Trapsin then? …
No, I am playing Barbarian.
I am on fresh account and this is what i have after 4 days (well I played a lot tho). The screen is not all I had as I spend some Mals and Ists on my gear.
Here is the ugly truth, and you will not like it. Everybody says their spot is the best for finding High Runes. I was watching streamers where one streamer swore by Chaos Sanctuary, another swore by Tal rashas Tomb, another said Hell Cows, another said Arcane Sanctuary, and so on. The drop rate for high runes is so low, that it is purely luck to find one and most monsters have a small chance of a high rune drop, but it is very difficult regardless of what area you are in. The best drops from regular monsters come from Wraiths, but even those chances are astronomical.
Here are some actual drop rates for some of the sought after runes:
VEX Rune - Andi 1:16548
- Wraith 1:184975
- Hell Cows 1:379436
LO Rune - Andi 1:23568
- Wraith 1:262554
- Hell Cows 1:540273
BER Rune - Diablo 1:61640
- Wraith 1:356143
- Hell Cows 1:730549
(These drops are based on one player game, Source Silospen Drop Calculator )
As you can see, if you do get a drop, it is because you are extremely lucky and not because of the area that you are farming in. Of the regular monsters, the best chance for rune drops is with wraiths (ghosts). Hell Cows are a good choice because of the vast number of cows, not because they drop runes any better. Anybody that says they find multiple high runes in a couple hours of farming is either extremely lucky, or full of BS.
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I disagree, i will have more data in future but it is so far quite solid place. Idk if it is best place in game as i am waiting for someone to share some info about drops vs time.
In location i run i had this in 10 hour long play time:
Mal, Ist, Gul, Ko, Lum, Hel, Hel, Io, Io, Hel, Hel, Vex, Sur, Ko, Lum, Hel, Hel, Lum, Fal, Ko, Lum
You say it is luck. I dont think so. I was running same location even 15 years ago in 1.10 and had there results. Well partialy it is always luck, but mainly it is game knowledge to know where to find to have best results.
This one guy uses special trick to find high runes and you will never guess where he farmed.
Sound familiar?
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Well its not special trick. I have seen others do it but it is not so exactly commonly known thing i would say.
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fastest way to get high runes is to just rip hordes of monsters with gg gear. Bigger the mob density the better. CS isnt bad but the travel times exist. Cows tal rasha tombs and trav with gold find barb are my places to go.
I got 2 high runes from cows
1 high rune off skeleton knights infront of pindle
1 high rune in trav
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Yeah that nice but information is useless without time element 
I want to find best place for runes and if it can beat my place, but i need to know results vs invested time.
just run chaos, pits, trav
99% of my hrs have been from chaos
Horking Trav runs is a good way.
My method seem to have better results tho and with very little effort.
I did that also, but it was worse with runes vs time than my current method.
I had Sur, cham, cham, Um, gul from 800 travi runs. I can do 45 trav run in 1 hour so thats like 20 hours to find them and one Sur dropped from object. Not even from council. It seems to be twice as bad as my new method.
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You certainly have my attention now.
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I have to gather more data for sure, i will try another 3-5 hours today.
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People have calculated which zones are the best for getting high runes and it’s in this order:
hell cows
arcane sanctuary
Arcane sanctuary can actually drop more runes because the ghosts there have the highest chance of dropping runes out of all normal monsters in the game, but they’re hard to kill on land (if you kill them in space, they drop no loot). Better bring something like a fireball sorceress here since she can kill them instantly and you can position them on land much easier with teleport. Also, the 3 chests at the end of each side are superchests, similarly to those in lower kurast, so they have a very high chance of dropping runes.
Hell cows is the most consistent way of getting high runes (got one jah and one sur here in a couple of weeks), but you need to be able to farm them fast. Something like a javazon, well geared fire/lightning sorc are good here. Otherwise, don’t bother
The third best place for high runes (although not so good) is the council in travincal. Here a barb can farm them the best since he can use item find on their corpses for ~x1.5 total loot. Got a jah here as well. Also, you get insane amounts of gold here with a barb and items aren’t that bad either (make sure you use item find with 2 ali babas on switch socketed with 2 lem runes each). Also get at least 200% mf outside of those if you can. Skullder’s ire can help you with that if you don’t have enigma.
Special mention for lower kurast, it’s probably the best place to farm high runes in singleplayer, where you can use /players8 and where you have a static map that’s populated with at least 3 superchest clusters.
Do you have some data for cows and arcane sanctuary? For how much time you need there before HR drops. Or runes Pul+?
How much time to win something from lotto? Thats basically what you are asking. Nobody can answer that. Could you tell me how much time is needed to find gg uniques from bosses? Its an impossible question to answer
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Of course you can calculate these things thats why we have sites like silospen. I am simply asking for found runes and how much time was spend to find them in certain location. Its not hard to gather that information, just not so many people do that.
Speed runners hate him!
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how you can do it too, after you watch this little video…
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