Having good charms helps a lot on Hell difficulty. So you should be interested in keeping all runes you found to upgrade them eventually.Īs for perfect gems, I personally use them to reroll charms - there is recipe any 3 perfect gems/skulls + magic item = random magic item of same type and it requires lots of gems to roll good charms - I personally try to roll +X all resistances small charms and +1 skill grand charms. Some high level runes are useful even without runewords - for example, Ohm (+50% Damage) and Zod (item become indestructible).

You can upgrade low level runes into higher level ones.

I've been playing (farming) on Act 4 (Pandemonium Fortress - Chaos Sanctuary) for a long long time now, and it's getting dull.Īs for runes, you should focus on runewords useful for your class - see Runewords list. Item dupe-ing is pushing it raw item editors seem like a total cheat. Side-note, I am open to using limited mods, such as an inventory expander / database / helper or something. I can't see any revolutionary benefit coming from my growing stock of perfect gems.Īm I playing this all wrong, or what? Thanks! So that's a long-winded way of asking, is there any point to hoarding gems at all? And what about runes? The latter, I assume, is a bit more tempting, due to rune-words. So far, the items/weapons/armor that I have are all holding up well enough, most being unique (yellow), and in the rare case I get a new drop that looks like a good upgrade, it's obviously usually unique too, and never socketed. But I never seem to find a good use for them. My inventory is overstuffed with gems and runes moreso gems, esp. I'm not currently using any mods or 'cheat-like' methods. I have my character saved from many years ago, a level 40 Amazon. I'm playing Diablo II Lord of Destruction, single-player, for some nostalgia.

List of diablo 2 lod runes