How Much is 'X' Rune Worth [Pricing Guide]

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This one being completely out of date, this is an update on the runes value on Non ladder, SC, PC, witb high runes being super cheap now (June 12 2023)

For ladder, prices fluctuate a lot at start (wity typically

Ber /

Lo /

Ohm /

Vex being expensive) then converge to NL prices towards end of season.

Pul - 2 x

Lem

Um -

Pul +

Lem

Mal -

Um +

Pul

Ist -

Mal +

Um -

Ist is the "unit"

Gul -

Ist +

Mal

Vex - 3

Ist

Ohm - 4-5

Ist

Lo - 5-6

Ist

Sur - 7-8

Ist

Ber - 10-11

Ist

Jah - 15-20

Ist

Cham - about same as

Vex to

Ohm

Zod - about same as

Lo to

Sur

Do remember that the prices fluctuate : click on each rune to check its latest trades for current value.

I'd go as far as this, based on NL lobby trades

3-4

Pul =

Ist
2

Um =

Ist

Mal =

Ist

Gul = glorified

Ist

Vex = 2

Ist

Ohm = 3

Ist

Lo = 4

Ist

Sur = 6

Ist

Ber = 9-10

Ist (8

Ist possible)

Jah = 14-15

Ist (13 not unheard of)

Cham = 3-4

Ist

Zod = 4-6

Ist. Highest spread because cubing chams is bad now and drop chance is low.

It's not ists gettings more expensive, it's the devaluation of higher ones.

All of this is a real price crash compared to 2-3 months ago when

Ber was 15 and

Jah 18-19.

Queegon wrote: 10 months ago

I'd go as far as this, based on NL lobby trades

3-4

Pul =

Ist
2

Um =

Ist

Mal =

Ist

Gul = glorified

Ist

Vex = 2

Ist

Ohm = 3

Ist

Lo = 4

Ist

Sur = 6

Ist

Ber = 9-10

Ist (8

Ist possible)

Jah = 14-15

Ist (13 not unheard of)

Cham = 3-4

Ist

Zod = 4-6

Ist. Highest spread because cubing chams is bad now and drop chance is low.

It's not ists gettings more expensive, it's the devaluation of higher ones.

All of this is a real price crash compared to 2-3 months ago when

Ber was 15 and

Jah 18-19.

In general I agree, but some values look more like a bargain than an average value. Sure it depends on the platform and the rune prices definitly decrease and in terms of what is possible... everything is possible... even saw a

Ber for 6

Ist. Regarding your

Vex prices I would buy 5 if you can offer these for 2

Ist per item

The new price is also true for Ladder.
You can easily buy

Ber with 10

Ist.

I was shocked when I recently looked at the market. 1

Ber for 9 or 10

Ist!

I bought my first

Ber for 15

Ist months ago! Deflation is very tough these days!

That is expected, kinda. Or not?

Some toughts: Given enough time, most players will farm and/or buy everything they want (at least in non-ladder), and prices will go down following a drop in demand.

Maybe with new content, or something like that, there will be an increase in demand and then prices will go up again.

But I'll take this opportunity and the price drop to buy the things I need LOL.

Kriss_De_Valnor_ wrote: 10 months ago

I was shocked when I recently looked at the market. 1

Ber for 9 or 10

Ist!

I bought my first

Ber for 15

Ist months ago! Deflation is very tough these days!

Well, if you compare to ladder where it took only 1 month and 1 week to drop the price of

Ber to 10

Ist

My guess is that the price decrease of high runes is caused by bots and real money transaction sites. It is easier to program a bot to look for high runes than for a 15 ED 3OS

Archon Plate. Eventually the market for HRs is satisfied by the bots, and all the people that bought them are willing to pay more for the example AP since they just don't really care about the cost and want to save time. Just a theory, and if true, the value of runes VS other items will just continue to go down unless blizz cracks down on bots. I don't mind cheap runes though, it means I can collect pgems, for example, and easily make an Enigma or Infinity or other desirable rune word.

Landros wrote: 10 months ago

My guess is that the price decrease of high runes is caused by bots and real money transaction sites. It is easier to program a bot to look for high runes than for a 15 ED 3OS

Archon Plate. Eventually the market for HRs is satisfied by the bots.

Definitely spot-on evaluation. Runes are tanking, near-perfect items staying the course, perfects through the roof.

Hoarding runes = bad
If you care about your "legacy", remelting runes into gg items =

FYI Just bought

Ber for only 7

Ist on NL

Queegon wrote: 10 months ago

Landros wrote: 10 months ago

My guess is that the price decrease of high runes is caused by bots and real money transaction sites. It is easier to program a bot to look for high runes than for a 15 ED 3OS

Archon Plate. Eventually the market for HRs is satisfied by the bots.

Definitely spot-on evaluation. Runes are tanking, near-perfect items staying the course, perfects through the roof.

Hoarding runes = bad
If you care about your "legacy", remelting runes into gg items = fetchimage~2.jpg

Do you have any theories as to why all of sudden the high-rune values are dropping? I've only been playing d2r for a few months now, so I have no anecdotal data on rune values, but it seems like non-ladder prices have stayed relatively stable from the research I could do. I get the bots and the d2jsp-hot-garbage-train, but...why now, specifically? Bots and real-money sites have been around for a while and d2r has been around for a couple of years. Is D4 pulling away that many d2r players that there are so few buyers left? Do we think this is a market correction, or a normal ebb and flow scenario? Will it go back to how it was?
Anyways, what have you all done to whether these storms? Stop playing for a bit? Hunker down, and farm? Play solo and ignore markets and trading?

I just saw someone offering

Ber for 50 pgems and

Jah for 100 (SC NL XBOX). This wasn't a game name, but a post in the xbox chat messaging.
Ironically I found my second ever high rune today (

Ohm), right after the xbox economy tanked lol.

Knappogue wrote: 10 months ago

I just saw someone offering

Ber for 50 pgems and

Jah for 100 (SC NL XBOX). This wasn't a game name, but a post in the xbox chat messaging.
Ironically I found my second ever high rune today (

Ohm), right after the xbox economy tanked lol.

Console markets are notoriously small, even for games like PoE. Further, non-pc players are less inclined to use external trade sites, which 1) leads them to rely on first hand anecdotal data to reference and 2) leads to desperation with a lack of options. Lastly, would just like to point out that only 40 items can fit in a trade window. Anytime I see a request for more than that I assume some form of scam is likely to take place. For all these reasons, this sighting shouldn't be considered heavily.

What about Hardcore?

Honestly, no idea. Runes are a nice "value keeper", I think, so would tend to believe that they are more on the previous set of values, but on the other side no one will pay tons for perfect stuff as it can disappear instantly so the range would be smaller.

The advice is the same : use the price history here to get current values on what you need to value at a certain point in time.

Currently

Jah is about 7 to 8

Ist and

Ber is about 5 to 6

Ist