Can anyone educate me how Lo rune can be more expensive than Sur?

Wow, it’s been more than a month since I started this post and I didn’t expect this long chain of discussions at all! Thank you all for your valuable input.

To be honest, I ended up getting another

Sur (by trade) and cubing them up to

Ber, and selling it for much better price like I said so at the beginning. (The best deal I’ve got so far was 2

Lo +

Ohm for

Ber = 2

Sur…) So basically have been trading 2

Sur(

Ber) with 2

Lo + @ and repeating this process, leaving myself with a huge margin. Now my Sorceress is fully equipped with end-game gears (Infinity, Fortitude, Chains of Honors, Phoenix… you name it) and it is solely from a bunch of trades taking advantage of the weird price difference between

Lo and

Sur. Having read through you guys’ comments, now I ‘kind of’ see why

Lo is more expensive…? But whoever wants to sell

Sur now, my advice is – don’t do it! Get another

Sur, make

Ber, and then sell it for more than 2

Lo! LOL

This is definitely no longer the case. Makes sense though.

Sur is essentially worthless without at least another

Sur. And early people want to make their griefs and fortitudes, now everyone has that they want to make Infinity’s and other high end rune words.

PnutBudda wrote: 3 years ago

To put this into another perspective: Supply and demand
All mercenary builds need Fortitude.
Grief is the best melee weapon (Barb/Smiter).
Need 2

Sur to make

Ber, which is high value but expensive and people selling

Sur only want other high runes which limits customer base.

You know, I've had great luck with 2500+ Defense Stone armors and any number of

Eth Hustle/

Crescent Moon

Good Runewords that use

Sur rune is useful by more specific builds and these runewords generally are made late in the account.

Lo has use for more useful runewords, such as Grief and Fortitude.

Without reading replies,

Sur itself has virtually no utility except for if you have x2 you may upgrade to a

Ber (which has loads of utility) in the cube.

TLDR:

Lo have greater utility versus a

Sur (albeit less rare to drop).

Botters dropping more Surs than

Lo's and

Lo is more used in common runewords id say.

When this happens in the D2R market just keep abusing it until it settles out. Cube your 2

Sur into

Ber. Trade

Ber for 2

Lo. Trade 2

Lo for more than 2

Sur (plus a

Flawless Amethyst which has value). Cube

Sur into

Ber. And repeat until you get tired of having extra runes or until people stop being willing.

This kind of imbalance happens all the time, and you just sell and buy and sell and buy until it sorts itself out. Doing this generally nets you Wealth in D2R faster than playing. If it goes too slow, people might do bulk trades. 4

Ber for 8

Lo. 8

Lo for more than 8

Sur etc.

departure wrote: 3 weeks ago

Cube your 2

Sur into

Ber.

Don't cube HR. Sell 2

Sur for Tokens or Ists, then buy

Ber. Or sell 2

Sur directly for

Ber +

Ist or

Ber +

Token of Absolution.

Nekeyby wrote: 3 weeks ago

departure wrote: 3 weeks ago

Cube your 2

Sur into

Ber.

Don't cube HR. Sell 2

Sur for Tokens or Ists, then buy

Ber. Or sell 2

Sur directly for

Ber +

Ist or

Ber +

Token of Absolution.

I'm not playing ladder this season, or online in general anymore. If you can do this, even better.

Side note : the initial topic was 3 years old, so no real point here.

I joined the site almost 2 years ago, and probably started trading for High Runes 1 year ago (or maybe 1 year and a half), and my impression is that the price of High Runes x

Ist was kinda stable during this time
with:
1

Lo ~= 4

Ist
1

Sur ~= 5

Ist
1

Ber ~= 7

Ist

Zombies ftw! (

Zombie posts too xd)

P.S. I have some weird error involving my likes...
P.P.S. Godammit you were so fast, so no longer true! xd

fredkid wrote: 3 weeks ago

I joined the site almost 2 years ago, and probably started trading for High Runes 1 year ago (or maybe 1 year and a half), and my impression is that the price of High Runes x

Ist was kinda stable during this time
with:
1

Lo ~= 4

Ist
1

Sur ~= 5

Ist
1

Ber ~= 7

Ist

The most recent trades i've seen or done have instead been:

1

Lo ~= 5

Ist
1

Sur ~= 7

Ist
1

Ber ~= 11

Ist