Just started up again after 7 years gone

First time playing ladder

I can solo D in hell with the hdin set up
Need merc upgrade for baal minions (undead kill me)

Currently gulli helm and Ekraken trechery 16medi Eca insight

To hit rez I'm using
Coa
Maras
Raven
Bk
Upd hoz
Hoto
Arachs
Trangs
Travs

Inv
Torch and anni
40mf gheeds and 6x 7mf scs


Besides chaos where's best place to try and find high runes?
What should I farm for items
How much mf to get the quality dropa

There are a few places.

First off, Hephasto has a nice rune pool and is good for high runes.

Ghosts in most areas also have high rune drop rates, like the countess room.

You can also look into Lower Kurast chest runs, they also pop out high runes quite frequently.

Most of the time you should aim towards 300-500mf. taking any more mf reduces your dps and makes for slower runs.

Target super unique act end bosses, and intermediate bosses like council, nilithak, hephasto.

Runes are really pure chance.. Chests are good for them. Act 3 up and down the bazaar is good.

Ghosts and other ethereal monsters are good cause they have limited drops and runes are one they can.

Sojs are easiest to find with NM andy cause the lvl limits the unique ring drops.

Chaos/Pits and the chests in tombs/temples is where almost all of my hrs drop

Thanks guys I'm sitting roughly 210 mf right now and 80fcr

I know I wanna hit 125fcr for pvp but is there a bp I'm looking at for pvm as well? Or can I swap belt/glovrs for gold wrap/chancies etc

What would be the best merc armor?

My trecherys only 981 Def

I could up the ca to a cv insight for dmg but more concerned with his Def

Most of mine come from tower/crypt/mosuleum in act 1 and many places in act3.. occasionally chaos will drop something but outer steps are great. Mf does not increase rune chance that I am aware of. Running all levels of the halls in act 5 are good aswell.

125 for build is ideal for pvm. You move so much faster and you can put on an fcr mf ring.

Chest for merc is fortitude. You don’t really need the mana if you have spirit and an Soj, so I prefer to go eth reaper toll over insight

Welcome back!! Enjoy 😊 😁

You'll want roughly between 250-450mf (the higher the better but to much like above 450 can be overkill and effect your drops)

Travs and the countess tower are good for runes, chaos tends to drop runes to I've found numerous jah and ohm and chams in chaos

Thanks for the tips!



Well I should be able to hit 250 without swapping to much, upgrade the travs for 8% and get a few more scs but seeing as I'm just getting back there is a budget haha consider myself lucky that I had enough fg after all these years for a full ladder set up and rush 😁 fcr gear gets pricey but good to know!!

Maybe iso 2x ist for my coa then that'd bump me to 260 right away

I'm looking at making nl pvp once I save enough



Plan on doing countess trav meph hepesto D

Collect essence and look for loot 😁

Thanks for the advice guys


Guess I'm iso 3x ist?