did 1000 trav runs in last 3 days
max rune i got was Amn
is this normal? rune drop rates changed? usually in 1.14d in 1000 travs runs for sure a sur drops
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1000 runs is didly squat for finding high runes from Travincal council.
No the drop rates didn’t change, they’re still the same as they were from the last time they were adjusted in v1.13C.
No, doing 1000 trav runs in OG 1.14D doesn’t guarantee a Sur rune, or any other high rune dropping.
You played the slot machine 1000 times and came up empty handed for what you were looking for… Welcome to Diablo 2, may pseudoRNG bless you next time.
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my fisrt pul from travincal on run 1200+
believe me, in less than 1000 runs i was able to get Jah, ber, and always a sur in my third returns to the diablo 2 before diablo 2 resurrected was made
for a moment i thought drops were nerfed but is just bad luck
i found gg items and exchanged for runes and torchs, but not runes by drop yet
i got a +15 all res 3 str gc
maybe worths 1 hr, i dont know the prices in d2r
but in classic this was a very gg
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Travincal, imo, is not the best place for runes. Lower Kurast Super Chests, Arcane Sanctuary and Chaos Sanctuary all have higher opportunities for runes thanks to Ghosts/Finger Mages who have a limited drop pool and therefore have higher odds of dropping runes. Also places that are densely populated(Worldstone, Cows, etc.) are worth farming since the more you slay, the more chances on a rune drop. You’ve just been unlucky with the Rune Roulette wheel.
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yeah for chaos i will need more gear on res, noticed there is lower resist curse in this path, in 1.14d i dont remember that curse was on in hell mode
usually in 1000 chaos a rune you can get and every chaos with good gear, a full clean can take 1 to 1.30 minutes
i had more luck in rune drops in p5 in chaos
This makes me wonder if they replaces iron maiden with lower resist
AFAIK, Oblivion Knights have always had Amplify Damage, Decrepify, Weaken, Iron Maiden(since been removed), Life Tap and Lower Resist curses in their arsenal. Hence when Iron Maiden was still around, melee players played Russian Roulette while in CS. Removing that curse sucked all the fun for HC characters because a Chaos run could be their last… Kudos for Carbot for at least memorializing it.
my zerk baba never had a problem on chaos in 1.14d
That’s because Iron Maiden was removed in 1.13c or March of 2010. It’s the same patch that granted free re-specs via Den of Evil Quest and increased the drop rate of High Runes. It also greatly reduced the damage of Fire Enchanted Monsters, hence prior to that, all Fire Enchanted mobs hit like a truck, not withstanding the NM Fire Enchanted bug. Was also the last time they did a major skill rebalance when Hammerdins lost their ability to pierce Magic Immunity against Undead + Demons.
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That’s actually something I’ve wondered about… the cold nova when a monster dies is pretty dangerous if your cold res is less than 50, but I don’t know that I’ve ever been hurt by the fire enchanted explosion. Seems like a visual effect only.
people back than died to it. It was one of the mayor killers in NM HC.
1k runs and highest rune is Amn? That sounds like either the worst RNG streak or you missed some items showing on your screen. I always walk around real quick after pressing “F”.
I’ve got multiple samples of 1k runs counting anything Lem and above.
1-1k = Lo, Ohm, Lem, Gul, Mal, Ber, Lo, Um
1k-2k = Ohm, Ist, Lo, Um, Lem, Sur, Lem, Mal, Pul, Lem
2k-3k = Lem, Lem, Mal, Pul, Um, Pul, Ohm, Vex, Sur, Mal, Pul, Jah, Mal, Pul
3k-4k = Um, Ohm, Gul, Ist, Pul, Lem, Jah, Pul, Vex, Ohm, Lem, (Stone of Jordan!)
4k-5k = Um, Lem, Um, Lo, (SoJ!), Lem, Ist, Um, Cham, Mal, Lem, Lem
5k-6k = Lem, Jah, (SoJ!), Pul, Lo, Um, Cham
So that’s 6 samples of 1k runs. It is incredibly low chance you only found an Amn as your highest rune. While it is possible, I wonder what the odds of that actually are? I would assume the likelihood of only finding an Amn rune through 1k runs is much less likely than finding 10 Jah runes in 1k runs. I would be willing to bet it might even be more likely to find 100 Jah runes in 1k runs that only finding an Amn.
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I don’t think he meant 1 Amn. I think he meant to say the highest was an Amn.
No wayyy haha.
I wish it was still… a moderate threat like the frost nova is…
The way it is now, it doesn’t even seem like it’s functioning.
I couldn’t even tell you what the blast radius is, because it does the same whether I’m in melee range or all the way across the screen - zero lol
yeah i had bad luck, last two days i had not too much time to play, i was forced to work even when is supposed i was on holidays =(
but today first run got an hr, surprised me
That’s because berserk is magic damage and iron maiden only returns physical damage. WW barbs/ zealots/ strafezons died quickly.
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I’m with you… Been playing Diablo 2 for decades and the drops just simply aren’t the same. Especially in SSF. People like to use the catch phrase RNG but there’s definitely factors that can effect drops, There’s a vid on Youtube where a guy on SSF finds Ber rune after Ber rune on SSF and shows how he did it and what factors changed it. Something as simple as what tiles you step on and what you click on can make a break the difference. Its not as simple as most people like to make it by saying its a 1 in X# of chance to get X item from X monster.
The drop rates are the same. Stop letting your bias and impatience convince you otherwise. The drop tables can be and have been extracted from D2:R, and when compared to 1.14D drop tables from the OG, they are identical. (Outside of the addition of Sunder charms)
Runes have always been a contrived system. It’s one of those things about D2 that’s bad, but also defines it.
What you are describing are the factors that RNG uses. Since computers can’t generate a truly random number, there are various things the game looks at when generating a an approximately random number. Therefore if you have the same “seeds” and do the exact same actions, the results are the same, b/c all the inputs are the same.