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

Heckenklatscher wrote: 4 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: 4 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: 4 years ago

N1ne2yaD0m3 wrote: 4 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: 4 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)