suggestion
Zod runes can be broken down into
Cham+Cham
Cham runes can be broken down into
Jah+Jah
The Jah rune can be broken down into
Ber+Ber
It is recommended to create higher runes
#34~#35
No combination of runes required
Can only be synthesized and decomposed
better deals
#35=16 Jah
#35=32 Ber
suggestion
Same Random Gems
Can overlap
HAHA, a 1:2 rune breakdown? 
Absolutely not!
A Zod would be 8 Ber runes, 32 Lo runes, 512 Ist runes… No way.
Now, a 1:1 downgrade? Shift the gem requirement for upgrading to breaking them down while also removing the gem upgrade requirement for merging runes? I’d be OK with that.
Yeah… 2:1 is totally busted.
TDJ is right… mayyybe a 1:1 downgrade recipe.
Yep 1:1 downgrade would be fine. I wonder how much it would shift economy as getting anything above Jah would be like getting any rune you want.
I would bet that it would increase the value of Zod and Cham since a lot/most would break it back down to a Jah losing the market supply of the Cham and Zod. I mean… they would just be worth the same as a Jah right?
To be more precise, it should give back one less rune than it costs to upgrade. That way, for low level runes, you get 2 runes back.
1 pul = 64 hel runes that are very useful for rerolling.
I do not like the idea, as collecting hel runes is an additional form of getting rich. It would kill it.
y’all complain about the “economy” and then ask for things like this. laughably stupid.
I don’t think it’s incompatible to request not crashing down whatever “economy” some players consider the game has, and to make requests that are likely to impact it.
While the initial suggestion would logically tank the value of almost all runes (it’s hard for a Vex rune to retain any value if splitting a single Zod can get you a hundred of them), the suggestion to allow downgrade 1:1 isn’t likely to make as massive a dent in their value, as it will simply fix a floor to rune values (a Zod can’t be worth less than a Cham, which can’t be worth less than a Jah, and so on). As such, the 1:1 isn’t necessarily contradictory with wanting to keep a functional economy in the game.
Not that I personally care about the notion of economy in Diablo.
i’m not talking about 1:1 down grading, i’m replying to OP. which is just LOLz.
1:1 downgrading would be. acceptable in my mind, but it’ll never happen, so once again… woo hoo !!!