How to farm High Runes in Diablo 2 - Strategies, tips, tricks, and frequently asked questions!!
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The links to all the guides that I referenced in this video are in the description as well as my twitch and discord invitation link :) I didn't mention river of flame super chest farming or chest farming in act 5 because I don't think its personally worth it, but if you think I missed something in this video let me know! :)
Dude,sorry for off-topic,but did you know that certain weapon or armor raxes have their limited pool of items they can drop? I mean if you want some base for RW, you can abuse it.
Yup I do know this :) had an armor rack that dropped a lot of dusk shrouds and it end up giving me a blizz ormus
@@Dbrunski125 Same armor rack that you called "weapon rack" ?))
hello bro i want to start playing d2 again do i need to have cd key for a single player?
and if ever how can i transfer items?
Dbrunski125 which armor rack was it? Do you remember? :)
Bro. Finally. 20 years in this fuckin game. Finally. Today the lower kurast chests blessed me with a pul. So i got greedy, and started popping everything until unearthing my first found HIGH RUNE EVER - BER! Your guides RULE!
Hey DB!
Liked the video, good job on covering the basics about rune farming!
You kept it snappy with referring to your previously made guides etc.
I liked the fact, that you included something just because someone would mention it in the comments about you not mentioning it...
Keep up the good work!
Can't believe I watch these. I played this game so much that I simply burnt out. I'd log in and stand there staring at the screen for 15 minutes, then I'd log out. Still though, 1 of the best games I ever, ever, ever, played. Great video's by the way, brings back fond memories.
I did that about 10x over the past 20 years.
That rolling the dice analogy is key.Two goals: roll as many dices as possible while looking for dices that have as few faces as possible .
DB- lists 7/8 different methods, has a video for 5 of them! And that’s called channel building 👏
Definitely going to use this info to try and farm some high runes 😀 keep the awesome content coming bro 😎✌
I got a Ber like 1 month ago when I was farming countess... it dropped from a champion pack in level 4 of the tower. I was really surprised since I thought maximum rune you could get in this area is Lo. So the teaching is, kill every champion in your way.
I never thought I'd find a high rune in single player until I found a jah and a vex within about 5 seconds of each other, literally within maybe 10-12 monster kills lol. I hadn't even picked the first one up before the next dropped.
Dear Mr Dbrunski 125 - just wanted to let you know that, after many years, my friends and I decided to play LAN D2 games again and that your videos have been instrumental in getting us back up to speed. Liked and Subscribed. Keep up the good work.
just randomly checking out this video, I feel like I have to install d2 again after all the years... great vid!
You should!
i cant make myself pay for diablo 2 again. i bought that game at least 10 times
Very nice and useful upload DB. :)
Pulled a SUR from one of the mobs around Shenk in hell the other day :) I support the simple "mass farming" idea. I think its the most fun and easiest way to get them
I got a zod rune last week after I had done like 70 cow runs, Couldn't believe it, never seen a zod drop in the 16 years I have been playing D2!
Seen Zod from doing hell rushes forge quest --- hell rushes for act 4 quest was one of the best ways I found high Runes
@@zacktrever1878 so you just rush a new character to act4 hell and get to do that quest?
@@NathanPsprague pretty much
You offer a rush service and ask for quest reward as a payment or a SOJ (when SOJ was cheap)
You can ask for runes or other items as barter material for high runes
@@zacktrever1878 Zod absolutely does not drop from the hellforge quest. The highest rune that can drop from the forge is Gul. Perhaps you can saw one trigger from a mob drop but I'm not even sure the monsters in that area are capable of dropping them.
@@d2r-leetloot551 Gul is the highest rune from quest -- found Zod along the way
Should of been clearer
The never ending grind... Thanx for another great vid man💪🏼
Each time I watch a D2 video I become even more sure that no other game will never be as good as it. Not even D4 or D5. No no. D2 is just perfect.
I hope that one day Blizzard will come back to find itself.
This kind of grinding isn't what makes D2 great.
@@TheRaiko777 No... what makes D2 great is the old-school rendered graphs, the open trading, the elective mode, the crafting, the charms, the runewords, the good pvp, the 8 ppl in a game, the channels and clans, the dark ambient, etc.
Hope springs eternal they say. :) In all the years of playing (single player mind you) I was only able to find runes up to LO in the wild, but your video proves that higher stuff can still be found sometime. :)
Incidentally I like to farm the 3 Kurast locations; it was there and in the 6 small underground temples below these that I was able to find the best stuff (like LO and OHM).
Dbrunski's guide about Lower Curast rune farming is the best I've seen so far. I did maybe a 1000 runs, brought me enough runes to make HoTO, Delirium, Sanctuary, Call to Arms. The highest I found was Sur.
Took me around 10-15 tries to set location right
i love diablo 2 content its so nostalgic i used to rush people for hell forge and half the time they would just leave the game but you make some friends you can trust along the way.
classic
Been doing some lower kurast, got 2 Sur runes and some other nice runes so far. It's all about patience and keeping the grind on!
also did lots of LK runs. already dropped 3x Sur, 1x Ist, 1x Um and 3x Pul. Probably I did ~600-700 runs in LK.
Finally the HRs coming today.. Vex(near nith), Ohm(arcane), Lo(eldritch mob) \o/
Got my 1st highish rune on plugy (gul) while watching your luck charm of a video. Thx
Step 1. Create a character named Dbrunski. Step 2. Drop Jahs.
I think I'm gonna do it, I have my first Jah(mf sorc and a hammerdin) but I miss my ber and if I get another Jah, I'll come back!
Step 3: Profit
Dry spells indeed. First 1000 lk runs gave me 2 sur, 1 vex and like 7 gul. Next 2000 runs has only gotten me 2 isty runes :( Desperately trying to finish my exile + grief. Anyway, awesome content as always DB, you're an inspiration to the d2-community :)
Took me just shy of 3200 LK runs to get my first HR (HR being Vex+), which was a Sur. I haven't heard of anybody else having the kind of bad luck with LK that I have. I did find like 5 or more Mal runes, and many Pul, Lem, a few Gul, etc., but the really coveted ones... One in ~3200 runs.
Waiting for Diablo 2: Resurrected
When bro?
@@iampokyu3493 before dec 31 2021
Same
Yup yup
Bro ever since I heard about it... it's all I can think about playing lol
countess, cow level, travincal, clear mass monsters, hellforge, super chests
#1 LK is the best for single player, but mind numbing
#2 Travincal, especially for hork barb
#3 Cows, since their chance to drop any rune is 50% higher.
#4 Wraiths: around 3.2x more on p1, 3.5x on p5, around 3.7x on p7
#5 clear mass monsters: around 2x less effective than Cows
@@MatiKosa pretty sure cows experience gained and gear drop and along with high runes was heavily nerfed to the ground. In the latest patch which the game plays on for remastered.
@@MatiKosa I've played the game for 20 years and the best way to farm HRs is to gank them from public runs of 8 players. With all my experience, I cannot recommend anyone to farm LK and Trav. They look good on paper, but realistically 95% of us cannot run them efficiently enough to make it worth while. With that said, focus on Act bosses, mini bosses, and just clear ghosts and finger mages. I recently found a Sur from Andariel, Jah from Diablo, and a Vex from finger mages in River of Flame. I've put a lot of effort of 2 weeks into Trav on my horker, and I feel like I could have had 2 HRs in my pocket if I hadn't wasted my time there.
@@garneroutlaw1 While I believe you have been playing this game for 20 years, it doesn't change the fact that the numbers don't lie. Your method isn't great, because regular monsters don't drop runes often, so lowering their NoDrop by a slightly higher amount won't net you many more runes. But even if: imagine a Ber drops. Now I am asking you: what now? Who is gonna take that rune? Maybe someone will even steal it. I'm sorry but that is just not a solution.
LK is the winner, then Trav. But you need to know how to run Trav efficiently. The fact that you or 95% of players can't do it well enough doesn't change the fact it is almost the best method. Also, you said 2 weeks. Doesn't matter if it was 2 weeks or 2 years. Queston is: how many runs did you do? I bet not more than 400-500. 200-300 is what I would do per session. Did 3500 in total. HRs were flying.
This game ate most of my adult life.
Same here but in reverse
@@RawReady best game ever. wife is gonna keel me
@@sp00f34 +2
great video mate. Very informative.
Good stuff dude. My cousin convinced me to download plugy and been playing for about a month now. It has been very fun getting back into d2. Cold sorc moat trick for my starter items and LK and ancient tunnels for my hrs. I've gotten vex, ohm x2, ber and sur so far. Been enjoying your content, you got yourself a new subscriber.
Thanks for the informative video!
I know that Hell Mephisto doesn't drop many runes, but he has the capability to do at least a Jah rune- which was my first Jah rune I got ever, off Mephisto.
Maybtry that im always low on essence of hatred anyway might as well I found ber rune jah would be sweet!
more hours of D2 playing = more high runes
And it is enough)
5head
If you kill lots of mobs then yes
i played d2 for 3-4 years, never found high rune
@@therissuishere ;) runes dont drop in d2 classic :D
10 out of 10! Video
Big d gang!!!!
I was getting rune drops when i started a druid playthrough
Cool. Good topic. I'd like to mention that if you're farming for high runes specifically, that's also a good time to farm for Eth gear for merc. Take off your magic find (to increase Eth drop chance) and kill big packs. I wish I had thought of this while farming my Bers for Infinity...now I have the runes but no Eth Thresher to socket them into!
The Manhands great advice!
Just one simple method! Bots hate him! Figure out how to grow your high rune count today!
Lmfao exactly I used bots easiest.
Always answering my questions T.T
Te sigo desde Argentina y la verdad todos tus videos tienen muy buen contenido, son super utiles, sigue asi #Dbrunski125 !! Un saludo :D
Aca igual jaja
@@passalapasa Que aprenda o traduzca, no hacemos eso nosotros?
I wish I found good items all the time like dbrunski in d2
HEY Dbrunski125 is there a video where you talk about good strategies for starting fresh after season reset or first starting the game? i.e. what class to play? (sorc?) spec? where to grind and look for gear at what levels etc.. ?? I would find this very benefecial and informational. thanks for all the great vids!!! love the content keep up the great work!!
hi dbrunski - great guides as always - with playing on B-net primarily myself since "Cruel weapons" were a thing - Runes have always been an issue for me to find. I prefer to play solo rather then in groups and assumed this was my downfall as to why i wasnt having any luck at all finding anything higher then an Ist then having to cube the runes higher. Is there any suggestions you may have that would help with my odds playing on B-net?
Thanks bro it helps alot, i got question tho what is the best charms for paladin because so far my inventory is so full of charmand i feel like i dont need all of them, any suggestion?
One trick that I've learned about farming runes is that regardless of the nodrop rate, a better source of finding runes in general is by farming monsters which CANNOT drop a piece of armor -- such as Finger Mages, Ghosts, Spirits and the like.
This is a reason why the Arcane Sanctuary is a good source for runes: you will always have Ghosts in there.
Thank you bro!
80% of this video was just us being referred to other videos lol
You must have failed math
You easily cann look the other video's... 100 videos from 100 content creators and all are the same .. but you preferr the only one good guy and this is the legend himself DEBRUNSKI
agreed pretty annoying lol
So just click and kill all the things. ^^
Good video dude, I play hc so rn and I'm spamming pits lk and mephisto. I'm just getting into hc, so my gear is quite crap.
You should mention when killing ghosts in Arcane that if they drop off the path they wont drop anything. It's basic knowledge and people avoid farming them there for this reason.
That’s why you use a Zon and cast Valk to herd them
same thing for any champ or unique monster in other places, killing out of border cause the full drop items is gone!!!!
@@jetttor In arcane sanctuary ghosts can beeline between the narrow pathways that's why it's way more common that they are over empty space. While you are farming time per run matters and you don't have time for them to float over safe land. While on other maps walls and generally larger areas prevent them from flying over such places. In Chaos it can happen with the Doom Caster mobs but even there it's way less common.
I’ve had luck there with a Bowa when I just pulled back a little. The specters follow and you can catch them over paths. I stack organic damage runes and a merc with a simple insight
I love vids like this! I would like to see some tips and tricks leveling from 70-to whatever level hell becomes managable in single player! I am stuck in act 1 :( Playing a sorc!
Your best bet is gonna be to first farm a nice Insight base for your act 2 merc, or Lawbringer for act 5 merc. Then, you'll wanna go meteorb build (of course with a point in static field). This will allow you to get around the vast majority of immunities. For the immunes you come across who you can't deal with, just tele away :) and of course, if you're on plugy then you're in a position to respec on the fly and power through areas that a more focused build would be more effective for. For example, I just hit ancient tunnels in hell and switched to blizzard spec to farm that area.
Good luck!
@@SJNaka101 Tried this after I got home from work tonite. Managed to clear Ancient tunnles. I changed my mercs shittier helm for a tal rashas head I had lying around! I have more questions:
Meteor, really? I suck enough at the game, aiming these makes me cry! :)
Merc dies like a fly. I have a pretty bad insight, (it is probably a nightmare poleaxe), duress and now the helmet. Any pointers to keep him up? I've managed to TP just as he is close to mobs I know will one shot him, but more tops would be sweet!
I feel that my Forb is not doing any damage, like 350-400. Is this going to be enough? :D DM me if u want more info on my gear and stuff :D
When is wolf barb vids coming, nice vid btw.
Yesterday I started playing d2 again after 7 month break. I did like 20 ancient tunnel runs.. and suddenly unique Corona drops! (my first ever!) Crown of ages ofcourse and it had 26 ar / 13% dr / 1 socket :( not the best rolls.. but still nice that I find it finally :D
roydamanna any stats on a COA is a good drop hahah
That's how D2 lures you back in.... it gives you a little taste and then it has you.
@@BuellNYC
Exactly! It is like crack cocaine.
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I have a 57 to 141 inderstructuble fast attack ,one hand and some other .And a shield 36def attacker takes damage of 36.
hey man I'm loving ur content. just picked up d2 again for the first time in 12 years. maybe u could help me understand something: I was doing a hell meph run, and i ran into diablo in the DOH lvl 3... is this some new thing I'm unaware of? or is it just a bug or glitch? cuz he seems nearly unkillable
I use D2 randomizer in addition to PlugY. I use randomizer solely for increased monster density. It saves me time by not having to create new games as often. It keeps the game interesting because the risk increases with more monsters.
Thanks bro! Actually I got top unique Thinderstroke and Blood raven bow so I want make an infinity for my merc and try to farm Hell Diablo. So maybe I’ll start find runes for that
I'd like to see a video about every step taken for pros to get their first ber rune
Playing hardcorer on ladder I always go for travi and pits on hell for high runes.
I found 2 Cham and 3 ist in 500 travi runs in one day. Crazy luck but travi feels like the way to go.
You are a master. Thanks.
I find the best way to find HRs in SP plugy is doing LK (p7) and cows (p3).
Will you play medianxl when you finish your holy grail search, and "complete" diablo 2?
It doesn't really account for *that* big of a difference, but part of the reason you have more Jahs than Bers is because Ber is actually more rare to drop than Jah. Even though Jah is technically higher up the rune tier list.
I dropped 3 this season from terror fallen ones. Now I dont leave a single one alive.
Hell Pindle can drop high runes as well and great for finding the rare items and sets.
I've been playing D2 single player with plugy for 7-8 months, I have infi, eni, hoto, griffon's eye, eth bug forti, coh, but I can't find mara🙂 RNG in this game is crazy and I love her for it. Now my goal is eth botd😉 DB good job, I get a lot of inspiration form your channel. Greetings from Poland.
What’s plugs? I’ve played D2 since it came out and never heard of it. Thanks
@@kimhorton6109 it is mod for Diablo 2. Plugy, the survival kit.
good guide, i suscribe this guide
I've found a few from Nihlathak running for d- keys in pub Baal runs.
There's more than enough time to run Nihlathak and get to the throne room for Baal xp.
When I played this game a lot I did the following in bnet, which I never heard from other players:
I had a Classic Sorc and rushed 3 other charakters to Hell Act4 (self rush, had 4 instances of Diablo open in Sandbox), to avoid the lvl20 & lvl40 LOD limitations for nightmare and hell pass.
Afterwards I converted the characters to LOD. I think Hell Act4 conversion to LOD will degredade your old Classic charakter to Hell Act1 or Act2.
So I finished the Hellforge quest with this characters in Hell and erased them. This was done by rushing myself.
Basically you can generate many runes in "short" time.
I doubt that will work in Res.
I always had my best rune luck starting at Hell Bloody foothills, and ending at shenk the overseer. (But, I suppose if you don't have the ability to survive there yet, these other places are certainly great too). I don't know if my lucky spot will be anyone else's lucky spot, but I figured it might be worth sharing.
These are great methods but keep in mind doing LK runs you miss out farming L85 zones that can drop good uniques and bases! D:
Just wanted to drop this info in the comments, ive gotten a Jah rune off of a carver mob on the way to countess.
I got gul, I feel special now
There's one more thing worth mentioning about the Arcane Sanctuary - superchests! They probably don't have the same patterns as the LK ones, but they surely do share some. At each of the 3 false ends, there's 3 superchests to pop, making 9 in total. Combine this with the ghosts and it's a decent incentive for rune farming. Not as boring as LK, not as dangerous as Travincal and it's a decent place for solo levelling too, especially if you don't yet have super-OP gear. But I agree that the ghosts alone are not worth it, especially since they fly and hover around empty space and lots of drops just don't happen.
Actually those ghosts are totally worth it. Farmed the shit out of LK and CS and AS has netted me way more HRs than the entire game combined. 3 Jah, 3 Ber, 6 Sur in total. 3 jah, 2 ber and 4 sur came from ghosts :)
Bug seal in chaos sanctuary should have been included in this video. In my experience it can compete with LK and is the best way to farm high runes in my opinion.
frontliner2 basically you clear all 3 superuniques, pop only 4 seals, then teleport back to entrance of CS and then as fast as you can while passing as many mobs as you can, get to the last seal and pop it. Everything will die but anything on screen 6 seconds or less before you popped the seal has a chance to drop something(as if you had 0 mf though). So good way to get bases or high runes
@@starhunter2770 that's interesting.
I had 1 Cham and 1 Jah rune in cow level this week! Much better than LK.
Packs of champion stanglers just outside of chaos is how i get a lot of my high runes. Got Ist, Ohm and Cham this ladder form hitting those
I find the best stuff clearing my way to the pit. But the things that drop in the pit are better just rarer
thank you so much :) :D
The easiest way to farm high runes is to find someone quitting D2, and have an empty inventory character. peace
got a 20/20 anni by a guy who only played ladder
@M B Assuming D2R will be dupes free and start from 0, online mode will be the hard mode and single will be easy (assuming player X will remain).
@@SageAtoreis bots will crash the economy like last time. It's what killed the game.
@@brandish4952 hopefully the warden will be on the lookout like in wow.
@M B So everyone cares more about hero editor single player crap? Turn on your brain before you comment.
Try Halls of Anguish/ Pain/ Vaught on players 7 with a fast aoe character. That is how I found my first Zod big mob density specially when those little act 3 guys spawn
Good bnet strat, while farming meph with a blizzard sorc, just farm LK. You won’t get realm down and you will eventually get high runes before getting full gear for a different character. 😁
Great video
btw, ghost farming in arcane gave me my first Jah ever ;)
im not 100% sure but I think arcane can drop up to Sur
@@hoarfrost4960 up to cham
Egor egors right can drop till cham
@@prooneprune Aye i got my first Jah from ghosts in Arcane too they are good for farming HRs.
I found out if type /players 8 you will get so much better stuff in Lower Kurast thats good plan
Hi what items are you using on your AMAZON on 5:02.. and another question in D2R can we kill the COW KING? or still not
Now I’m debating trying SP instead of non-ladder bnet on D2:R launch. Seems that you can manipulate drop rate better in SP, the map are static and no one can steal your drops. But playing with my buddies seems also nice. Ah... decisions, decisions.
Craziest thing happened tonight, My brother has been bugging me to get him an enigma on jsp and I resisted because prices are still too high. So We watched your High rune farming video. Later on in the night he was killing durance 2 trash mobs. JAH drops! crazy crazy.
not this last season, but the season before it that started in january on pod, i found 10+ Jahs and my first Zod. I had so many Jahs I made a dual Dream and Last Wish just for fun. lol Llama played PoD last season, I'm wondering if you've ever tried it out?
I've done like 800 LK runs, 400 Chaos , 300 Destruction runs, No Rune higher than IST....... On the last 2 Baal Runs, droped JAH JAH OHM
Decided to start farming arcane sanctuary. Found an ohm... Then made a 6/6/1 Ethereal Crystal Sword Cta. :) Love Arcane Sanctuary. (Ohm from ghost) Make that 2x now. Under 100 runs. O.o
Found a cham and a jah within a week in Tal Rashas tombs. Unbelievable.
Just started my own 10k LK runs and got Vex on the 10th run
Diablo 2 is so diablo 2
what do you think about running the chests in durance of hate levels 1 and 2? There's like 200 chests there, although I don't think there's any superchests
A Devilkin in the Pit dropped a Sur rune for me the other day.
I've gotten most of my hrs by chopping everything to bits with a frenzy barb in the highest level places. To me it seems like they drop off anything high level and I don't target packs. I just chop everything up in chaos, worldstone and pit. Chaos and worldstone has been where I have found many cham, Lo, ber, jah, sur and zod. I've killed a lot of shit with lightning sorc but from experience doing melee attacks yields more hr's. I don't know all the mechanics involved in differences of spells vs melee but I know I've gotten tons more hr's metering. And killing high level white mobs you get lots of eth weapons. That's actually my main farm is socketables.
Lower Kurast for me !!!
Hey Dbrunski125 do you know if the /playersX command increases the amount of cows spawned in the SCL like battle net scales it with party size?
maybe you could explain how runes work in general? it still is very specific in this video… so…
- what are “high runes” from which level?
- what runes drop on normal, nm, hell?
- is connected to the character level?
- why you get “eld” when farming countess on nightmare 2p?
- is there a bell curve for distribution or an exponential decline?
…
thx man!
hell is the only difficulty where high runes commonly drop. You can on _very_ rare occasion find them in NM, but that's about it really. Anything from Mal - Zod is considered a high rune.
and your character level has no influence on which runes drop. The chance of rune drops is determined by the level of the area you are in, the difficulty you are playing in, and the level of the monster you are killing.
This is the video i have been waiting for. Lk runs are getting stale.
Hey guys. This just in!!!. DO NOT sleep on the stony tombs !. I have been racking up big here. There could be up to 13 unique monsters and champion packs in both levels. I found my first ever griffins here yesterday not to mention hrs and some nice rares and charms
1st. I think Chaos sanctuary p8 pop wouldve been good mention. When u leave one seal unopened, kill superuniques, tele through cs and open last seal. If done enough fast it will make monsters around pentagram to do 0mf drop. So basically without effort you kill a lot of monsters with drops each run.
This is especially good strat for bnet farmers. Just follow a baalrun for p8, clear cs in mentioned way and head back to wave3 to throne.
That is a good point actually. Kinda falls under mass monster farming but good one to point out yea
Yup. I believe cs pop is the best way to farm hrs. "Monsters killed per second" with this strat is highest. Kinda bummer tho that u need highend char to efficiently kill superuniques to get that pop. In sp that is point where farming hr's becomes waste of time...
For runes: Monster density and killspeed ;)
a doubt Rare runes like a ZOD only drop or are more likely to fall from Diablo Run mode-Hell, Baal Run and Mephisto mobs? Is aidna strategy like this?
I've read some contradicting information about party size. What happens to my drops when I enter a Baal bot game and party at 8, but go LK and Travi solo while the rest are busy in the throne room?
I think the most density area with easiest difficulty in hell is hall of pain. But having Hall of pain portal opened its mean you will lose Pindle portal.