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

Heckenklatscher wrote: 3 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?

Ko and

Fal are quite useful, don't npc them. Either cube or you can use them to buy uniques or set items that you might need. Certain elite or exceptional weapons/armor/armor pieces in high demand that roll a good stat can be had for those runes.

Heckenklatscher wrote: 3 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?

I keep every rune. Start upgrading them to higher runes. Start with

El, go to

Eld, then

Tir. Most the gems you need will drop frequently from normal cows. Literally went from a character full of runes to a couple ohms

Vex a crap ton of

Pul and

Um a few

Mal. That and basic runewords make more than they're worth, Spirit shields, Insights. You can do A5 Q2 and get 90% of their runes and sell for at least an

Ist for a decent roll. And depending on who needs what atm, can make some sweet trades. Someone needed a

Lem on Xbox and traded me an

Ist for it. Technically

Lem +

El.

I pick up

Ral and

Tal (cubes to

Ral). Then after that I pick up

Hel and above.

Here's what I am doing, there's another mule full from

El up to

Lum. I don't cube any runes, just pick them and store them. Like if I try hard cubing from

Lum to

Lem for example, and when an

Ist drop I will feel like "what's the point"....

to me it got to be

Ort for tele recharge on puzzler, saved me a fortune so I can gamble more

Heckenklatscher wrote: 3 years ago

N1ne2yaD0m3 wrote: 3 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).

Ral can be used for crafting, but many runeword users need it to repair items (cube receipe)

I "cube" all very low runes untill

Tal ...

Tal

Thul

Ort

Amn +

Hel is called Spirit pack... actually you can find players buying x4 or more sets of those runes
If you are not interested in selling those packs you can cube everything untill

Ral ...keep and sell those

Ral ... cube

Ort and

Thul ...and we are at

Amn and

Sol that are good for crafting certain rings and amulets...
Cube

Shael and

Dol untill you find

Hel ...

Hel rune have special receipes and some people can buy some of those...
I cube also

Lum,

Ko and

Fal ...always keeping 1-2 of each as currency or for runewords... and than we have

Lem ...pretty nice for gold-farmers...
You know, 3x

Lem +

Emerald ==

Pul ...from this point it really depends on your goals...

Until a couple of days ago, I was doing this:

• Keep one of every rune up to about
  Tal, then start keeping 3-ish until
  Thul
• Keep exactly 3 of each from
  Thul to
  Lem
• Keep exactly 2 of each from
  Pul to
  Mal
• Keep everything starting at
  Ist
• Keep a rainbow of chipped, flawed, and natural gems at all times
• Starting at
  Thul all the way up through
  Mal, cube

Which eventually was a lot. And not what I would recommend for others, but my goal has always been high runes, so cubing at

Fal was fine for me.

Then I ditched the gems and just kind of winged it for a day. When I saw the rune stash in PTR yesterday, I switched to this, which I'm pretty satisfied with (1-ish of everything until

Thul, then spots for 3 of everything until

Ist, but keeping everything starting at

Ist, with the bottom 2 rows as staging space for extra HRs and runewords I'm working on):

I keep

Hel ,

Amn ,

Ral , and

Sol. I'm not completely familiar with the crafting recipes (somewhat new player here), but in my limited experience people like buying those runes. I've traded those in large quantities for higher runes before.

For the others, I keep them in rows of 5 and cube up once full. I don't cube anything past

Ko or so.

TL;DR: Cube all the runes you don't want. Better than leaving them on the Ground, right?

So, when I started D2R, I left all runes below

Dol on the Ground. Seemed like a waste. So, I starting a rune factory. Set-up and processes similar to others already described.

My contribution to this thread is, I got to thinking how long it takes to cube up a rune, so I ran a test. I started with an

El and wanted to see how long it took to cube it up to an

Ist. I had a random collection of runes on the way to

Ist. When I got the 3 (or 2), I cubed it up, then set it aside until the next upgrade. What I found is that between drops and fair value trades, it took 2 weeks to cube an

El to an

Ist.

Now, The Maths to go from

Ist to

Ber is ugly, but the point is, if you have the space, the time to factory produce Ists isn't too bad. Plus, as I started with, seems better to me than leaving the Orts and Iths on the Ground.

I pick up every single run and cube everything up to the standard

Ist. Rarely, I will cube up higher runes, which is only for recipes.

N1ne2yaD0m3 wrote: 3 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...

I'm running into the same problem with my new d2r character as well. I've kept every single rune I've gotten so far. By now it's filling almost two of my inventories. Horribly managed I might add, lol. I've been considering doing this because I really don't see any use for them outside of maybe trading for P gems which at this point I don't really need. I don't have a mule yet but if I don't H cube them I'll have to get one soon.

After writing this out I decided I'm going to convince l combine all my lower tier runes, lol. I have the early rune words for my 71 javazon (2 socket

Helm one, 2 socket shield and 3 socket chest piece, though I was recently given a

Tal

Mask which I now use for the leeches). My next goals are the upgraded shield and Enigma. Maybe I'll be able to trade some of the mid levels for a few of the runes I need for the upgrades.

Aside from

Ral, I stopped picking anything up below

Shael unless I have a specific purpose, like when I needed to reroll a paladin Spirit multiple times. The inventory space required of that endeavor is too great for me. Also, just to get one

Shael only picking up

El you’d have to pick up 531441

El runes. I know that’s theoretical because we find other low, but higher runes along the way. Just too time and space consuming.

I keep 2 of each rune up to

Dol after that it gets more complicated. I keep all Hels and use them to roll 35 FCR spirits.

Io to

Pul I generally keep for the sake of cubing up.

Um,

Mal can be traded for an

Ist. I keep all

Ist as base currency. All runes higher than an

Ist are worth their weight in stash since they are essentially compact

Ist value, so yeah... Pretty sure nobody is throwing anything

Ist+ in the mud lol

I keep all runes. I'll cube up to

Ral, then up to

Hel (sell these to crafters and rerollers). Then I'll cube up to

Lem.

Lem on up I keep as currency. I'm not sitting on a pile of HRs like some of the people here (

Ohm, 2

Vex, 3

Gul, 11

Ist)