Countess Run Questions

[doctorgonzo]

Countess Run Questions

Hey all, I have some questions concerning the Hell Countess Runs

The Countess can drop up to what rarity rune? I have found an Ist, but was hoping she went at least to vex...

The Countess doesnt use MF to figure rune drops, so whats the max players I should run to get maximum runes per drop?

What character is best for Countess running?

 

[DX-Crawler]

Play on players1 and you will get the maximum amount of runes.

Well the countess have three runepicks and I think two normal picks.

From the runepicks you can get up to IST rune. But for the other picks she can drop up to LO rune IIRC but the chance of getting anything above IST is so slim so normally you say that she drops up to IST rune.

Check out Urliks runehunting guide where it's explained better

Hope you understand my answer

DX

 

[Reborn2k]

IIRC the countess can drop up to Ist. So you are a lucky guy! I think a sorc would be best/fastest, because of teleport. Afaik the players setting doesn't affect the drops of uniques like the countess or pindle. If it does, then players 3 or 5 should be the best, because of the diminishing returns.

 

[doctorgonzo]

IIRC the countess can drop up to Ist. So you are a lucky guy! I think a sorc would be best/fastest, because of teleport. Afaik the players setting doesn't affect the drops of uniques like the countess or pindle. If it does, then players 3 or 5 should be the best, because of the diminishing returns.

Thanks, I was ecstatic when I saw it, I was being bombarded by tons of monsters at the time, so I had to scramble to grab it and get out of that mess.

 

[Thrugg]

The Countess drops up to 5 general items followed by up to 3 runes, in that order.
However, she is constrained (as are all monsters) by a limit of 6 items dropping at once. Which means that if she drops all 5 general items, she can't drop all 3 runes.

Which gives the unintuitive effect of a lower players setting being better. At p1, she drops less general items, so more room to drop runes. She is more likely to drop zero runes at p1 also, but on average the added chance of her dropping all 3 makes up for it. At p1 you expect around 1.87 runes per run from her (ie about 187 runes per 100 runs), while at p5 you will get only about 101 runes per 100 runs (the extra one comes from the general drop).

Her general drop can drop up to Lo as DX-C says, but her chance of doing so is no better than any other monster has of dropping that high. Her special rune drop, which is only runes and therefore has much better odds, only goes up to Ist.

 

[skunkbelly]

I've done about 120 runs in the past few weeks... nothing higher than Fal, and below that, Ko :rant: But then again, she also dropped me a Wizzy and a Tgod's, so I shouldn't complain too much.

I do the runs with my lightning fury zon. The archer packs are the only lightning immunes, and she just runs past them. A sorc would be quicker, but the zon works fine.

 

[Wolfgang Abenteuer]

For a Sorc, unless you have a lightning kill skill, Hell Countess herself is difficult to kill because she's FI and CI. Not a problem for your merc, though, because you'll be running on players1 (most likely) and with a half-decent weapon she'll be easy fodder for him. But a Sorc is pretty easy to run up to Countess with because, like Reborn said, she has teleport and it's easy to take shortcuts through the first 4 floors unless your map is really screwy. My map wasn't the best and I could do a run -from the Black Marsh waypoint to picking up her runes - in a little under 2 minutes unless I got waylaid by an unavoidable random boss pack along the way.

~Wolfgang

 

[cryist]

Dx and thrug answered the question the best. I have been running the countess for quite some time now. The first time i ran countess i got an IST drop from her sense then i've just gotten a bunch of KO's and LUM's from her, and hoping that she will drop me another IST some time soon.

 

[doctorgonzo]

Dx and thrug answered the question the best. I have been running the countess for quite some time now. The first time i ran countess i got an IST drop from her sense then i've just gotten a bunch of KO's and LUM's from her, and hoping that she will drop me another IST some time soon.

I'm only hoping I start to get Lums and Ko's, after the Ist I've been getting El's and Nef's. I guess the WF is balancing. Good luck on the Ist quest

 

[DX-Crawler]

@Cryist, don't be sorry if the countess drops a bunch of Ko:s and Lum:s. I was happy when those dropped. I have done more than 2000 countess runs and not a single ist dropped for. The best was Mal and three Pul:s I think.

I hunt for runs in act3 instead it's much more rewarding. Sure you don't get the quantity as you does when you kill countess, but the quality is alot better.

DX

 

[bill_n_opus1]

@Cryist, don't be sorry if the countess drops a bunch of Ko:s and Lum:s. I was happy when those dropped. I have done more than 2000 countess runs and not a single ist dropped for. The best was Mal and three Pul:s I think.

I hunt for runs in act3 instead it's much more rewarding. Sure you don't get the quantity as you does when you kill countess, but the quality is alot better.

DX

Interestingly enough, my only Ist was found in Act3 Hell. All those monsters help make up the scarcity a bit.

 

[borgy_t]

on the tower cellar level 4 some monster dropped me a vex rune but countess dropped only 1 El! lol

 

[DX-Crawler]

Interestingly enough, my only Ist was found in Act3 Hell. All those monsters help make up the scarcity a bit.

I got a Mal rune from the sewers L2 today, it's a good place to get runes

DX

 

[Vemp1]

As someone said, she can drop up to LO, but realistically speaking the upper limit is IST (in hell, of course).

Her best rune drop rate is at /players 1. Any fast running char is good, I prefer a sorc to (ab)use her teleporting ability.

If you want, have a look at this thread, where I used to post some Countess runs drops: My Countess Runs