23 Runeword Search Thread

Ax2Grind said:
Cher0kee: I'm still disheartened by the use of HEL runes that could be better used in other item types, especially after last night's revelation that dozens of orbs may have been passed over all this time during cow, Baal and other runs. Add to that you're so close to slowing to a crawl in orb testing, as Andy has with wands, and that you could've been trading perfect gems for 2OS orbs in channels. After all, you find tons of gems and few orbs in cows, why not offer the gems for orbs? 20 for 20 I'd say would be a fair trade, and most people would jump at the chance. It's the runes that are the most valuable, using them to remove failed tests seems like such a waste, as does using ISTs or higher in 2OS tests for items that could, invariably, have more than two sockets (like swords, axes and hammers). Personally, I think wands, circlets and necroheads would be the likely items for IST+ testing, followed by all other helms, knives, clubs, orbs, and such. Even shields can get four, though only three non-aurics are among them.

As for the best place to find 2OS orbs, I think everyone here would easily know this. Check my last few test posts and you'll find plenty of low-level 2OS orbs being used. I find them leveling mules. They drop as early as Blood Moor, but the advantage is few other items can drop so orbs are just that much more possible. The key is as low as you can go with no magic find and as many kills as you can get as fast as you can. Even normal cows are a tad too high, as they can drop a myriad of other items, so find the earliest area with large stocks of monsters and have at it, it should go quickly.
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Please don't assume that I blindly pass by 2os Orbs all the time, just because you found one lying on the ground last night. We all went in different directions, and a few of the others in the game weren't in it for the socketables. They sent me a message about the orb, but I didn't see it. Woops!

As far as using Hel runes for unsocketing - To each his own. I have limited time for orb (or rune) hunting, but I've managed to acquire a good deal of rune wealth from MF runs and trading. If I can get more accomplished by Mfing, trading, and using Hel runes in a shorter period of time, then I don't see why you should have a problem with it. There really is no shortage of Hel runes -- I can trade for a bunch of them anytime I want to. It's nearly impossible for me to trade for socketable orbs, as the general public simply doesn't collect them. I've heard all about how skeletons and dark rangers drop so many orbs, but after hours and hours of searching for them in normal act 1, I found just a measly few. My time is better spent MF'ing and trading for high runes.
 
Cher0kee: I didn't suggest you passed them, after all you grabbed that one when I said something, but if you went that much faster in orbs imagine how fast you could've gone using what was readily available to socket those HEL runes into. The point is 20 PGems is a bit pricy for blank 2OS orbs, which is why people might start saving them up and trade them to you in bulk a week later. Call it an short-term investment. Anyway, can't argue about it now, they're gone, but there are more orbs on SocketedCrap's sorc mule. Speaking of which...

All: I've set the final mule on RuSTMules and all SocketedCrap is set, again. I've already forgotten the third account and wonder if mules need setting there, too. Let me know. As for toying around with RuSTMules, all the builds are supposed to be summoners, which means if you're not used to playing barb/zon/sorc summoners then you better stick to the necro, druid or sin, since the pally was a busted build. Either way they can hold their own in a rush game until Diablo or whatever, as two are already in A2.
 
FYI, after some others comments, all of the above have already been testing (they were not requests).

Of course, they were all failures...expensive ones at that.
 
Tests: (Thanks to mrgod2 for the runes)
Mace: Dol,Amn
Mace Dol,Hel
Club: Amn,Sol
Claw: Ith,Hel
NecroHead: Shael,Hel
NecroHead: Hel,Amn

All gemmed
 
Failed:

ELD+TIR=diadem
ETH+AMN=war hammer

Will have other tests later, needed to make some space and still do. I'll update the spreadsheet at the top of each thread page, or at least try.
 
I seem to have lotsa low/mid runes to burn, and could prolly gather socketed stuff for you.

<-- Useast NL/L *Xenon_KoA *Cyph[e-frog]

edit: I don't quite understand the spreadsheet fully.
for example, someone said they tested Io Tir in clubs. I looked under both sections, but there wasn't a slot for that. Also, in the 1.07 list, what do the Y's stand for?
 
Xenon[KoA],
Hopefully I can answer your questions about the spreadsheets.
Go to the tabs along the bottom of the grids. There is one titled "Club". Any 2 socket tests we do on clubs will be recorded in this sheet. For the first rune used look at the list on the lefthand side. For the second rune look across the top. Where they intersect is the cell where we put a "T" to show it has been tested.

The second question about the 1.07 list; the "Y" denotes that that was an acceptable item type for that runeword. Examples: 'Myth' was for helms only, while 'Victory' was for and melee weapon.
 
Since the RuSTMules account seems to be filling up, I wanted to reiterate this. Please, please feel free to take any and all items for your own personal use, be it leveling, trading, or whatever else you feel like doing with them. That's why they're there.
 
Xenon: The reason IO+TIR isn't recorded is stated in my previous post.

Corporeal Ghost: I placed a load of junk jewels and a lot of chips not just for our own use in crafting/socketing, but for trade as well. If you see someone in the trade channels asking for junk jewels (rare) or chips (even rarer) then just hop on the account.

I'm just hoping Wathombe can take all this back over before I have to make another update.
 
sorry, i havent been on to post in a few days, these final projects are killing me, but soon (the 17th) i will be done with another semester and be home for a while.

here are the ones i tested tonight after getting home from the lab:

Armor: Fal Tal
Normal Shield: Amn Lum
Sword: Io Ith
Polearm: Shael Dol
Wand: Shael Shael
: Hel Hel
Axe: Sol Hel
Claw: Hel Ith
Orb: Lum Lum
 
A few more sorc orb tests.

They are going to start going much slower now, I used up all of my runes lem and above.

lem pul
pul lem
lem mal
um lum
hel hel
thul lem
io io
ko ko
fal fal

All were gemmed.
 
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