Farming The BEST Rune Spot Until I Find a Ber

[@zarfen]

A few people have been wondering about the jah from the countess - it wasn’t the countess who dropped it, but a champion ghost enemy in her room. You can watch the video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omLbcqqCotB_jqc The countess herself can’t drop jah runes.

[@WhereAreTheSquarePants]

I think she is capped at *Lo* rune

[@zarfen]

@@WhereAreTheSquarePants Yes Lo is her highest drop. But her “special rune drop” only goes up to Ist iirc so a Lo is super rare.

[@mapron1]

@@zarfen when desectrated/terrorized, her base monster drop can give you even zod afair, but her special drop still the same (up to Ist). Does not matter much though, any other monster as good of dropping HR in TZ as she is. (well, ghosts even better)

[@filmjolkfilmjolk5518]

I had the same jah drop at countess 4 days ago.

[@zarfen]

@@filmjolkfilmjolk5518 no way! Congrats, apparently it’s super rare even from champ ghosts

[@SebastianGraves]

I don't know what it is man, but your narration and video style is really great lol. GZ on the BER find.

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much, Sebastian! I’m always self-conscious about the narration before publishing, but I guess I’ve listened to myself repeating it for hours at that point while editing… 😁

[@zarfen]

Thank you for the amazing support on my videos. It makes my day reading all of your comments. May the luck from these runs rub off on your next grind session 😁

[@WhereAreTheSquarePants]

I am quite envious, you really had great luck. I have been farming LK quite a lot and didnt find half of that value...

[@zarfen]

Yes these runs were extremely lucky! Definitely not what you can expect from an average 500 runs. Still some people in the comments have been even luckier!

[@Pvt_Hudson]

dot dot dot

[@Those_Weirdos]

"Only 521 runs". You Diablo 2 players are insane.

[@Tommy2P]

Insane luck, great editing as always keep it!

[@zarfen]

Yeah I’m worried rng is going to swing in the other direction next time considering how lucky this was. Thanks!!

[@Leo_Kruger]

Great work mate! Don't know how long you've been uploading on this channel - I've only recently discovered you, but I've really been enjoying your content a lot! Subscribed! 😃 Your format & style is very entertaining. I hope your channel continues to grow well! P.S. If I could make a suggestion for future vids - perhaps include how many hours and over how many days you complete your marathon runs.

[@zarfen]

Thank you! That makes me so glad to read. The first upload on this channel was in the beginning of march this year. I have another failed channel attempt with 9 videos behind me with another game so they are not my very first videos but I’m still very new to creating youtube videos. I’m really enjoying it and looking forward to growing the channel and improving/exploring the “style” and format further. And thanks for the tip. I keep getting questions about that on every video but then I forget about in when editing the next one. For reference: 1000 meph a little over 16 hours, 1000 andariel between 15-16 hours, 1000 pindle ~12 hours, this video ~6,5 hours.

[@nroz7284]

Wow, been casually running LK for like 10 years if not longer and never found my Bur lol congrats!

[@rodolfokennis7793]

I feel you, I found a ber and a sur from LK , still running it looking for that Sur-ber to roll my first infinity

[@jopied_]

Bro, sincerely, editing video''s and doing all the yt work is allot man. I'm almost finished working on my 100 terrorrized Andariel video and I can say after making it I can truely say that I didn't know there is so much work in a video! GG"s

[@zarfen]

100% agreed man. I was quite surprised when doing my Mephisto video that video work took way LONGER than doing the 1000 runs… especially true when you need to learn new things as you go. Luckily I’m really enjoying that part of it too :) I look forward to your TZ Andy vid

[@DelDuio]

Hey man, I’ve been watching your videos all this week and you do a great job. Subscribed!

[@zarfen]

That’s awesome, thank you so much!

[@TFreed]

hell yea man, glad to see you drop another video. lookin forward to seeing more

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much, TJ! I wish I could get them out more frequently but I love making them so more are definitely coming!

[@ArtosOnYT]

Omg, they really need to add a loot filter to Diablo. Missing high runes like you almost missed the Vex is my worst nightmare Great video as always! Crazy loot for how many runs you did

[@zarfen]

Super agree. Even though you can spot an “orange flash” if there is a rune when the loot flies out of the chest, I always combed the ground in zoom mode whenever there was that much loot out of fear of missing a rune. Thank you, Artos!

[@Fuckyocouchniqkuh]

I've probably missed runes because I don't do that. It's too damn annoying to do that

[@draco92x]

You was sooo lucky, i have been doing it some times ago and cant complain about rune drops but still far away from your luck :) nice video :)

[@zarfen]

yeah I’m worried I might have used all my luck for the rest of the year on this... Thanks!

[@VicariousLie]

Lmao I subscribed just because of the sub drop lmao, very good, great video, and very very lucky!

[@zarfen]

Haha thanks, I appreciate it! And yeah, very lucky indeed 😁

[@manso306]

Similar luck to my first ~2k LK runs :D Found 2 Ber, a bunch of Surs, even a Jah from a random vulture, some Vex and Ohms and mid runes. And then another Ber and even 2 Los at a point where I wasn't even hunting runes for a specific runeword, but just enjoying the runs with some entertainment on a second screen, thinking to myself "this streak has got to end at some point, wow". Guess the lucky streak is over now, because whenever I return for a few runs I don't get lucky. It felt so good finding all that stuff! At one point I even got 2 Sur and a Ber within 300 runs IIRC.

[@zarfen]

This comment makes me want to go back and keep farming LK 😁 it is totally the kind of run you can watch something on another monitor while doing. Probably way more worthwhile than pindle (my other target for running while watching something)

[@danielcury9111]

I wasn't going to sub, but that barbarian moonwalk rly changed my mind, good job sir! keep up the good work

[@zarfen]

Haha awesome! Thanks 😁

[@dididrew8334]

Amazing video mate!

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much!

[@thomasgrabowski2202]

Good run very luck!

[@zarfen]

Thanks!

[@justgrady2192]

Good stuff! Best luck I had was 2 Bers in a hour of farming. 1 from chest, and 1 from a popable.

[@thomasgrabowski2202]

WOW! Lucky xD !!

[@zarfen]

Damn! The second one dropping must have been a surreal experience! I heard/seen a lot of people getting good runes from random popables. I even got an ohm I’m this video. But didn’t pop popables unless they were inside the huts to maximize super chest openings.

[@justgrady2192]

Yeah I was super stoked. Made enigma in a mage plate. Then switched over to D2R and now I'm a poor single player again. 😅

[@zarfen]

@@justgrady2192 oh damn I thought this was in d2r. Good luck in rebuilding!

[@justgrady2192]

Nope lol. Just good Ole Lod.

[@TopSecretGG]

boom another vid! gj! :D sick finds!!

[@zarfen]

Thanks! I haven’t even decided what to do with all the runes yet, except enigma of course.

[@jaqsparadise-art936]

Great! Thank you for making this Video!

[@zarfen]

I’m glad you liked it!

[@negativeM]

I like Pindle + halls runs for finding my hrs. Just focus on the uniques, champions, and high density monster packs. This run even leads you to the D key if Nihlathak drops 1 for you. One of my favorite runs to do too.

[@zarfen]

I like that! Extend the pindle run to halls + Nihlatak. It has honestly never occurred to me 😅

[@Fuckyocouchniqkuh]

I found my ber for my enigma from Nihlathak himself

[@Fuckyocouchniqkuh]

Then like 150 cow runs later, my Jah

[@negativeM]

@@Fuckyocouchniqkuh I found a Ber in Halls of Vaught myself except it dropped by a champion viper.

[@atomic8815]

Which char/build do you run halls ?

[@ifeelinspiredtobuild]

insane luck gz!

[@TheHolyRolle]

Hot damn! Nice video friend :)

[@zarfen]

Thank you, fellow loot goblin! 🤝

[@TheHolyRolle]

@@zarfen hell yeah! 🤝

[@TheHolyRolle]

Also love the thumbnail it’s dope!

[@zarfen]

@@TheHolyRolle oh dude thanks! I spent a lot of time on this one so I appreciate that :)

[@TheHolyRolle]

@@zarfen it really shows!

[@thomasjermy4816]

Man this is ridiculous RnG insane

[@zarfen]

I agree 😅I fear that my next runs will be on the other end of RNG

[@thomasgrabowski2202]

I love getting runes for chests even a um or pul is nice from time to time :P !

[@MrAklay47]

Lucky, I also found my Jah while doing countess, still missing a Ber. I did find a Sur and Lo from a TZ and lk this past week. 😊

[@zarfen]

You’re close!

[@GugliLucchesi]

Awesome video as always man. I wanted to ask you, for this particular project from what rune did you start picking them up? Like, til what rune would you just leave on the ground?

[@zarfen]

Thanks man! Unless something specific is getting low supply in the rune stash, I only pick up Lem+, but I don’t always include lem drops in videos. Sometimes I also pick up crafting runes like ral

[@EdsonYamamoto]

my first jah in 10 years playing this game was dropped by diablo in a terrorized game. now more 10 years to find a ber :D

[@nikidubert8870]

For the algorithm and the shuffling barb

[@zarfen]

Thank you Niki! I really appreciate the support and that you enjoyed the barb-bit 😁

[@sudki2]

Great video

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much!

[@fredrichardson9761]

Very nice results! I did a few hundred LK runs, but it did drive me a bit crazy... I couldn't stick with it long enough to get really good runes.

[@fredrichardson9761]

BTW - do you think it might help to have a low MF when rune hunting? For some reason I thought that helped - or maybe that is only for the countess...

[@zarfen]

Specifically hunting for runes is the most boring runs for me, I much rather farm act bosses for uniques. I'm glad I got so lucky this time! MF doesnt affect rune drops at all. If a rune drops is decided before MF is taken into consideration when. But if less mf means faster clear speed then ofc it helps (indirectly)

[@fredrichardson9761]

@@zarfen Wow, that shows how easily confused I am! I had to look this up (again...) - so countess you want to make sure you're on P1 in single player. The only time I think you want very low MF is when you're looking for base socketed items (i.e. to make Spirit or a merc weapon). But yeah, low MF does mean it will be pretty boring. I think the hardest thing I've dealt with is figuring out how much MF I can get away with and still get the the runs relatively easily.

[@zarfen]

@@fredrichardson9761 yeah I’m kind of sad they got rid of mf in the newer games. Balancing mf with speed and survivability is interesting when it comes to gear choices imo.

[@fredrichardson9761]

@@zarfen Honestly I think that's why D2 has had such staying power - it really does force you to make compromises on enough things to keep it interesting.

[@potshot2]

1:05 well done good Sir.

[@zarfen]

Thanks! 😁

[@cvetanvelinov4404]

I got a ber around my 100 run. So lucky!

[@Luca_Brasi_881]

With the dry spell I've been having, Id would have been happy with the FAL rune that you ignored. Congrats

[@zarfen]

I hope your luck changes soon!

[@OsculatingPlane]

When I started playing D2R, I made a CL/FO sorc and ran LK for about a week before I could make Infinity, but I didn't count runs. Part of that was a lucky Ber drop off of a regular chest. :)

[@zarfen]

Nice! I still don’t have an infinity but I really don’t want to do more LK runs right now 😅

[@veganwaffle]

This is unbelievable! Is the drop rate higher in the remake? I’ve done like 300 runs on original best I’ve found was ist

[@UnreliableUsername]

Crazy luck !!

[@michasztuka8256]

Mr. Why are You using telekinessis to open chests? does it change anything?

[@zarfen]

It’s slightly faster because you don’t have to walk up to each chest.

[@madhawaiian9732]

I look forward to the 100,000 run video looking forbidden Zod.

[@zarfen]

😂

[@madhawaiian9732]

You know you NEED that Obsession runeword combo.

[@fetmosaren319]

Flayer jungle was always my go-to rune farm spot farm each ladder reset. Since MF doesnt affect rune droprate its only a matter of the number of mobs you kill, therefore cow level or places such as flayer jungle gives the highest mob density.

[@zarfen]

Interesting! I’ve never heard about anyone farming the jungle areas before but it makes a lot of sense given the density!

[@fetmosaren319]

@@zarfen usually a highrune turns up once every 2-3 days of farming.

[@Jackaroo.]

Ber runes are nice, I found 2 in one day once running LK. One from the chests and the other from an elite pack of thornhulks

[@zarfen]

Nice! And damn I keep hearing people finding high runes from monsters or random chests/popables in LK and here I’m skipping everything but the super chests unless they are literally in the huts…

[@TakoiKadoozle]

You not picking up the unique dagger at 23 seconds in is tyranny in my friend group. It hurts my feelings to not hold two Gulls on a silly Barb.

[@Popmycherryyo]

I dont even know what Im watching. But its good shit

[@zarfen]

Haha that’s funny, thanks for watching!

[@MrIStillDontCare]

Amazing luck and another great video as well! Would you mind sharing your LK seed with us? The LK map I farmed refused to drop any runes :(.

[@zarfen]

Thanks! I don’t know how to check the map seed, but even if I did… I accidentally lost this map because I needed a socket quest and didn’t think before hopping into nightmare 😭

[@samgerland6087]

nice video thanks :D and grats on that insane luck hahah! I was wondering, can u get ber here on online mode aswell? or is players 7 required to obtain it?

[@zarfen]

Thank you! I actually am not sure. I know players 7(or 8) is the best setting for finding a Ber rune but I don’t know if it’s just worse or not possible at all on players 1. I would guess it’s still possible but lower odds, but you should do some research before you start running because Im really not sure :)

[@samgerland6087]

@@zarfen alright mate thanks appreciate the input 🙏

[@kylemac8672]

Wow lucky!

[@johnmsellin]

moon walking barb made me deep belly laugh!

[@zarfen]

That’s awesome! I had a lot of fun making that bit.

[@granddd7273]

Looks like you got a good seed for Lower Kurast. Some "seeds" of the game, or "versions" that you can get in Single Player will have a higher probability to drop runes and other things. Example: that armor rack that kept giving you uniques / sets is likely to contiune to do so solely because of the seed you're on.

[@zarfen]

Really? Is that true? I know seeds affect what base items drop from racks depending on your movement, but it sounds strange that it would affect the unique drop rate. Do you have a source for this? Sounds very interesting since I still have the map and it’s the best one I’ve ever had in terms of camp fires close to wp too

[@M4RCi92]

​@@zarfen yes, the guy's right. My sorc has an LK seed in which an armor rack drops Monarchs like 60-70% of the time. I've got like 2 pages worth of high stat Stormshields in the endless plugy stash, and multiple 15ed 4os Monarchs as well.

[@ILikeCombos]

Super chests are seeded for runes, reset ur zones if u feel ur not getting any hrs

[@xqt6339]

Ber in under 530 LK runs? That's a sub

[@zarfen]

Haha thanks! I was more expecting an un-sub from people being mad at how lucky I was, so I appreciate it

[@Omairi86]

Sorry for asking a lot, but may i ask 1 more question please? If im done farming what i want and just missing a gul rune, should i just farm the super chests only ? Or should i keep doing the whole map ? Thank you in advance.

[@zarfen]

Np! If you want just a Gul and only a Gul, you could probably farm the countess for 2x Ist. But I would probably keep doing the chests because the chance of another gg rune (even if you’re finished, I am guessing you wouldn’t mind another HR 😉) As for chests only vs clearing the map, people have different opinions, but for efficiency I believe doing only chests is better on average, but maybe even more boring 😅

[@Omairi86]

@@zarfen yeah tell me about it, I mean everything was going smooth and lovely but it became a nightmare the last two days i was like spending 3-4 hours a day doin nothing beside farming and nothing useful to me is dropping, got too many Kos and lems but its not gul or ber so far ;(, honestly im thinking of giving up and go back to TZ or CS

[@zarfen]

@Omairi.Alomairi I like to watch series or KZbin on a second monitor when running LK

[@WiscoDrinks]

the only Ber rune i have ever found was from a Chaos Run when i was getting power leveled, i opened a chest to find a Ber rune and another low level almost grabbed it my heart was pounding.

[@piter9168]

GZ. I did 1000 runs and only got IST and SUR ( SUR - 954 run )

[@zarfen]

Thanks! Tbh your results are probably more reasonable and mine’s an outlier. I hope a second sur drops for you soon!

[@hearhisvoice4155]

What about the countess at the bottom of the forgotten tower in act 1? Found a ton of great runes farming her!

[@zarfen]

I love the countess! She’s the best target for runes up to a certain point but she can’t drop some of the most valuable runes that people are hunting for.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

I only play online single player, sometimes playing with friends, sometimes hopping on a 8 player lobby. I found a Jah rune for the first time in my life in the Chaos Sanctuary playing single player online, roughly 2 months after D2R was released. It took me years to find a Ber, again in the Chaos Sanctuary, again single player online. Enigma was immediately crafted.

[@zarfen]

Nice! It’s a big deal to make your first one. What base did you end up making it in and why was your first enigma character? I haven’t actually made mine yet because I didn’t have a base I loved and I went right to editing the video after finding it.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

@@zarfen I was hunting for Archon Plates for weeks after finding the Jah but the best I could find by myself (I wanted to do it all 100% solo) was a 501 def. If I had been a bit more patient, I did find a 3 OS Dusk Shroud with 466 def, nearly perfect a few days after putting the Jah into the Archon Plate. In hindsight I was so excited by the Jah find that I didn't think ahead too much, as soon as I found a decent enough base I put it in. First character was a Paladin. Mainly cause it's something I had wanted to crafy myself since I first played D2 LOD way way back when. Without Enigma my hammerdin was already fairly well built, could solo pretty much all content in the game, most of it relatively easily, some of it needed some planning (mainly Baal runs). After Enigma, it was as if I was playing a new game - it really does feel game-breaking with how powerful it is. The +def roll was +756 which is terrible but regardless, everything else about the runeword is simply spectacular.

[@zarfen]

@@el_mal_de_ojo I have a 3os dusk shroud but imo that doesn’t look good on any character 😅 I spent maybe two hours farming cows for a mage plate or archon plate so I could roll the enigma in the video, but didn’t find any so I gave up on getting it for the vid. Still looking for the base, and I don’t think I’ll be too picky with the defense roll for the base tbh I’m looking forward to putting it on a summon necro. I always liked that build but managing your army can be tough without teleport or with teleport charges.

[@jacobmorris8732]

1:10 chest pop was smooth

[@Icewindxd]

great job ! Been doing travi runs for hrs, yesterday got Sur on 11th run and Pul on 64th run... Made 300 runs in total nothing else dropped :( And I thought that Sur was a good sign :(

[@zarfen]

Diablo RNG is really rough sometimes… I hope another one drops for you soon!

[@Icewindxd]

@@zarfen one can only pray for RNG gods and hope for their favor

[@Omairi86]

Only 500 !!! I guess these 500 runs equal my whole journey on my paladin on sp till level 91 😂 Great job tho 👍

[@lopsided4831]

I remember when d2r came out i started farming chaos and within 2 days i got 1x sur, 2x jah and 1x cham

[@veganwaffle]

I don’t think I’ve had a rune higher than Lo drop for me

[@robdrone]

Hello again! As i remember you play single player, If that so, you run this LK runs on players 8?

[@zarfen]

Single player, /players 7 (same drops as players 8 but slightly easier monsters) If you want a Ber from the super cheats you want p7 (or 8)

[@RPDBY]

Which chests in LK do you target? All of them or only specific ones? How long did all the runs take total?

[@zarfen]

The super chests only. If you’re unfamiliar, I’ve linked a video from mrllamasc in the description that explains it. Basically there’s a ‘tile’ that can spawn up to two times in LK that is a campfire and two huts next to it that contains “super chests” which drop a lot of items. This only took 6,5 hours of playtime, but on average you won’t find this many runes in this amount of time. I got lucky.

[@Ranexi]

Several hours of playing for 4:12 minutes of content

[@Misc_Identity]

Most BERs I ever found was gold finding Trav council with a Barb called "Golden Digger." Every 35-50 runs a Jah or Ber would drop.

[@FurrySpatula]

So, how do we access the streamer loot mode when in single player again?

[@zarfen]

🤣 when the ber dropped I started to feel bad for real because of how lucky I got and then I was going to make a video bragging about it 😅

[@FurrySpatula]

@@zarfen it's motivation as I sit in a waiting room to pop out some LK runs haha

[@zarfen]

@@FurrySpatula I hope some of this luck can spill over to you!

[@burtreynoldz6308]

I spent 18 hours in LK and the best I got was a GUL rune. I hope this is luckier.

[@zarfen]

Damn, RNG is cruel… hope your next session yields your reward.

[@megatronlakatos9725]

Lucky you, finding pul um ohm sur in 200 runs. Meanwhile there are people doing 500 and not even finding a lem :D

[@zarfen]

Yes LK rng can be very very unfair!

[@stephenlucerne1052]

wow grats bro

[@zarfen]

Thanks! Hope I can recreated this luck the next time I visit LK 😁

[@andrewwolfe9028]

The rng gods were in your favor.

[@zarfen]

They really were! I fear they might swing the other way next time.

[@Gin-toki]

I'm out of the loop, have they changed the area level of the countess area? Is her top rune not Lo?

[@MrFancyPantsMan]

Her top rune on Hell is Ist

[@Gin-toki]

@@MrFancyPantsMan That's her bonus drop cap. But her regular item drop cap is higher and goes to Lo, although anything above Mal is pretty rare from the countess. I just wonder how a Jah was achieved from her as shown in this video. Hence why I asked if they had changed something in D2R to allow for this.

[@MrFancyPantsMan]

@@Gin-toki ohh, I see, my b

[@zarfen]

Hey Gintoki, you’re are correct in that her highest drop is Lo. The Jah was from a champion ghost pack in her chamber. I didn’t realize it until your comment that I cut it so that it really looks like it was a countess drop! 😆

[@Gin-toki]

@@zarfen Ah, that makes sense then. According to ATMA drop calculator, a champion ghost in the tower level 5 have a 1:4877535 chance of dropping a Jah rune, so that was pretty darn lucky! :D

[@CommanderReplay]

Man the luck is insane, ive found almost nothing in about 1000 runs. 1 Gul and a few pul through ist runes.

[@zarfen]

LK rng can be cruel! Hope your luck turns around soon.

[@Mad_Mally]

I found an 4 socket eth royal shield, is it a good base for an exile?

[@zarfen]

Yeah if it also has a good secondary roll like high +all resist. I’ve never made an exile myself so maybe double check with a guide what’s more important, eth base or high all res roll

[@corywhitebread6519]

These rune drops really could have been addressed some. They do seem to be far too low in drop rate.

[@Joker22593]

That's the main thing that keeps me away from D2. So much content is locked behind nonsense, and it's not that interesting to replay the game on hell difficulty.

[@frankenstein3163]

Do you do online content or singel player mostly ?

[@zarfen]

So far only offline single player.

[@Omairi86]

May i ask a question please, does LK runs on player 7 gives decent xp to level 91 ? So i could at least hit 2 birds with one stone 😅

[@zarfen]

If you’re doing LK runs efficiently you don’t kill any monsters, just open chests, so the exp isn’t good at all 😁

[@Omairi86]

@@zarfen gotcha

[@Omairi86]

@@zarfen man you're a life saver!! With only 4 hours i managed to get alot of runes,but specially 1 jah, 3 lum, 1 pul 😁, just missing 1 vex and 1 ber to get hoto and enigma 😆

[@zarfen]

@Omairi.Alomairi wow congrats! That’s great 😃 what did you find the jah from btw?

[@Omairi86]

@@zarfen an elite mob

[@unicyclepeon]

What was your MF? And how do you speed up the logout and login? The login point for act 3 is inconvenient. Do you portal and log out in Act 4?

[@zarfen]

I don’t remember my MF. It was low anyway, since I wasn’t killing any monsters but just opening super chests for runes. Yeah act 3 spawn point is a pain but I had a lot of faster run/walk gear on and had a harmony runeword on switch when running to the waypoint.

[@matthewbixby5852]

How do you set how many people are with you. I've looked and looked I must have missed it. Usually I only play alone never on line

[@zarfen]

It’s only available in offline play, not online. On PC you type /players x in the chat , where x is betweeen 1-8, and on console you find a slider under options menu I think

[@matthewbixby5852]

@zarfen I never have played online. We'll with anyone else with me. If you mean offline as in what I play when the internet isn't working, I will give it a try

[@matthewbixby5852]

@@zarfen and thank you for the advice tips etc

[@zarfen]

Yeah it only works in local single player, not on battle.net even if you don’t have other ppl in your game.

[@drewhelms2666]

Did you miss that fal rune with the ist?

[@zarfen]

I saw it but I didn’t bother picking it up. I already have more fal runes than I know what to do with on a mule

[@Jack-wx7yh]

Subscribed for the lazy friday comment.

[@kamen42]

Ohm, Sur and Ber in 500 runs... I have never found anything higher than a Vex and I am on run 850. (And that is AFTER I started counting.) Also how did you get a Jah from Countess? I thought the highest she can drop, is Lo.

[@zarfen]

Check the pinned tweet or this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omLbcqqCotB_jqc Hope your LK luck improves soon!

[@93Beefcake]

i have been grinding for MONTHS now didn't find anything over vex (once) in lower kurast i have a feeling that if you have a certain map in single player you get the same drops from the same loot drop boxes / weapon armor racks i find the same items over and over but there won't be any runedrops (p7 btw) i did play diablo2 singleplayer some years ago and i did find like 5-8 hrs by the same time(doing lk runs) i did find one in my current playthrough in d2r really weird if i had to guess how many runs i did so far i'd say around 3000 or so

[@BigBuran]

You gonna be grinding D4 when it comes out?

[@zarfen]

I don’t know yet. Depends on if I can find a good format to make videos about. I feel like I’m just starting to hit my stride with D2 content but D4 might make more sense from a a pure viewer base perspective. Maybe both… I’m sure I will give it a go though!

[@andretavares9364]

The number of players increase in offline mode affect the chances to get more runes?

[@zarfen]

I’m not a game mechanics expert, but I think it works like this: It’s not that more players increase the rune drop chance, but that more players in the game means more drops in general which does mean more rune drops too. Don’t know if that made sense 😁

[@bassiegvd]

i thought the countess can drop up to Lo Rune. There was no terror zone, so how did she drop a Jah?

[@zarfen]

You’re right about the countess only dropping up to Lo. It was a champion ghost type enemy in her room that dropped the jah

[@Jauertussen1]

i disagree. farming arcane sanctum is more efficent. if you play a char good for the instance. a nova sorc(no infinity) on players 7 can easy rip every mob inthere. from a few 100 runs i dropped, Lo Ohm Ber+ alot of charms and gems. the ability to drop up to cham from the mobs offset the LK runs more consistant of smaller runes.

[@Ryecrash617]

"after only 512 runs ..." I suppose this is why I will never have the really good gear. I cannot fathom enjoying grinding 512 runs. It was very entertaining watching you do it though.

[@azdaze227]

Wait, countess can only drop up to Lo (and even that isnt any more likely than any other monster) and i thought the highest monster in tower could only drop sur. Was it terrorized? Am i wrong?

[@zarfen]

You are right about the countess, but the drop was not from the countess herself but from a champion/boss ghost in her room. So it was just a random super lucky drop. You can check the video to see exactly which kind of monster dropped it (I linked it in the pinned comment)

[@0oSCHMILLENo0]

How much time did those runs take you?

[@zarfen]

Just checked my run counter and it said 6,5 hours. That’s playtime including loading and menu time. I had a very good map and a lot of faster run walk for running through town

[@kurzackd]

1:56 -- why didn't the boots *"didn't quite get it"* ?? Your build is such that you don't lack resistances, so you should be OK that the res rolls are LOW... because *all THE REST of the stats are insane !! :O* .

[@fuevue2913]

How fast were each of your runs? Back then, we used to compete on Reddit to see who had the best maps and who can do the runs the fastest. I forgot though how fast we were going per run

[@zarfen]

It’s been a little while since I did the runs, but I did a mini-game of trying to do them as fast as possible. I did break 30 seconds some runs and IIRC I was nearing 25 but never hit it. I would say the average run was probably somewhere between 35-40. I had a very good map imo and I tried to skip most regular chests and popables to make runs faster. It gets kinda stressful to run LK so fast after a while though 😅

[@fuevue2913]

@@zarfen haha ah yes, that sounds about right. Yes, come to think of it, yours was pretty epic. Great job mate. Brings back old memories

[@zarfen]

@@fuevue2913 thanks! These runs were quite lucky so I was kinda thinking of doing a bigger LK project. Might have to spread the runs out over a longer time period though to protect my sanity 🤪

[@Semirotta]

It is SO MUCH easier to farm runes especially on D2R... Try this early days in D2 original, 1 in 8000 chance to obtain something good. Then they made it easier to find those runes, then came the D2R which has even easier drop rates.

[@sd594968]

LK runs never drop anything for me. This is insane.

[@zarfen]

These runs were definitely very lucky

[@jackkenseng2164]

When you realize you've been farming runes wrong for years....RIP Countess I knew her well

[@zarfen]

I once found a jah rune from a ghost type enemy in the countess’ room so I’m not sure how I feel about farming her anymore

[@tomasd5743]

never had a Sur let alone a Ber drop ever (28 years old, sure never played super serious but i mean come on, still about 22 years) and you just pull them like this. No its ok im happy :') Jokes aside grats! Ha det gött

[@zarfen]

I’m actually in a similar position(well…). I’ve never found anything above a vex before I started making videos for this channel. Previously I almost only played different characters through the game (most were abandoned before finishing) and did very little “serious” grinding in hell. Tack o ha de gött

[@zarfen]

But yes this video was extremely lucky 😅

[@xxlin88xx]

My brother found 2jah runes in 45 cows run . Very lucky !

[@zarfen]

Wow! Very! I don’t like running cows because I’m afraid of missing an off-screen rune drop. It’s irrational, but It becomes so stressful that I skip cows even though it’s a great farm spot

[@johannribert8192]

How long did it take you to do the 500 runs?

[@zarfen]

6,5-7 hours. Not including “prep time” (muling items, rolling a good map etc)

[@mekkiepoo]

If you play on ladder, is lower kurast (players 1) still a good rune farm?

[@zarfen]

No, I don’t think LK is worth it online. Both because no player setting but also because you can’t roll and keep a good map.

[@Trez24]

@@zarfen can you explain what (players 1) means, also how do you roll maps?

[@zarfen]

@Trez24 in single player you can set the player count by either going into options or typing “/players X” where X is 1-8 in chat. You can reroll your maps by changing difficulty. Only applicable to single player as online it resets whenever you make a new game

[@Trez24]

@@zarfen oh as in clicking 'play' instead of lobby? or by making offline player?

[@zarfen]

@@Trez24 it only works offline

[@infinimetrical]

I recognize that the goal is measured in runs. However, how long in mortality does it take to do 500 runs?

[@zarfen]

I don’t remember exactly but I think this took 5-6 hours. I had a great map (single player so the map is saved) and a lot for FRW on gear for getting to the waypoint in town ASAP

[@jerberus5563]

I've never made Enigma, but I do have a few necklaces that grant the Teleport Skill (charges).

[@zarfen]

Have you found any really good ones? I’ve seen some pretty cool rares with teleport charges online but I’ve never found any decent myself so I usually end up using a staff with teleport switches on weapon switch if I don’t have enigma since they have more charges.

[@jerberus5563]

@@zarfen I did actually find a Necro +1 to all skills with teleport! This allows me to completely don the Trang Oul's Avatar set.

[@zarfen]

@jerberus5563 nice!