Hell Countess Rune Drop Frequency? (2024)

Hell Countess Rune Drop Frequency?

I usually do Nihlathak runs to get DKeys to build wealth, but have started running the Countess with my Tal's Meteorb to see how it compares. It takes a little longer to run the Countess, and the keys are worth less than Nihl's DKeys, but the rune drops might make it more than worth it.

Today, doing about 25 or so runs, Countess dropped Mal, Pul, Lum and a bunch of lower runes. I'm thinking this is a rather lucky set of runs for me. What is everyone's experience with Countess and rune drops? I'm interested in seeing how frequently people have seen the Countess drop Lem-Vex runes.

SocraticB

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70% of the time: El,Eld,Eth,Ith
30% of the time: Sol,Hel,Ort,Amn

Best rune ever from countess in over 300 runs = Ko rune
Did anyone have a table with her drop percentages?

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I got a Lum yesterday, that's about the best I ever get from her.

I'm running her on my druid atm, and before that I used a sorc and a barb, so in allthat time I've probably done upwars of 100 runs, don't ever remember finding a HR, or even a diescent mid-rune.

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best rune i ever got from countess was lem

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I've gotten Ist several times from countess.

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Mal rune Ist and a vex a few night ago

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SocraticB said:

I usually do Nihlathak runs to get DKeys to build wealth, but have started running the Countess with my Tal's Meteorb to see how it compares. It takes a little longer to run the Countess, and the keys are worth less than Nihl's DKeys, but the rune drops might make it more than worth it.

Today, doing about 25 or so runs, Countess dropped Mal, Pul, Lum and a bunch of lower runes. I'm thinking this is a rather lucky set of runs for me. What is everyone's experience with Countess and rune drops? I'm interested in seeing how frequently people have seen the Countess drop Lem-Vex runes.

SocraticB

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I will have to get back to you later for some exact information. I am at work and have limited access to the sites I would like to see for this.

But I am fairly certain that her drop rate for runes is the same as they are normally. If that makes sense. Let me look and see if I can find it real quick without any blocked sites.

Its blocked but here is a linky it might be what you are looking for.

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This tells you all you want to know about rune hunting: (including drop tables)
http://www.flightsofsplendor.com/diabloII/Urlik's_RFG_v2.pdf

The best I have got is pul and a um

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I've gotten a mal and lem from the countess

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lem is the best that I've ever gotten from her..
tho she dropped many ko's for me...and lots and lots of el's....

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Just dropped a mal for me earlier today =)

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As I'm running her, I'm getting some OK non-rune drops; rare rings, a +1 Martial Arts GC and a couple set items. For whatever reason, Nihlathak has pretty much dropped junk for me over the past few months (besides keys). I'm beginning to believe that Hell Countess is MUCH more profitable than Nihlathak. Even though the Countess is a little longer per run, I think the run times even out - I have really no risk of death in a Countess run, while I do have a small risk in a Nihlathak run. I HATE losing XP, so I always gotta go get that body back . . .

SocraticB

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Found a Pul rune yesterday, so i take back whatever offensive i have said about her :tongue:

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Pul is her best drop in my runs,she alway drop eld,el.....

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I've gotten a Mal twice. Yesterday, I got a Lem, a Fal, a Sol and two terror keys within seven runs.

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well up to ist countess has the highest drop rate but its still like 1:1000

you got fairly lucky getting mal pul and lum in 35 runs but she is pretty good...why not run all 3 keys and sll them as sets(worth more that way)

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best for me is pul lem in prolly about 40-50 runs

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Found um and ist from countress, 2 shako, 1 soj in the last weeks
Ist

And when we talk about runes, here is my first hr on this ladder
Vex

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My best was Amn, or probably Sol. But at least she was also the one who dropped my new character

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i dont think its worth it runnning keys. I have played for 4 weeks on the new ladder and got around 4-5 hrs in value. And no keyrunning. wast of time imo(key value is dropping to)