

The most likely is The Countess, found on level five of the Forgotten Tower in the Black Marsh level of Act One.

The good news is that there are some monsters that have higher chances of dropping runes. Below we describe each of them in more detail. There are also other ways to obtain runes in Diablo 2 in addition to killing monsters like completing quests and farming chests. Or you can invite other players, but you will have shared loot though. That will work if you play in Single-player. If you want to set it to the maximum the command will look like this: /players 8. You can increase it manually with a command /players X, where X is for the number of players from 1 to 8 in the game. The game is designed the way that the number of monsters is influenced by the number of active players.

So the only effective way to farm higher level runes is to kill more powerful monsters. Magic Find doesn’t affect rune drop neither equipment nor quantity. To get better runes you’ll need to farm more high-level monsters. The Viper Amulet is found in the Valley of Snakes area, on a chest in the second level of a dungeon called the Claw Viper Temple.Low-level runes are not hard to find and you can use them for Starter Runewords, but they get better as you proceed through the game.The Staff of Kings is found in the Far Oasis area, on a chest in the last level of a dungeon called the Maggot Lair.The Cube is found in the Dry Hills area, on the last level of a dungeon called the Halls of the Dead.These items are inside the following locations: You must find a Horadric Cube, the Staff of Kings, and the Amulet of the Viper, and then put the Staff and Amulet inside the Cube, so you can transmute them into the Horadric Staff. Unlocked By: Obtaining the Horadric Scroll in Sewers Level 3, quest given by Deckard Cain.ĭeckard Cain will ask you to collect various artifacts. Maggot Lair: 13 (Normal), 43 (Nightmare), 74 (Hell)Ĭlaw Viper Temple: 13 (Normal), 44 (Nightmare), 75 (Hell) Diablo 2 Resurrected, Act II: The Horadric Staff
