How did you find your most useful runes?

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

the pits. ive found 1

Jah, 1

Ber, 2

Sur, and 3

Vex, there in the last two weeks

Was this on p1?

-

Ber in nihlithak run (

Halls of Pain 2 lootable corpse)
-

Sur in durance of hate 2 (chest)
-

Jah random mob in

Baal run worldstone level 2
-2 x

Lo from Trav (1 horked)

all p1

Jah,

Ber,

Sur, 2

Ohm all in

Arcane Sanctuary in 333 runs p3+ . not a single one while farming pits, tunnels, Chaos or worldstone keep

By far my best rune drops have been from Hell cows.

Sur

Ohm

Vex x2

Ist x3

All within roughly 200 runs on players 1.

Woaglagin wrote: 2 years ago

By far my best rune drops have been from Hell cows.

Sur

Ohm

Vex x2

Ist x3

All within roughly 200 runs on players 1.

that´s a pretty good highrune average on p1. in cows p1 you usually only drop 1 rune per run. in comparison p7 cows or arcane you get 3 runes per run.

In the last month I've seen most of the hr drops in cow levels:

Ber - cow run on p3
2

Sur - different cow runs on p7 (managed to pick one up, wasn't fast enough on the second even though I was close enough)

Gul - cow run + bonus a 24ar Mara at Countess in the same game

Vex - cow run

Jah - random minion in the tower cellar, after everybody left a cow run game.

Jah from

Crystalline Passage

Jah from cow's

Ber from

Lower Kurast basket (After 1-2 run when i dropped my first

Lo from

Travincal and i made Enigma and Grief same time)

2

Lo from

Travincal
1

Lo from

Arcane Sanctuary (actually dropped to my friend but he gave the rune to me)

couple of

Gul's catacombs lvl 2-3
couple of

Vex from diablo runs, pit,

Lost City while running to

Ancient Tunnels

couple of

Ohm's from cow's,

Lower Kurast, diablo runs

2

Sur from

Arcane Sanctuary
1

Sur from

Tal Rasha's Tomb

All in p1. Also dropped most of

Mal

Ist in p3 p8 games

Good thing I didn't felt like playing on PTR today...

Zelym wrote: 2 years ago

Good thing I didn't felt like playing on PTR today...
2nd

Jah.png

This picture shows exactly(!) how I found my very first HR (

Sur). Wont ever forget that.

Lucky streak!

Crushnasty wrote: 2 years ago

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

the pits. ive found 1

Jah, 1

Ber, 2

Sur, and 3

Vex, there in the last two weeks

Was this on p1?

yea ive been hard farming it for griffons. no luck on that sadly

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

Crushnasty wrote: 2 years ago

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

the pits. ive found 1

Jah, 1

Ber, 2

Sur, and 3

Vex, there in the last two weeks

Was this on p1?

yea ive been hard farming it for griffons. no luck on that sadly

I found my griffons in WSK lvl 3. Give it a try. Sometimes you just need to switch up your farming spots

Crushnasty wrote: 2 years ago

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

Crushnasty wrote: 2 years ago

Was this on p1?

yea ive been hard farming it for griffons. no luck on that sadly

I found my griffons in WSK lvl 3. Give it a try. Sometimes you just need to switch up your farming spots

i took your advice and found an

Astreon's Iron Ward.. ethereal lol

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

Crushnasty wrote: 2 years ago

stephenreto wrote: 2 years ago

yea ive been hard farming it for griffons. no luck on that sadly

I found my griffons in WSK lvl 3. Give it a try. Sometimes you just need to switch up your farming spots

i took your advice and found an

Astreon's Iron Ward.. ethereal lol

Noice

Been playing D2 for 20 years. Have gotten the most HR by far since D2R.

From Memory (in no particular order):

• Jah - Maggot Lair 2
• 2x
  Gul -
  Chaos Sanctuary
• Jah -
  Chaos Sanctuary
• Zod -
  Chaos Sanctuary
• 2x
  Lo - Durance 3 council members
• 2x
  Ber -
  Travincal (one from council, one from random elite)

No

Ohm or

Vex drops so far. I'd say I've been averaging one legit HR every 3-4 weeks.

Also:

• Until about 30 minutes ago, the highest rune I got from Trav council in D2R was a
  Ko
• Until 2 days ago, the highest rune I got from cows was a
  Lem (now it's
  Pul)
• Nothing higher than an
  Io from
  Lower Kurast
• Been very lucky to get max rune drop from hellforge in almost every campaign (except 1, I think, which was
  Um)

I prefer

Chaos Sanctuary, I think, for my rune runs. I'm starting to warm on the Pit, though,

Ist yesterday and again today over maybe 10-15 runs.

[edit]
I prefer CS because it's still fun for me, and a lot of stuff can drop. Also, that

Zod was the first I ever saw (I only solo). My wife thought someone legit died I freaked out so hard.

Ber - Cows

Sur - random creep near pindle out of all places

Ohm - Trav

Vex - Cows
Many more

Gul/

Ist
Havent found

Lo or any runes higher than

Ber yet.

I run CS/

Baal quite efficiently but the highest i ever got there was Guls.
Trav/Cows are my best rune spots

My first big drop in game came in the form of a

Sur rune early on. I should have kept it but, i was basically in rares on my lvl 80 sorc at the time. First character on d2r. That

Sur dropped from pindle. Before realizing pindle seemed like a waste, he dropped it and i traded that for

Tal Rasha's Guardianship and a p topazed

Harlequin Crest. Shortly after that trade a

Tal Rasha's Guardianship dropped from diablo ..... so i traded that to get a

Tal ammy and a

Gul rune. This was early on mind you. those items were worth a ton. Then during an

Ancient Tunnels run a week later another

Tal Rasha's Guardianship drops. traded that for

Vex maybe, as its value changed dramatically in a month.

Ohm dropped from

Mephisto one day. Turned that into 1/3/6 Call To Arms !

Fast forward to when I built my

Hellfire Torch farming basic smiter. I got a

Zod rune from a sarcophagus in the

Matron's Den. After farming all the torches I could handle a month or so later i created a horking barbarian and was farming

Travincal. A

Lo rune dropped. I made a Grief and it rolled 40 ias 380ish attack if i remember. I traded that for a

Ber + . More Travincals later I was able to trade runes for

Jah , another

Lo and created a lowish Grief to replace the one I lost and make a nearly perfect Enigma in

Mage Plate. I have found a few other mentionable things but nothing like those items.

D2r has been pretty good to me. Some of you may have told me why didnt i keep that Grief , but at the time i was after Enigma and it was worth quite a bit! I was able to get an unid

Annihilus for a

Stone of Jordan i found off countess( yes countess!) midway on as well that rolled max exp( the only reason i care for it) and at this point in time i just farm randomly, hoping for a

Griffon's Eye more runes, or something cool I havent seen. D2r is a cruel mistress some days, but it really brings back the old memories of when i was a young adult trying to figure out what i wanted to do with my life.

Maybe not most useful but noticeable find when I was in

Crypt. I was playing my

Frenzy barb and going to leave area when saw the last

Zombie. Usually I ignore such single mobs but not that time. I have hit him and got a

Gul rune.

The most useful rune was probably a

Sur that dropped off

Baal on a public

Baal-Run that everone had exited before (except me and another guy). Until then I was sure, I'd *never* manage get an Enigma together, as I just don't have time to farm forever, but this drop changed everything. It enabled me to get my hands on a

Jah when I traded it together with a

Lo I got from a lucky 40ar hoto-roll. Eventually a SoJ dropped not much later, which got me to the fitting

Ber (when I added some other lonely lower runes I found along the way).

But my *highest* rune drop was actually a

Cham which dropped while I was finishing my round of farming by going for Shenk. It dropped from one of his many weaklings. Since nobody needs a

Cham (this sentence will not age pretty well considering the upcoming 2.4 update), despite it being the second rares rune to drop, it was a bit useless. So the

Sur was much nicer

2x

Jah and

Sur P1 Trav. A

Cham farming Pindle.