runes

[trippy_russ]

Does it matter at what lvl u do hell forge? Would i get a better rune if im a higher lvl?

[goofycaca]

As far as I understand it the only think that effects Hellforge rune levels are the game difficulty, not character level.

[Sammorai]

i agree i think its the difficulty, on normal it gave me a ort and on nightmare it gave me an um, i was suitably happy :drool:

[psycomaster]

difficulty is a major player on what rune drops from hell forge, much better drop playing hell opposed to normal. But character level should also play a part in the rune drop too. I believe the hell forge drop is like any other drop in the game so that it will only drop an item up to +5 levels above your current level. If you are only lvl 25 it can't drop a Gul rune (req lvl 53), the most it could drop would be a Shael rune (req lvl 29).

I also believe i've read somewhere that there is a rune cap on drops aswell. Normal can only drop below a Lum rune, NM below a Um, and hell below a Gul rune. I might be off a rune or two but i do think that there is a maxium drop per difficulty

[k/t]

Wait until you're big enough to be able to muscle your way through the River to the Hell Forge alone in a game with many people in it (when they're doing act 1, or something like that). Don't party with them. Then smash the Forge, and you'll get many runes and gems, much more than if you were alone in the game.

[JoJeck]

Wait until you're big enough to be able to muscle your way through the River to the Hell Forge alone in a game with many people in it (when they're doing act 1, or something like that). Don't party with them. Then smash the Forge, and you'll get many runes and gems, much more than if you were alone in the game.
Not so. The Hellforge quest only ever drops 1 rune plus some gems regardless of the number of players in the game. One thing to be careful of is that you are the only one with the quest open in Act 4 when you complete the quest otherwise you will spoil the quest for the others. I never play publically in Act 4 when I have this quest open for fear someone will ruin my drop.

In Nightmare the runes are from Sol to Um with each having a 1/11 chance of being dropped. On Hell the runes are from Hel to Gul again with 1/11 chance.

[Monarch]

Also incase u bring it up if u wearing mf gear, MF doesnt work on runes. Runes is more of a all-ready-planed-out-thing for instace before u get 1 Zod Rune you'll see more than 20K eld runes.

-WalrusPK :buddies:

[Glenn Cain]

as such, cant we go to hell countess for runes and cube them slowly?

then again countess is so tedious and dangerous for my bone mage :cheesy:

[LyrinJytus]

as such, cant we go to hell countess for runes and cube them slowly?

I saw a link once that showed how many of each rune you'd need to make each of the higher runes. Suffice to say, I'd hope to find one playing before I'd expect to be able to cube one. :cheesy: