We have what, 6 new rune words so far? Flickering Flame, Pattern, Plague, Mist, Unbending Will and Wisdom. If we’re going to get new rune words every ladder, we could be looking a quite a few of them.
Theorizing:
New rune words over the next 5 years, or a total of 15 ladder seasons@4 months each. Figuring 5 years as “main stream” support for D2R.
If they release 6 per ladder, we would be looking at 90 new rune words!! 54 rune words if “main stream” support is only 3 years.
@Blizzard - Keep a lid on the power creep, that’s all I ask.
Unfinished Runewords still in game files:
Runeword123 Serendipity
Runeword124 Shadow
Runeword125 Shadow of Doubt
Runeword127 Siren’s Song
Runeword129 Sorrow
Runeword132 Starlight
Runeword135 Still Water
Runeword138 Storm
Runeword140 Tempest
Runeword141 Temptation
Runeword142 Terror
Runeword90 Nightfall
Runeword93 Oblivion
Runeword94 Obsession
Runeword50 Hatred
Runeword40 Flickering Flame(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword42 Fortune’s Favor
Runeword89 Nature’s Kingdom
Runeword46 Glory
Runeword43 Amity
Runeword2 Armageddon
Runeword3 Authority
Runeword5 Beauty
Runeword7 Blood
Runeword12 Broken Promise
Runeword15 Chance
Runeword136 Sting
Runeword18 Darkness
Runeword19 Daylight
Runeword21 Deception
Runeword23 Desire
Runeword24 Despair
Runeword32 Destiny’s Daughter
Runeword28 Dread
Runeword56 Dweomer
Runeword35 Envy
Runeword52 Heaven’s Will
Runeword53 Holy Tears
Runeword57 Humility
Runeword58 Hunger
Runeword61 Innocence
Runeword63 Jealousy
Runeword64 Judgment
Runeword67 Knight’s Vigil
Runeword70 Law
Runeword73 Lightning
Runeword77 Loyalty
Runeword78 Lust
Runeword79 Madness
Runeword84 Mist(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword85 Morning Dew
Runeword86 Mystery
Runeword95 Patience
Runeword97 Pattern(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword100 Penitence
Runeword101 Peril
Runeword102 Pestilence
Runeword104 Piety
Runeword105 Pillar of Faith
Runeword106 Plague(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword107 Praise
Runeword108 Prayer
Runeword111 Prowess in Battle
Runeword113 Punishment
Runeword114 Purity
Runeword115 Question
Runeword118 Reason
Runeword119 Red
Runeword76 The Lovers
Runeword143 Thirst
Runeword68 Thirst for Knowledge
Runeword144 Thought
Runeword145 Thunder
Runeword146 Time
Runeword147 Tradition
Runeword149 Trust
Runeword150 Truth
Runeword151 Unbending Will(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword152 Valor
Runeword153 Vengeance
Runeword155 Victory
Runeword156 Voice
Runeword157 Void
Runeword158 War
Runeword159 Water
Runeword161 Whisper
Runeword47 Widowmaker
Runeword164 Wings of Hope
Runeword99 Winter
Runeword165 Wisdom(currently leaked in D2R)
Runeword166 Woe
Runeword167 Wonder
Runeword169 Youth
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OK, that list is 93 total, minus the 6 = 87 left to go.
Still more time for “leaks” though.
Factors of 93 are 1, 3, 31 and 93.
5 years mainstream support = 6.2 runewords per ladder
4 years mainstream support = 7.75 runewords per ladder
3 years mainstream support = 10.33 runewords per ladder
2 years mainstream support = 15.5 runewords per ladder
Might also have to minus 2 because Reason, and Voice were probably removed to make the Voice of Reason runeword! 
As long as if they are adding runewords they spread it out equally for all levels of game play.
Just adding only end game runewords would be aweful.
According to this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/s79eic/megathread_patch_24_runewords/
Pezradar:
"We only have a couple more runewords that will be hitting a couple creators. One in Korea and one EN speaking creator (Trixmegistus!).
Patch notes will be up once we get everything localized. It’s a biggie (30+ pages!) and so it takes a while for us to get it all localized for each region :)"
Two new rune words are still coming…
So that means…
That is if they plan on releasing all of the runewords listed by WhirLWinD.
Edit: The original Reddit post listed 4 at the time of Pezradars comment, so the final total is 6, not 8.
uff thats alot. never knew there were so many. was there also info on what they all did or did we just have the names?
That comment was made prior to the flickering flame runeword and the Plague reveal though. One came from a Korean streamer and the other American. So, I think they’re done revealing runewords through streamers now. We’re just waiting on the patch notes.
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Hmm. you’re right. Was going by the timestamps. I guess it was edited. Oops.
So…
I WANT TO SEE THOSE PATCH NOTES!!! 
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Only Plague, and Pattern had stats in the game files! Others were placeholders. Here are the stats of the old Plague, and Pattern:
Pattern
3 Socket Claw
Tal Ort Tir
10% Bonus to Attack Rating
+40-80% Enhanced damage
17-62 Added Fire Damage
+15% Resist All
+6 to Strength
+6 to Dexterity
+30% chance to block
+2 to mana after each kill
1-50 added Lightning damage
Plague
3 Socket Weapon
Cham Fal Um
25% Chance to Cast Level 15 Poison Nova On Striking
20% Chance to Cast Level 12 Lower Resist When Struck
Level 13-17 Cleansing Aura When Equipped (varies)
+1-2 All Skills
+260-380% Damage to Demons (varies)
-23% To Enemy Poison Resistance
0.3% (0-29.7) Deadly Strike (Based on Character Level)
Adds 5-30 Fire Damage
25% Chance of Open Wounds
Freezes Target +3
+10 to Strength
New stats of Plague, and Pattern for D2R Patch 2.4:
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