23 Runeword Search Thread

Hello,
Diabolic Apom: Thanks for the answer. I have found a thread to rune rushing in this forum. It also says to act III (you get a new difficulty level every 5 completed acts(hell=10), so when switching from classic to normal you have to be act III in hell (4+4+2 in classic). Classic is very annoying, the merc wouldnt kill anything as you cant equip them, imagine atm i would be glad to get a spectral shard cause of the resistances. So I am very glad not to need to do hell council.

Flumhum: Yes it is okay to use superior items, had the same question some time ago
 
Flumhum - Yes, the superior title will over rule, if you will, the gemmed title after making a failing runeword.

Pandorapuss :drink: :creep:
 
Ghist and I have done some runs tonight and tested the following

Dol El Axe Gemmed

Lum Um Armor Gemmed

Nef Ort Ort Sol Axe Gemmed

Dol Thul Eth axe Gemmed
 
Wathombe, could you please update my account name?

I will no longer be online on *dael

from now on, I will be online on *simpel

Also, I met with *yhenon, and we had a little chat about things, but it seems that there are very few people in europe that can actually do solo runs and stuff like that..

If anyone on europe would be willing to coordinate runs or the testing itself i'd be very grateful

I can do runs, provide runes, etc, but I dont want to do it all by myself - it gets so boring ;)
 
All updated, added, et cetera.

Updated spreadsheet: wathombe's runeword spreadsheet

Updated cow rosters:
West
Zephyrus (*xzephyrusx)
Cheetah (*munster1)
freakinrican (*raskol19 or *raskol21)
dawns_requiem (*pandasrforever)
biglou (*biglou7)
Cadogan Trahem (*outlander102)
wathombe (*wathombe)
Pandorapuss (*pandorapuss_dod)
tlaloc24 (*tlaloc24)
evilspork (*evilspork)
Debikichi (*scrivener)

East
InsaneFarmer (*Tal-Rasha or *cadd)
Corporeal Ghost (*LiquidFury)
Kasira (*kasira)
talas (*talascoma)
Green_Bandit (*satanistical2)
Ikeren (*Ikeren_G)
Jack Shot (*JackShotssolo)
Ax2Grind (*New2TheGame4)
Gwaihir-Valar (*Gwaihir-Valar)
Ghist (*Ghist110 or *rrun1)
gps6304 (*gps6304)
Adrenaline (*adrenalineni or *A7N8X)

Europe
Crusader (*crvsader or *crvsader1)
Daelbeth (*dael)
Fragtil (*fragtil1 and *fragtil2)
Lama REXxx (*ravermeister2)

West (hardcore)
YellowDyeNo5 (*YellowDyeNo5 or *SinsO_TheFlesh)
bipolar (*bp101)

I'll probably be on tonight at least to test with the (few) runes we found last night, but may or may not be able to join runs. Later.
 
General Question

Are we increasing our chances of getting high runes by running cows? I have noticed a drop personally in submission of rune words for claws. I can attribute it to either getting to the point where I am trying to get mid level runes or to my participation in cow/countess/pit runs.

Any thoughts?

:scratch:
 
tlaloc24 said:
Are we increasing our chances of getting high runes by running cows? I have noticed a drop personally in submission of rune words for claws. I can attribute it to either getting to the point where I am trying to get mid level runes or to my participation in cow/countess/pit runs.

Any thoughts?

According to the math, 8-player hell cows will drop the most runes and have the best chance of dropping high runes up to and including Zod (check out Urlik's Guide for an exhaustive and somewhat mind-bending explanation of rune drops).

As for your drop in claw tests, you could probably attribute it to the fact that, although there are more runes dropping, there are also more people picking them up who may or may not be faster than you and who are certainly funneling them to one player or another (usually me or Cheetah) for testing. Next time we run, I would be happy to funnel all the runes to you at the end of the session for dedicatd claw testing if you want.

(Of course, come to think of it, your need for mid-level runes as your testing progresses is probably a large factor, too. I could give you the Rals, Amns, Eths, Iths, and Els sitting in my cube from our session last night if you want, but that range in the grid has been moderately tested already, so it might not be useful. Lemme know.)
 
Failed:

ITH+TAL = falchion
ELD+EL = war club
ELD+TIR = light crossbow
NEF+ELD = tyrant club
ETH+EL = cudgel
ORT+THUL = bill
ELD+ORT = round shield
ETH+THUL = shamshir
ELD+AMN = shamshir
TIR+AMN = falchion
ETH+ELD = truncheon
ETH+EL = truncheon
TIR+ORT = round shield
TAL+ORT = bone shield
 
Testing:
Cap - Eld,Tir = gemmed
Sword - Ith,Tal = gemmed
Bow - Nef,Eth,Tir = gemmed (Net)
WarScythe - Tal,Ort,Ith,Lum = gemmed (Toil)

:rant:
 
is it just me or have the last couple of days been some of the most productive days that weve had in months, i mean the tests seem to be really pouring in, srry wathombe that u ahve to update it all
 
Few quick tests:

EthRalAmn - staff \_ "era" (was going for Time or Infinity)
ElRalAmn - staff /
RalEld - shield
ElIth - axe

All gemmed. :(

Dawns_requiem said:
is it just me or have the last couple of days been some of the most productive days that weve had in months, i mean the tests seem to be really pouring in, srry wathombe that u ahve to update it all

I agree completely (and I don't mind the updating one bit). Let's keep it going!
 
Failed:

EL+ELD = gnarled staff
ELD+ORT = full helm
EL+TIR = hyperion

One more thing. I'm having a pain in the *** with my CD-ROM, where it reads the first large portion upon clicking the shortcut, stops reading briefly, then tries to read again. That second time is REALLY causing problems. Although I know the drive is at fault, it appears the program is trying to read information that's already on the HDD and it's taking forever (sometimes never) to get into the game on Win98.

I'm wondering if there's a way to bypass that last portion and make the game load instantly. I have an original CD and three expansion CDs along with all four keys from them, but I'm unable to even get a single instance of the game running because of a faulty CD-ROM. Amazing that AoE 1/2 and several other games require the disk to be present but either don't read from it or read just a second or so, yet D2 requires megs to be read.
 
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