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{{Item navbox|{{Runes}}}}Finding [[runes]], especially higher level runes, is an obsession for many players. This can be a chore, since there's no way to use equipment to increase your odds of finding more runes, or higher level runes. [[Magic Find]] has no effect on rune drops, either quality or quantity; the way to find runes is to kill lots of [[monster]]s in larger games, so more total [[item]]s drop.
* Refer to the giant [[Rune Finder Guide by Urlik]] for much more detail and information about how and where best to find runes.
Since rune finding is largely a crap shoot, it's best to kill quickly where your character is most capable of killing quickly. Levels with a lot of monsters are best, simply to increase the total item drops. Places like the [[Secret Cow Level]], the [[Flayer Jungle]], or the surface areas of [[Act I|Act One]] (with their teeming [[Fallen]] camps) are popular killing zones due to the high density of fairly weak monsters.
A few monster types have higher odds of dropping runes because they can not drop [[armor]] or [[weapon]]s, and thus spit out more runes since they have fewer other possible drops. These include [[Wraith]]s, [[Finger Mage]]s, [[Vulture Demon]]s, [[Willowisp]]s, and the [[Swarm]]. These monsters are worth harvesting while rune hunting, but they spawn infrequently and in underwhelming numbers, so few players will find it worth the effort for the slight increase in the odds of finding runes.
==Quests==
===Forgotten Tower===
===Rescue on Mount Arreats===
This [[Quests_Act_Five#Quest_Two:_Rescue_on_Mt._Arreat|second quest in Act Five]] is easily accomplished, and your character will receive a [[Tal]] (r07), a [[Ral]] (r08), and an [[Ort]] (r09) rune as a reward for completing it. Not a huge reward, but for players who save all their runes to upgrade, every one helps.
==Chests==
[[Chest]]s (this includes barrels, crates, hidden stashes, etc) are an excellent source of items, including runes.See the super quests discussion in the [[Rune Finder Guide by Urlik]] for more details.
===More Players = More Runes===
More players in the game increase the quantity of items found from [chest]s, by decreasing the odds that the game will select the "NoDrop" option.
Total players in the game (no party) — Chance of non-locked chest to drop nothing at all:
* 5 or 6 — 26,0%
* 7 or 8 — 25,2%
This must be balanced with your overall killing time; taking 3x longer to kill monsters for 2x the drops is not a winning strategy.
==Upgrading==
Prior to [[v1.10]], it was hit or miss obtaining runes above [[Ort]], since only the first nine runes could be upgraded in the [[Horadric Cube]]. This changed in v1.10, when [[Rune list|rune upgrade recipes]] were added that could turn [[El]]s into a [[Zod]]. That would take over 14 trillion Els, but it's now possible to upgrade to all levels of runes, which means collecting them and building toward the high level runes required by the biggest [[Runewords]] is now a possibility for all patient players.
===Forgotten Tower=Rune Drop Odds==This is A pair of charts taken from [[Rune Finder Guide by Urlik|Urlik's Rune Finder Guide]] illustrating the semi-rare scarcity of higher level runes found when defeating . These odds are accurate or v1.10+, and are based on the countess 155 times "/players 1" and with no magic finddrop coming from a monster or object that could theoretically drop a Zod rune. <br>1 x [[Dol]]<br>1 x [[Hel]]<br>4 X [[Io]]<br>1 x [[Ko]]<br>1 x [[Fal]]<br>
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