

Insight (Ral Tir Tal Sol, Polearms and Staves, Lvl 27) – This runeword is used by MANY through even Hell mode for endgame rushing/magic find runs/etc.I list the runewords by level requirement below (lowest first to highest), but I want to make some callouts first: This can be done in any high mob density area.

More powerful gear means quicker farming runs, which means more opportunities for runes to drop. In fact, if you purely want to farm runes, it’s better to choose more efficient/powerful gear over gear with Magic Find. Keep in mind that rune drops are not affected at all by Magic Find. You can upgrade your existing runes to better runes using your Horadric Cube.This is all the runes necessary to create the Ancient’s Pledge shield runeword. You can collect your Rescue on Mount Arreat quest reward, which always gives you Ral+Ort+Tal.You can collect your Hellforge quest reward on a current character or an alt character on any difficulty, which guarantees a rune drop.

You can farm other high density spawn areas, like Fallen camps throughout Act I.This area has a high monster density perfect for farming runes. You can farm the Secret Cow level on an alt, or following along in any of the numerous public cow run games online.You can farm the Act I Countess, who will usually drop one or more runes between El and Ral.

You have a couple of options for farming these: The low runes required for anything in this post are easily attainable, but some players might have trouble getting things like Sol, which is needed for several of these runewords.
