I suppose the majority of players are not rushing and playing just to enjoy the game. The amount of hardcore players is always small.
My question was not “why am I finding so small amount of HRs?” but “how it is so many HRs in the market referring to its very small drop rates?” I believe that majority of replies suggest that there is a huge botting problem.
The game’s story isn’t that deep. You play the same story 3 times to beat the game. It has been 20 years. Rushing to hell, farming up a storm, getting good items to farm even more good items is all there is. Everyone is hardcore by now.
Yes there is a botting problem. There is a you problem though if your gear isn’t decent tho. Runes aren’t hard even passively you could get quite a few throughout a season. And it would be hard to ever have a clue of the market’s cap on runes vs playercount seeing as you have no clue how many runes there are nor how many players there are.
Yes though bots do net a ton of runes.
Having a decent gear to farm all locations is not hard these days, especially, after sunders.
You have it, just check d2jsp and you can see the market situation. Even open games in lobby, ists and bers are very cheap now. It is easier to get them by just selling PGs/low runes/bases/etc.
No it doesnt, stop making stuff up without any kind of evidence.
Most of them are from bots…that apparently can’t be banned…
be happy that no one gona steal rune or unique or charm. you forgot ziphei? this thing insta grabbed stuff. purist never be happy and bots can only be in offline so what do u want more?
r17 = 1 // Lum
r18 = 1 // Ko
r19 = 1 // Fal
r20 = 1 // Lem
r21 = 1 // Pul
r22 = 1 // Um
r23 = 1 // Mal
r24 = 1 // Ist
r25 = 1 // Gul
r26 = 1 // Vex
r27 = 1 // Ohm
r28 = 1 // Lo
r29 = 1 // Sur
r30 = 1 // Ber
r31 = 1 // Jah
r32 = 1 // Cham
r33 = 1 // Zod
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cm1 = 1 // small charm
cm3 = 1 // grand charm
cm2 = 1 // large charm
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// Ring / Amulet
// ******************************
//
jew = 1 // Rainbow Facet
rin = 1 // ring
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Interest=56
Waypoint=55
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FHR=1 200
FBR=1 200
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if u cant defeat them just join them. u live once save youre tim3
EDIT: Edit complete(fixed text to explain more properly) and closer to the actual system
botting is a possibility…but your runes find is way unrelated…its not too difficult to get them with some decent activity
top spot(assuming you explode mobs in like 10-25 sec) or even less than 10 if weak enemies
Arcane Sanctuary(only issue is killing ghosts off-road mean no loot(can be annoying)
Travincal
Durance 3(trav guys down there)
Chaos Sanctuary
quick kill farm which aren’t as good but still worth Nihlathak(D Key as bonus), Eldritch, Shenk, Pindleskin
P8 is a MUST have to not get this
this is what P1 room does
enemy drop check box
Roll Dices 1-4(the number it lend on pick a random Active box)
box 1(Active): Drop Loots ? Yes Active(60-80% drop chance)
box 2(Active): Drop Loots ? No(require P3 to be turn off)
box 3(Active): Drop Loots ? No(require P5 to be turn off)
box 4(Active): Drop Loots ? No (require P7 to be turn off)
while P8 boxes are like this
Roll Dices 1-4(the number it lend on pick a random Active box)
box 1(Active): Drop Loots ? Yes(60-80% drop chance)
box 2(Innactive): Drop Loots ? No
box 3(Innactive): Drop Loots ? No
box 4(Innactive): Drop Loots ? No
basicly P1 setting has 3 boxes which can’t drop items for you
also the above % ARE NOT exact…its just to give you an idea of how it work
if you want more accuracy about this…i think maxroll has some guide on it
ok so…in other words…join baal runs room to mf//farm runes…dont be 1 of those guy twidling their thumb in town or that rage at mfers in their room(these guys are clueless how a full room improve drop…they’re also clueless of how the exp calculation work
while mf dont affect rune drops…player amount setting does
…lastly here the runes drop rate chart…i copied it from an old source(still valid) long ago and added it to my list of D2 handy notepad to have on hand
copy/paste start
for Jah % comparaison
Izual…0.000250%
Haphesto…0.000250%
Nilathak…0.000250%
Council Members…0.000171%
Mephisto…0.000189%
Diablo…0.000189%
CS Super Uniques…0.000088%
Act 5 Super Uniques…0.000088%
Baal Minions…0.000021%
Baal…0.000189%
Uniques lvl 78+ areas…0.000044%
Champion lvl 79+ areas…0.000021%
Cow King…0.000073%
Cow…0.000034%
Ghostly enemies…lvl 79+…0.000088%
Normal Monsters(except bellow&ghosts)…0.000022%
Quill,Swarm,Flying Scimitar
Council vs Cows
Council Members…0.000171%(worth 5 cow per council member)
Cow…0.000034%
Trav has 11 council members(55 cows equal Trav)
and if you want the mlvl//alvl
Monsters lvl required to drop X rune
Zod Mlvl 81
Jah&Cham mlvl 79
Ber&Sur mlvl 74
Ohm&Lo mlvl 69
Ohm&Lo can drop from Nightmare WS3 &Throne Unique monsters but not from baal waves super uniques
Gul&Vex mlvl 63
Mal&Ist mlvl 57
Pul&Um mlvl 51
Chest drops(work different than monsters)
Act 1 Normal: No Runes from Chests
Act 2 Normal: El/Eld/Tir/Nef
Act 3 Normal: Eth/Ith/Tal/Ral
Act 4 Normal: Ort/Thul/Amn/Sol
Act 5 Normal: Shael/Dol
Act 1 Nightmare: Hel/Io
Act 2 Nightmare: Lum/Ko
Act 3 Nightmare: Fal/Lem
Act 4 Nightmare: Pul/Um
Act 5 Nightmare: Mal/Ist
Act 1 Hell: Gul/Vex
Act 2 Hell: Ohm/Lo
Act 3 Hell: Sur/Ber
Act 4 Hell: Jah/Cham
Act 5 Hell: Zod
It also boils down to personal luck.
My HR record so far for D2R:
Season 0: 1 ber
Season 1: 1 sur
Season 2: 2 jah 3 ber 1 sur 1 lo
It all depends. I personally know a guy playing 25mf nova sorc and dropped 5 griffons within the first 4 weeks of season 2. Thank you terror zone.
because global servers… chinese botters and spambots now have full access to the NA server much easier. they can farm in asia and sell their “goods” here. they are also duping
for example im part of the dclone discord server… over 90% of the annis walks are on asia server.
with EU and NA combined taking up the other less than 10%.
Yeah, seasonal luck can make such a difference.
Season 1: The season i played and killed the most, played 10-14hours a day for first month and did A LOT of cows and chaos sanctuary. Found 1Gul and 1Ist, and no items that could trade for higher then an Ist. Accumulated about 1-2High rune of value the first 2-3weeks played.
A friend who came into the game about 2weeks after ladder start. Played a couple of days and had accumulated more value then me… Think it must be personal record of getting unlucky with drops in one season.
Season 2: The season i played the least due to being on a 1month holliday at reset. Barely played, a couple hours here and there. Found 2Gul, 1Vex and several Ist. On top of that several items that trade for high runes. Accumulated 10+ high runes of value first 2-3weeks from barely playing.
Good items just dropped to left and right.
i know everyone is wrong with you , also asking me too put video how to cheat on blizzard forum is also very wise 
, anyway Coooley already make a video on is Live channel . and you have also other info from other place , have a nice day , i know iknow i`m wrong and your right 
Yes he did. Did you actualy bother to watch it? You cant dupe runes with it. They are also fixing it next week btw.
he say you are allow to dupe from some area in your tab , he never say no rune , i think you watch a other of is video , also he got other video you see guy duping rune and soj ect…
so what the damage use to be already done . player have1 week to dupe no stop 24/7 lol
anyway your always right
just google you will find the info
Look at market and prices dude. If runes would be duped, they would be so much cheaper. Ber is how much 30 ists? When i played in old d2 when dupping was present, it was like 7 Ists.
Almost zero, method is limited, unreliable and complicated to execute.
bla bla bla zax go buy a parrot and talk too him plz
Too bad you ignore stuff explained to you and react with such nonses like always.
Runes were never worthless in D2. High runes have always had insane value with and without duping, because the drop rates are poorly designed within that bracket of “high rune”. Even on the current bnet with duping mostly eliminated, the total available high runes is backboned by bots generating them into the game via botting.
It’s always been this way. The duping/botting/exploits existing at any given time in D2 solves the problems introduced by the terrible rune hierarchy system.
heck yeah it does, its so nice to find an item for trade on asia and be able just to hop over, back in 1.10 it sucked lol had to build chars on all servers