Deep breath,
1.11b P3 LK run #14,343:
Which means I now have enough high runes for a Jah (Lo, Ber, Sur, Lo), and therefore Enigma/my dream Hammerdin! I've been on a recent hot streak after a very long dry spell. My high rune drops came at 1,824 (Lo), 12,164 (Ber), 13,883 (Sur), and tonight's 14,343 (Lo). With tonight's Lo drop I'm pretty much exactly where you could reasonably hope to be when it comes to Pre 1.13 high rune drops. With 65,536 drop patterns and a six super chest LK map you could first see all the drop patterns at run #10,923. With three high rune drop patterns you could then reasonably hope to find a high rune every 3,641 runs. That'd put you at coming across your fourth high rune at run #14,564.
So right on target would be a nice place to stop ... but damn it there's been mission creep. I've been sitting on that first Lo Rune for five weeks now and have gotten kind of used to the idea of creating an ebug Fortitude for my dream Hammerdin's merc. So I guess I'm going to keep going until I get another high rune (any high rune
). I'm on a hot streak and regardless am game for another 3,641 runs. However, the 10,000+ run dry streak is also front and center in my mind ... let's hope I don't regret this decision ...
(This is where you talk me into a cheaper merc armor than Fortitude ... say, Duress. But darn it that Chilling Armor effect is pretty great ... I do really want Fortitude ... don't I?)