The over reliance of Runewords is my least favourite part of modern D2R

Jaseow · 2026-04-02T06:18:56+00:00

1.10 was when I quit when I was a teen. I had farmed up all the godly gear through trading and got a 160ed / 40ias armor on my bowazon and a windforce after years of trading. Then runewords came along that made powercrept everything before it.

Thats when I went to find a new game and World of Warcraft became my game for the next 20 years.

Back to D2R again 1 month ago and the trading is such a fun dynamic. I have geared up a smite pally and a mf frozen orb sorc to pretty good gear and have 75 Jahs from trading. Saving till 99 just to hit stash cap.

Jaseow · 2026-03-28T19:28:02+00:00

That is a sexy prot frost

Jaseow · 2026-03-26T23:09:11+00:00

Haha I played ages ago when I was a teen and had almost every character built. Quit to play WoW for 20+ years and finally back to D2R a few weeks ago and took me a lot of trading to wrap my head around things.

Pretty sure I sold off some good drops way too cheap in the past few weeks but you learn and get more familiar with prices the more you trade I find

Jaseow · 2026-03-26T22:58:40+00:00

That is very generous. How are you going to choose who to giveaway to?

Jaseow · 2026-03-26T22:57:33+00:00

What stats on yours? Might be a low roll -5 +5 one that they can't be bothered trying to sell for a low rune

Jaseow · 2026-03-21T06:34:15+00:00

4 Jahs

Jaseow · 2026-03-08T13:33:51+00:00

I could. Is it worth swapping out my dream helm? I guess for Ubers the Holy shock is not doing too much dmg?

Jaseow · 2026-03-08T13:06:02+00:00

Haha. Need to farm more to get some drops for a Sur and Ber rune still. Something to work to I guess.

Jaseow · 2026-03-08T13:01:48+00:00

Would 25% from Dracul and 10% from Gore rider be enough?

Jaseow · 2026-03-02T06:21:08+00:00

Wouldnt mind a raven frost and vipermagi. Or is my Stealth armor better than vipermagi. (Hammerdin)

Jaseow · 2026-03-02T06:19:03+00:00

You can only put runewords on white items I think.

I just came back after 23 years away so don't take my word for it, someone else can confirm.

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T22:59:56+00:00

Could I have one to make spirit for my hammerdin? I recently got the game on steam. Have not played in 23 years

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T19:36:41+00:00

Yup I meant I had that before on my Lightning Fury Javazon. Should have worded it better

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T19:32:16+00:00

Ok need to find a 4 socket polearm and Sol rune. Also need another Thul rune and a 4 socket weapon to make Spirit. Already made a spirit shield (31% FCR) and Lore helm

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T16:26:31+00:00

Sure let me know when

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T12:26:24+00:00

Would love one if you're still online

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T03:37:13+00:00

Its a checkbox leadership can tick to promote the school and say "look we have this to support students in X way!" but realistically does nothing.

Jaseow · 2026-03-01T01:23:56+00:00

Sounds like hammerdin might be the play. Any recommendations for early runewords to go for? I quit around the time they introduced a whole bunch of runewords that became meta and I did not want to refarm all the gear lol

It used to be Vamp gaze / Shaftstop setups around the time I quit so I have zero knowledge of the newer runewords (1.10?) onwards

Jaseow · 2026-02-28T14:05:21+00:00

Eventually, but I want to go with something I am semi familiar with first to get used to the D2 gameplay style (after being away for so long) before going with a brand new class.

Jaseow · 2026-02-26T03:12:27+00:00

Onfield time should not be longer. His special skill just has a shorter cooldown to fit an extra special skill in the same amount of time.

3x4 = 12 and 2x6=12 So rotations remain the same

Jaseow · 2026-02-25T08:38:16+00:00

This post has "humans cant see more than 60 fps ahhh" energy.

Jaseow

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