How to farm High Runes in Diablo 2 - Strategies, tips, tricks, and frequently asked questions!!

[@Dbrunski125]

The links to all the guides that I referenced in this video are in the description as well as my twitch and discord invitation link :) I didn't mention river of flame super chest farming or chest farming in act 5 because I don't think its personally worth it, but if you think I missed something in this video let me know! :)

[@МаксСаламаха]

Dude,sorry for off-topic,but did you know that certain weapon or armor raxes have their limited pool of items they can drop? I mean if you want some base for RW, you can abuse it.

[@Dbrunski125]

Yup I do know this :) had an armor rack that dropped a lot of dusk shrouds and it end up giving me a blizz ormus

[@МаксСаламаха]

@@Dbrunski125 Same armor rack that you called "weapon rack" ?))

[@gensvinoya5143]

hello bro i want to start playing d2 again do i need to have cd key for a single player? and if ever how can i transfer items?

[@RyanJ_24]

Dbrunski125 which armor rack was it? Do you remember? :)

[@RipplzMusic]

Bro. Finally. 20 years in this fuckin game. Finally. Today the lower kurast chests blessed me with a pul. So i got greedy, and started popping everything until unearthing my first found HIGH RUNE EVER - BER! Your guides RULE!

[@Mark-ec8ix]

Can't believe I watch these. I played this game so much that I simply burnt out. I'd log in and stand there staring at the screen for 15 minutes, then I'd log out. Still though, 1 of the best games I ever, ever, ever, played. Great video's by the way, brings back fond memories.

[@brandish4952]

I did that about 10x over the past 20 years.

[@JhnyOo]

That rolling the dice analogy is key.Two goals: roll as many dices as possible while looking for dices that have as few faces as possible .

[@camdenyu1302]

Just one simple method! Bots hate him! Figure out how to grow your high rune count today!

[@jonbeamer7082]

Lmfao exactly I used bots easiest.

[@kbzoon42]

I got a Ber like 1 month ago when I was farming countess... it dropped from a champion pack in level 4 of the tower. I was really surprised since I thought maximum rune you could get in this area is Lo. So the teaching is, kill every champion in your way.

[@kruggers1329]

I never thought I'd find a high rune in single player until I found a jah and a vex within about 5 seconds of each other, literally within maybe 10-12 monster kills lol. I hadn't even picked the first one up before the next dropped.

[@AllanDC97]

I got a zod rune last week after I had done like 70 cow runs, Couldn't believe it, never seen a zod drop in the 16 years I have been playing D2!

[@zacktrever1878]

Seen Zod from doing hell rushes forge quest --- hell rushes for act 4 quest was one of the best ways I found high Runes

[@NathanPsprague]

@@zacktrever1878 so you just rush a new character to act4 hell and get to do that quest?

[@zacktrever1878]

@@NathanPsprague pretty much You offer a rush service and ask for quest reward as a payment or a SOJ (when SOJ was cheap) You can ask for runes or other items as barter material for high runes

[@LEETLOOT]

@@zacktrever1878 Zod absolutely does not drop from the hellforge quest. The highest rune that can drop from the forge is Gul. Perhaps you can saw one trigger from a mob drop but I'm not even sure the monsters in that area are capable of dropping them.

[@zacktrever1878]

@@LEETLOOT Gul is the highest rune from quest -- found Zod along the way Should of been clearer

[@BMPK]

Waiting for Diablo 2: Resurrected

[@iampokyu3493]

When bro?

[@davidhoward2237]

@@iampokyu3493 before dec 31 2021

[@andaryal256]

Same

[@creepergaming7926]

Yup yup

[@spray4yourlife622]

Bro ever since I heard about it... it's all I can think about playing lol

[@jean-francoiskener6036]

Each time I watch a D2 video I become even more sure that no other game will never be as good as it. Not even D4 or D5. No no. D2 is just perfect.

[@tttc]

I hope that one day Blizzard will come back to find itself.

[@TheRaiko777]

This kind of grinding isn't what makes D2 great.

[@jean-francoiskener6036]

@@TheRaiko777 No... what makes D2 great is the old-school rendered graphs, the open trading, the elective mode, the crafting, the charms, the runewords, the good pvp, the 8 ppl in a game, the channels and clans, the dark ambient, etc.

[@darthmahler4846]

countess, cow level, travincal, clear mass monsters, hellforge, super chests

[@MatiKosa]

#1 LK is the best for single player, but mind numbing #2 Travincal, especially for hork barb #3 Cows, since their chance to drop any rune is 50% higher. #4 Wraiths: around 3.2x more on p1, 3.5x on p5, around 3.7x on p7 #5 clear mass monsters: around 2x less effective than Cows

[@Airths1]

@@MatiKosa pretty sure cows experience gained and gear drop and along with high runes was heavily nerfed to the ground. In the latest patch which the game plays on for remastered.

[@garneroutlaw1]

​@@MatiKosa I've played the game for 20 years and the best way to farm HRs is to gank them from public runs of 8 players. With all my experience, I cannot recommend anyone to farm LK and Trav. They look good on paper, but realistically 95% of us cannot run them efficiently enough to make it worth while. With that said, focus on Act bosses, mini bosses, and just clear ghosts and finger mages. I recently found a Sur from Andariel, Jah from Diablo, and a Vex from finger mages in River of Flame. I've put a lot of effort of 2 weeks into Trav on my horker, and I feel like I could have had 2 HRs in my pocket if I hadn't wasted my time there.

[@MatiKosa]

@@garneroutlaw1 While I believe you have been playing this game for 20 years, it doesn't change the fact that the numbers don't lie. Your method isn't great, because regular monsters don't drop runes often, so lowering their NoDrop by a slightly higher amount won't net you many more runes. But even if: imagine a Ber drops. Now I am asking you: what now? Who is gonna take that rune? Maybe someone will even steal it. I'm sorry but that is just not a solution. LK is the winner, then Trav. But you need to know how to run Trav efficiently. The fact that you or 95% of players can't do it well enough doesn't change the fact it is almost the best method. Also, you said 2 weeks. Doesn't matter if it was 2 weeks or 2 years. Queston is: how many runs did you do? I bet not more than 400-500. 200-300 is what I would do per session. Did 3500 in total. HRs were flying.

[@jameswawrzaszek809]

Step 1. Create a character named Dbrunski. Step 2. Drop Jahs.

[@FailBanana98]

I think I'm gonna do it, I have my first Jah(mf sorc and a hammerdin) but I miss my ber and if I get another Jah, I'll come back!

[@brandonbreuer6589]

Step 3: Profit

[@Dominik-vl7fg]

just randomly checking out this video, I feel like I have to install d2 again after all the years... great vid!

[@Dbrunski125]

You should!

[@DeuceGenius]

i cant make myself pay for diablo 2 again. i bought that game at least 10 times

[@ahmedzhanaymuradov9548]

more hours of D2 playing = more high runes

[@shluhogon_42]

And it is enough)

[@jordanparis964]

5head

[@kosterix123]

If you kill lots of mobs then yes

[@therissuishere]

i played d2 for 3-4 years, never found high rune

[@sebastienrivest983]

@@therissuishere ;) runes dont drop in d2 classic :D

[@longstech]

I know that Hell Mephisto doesn't drop many runes, but he has the capability to do at least a Jah rune- which was my first Jah rune I got ever, off Mephisto.

[@Happycamper10170]

Maybtry that im always low on essence of hatred anyway might as well I found ber rune jah would be sweet!

[@csfelfoldi]

You should mention when killing ghosts in Arcane that if they drop off the path they wont drop anything. It's basic knowledge and people avoid farming them there for this reason.

[@chrisp2272]

That’s why you use a Zon and cast Valk to herd them

[@jetttor]

same thing for any champ or unique monster in other places, killing out of border cause the full drop items is gone!!!!

[@csfelfoldi]

@@jetttor In arcane sanctuary ghosts can beeline between the narrow pathways that's why it's way more common that they are over empty space. While you are farming time per run matters and you don't have time for them to float over safe land. While on other maps walls and generally larger areas prevent them from flying over such places. In Chaos it can happen with the Doom Caster mobs but even there it's way less common.

[@kimhorton6109]

I’ve had luck there with a Bowa when I just pulled back a little. The specters follow and you can catch them over paths. I stack organic damage runes and a merc with a simple insight

[@dougtaylor26]

Pulled a SUR from one of the mobs around Shenk in hell the other day :) I support the simple "mass farming" idea. I think its the most fun and easiest way to get them

[@francisgaliegue6645]

One trick that I've learned about farming runes is that regardless of the nodrop rate, a better source of finding runes in general is by farming monsters which CANNOT drop a piece of armor -- such as Finger Mages, Ghosts, Spirits and the like. This is a reason why the Arcane Sanctuary is a good source for runes: you will always have Ghosts in there.

[@gaswerti]

It doesn't really account for *that* big of a difference, but part of the reason you have more Jahs than Bers is because Ber is actually more rare to drop than Jah. Even though Jah is technically higher up the rune tier list.

[@phillipbotter6470]

I dropped 3 this season from terror fallen ones. Now I dont leave a single one alive.

[@starhunter2770]

DB- lists 7/8 different methods, has a video for 5 of them! And that’s called channel building 👏

[@ydox]

When I played this game a lot I did the following in bnet, which I never heard from other players: I had a Classic Sorc and rushed 3 other charakters to Hell Act4 (self rush, had 4 instances of Diablo open in Sandbox), to avoid the lvl20 & lvl40 LOD limitations for nightmare and hell pass. Afterwards I converted the characters to LOD. I think Hell Act4 conversion to LOD will degredade your old Classic charakter to Hell Act1 or Act2. So I finished the Hellforge quest with this characters in Hell and erased them. This was done by rushing myself. Basically you can generate many runes in "short" time.

[@chacky4krsma]

I doubt that will work in Res.

[@stevebushmi2766]

i love diablo 2 content its so nostalgic i used to rush people for hell forge and half the time they would just leave the game but you make some friends you can trust along the way.

[@MarkyMark145]

classic

[@TheWoWBane]

Been doing some lower kurast, got 2 Sur runes and some other nice runes so far. It's all about patience and keeping the grind on!

[@block35plus1]

also did lots of LK runs. already dropped 3x Sur, 1x Ist, 1x Um and 3x Pul. Probably I did ~600-700 runs in LK.

[@Xehemoth]

This game ate most of my adult life.

[@RawReady]

Same here but in reverse

[@sp00f34]

@@RawReady best game ever. wife is gonna keel me

[@crumbz420]

@@sp00f34 +2

[@dimakor5914]

Dbrunski's guide about Lower Curast rune farming is the best I've seen so far. I did maybe a 1000 runs, brought me enough runes to make HoTO, Delirium, Sanctuary, Call to Arms. The highest I found was Sur. Took me around 10-15 tries to set location right

[@nttn5264]

Dry spells indeed. First 1000 lk runs gave me 2 sur, 1 vex and like 7 gul. Next 2000 runs has only gotten me 2 isty runes :( Desperately trying to finish my exile + grief. Anyway, awesome content as always DB, you're an inspiration to the d2-community :)

[@g3synth205]

Took me just shy of 3200 LK runs to get my first HR (HR being Vex+), which was a Sur. I haven't heard of anybody else having the kind of bad luck with LK that I have. I did find like 5 or more Mal runes, and many Pul, Lem, a few Gul, etc., but the really coveted ones... One in ~3200 runs.

[@themanhands5599]

Cool. Good topic. I'd like to mention that if you're farming for high runes specifically, that's also a good time to farm for Eth gear for merc. Take off your magic find (to increase Eth drop chance) and kill big packs. I wish I had thought of this while farming my Bers for Infinity...now I have the runes but no Eth Thresher to socket them into!

[@Mike-om4tv]

The Manhands great advice!

[@ggEmolicious]

80% of this video was just us being referred to other videos lol

[@kraglord1997]

You must have failed math

[@michaeldietz1148]

You easily cann look the other video's... 100 videos from 100 content creators and all are the same .. but you preferr the only one good guy and this is the legend himself DEBRUNSKI

[@kevinreilly6623]

agreed pretty annoying lol

[@JVerburger]

Bug seal in chaos sanctuary should have been included in this video. In my experience it can compete with LK and is the best way to farm high runes in my opinion.

[@starhunter2770]

frontliner2 basically you clear all 3 superuniques, pop only 4 seals, then teleport back to entrance of CS and then as fast as you can while passing as many mobs as you can, get to the last seal and pop it. Everything will die but anything on screen 6 seconds or less before you popped the seal has a chance to drop something(as if you had 0 mf though). So good way to get bases or high runes

[@pedrobb7]

@@starhunter2770 that's interesting.

[@roydamanna]

Yesterday I started playing d2 again after 7 month break. I did like 20 ancient tunnel runs.. and suddenly unique Corona drops! (my first ever!) Crown of ages ofcourse and it had 26 ar / 13% dr / 1 socket :( not the best rolls.. but still nice that I find it finally :D

[@Rudabaugh]

roydamanna any stats on a COA is a good drop hahah

[@BuellNYC]

That's how D2 lures you back in.... it gives you a little taste and then it has you.

[@mal35m]

@@BuellNYC Exactly! It is like crack cocaine.

[@tylercagle5960]

@@adamm6733 Mulefactory.com

[@divoulos5758]

I have a 57 to 141 inderstructuble fast attack ,one hand and some other .And a shield 36def attacker takes damage of 36.

[@jodymcrory]

Dear Mr Dbrunski 125 - just wanted to let you know that, after many years, my friends and I decided to play LAN D2 games again and that your videos have been instrumental in getting us back up to speed. Liked and Subscribed. Keep up the good work.

[@TacTechMic]

The easiest way to farm high runes is to find someone quitting D2, and have an empty inventory character. peace

[@speedydknouri2229]

got a 20/20 anni by a guy who only played ladder

[@SageAtoreis]

@M B Assuming D2R will be dupes free and start from 0, online mode will be the hard mode and single will be easy (assuming player X will remain).

[@brandish4952]

@@SageAtoreis bots will crash the economy like last time. It's what killed the game.

[@bogdan1213]

@@brandish4952 hopefully the warden will be on the lookout like in wow.

[@kontoname]

@M B So everyone cares more about hero editor single player crap? Turn on your brain before you comment.

[@AndreyAndreev-Narf]

There's one more thing worth mentioning about the Arcane Sanctuary - superchests! They probably don't have the same patterns as the LK ones, but they surely do share some. At each of the 3 false ends, there's 3 superchests to pop, making 9 in total. Combine this with the ghosts and it's a decent incentive for rune farming. Not as boring as LK, not as dangerous as Travincal and it's a decent place for solo levelling too, especially if you don't yet have super-OP gear. But I agree that the ghosts alone are not worth it, especially since they fly and hover around empty space and lots of drops just don't happen.

[@cristiandancheceanu3242]

Actually those ghosts are totally worth it. Farmed the shit out of LK and CS and AS has netted me way more HRs than the entire game combined. 3 Jah, 3 Ber, 6 Sur in total. 3 jah, 2 ber and 4 sur came from ghosts :)

[@moshoo89]

I've done like 800 LK runs, 400 Chaos , 300 Destruction runs, No Rune higher than IST....... On the last 2 Baal Runs, droped JAH JAH OHM

[@Gl0wStickss]

Finally the HRs coming today.. Vex(near nith), Ohm(arcane), Lo(eldritch mob) \o/

[@ryancooper3629]

I played D2 rather obsessively for many years but never saw a single HR drop. (My personal record was a Mal) My entire gear strategy was about consolidating mid level stuff into wealth to by GG items. I'd come home from school every day and farm hell pindle or whatever until bed. Never once found anything super powerful. Looking back at D2, I loved the game so much, but to this day I don't know why I farmed so much. It isn't like there was anything that getting better gear would unlock for me to experience. It was just a cycle of farm to get better gear to farm faster.

[@ilyasnopchenko2886]

Hope springs eternal they say. :) In all the years of playing (single player mind you) I was only able to find runes up to LO in the wild, but your video proves that higher stuff can still be found sometime. :) Incidentally I like to farm the 3 Kurast locations; it was there and in the 6 small underground temples below these that I was able to find the best stuff (like LO and OHM).

[@maximarpgmobileboy3019]

Hey guys. This just in!!!. DO NOT sleep on the stony tombs !. I have been racking up big here. There could be up to 13 unique monsters and champion packs in both levels. I found my first ever griffins here yesterday not to mention hrs and some nice rares and charms

[@hermeskanaris9070]

Just wanted to drop this info in the comments, ive gotten a Jah rune off of a carver mob on the way to countess.

[@mythicgaming2482]

I was getting rune drops when i started a druid playthrough

[@uniquedrone]

I find the best way to find HRs in SP plugy is doing LK (p7) and cows (p3).

[@lukaslukas31op]

My last record. 4 hour Lower Kurast farming - 3 sur, Gul ist Pul.

[@taitran-gi3wj]

4 hour i dont have many time

[@ImVeryBrad]

I've gotten 2 ber in 30 mins twice 😆

[@taitran-gi3wj]

@@ImVeryBrad What? 30 mins with 2 ber

[@ImVeryBrad]

@@taitran-gi3wj in 2 different sittings. Actually now that I think about it, I was over 2 hours not 30 mins.

[@taitran-gi3wj]

@@ImVeryBrad I find ber at Lower Kurast with 3 house but cant get it

[@Skurtle]

Hey DB! Liked the video, good job on covering the basics about rune farming! You kept it snappy with referring to your previously made guides etc. I liked the fact, that you included something just because someone would mention it in the comments about you not mentioning it... Keep up the good work!

[@seraphimipx2611]

maybe you could explain how runes work in general? it still is very specific in this video… so… - what are “high runes” from which level? - what runes drop on normal, nm, hell? - is connected to the character level? - why you get “eld” when farming countess on nightmare 2p? - is there a bell curve for distribution or an exponential decline? … thx man!

[@allstarwatt7246]

hell is the only difficulty where high runes commonly drop. You can on _very_ rare occasion find them in NM, but that's about it really. Anything from Mal - Zod is considered a high rune.

[@allstarwatt7246]

and your character level has no influence on which runes drop. The chance of rune drops is determined by the level of the area you are in, the difficulty you are playing in, and the level of the monster you are killing.

[@sirfoxgaming]

Very nice and useful upload DB. :)

[@MrManeten]

Playing hardcorer on ladder I always go for travi and pits on hell for high runes. I found 2 Cham and 3 ist in 500 travi runs in one day. Crazy luck but travi feels like the way to go.

[@paulmeyer9149]

I think hellforge farming is by far the coolest. Past 1.09 you need to have 8/9 battlenet keys and run 8/9 instances of D2 at the same time to do it efficiently. Even the best players need more than an hour for one run, but the rune drops up to Gul are still much better than what you get in an hour of perfectly optimized chest runs. (Someone calculated that with cubing you get an average of 1.2330 Guls per run from Hell HF alone!) The thing why it is the coolest is because there is over a thousand things to know that will speed up your run and you're encountering different stuff all the time and basically running through the whole game. So this is something to do if you want to commit to something.

[@juicejuice9090]

I use D2 randomizer in addition to PlugY. I use randomizer solely for increased monster density. It saves me time by not having to create new games as often. It keeps the game interesting because the risk increases with more monsters.

[@hoarfrost4960]

1st. I think Chaos sanctuary p8 pop wouldve been good mention. When u leave one seal unopened, kill superuniques, tele through cs and open last seal. If done enough fast it will make monsters around pentagram to do 0mf drop. So basically without effort you kill a lot of monsters with drops each run. This is especially good strat for bnet farmers. Just follow a baalrun for p8, clear cs in mentioned way and head back to wave3 to throne.

[@Dbrunski125]

That is a good point actually. Kinda falls under mass monster farming but good one to point out yea

[@hoarfrost4960]

Yup. I believe cs pop is the best way to farm hrs. "Monsters killed per second" with this strat is highest. Kinda bummer tho that u need highend char to efficiently kill superuniques to get that pop. In sp that is point where farming hr's becomes waste of time...

[@skytg7739]

I never thought about cow level as a worthy method to farm high runes. I tested on myself and in less than 10 runs i dropped countless of low-mid runes (and this is a good paramether) and a Gul (plus my first Oculus on same run). I will continue the test.

[@Amoeby]

How is the test going?

[@skytg7739]

Amoeby Dick I keep the test on cow level and it was nice but nothing special, some Mals, Ists. In the same period i tried several (several for me, about 150-200) Mephi runs, adding the council in the room: 1 Gul and 2 Lo....RNG

[@Amoeby]

@@skytg7739 gratz! Meph drops me Vex in a 100-150 same runs, and I got 38 hoto. I did about 50 cow runs with my javazon and got only Pul, but it was on 3 ppl (something higher is very slow without infi). And I think pindle is relatively good way to farm runes because clear speed is about 19-20 sec and also you can get some good items additionally even w/o high mf.

[@skytg7739]

Amoeby Dick remind to clear the small council before Mephi! I think 3 ppl is pretty good for cow level. Lot of runs on Pindle (about 500) with lot of good ubique and set but never dropped an hr.. RNG is RNG... 😊keep going !!

[@TheHungryTrollRawr]

HELPFUL TIP: Ok guys, something i have had to discover for myself through many runs and experimenting. First i have played the recent 1.14d patch and i'm playing 1.12 (for plugy), i mention this as i strongly believe this tip to be true on BOTH patches! If you do countess runs, i have tried on /players 8 and i'm finding the drop rates on runes are inferior than when i do normal /players 1 runs. For example: I have been power leveling my sorceress using AOE spells on /players 8 to get good, fast exp, but i noticed my rune drops were really lacking, i haven't been finding many useful runes and i have a few alt chars i wish to make some nice runewords for, (Barbarian especially) I did a lot of runs last night and today and it's just dawned on me, i'm playing on /players 8 and i've noticed this before, when i drop it back to /players 1 immediately i get a Sol and Shael rune drop together when in the previous 10-15 runs i was getting single El runes or Eld or Tir. This isn't coincidence now as i've noticed this before in the past when i tried putting the player levels up hoping for better loots and noticed it was the opposite! Sorry if this is long winded but i wanted to explain it best as i can and i hope it helps some players.

[@Alex9ten]

yeah thats a known thing. Right before you hit the 5th floor you go to players 1

[@gootyobt2032]

I've gotten most of my hrs by chopping everything to bits with a frenzy barb in the highest level places. To me it seems like they drop off anything high level and I don't target packs. I just chop everything up in chaos, worldstone and pit. Chaos and worldstone has been where I have found many cham, Lo, ber, jah, sur and zod. I've killed a lot of shit with lightning sorc but from experience doing melee attacks yields more hr's. I don't know all the mechanics involved in differences of spells vs melee but I know I've gotten tons more hr's metering. And killing high level white mobs you get lots of eth weapons. That's actually my main farm is socketables.

[@Amoeby]

Just started my own 10k LK runs and got Vex on the 10th run Diablo 2 is so diablo 2

[@alsinolio]

I had 1 Cham and 1 Jah rune in cow level this week! Much better than LK.

[@XtReMz98]

Now I’m debating trying SP instead of non-ladder bnet on D2:R launch. Seems that you can manipulate drop rate better in SP, the map are static and no one can steal your drops. But playing with my buddies seems also nice. Ah... decisions, decisions.

[@NullMedievalHusk.666]

I wish I found good items all the time like dbrunski in d2

[@relichogs4652]

Craziest thing happened tonight, My brother has been bugging me to get him an enigma on jsp and I resisted because prices are still too high. So We watched your High rune farming video. Later on in the night he was killing durance 2 trash mobs. JAH drops! crazy crazy.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

I just farm Pit with my sorc over and over ... lol .. I had 2 Fal, 1 Lo and a 1 Gul last night probably 70 runs. I kill champ packs mainly and big groups of mobs since I use chain lighting .. it kills really fast for players 1.

[@kickit246]

Just wanted to drop in and say thank you for sharing this. I've never farmed pits with a sorc and didn't think any of them could really do it well. Using my light sorc now and it's going really well. No hr's but I'm clearing quick and getting good item bases and unique items.

[@Chris-qj8ms]

10 out of 10! Video Big d gang!!!!

[@manamanam1983]

I've been playing D2 single player with plugy for 7-8 months, I have infi, eni, hoto, griffon's eye, eth bug forti, coh, but I can't find mara🙂 RNG in this game is crazy and I love her for it. Now my goal is eth botd😉 DB good job, I get a lot of inspiration form your channel. Greetings from Poland.

[@kimhorton6109]

What’s plugs? I’ve played D2 since it came out and never heard of it. Thanks

[@manamanam1983]

@@kimhorton6109 it is mod for Diablo 2. Plugy, the survival kit.

[@viperswhip]

You don't just do hell forge runs, you clear the River on the way, generally I do this bit with my multi shot bowie or my Tomb Reaver whirly barb, because there is an unlocking method that can get you 512 forge runs, but I run the Forge, CS, Baal, the Pit and Cows, Summoner, Countess and Nith in every game. I load 8 instances using Sandboxie, you need 8 characters who can kill the Summoner. I do this bit in Classic for speed. 8 kickers I call them, these are the ones that carry the rest, they were all leveled and in game when the altar was kicked (act 2 obviously), each of these 8 can enter the Arcane Sanctuary to kill the Summoner, each of whom can carry 8 total, including themselves, to be ready for Duriel. That's 64 characters who can take a TP to Duriels chamber, and each of those, again including themselves can take 8 through to Act 3 = 512. So, you need 8 characters that can kill the summoner in hell Act 2 in Classic, to get to Act 3, that starts you at Act 1 hell when you convert. Generally I am level 50ish, I spawn him with 1/2 players in game then load the mules so he is easy to 1 shot. Sometimes I run the Nightmare Forge while I am leveling my characters, generally running it like 20 times or so, as that's about how many NM Baal runs (after converting everyone) I run to get them to 70ish (I load all the characters into Baal's throne room to level them). Anyway, it's a project I do when I do ladders, it doesn't take that long as I level a Sorc first and then turn her into a chantress when she's like level 65ish so the other 7 characters are super fast, then she converts back to a blizzard sorc to kill the Summoner as the last character through with my Javazon killing Duriel all the time before loading in 8 fresh characters to take get the credit. Good characters are Bowazons, Whirly Barbs, Sorcs. I generally do one hammerdin here as well. I find lots of high runes, get hundreds of middle ones, generally I can cube up to my infinity pretty easily and other stuff depending on luck.

[@ravebitz7583]

Hi what items are you using on your AMAZON on 5:02.. and another question in D2R can we kill the COW KING? or still not

[@SDSniperFury15]

Thanks bro it helps alot, i got question tho what is the best charms for paladin because so far my inventory is so full of charmand i feel like i dont need all of them, any suggestion?

[@robmiester]

if you have a friend play through the game on classic together. rush characters to hell in classic then just convert to expansion. me and a buddy always talked about trying this, never ended up trying it. edit: and of course the reason you do this is to get a rune from the countless forges. you can skip act 5 if you rush in classic

[@gastongiommi8216]

Te sigo desde Argentina y la verdad todos tus videos tienen muy buen contenido, son super utiles, sigue asi #Dbrunski125 !! Un saludo :D

[@P3pp3rmaniako]

Aca igual jaja

[@santiagogomez949]

@@passalapasa Que aprenda o traduzca, no hacemos eso nosotros?

[@melius7550]

The never ending grind... Thanx for another great vid man💪🏼

[@shaolinswords]

What does it mean when he says you'll be "Realmed down" when talking about Travincal farming on battlenet taking 1-2 minute runs??

[@gabrielc6252]

8:40 how is it possible to farm the hell forge? how can you get a drop after you have destroyed Mephisto's soul stone?

[@Tsh1rt7588]

By offering hell rushes for hellforge

[@XykuJoxa]

@@Tsh1rt7588 On Path of Diablo the highest runedrop from hellforge is gul

[@Aracne80]

... And to add, to farm, you need the best gear already, so forget that newbie shit you got right now ... But to be fair, there are videos how to get that stuff too. It's just fun to see how this guy have farming characters with Enigma equipped (but of course he does) - on all of them. During my like ten years I played the game during it's heydays, I got 1 - I repeat, that's ONE - Enigma, on my necromancer, and it was awesome! (And in the long run somewhat dulled down the game). So I guess my point is, if you're new and not that much for playing this game for more than an hour a day, just play with some friends for having fun, this gear displayed here ... probably won't happen. Good video thou. Appreciate the suggestions and how-to's. Always nice to know. Didn't know the Countess was capped in hell. Never thought of the summoner as a raid-boss either.

[@divoulos5758]

Summoner is may the worst boss

[@ЕМТФранц]

Yeah, for 5 or 6 seasons on bnet on hardcore my highest found was one single Ber rune. Hate bots and cheaters.

[@fanathym]

that's because back in the days the drop rates must have been way different. Like ZOD rune was said to drop once per year or something. They probably changed it when more and more dupes were flooding the market anyways, to keep the legit players in the game

[@viviblaat5831]

@@fanathym Back in the day (from 1.07 up until 1.12), it worked like this. When ever a certain amount of El runes had dropped on a server, there was a chance of a Zod dropping. It was about 1 million El runes that had to drop on a server before a Zod could drop again in any of the games on that specific server. Same was for every other High Rune, a certain amount of lower runes had to have dropped on a server before a High Rune would drop and they only drop on Hell. The highest rune you could/can get in Nightmare is/was a Ist rune. Nobody knew the exact numbers, but some people made a lot of calculations and came to that conclusion.

[@FulcanelliTrismegistus]

Got my 1st highish rune on plugy (gul) while watching your luck charm of a video. Thx

[@nsmilitia]

Good bnet strat, while farming meph with a blizzard sorc, just farm LK. You won’t get realm down and you will eventually get high runes before getting full gear for a different character. 😁

[@Gl0wStickss]

Decided to start farming arcane sanctuary. Found an ohm... Then made a 6/6/1 Ethereal Crystal Sword Cta. :) Love Arcane Sanctuary. (Ohm from ghost) Make that 2x now. Under 100 runs. O.o

[@Rotblattchinchilla12]

Who plays Diablo 2 these days... I play Lower Kurast But great editing :D

[@Mike-om4tv]

Chinchi37 hahhaah i been playing LK for about a week...maybe 25 hours, pretty good luck with 2 ohms 2 vex and 3 Lo! Bunch of ums puls mals and charms too!

[@greenpowered1]

@@Mike-om4tv damn! I have spent 40 hours at least i LK and not a single high rune... i am pissed

[@PlayJAK82]

I always had my best rune luck starting at Hell Bloody foothills, and ending at shenk the overseer. (But, I suppose if you don't have the ability to survive there yet, these other places are certainly great too). I don't know if my lucky spot will be anyone else's lucky spot, but I figured it might be worth sharing.

[@bangroji]

I think the most density area with easiest difficulty in hell is hall of pain. But having Hall of pain portal opened its mean you will lose Pindle portal.

[@Akumatron]

Packs of champion stanglers just outside of chaos is how i get a lot of my high runes. Got Ist, Ohm and Cham this ladder form hitting those

[@julienmv9272]

what do you think about running the chests in durance of hate levels 1 and 2? There's like 200 chests there, although I don't think there's any superchests

[@jj8898huu]

Played for about 1 month. I got 2 sur and one Gul within 30 mins. More than I got than the rest of the month combined. Rng is something

[@chrisp2272]

My favorite, and it’s more like (hunter) gathering than farming, but when world stone 2 has the flayers. With a Hamdin, they run up to you and die in seconds.

[@speed4414]

Use ur merc as a meat shield. They are 100% immune to the explosion when they die. Just tele port close to the dolls and run back. Your merc should rush to attack and the dolls will target him. Just be fast enough to run out of the area of effect of the corpse exolosion they cast when they die before your merc makes a kill ;)

[@chrisp2272]

@@speed4414 I said world stone 2, not durance 2. Talking about the “living” flayers, not the undead.

[@speed4414]

@@chrisp2272 English is my second language sorry pal. I just thought about the little kamikaze fetuses when I read "Flayer".

[@chrisp2272]

@@speed4414 No worries. But if you want to kill some monsters, worldstone 2 is a fun time

[@speed4414]

@@chrisp2272 I like worldstone keep but it just doesnt work for me I dont know why. My brother found some items there and tells me to run there. The problem is that it doesnt work for me or its just bad luck. I found a SoJ a month ago there but nothing more. Not a single rune, unique or worthy rare. Nothing. Now I grind Pits and rainbow facets rain. Got Deaths Web, one Jah, one Mara and Crown of Ages in just 2 days there. Currently looking for Gryffons but you know how this game works. It never drops what you want and when you dont look for that anymore the game starts dropping one every 4 runs u.u

[@0stre]

Best, safest way is to create item find baba without offensive skills, and just follow Chaos Sanctuary bot and honk everything, keeping distance from bot. My best is 5HR per week, playing 2h per day

[@-Nick-T]

Rune farm with. SUB 100MF, Clear inventory. Do not town or WP/TP. Clear each level. This strategy produces runes on bnet. 2players required.

[@robertfranchino2724]

Hey Dbrunski125 do you know if the /playersX command increases the amount of cows spawned in the SCL like battle net scales it with party size?

[@redricksgaming]

I'd like to see a video about every step taken for pros to get their first ber rune

[@emmanuelwongchuking4281]

Locations: black marsh tower, cow level, travincal, arcane sanctuary, mausoleum, pits, ancient tunnels, chaos sanctuary, lower kurast(player dependent) Please correct if misleading or i misunderstood. 😇🙏

[@qwamqwamasketilmixum2915]

It’s good to see that none of this has changed in the last 12 years..

[@jasonqualls4230]

hey man I'm loving ur content. just picked up d2 again for the first time in 12 years. maybe u could help me understand something: I was doing a hell meph run, and i ran into diablo in the DOH lvl 3... is this some new thing I'm unaware of? or is it just a bug or glitch? cuz he seems nearly unkillable

[@mephiztophelezemephiztophe31]

I've found a few from Nihlathak running for d- keys in pub Baal runs. There's more than enough time to run Nihlathak and get to the throne room for Baal xp.

[@vb6427]

Overall cows might be the number 1 spot due to the density of monster. It'S also a good spot to famr base item to put your high rune on. Killing monster on high players settings is the most effectve way to drop high rune in my opinion. I like to run travincal also because you can drop good unique items and alot of gold with the right build.

[@Happycamper10170]

Tomb runs 4 runs vex ber player 1

[@krischan67]

Regarding the Countess, it's important to visit her on /players 1 on single player, respectively when being alone in a bnet game. Her special rune drop (i.e. those up to Ist) is being replaced by regular drops if her normal drops reach the maximum of 6 which is more likely to occur on games with more than one player.

[@octapuzz_red8841]

For runes: Monster density and killspeed ;)

[@dougtaylor26]

1:00 who dropped the SUR? Countess or the Ghoul next to him?

[@spraycan81]

great video mate. Very informative.

[@ilet3049]

I've read some contradicting information about party size. What happens to my drops when I enter a Baal bot game and party at 8, but go LK and Travi solo while the rest are busy in the throne room?

[@johnielawson8832]

Will you play medianxl when you finish your holy grail search, and "complete" diablo 2?

[@twistedimagev2]

HEY Dbrunski125 is there a video where you talk about good strategies for starting fresh after season reset or first starting the game? i.e. what class to play? (sorc?) spec? where to grind and look for gear at what levels etc.. ?? I would find this very benefecial and informational. thanks for all the great vids!!! love the content keep up the great work!!

[@needlequill]

Hey, DB! I've got a question: is it better to run, say, Kurast only 1000 times, or a long route (Crypt?, Countess?, Andariel?, AT, Kurast, Mephisto, Pindle), say, 100 times?

[@AndreyAndreev-Narf]

LK isn't worth it as part of a long route. The goal there is to have super-fast runs (~30 seconds or lower from start game to save & exit), so that you can do thousands of runs quickly. 1000 runs often won't net you anything but gems and a couple of mid runes, 100 is nothing ... you need to do multiples of thousands to reasonably expect results.

[@sergeymanetskiy8201]

Super chests is an exellent source of runes. I took me about 700 runs to have Infinity. Of course it is viable only in single player.

[@larrybrinker1664]

I find the best stuff clearing my way to the pit. But the things that drop in the pit are better just rarer

[@Eskolol]

I remember getting a Gul rune the first time I ever did Hell forge in SP. I didn’t even know that it was the highest rune the forge can drop.

[@milkncookie]

BOTS HATE HIM! See how he farms Highrunes using these simple tricks!

[@kamronandaya7619]

lmfao

[@gh4zza]

he's not playing on bnet though xd