D2
News
August 19, 2005: The seven new runewords released by Blizzard for the 1.11 patch are in; supposedly there are three more, yet to be discovered.
Also slightly changed the way runes are "weighted" to sort by difficulty; the order of the rune (el = 1, zod = 33) is now cubed rather than squared when doing the calculation, because Rain (which uses Mal) should be harder to make than Enlightnment (which uses Pul). Squaring the values made Enlightenment harder, cubing them made Rain harder. Bone is still the hardest of the new runewords, requiring two Ums, but this is weighted heavier than Principle, which uses one Gul. I'm not sure this should be correct; if anybody has better weighting ideas, I'm all ears.
December 16, 2004: The new runewords detail is complete, and some corrections were taken from the Arreat Summit.
December 10, 2004: BREAKING NEWS: Blizzard has just announced the 23 new ladder-only runewords. No detail on their attributes was initially given, but it's starting to come in (lower runewords first, predictably). We will be filling in the detail on them as we learn about them; we will only take data from the Arreat Summit runeword page as a legitimite source.
For now, here are direct links to them in the rune tool. You can see all the new runewords in approximate order of construction difficulty with this link.
| Name | Type | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | 4 Socket Missile Weapons | Jah + Lo + Mal + Gul |
| Death | 5 Socket Swords/Axes | Hel + El + Vex + Ort + Gul |
| Destruction | 5 Socket Polearms/Swords | Vex + Lo + Ber + Jah + Ko |
| Dragon | 3 Socket Body Armor/Shields | Sur + Lo + Sol |
| Dream | 3 Socket Helms/Shields | Io + Jah + Pul |
| Edge | 3 Socket Missile Weapons | Tir + Tal + Amn |
| Faith | 4 Socket Missile Weapons | Ohm + Jah + Lem + Eld |
| Fortitude | 4 Socket Weapons/Body Armor | El + Sol + Dol + Lo |
| Grief | 5 Socket Swords/Axes | Eth + Tir + Lo + Mal + Ral |
| Harmony | 4 Socket Missile Weapons | Tir + Ith + Sol + Ko |
| Ice | 4 Socket Missile Weapons | Amn + Shael + Jah + Lo |
| Infinity | 4 Socket Polearms | Ber + Mal + Ber + Ist |
| Insight | 4 Socket Polearms/Staves | Ral + Tir + Tal + Sol |
| Last Wish | 6 Socket Swords/Hammers/Axes | Jah + Mal + Jah + Sur + Jah + Ber |
| Lawbringer | 3 Socket Swords/Hammers/Scepters | Amn + Lem + Ko |
| Oath | 4 Socket Swords/Axes/Maces | Shael + Pul + Mal + Lum |
| Obedience | 5 Socket Polearms | Hel + Ko + Thul + Eth + Fal |
| Phoenix | 4 Socket Weapons/Shields | Vex + Vex + Lo + Jah |
| Pride | 3 Socket Polearms | Cham + Sur + Io + Lo |
| Rift | 4 Socket Polearms/Scepters | Hel + Ko + Lem + Gul |
| Spirit | 4 Socket Swords/Shields | Tal + Thul + Ort + Amn |
| Voice of Reason | 4 Socket Swords/Maces | Lem + Ko + El + Eld |
| Wrath | 4 Socket Missile Weapons | Pul + Lum + Ber + Mal |
June 12, 2004: Added the four new 1.10 realms-only runewords Duress, Prudence, Splendor and Wind, and fixed a minor bug where the "category" search order wasn't working.
February 10, 2004: I'm done with the D2 Rune Tool. Made some minor text changes, changed the method from "post" to "get" so results could be bookmarked, and wrote some kickass documentation. Why, I don't know. But I'm stopping now.
February 3, 2004: I have GOT to stop this. More tweaks to the D2 Rune Tool. Changes this time:
- The runes themselves were added, with their properties in armor and weapons, as an option to search. If you're looking for something with Prevent Monster Heal, you might want to know that Mal has it all by itself.
- A "Reset form to defaults" button was added for when things get too hairy.
- An results summary showing the search/control parameters was added, so you can remember what you just looked for without having to scroll down to the controls to see. It's smart about what it lists.
- Some of the controls were rearranged a little to be more sensible.
- Some friendlier text and verbiage was added to explain results.
February 2, 2004: Hopefully I'm about done with the D2 Rune Tool. Version 0.5 was nearly a complete rewrite (well, sort of), with the following changes:
- The Horadric Cube upgrade recipes that involve runes were added, completing the rune-oriented data set
- The display code for all three types was merged and made consistent, which really improved crafted items and upgrade recipes
- The status, owned and missing runes, and completion state was added for crafted items and upgrade recipes
- Regular expression / text searching now works across all item types, not just runewords
- Highlighting was added to results when regular expressions are used (put "skills" in the box and do a search for all, you'll get it)
- The sorting orders now affect all three item types, not just runewords
- Item types for crafted items were added as search filters
- In short, if this friggin' thing doesn't do what you want now, you probably need a vacation. And I need to get back to paying work.
Why did I spend so much time on this? Barring cosmetic tweaks, I think the functionality of this is now complete and it can be put to bed, so to speak.
January 30, 2004: Added preliminary (and maybe finished) support for Crafted Item recipes in the D2 Rune Tool.
January 29, 2004: Yet more tweaks to the D2 Rune Tool - added a "clear runes" button and a checkbox to force checking the common runes, to save some braincells and mousie clicks.
January 23, 2004: More tweaks to the D2 Rune Tool. Somebody stop me.
January 22, 2004: Added preliminary regex support to the Rune Tool. This is so useful it makes me wish there were more runewords to search.
