Rune Hunting

[Zeppelin]

Just out of curiousity, does MF have any affect on Rune Drops?

[Darnoc]

nope, I'm pretty sure its just random; except for countess maybe- not too sure there. I remember reading a thread about this a few months back; I'll try to find it for ya.

[Zeppelin]

that would be greatly appreciated.

[helvete]

Runes can't be magical, and thus MF has no effect on it. Some modding could result in unique runes, and such :D

[thegiantturtle]

MF has no affect on runes the number of runes found or the rarity of runes found.

[Zeppelin]

Thanks for the help.

[Darnoc]

Okay, yeah; mf has no effect on runes since they cannot spawn rare or unique. But, the number of players in the game does have an effect on the amount of runes dropped by countess:

It should be made clear whether you mean solo Countess runs or not. She drops different amounts of runes with different numbers of people in the game. She drops the most runes in solo games. (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=306527&highlight=countess+runes)

[helvete]

This is because the hard cap of 6 items on monster drops. The special drop will be missing totally if she decides to drop six items, for instance.

[RTB]

In theory of course. Her item TC has a maximum of 5 picks, so she'll always have at least one chance of dropping from the rune TCs directly.

[grimsleeper]

I know there're a lot LOT of FAQs available on item drop rules and which chances are rolled when etc. Does anybody know of an FAQ which explains how runes drop? For example, how does the game decide whether to drop a rune, which TCs do different runes belong to, what are the chances an item dropped from a TC will be a rune, etc etc etc?

~GrimSleeper
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