (if you don't have

Arachnid Mesh yet, but quite niche)
-

Ort, for hitpower gloves (knockback, also very niche)
-

Thul, I'm one of those odd ones that actually bothers with crafting safety amulets

Lum,

Ko are also used for upgrading exceptional uniques to elite uniques.

I try to keep one of each below

Fal in stock. You never know when someone impatient is going to offer a pretty high-level rune for your low-level rune.

Currently for NL i keep

Sol

Ral to trade for crafters and

Nef

Ort for my self to craft gloves sometimes

Ith but but the

Caster Belt has low value most of the times and
P

Amethyst worth more to sell.
Also keeping

Hel and from

Io and above to make

Lem or trade (sometimes i just sell to

Akara for gold) prety much the rest in NL are worthless.

Wow - these are a lot of good advices, and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

So, many runes are worth to pick up, not mainly for cubing, but for crafting.
Crafting is a part of the game, which I haven't paid much attention yet. Maybe, I should do this?

In addition to what’s already been said I only keep

Lum and higher on my rune mule, all runes higher than Lums start to get fairly rare, and if you get a lot of them on top of rune words and cube recipes a bunch of lums, kos, and fals go a long way for cubing up to the more useful ums and ists.