Countess Rune Drops

[rumph]

I had heard that the top special rune drop for the Countess is Ist, but her "normal monster" drop can be up to Vex. . .

In any event, I just killed the Countess and had her drop a Jah rune. This sort of surprised me, since I thought this was impossible. . . which leads me to the question -- what are the top runes the Countess can drop and the relative chances of each? Or maybe a nearby minion dropped the Jah, but I would have presumed them to be a lower level than the Countess herself. . .

[Orphan]

The Jah would have dropped from the creatures around her, like the countess's minions since they can drop a Jah rune. The Countess herself can drop up to a Lo rune with her item drop, not high enough for that Jah rune.

[Terenas]

Never got past Ko from Hell Countess -.-
But yes, non quest till Lo IIRC.
The quest drop has better odds to get you a decent rune ? (say, Pul/Um+)

[LprMan]

Countess doesn't have a quest drop, like act bosses do. You don't have higher chance for good runes when you complete the quest.

Countess' drop consists of 2 parts: her special runedrop (up to Ist on hell difficulty), and normal item drop. The regular drop can also include runes (up to Lo), but the chances are low, pretty much the same as regular monsters.

The minions and regular monsters down there can drop higher runes than Countess

[sorceressgod]

but baal is much better lol, got a ist from him recently :S

[Terenas]

ty for the insight

[Evrae Altana]

but baal is much better lol, got a ist from him recently :SNo, for runes up to Ist, Countess is still the top (aside from Forge) source since she always drops runes. Baal, on the other hand, may or may not decide to drop a rune for you.

[psych]

Actually in rare cases the countess does not drop a rune

[sorceressgod]

ah but too bad its so troublesome teleporting to countess w/o maphack :S

[Evrae Altana]

ah but too bad its so troublesome teleporting to countess w/o maphack :SNot really. :rolleyes: Once I find the tower, it usually takes me less than a minute to tele to level 5.

[Hp_Sauce]

Personly I think the Tower has the simplest Entrence/Stair patterns to remember of all the places in D2, except for Pindle of course.
Finding the Tower is the most frustrating part for me, but still it usually just involves an ever growing circle.

-hps

[aresze]

...is it better remove the mf gear b4 doing Countess??? bcos i notice that each time i hv my Gheed on she only drop me 1rune & some rare items......without Gheed ... she at least drop me 3 runes^^

[Orphan]

MF% wouldn't have any affects on the rune drops. It wouldn't even affect how many runes drop per run because it would only help determine what quality items are dropped.

The only way to have a chance of increasing/decreasing the amount of runes that are dropped from the countess rune drop is with the player count.

[Evrae Altana]

...is it better remove the mf gear b4 doing Countess??? bcos i notice that each time i hv my Gheed on she only drop me 1rune & some rare items......without Gheed ... she at least drop me 3 runes^^It doesn't matter. MF has no effect on rune drops or what kind of items drop, only whether or not they're magical/rare/set/unique.

Edit-too slow :hanky:

[CheatPig]

what is the highest rune that nitemare countess can drop? cos i'm after a pul and it would be quicker to run nm tower over hell theoretically as a fanat zealot... :tongue:

[Pillz]

Io? I believe is the highest nm countess can drop, either that or Ko, I'm not quite sure.

[helvete]

Special rune drop goes like this:
Normal: up to rune 8 (ral)
NM: up to rune 16 (io)
Hell: up to rune 24 (ist)

pattern is easy to remember as it's 8*difficulty.

Her normal drop is alot harder to remember, but for normal I believe it's Tir, NM is Ko and hell is Lo as mentioned.

Random bosses down there can drop any rune except Zod.