I have mixed feelings regarding the runes. On one hand , I love the d2's lack of scarcity because it doesn't bring things falling down from the sky as in D3 which makes things feel tame because it's not a special experience and is earned. There's plenty of truly great content quickly in D3 and you also get a tons of crap. The legendaries and sets of D3 were generally poorly made.
Runewords in D2 are quite egregious in terms of limited supply, but now I am able to appreciate the amount of power that is available from runewords. Some of them are quite crazy like infinity, enigma or even insight. Even something as basic as Stealth Smoke, Stealth, or Spirit are quite powerful. The power level they offer is staggering and should not be easy to obtain.
In single player I've been told that it takes an average of 50 hours or more to locate one ber rune that is running on lk and telespamming on the perfect maps (6 Super chests for you to open). Although I do not want items to become so numerous that it takes away the joy of having them but I also think it's appropriate to treat players like players and not insist to play playing the game as bots in order to have a good chance of getting the best d2r items or runes.
I know someone who had an Zod drop on the other day, in the Llamas discord, pictures and everything. It was insane and fantastic for the guy who that blew his spending his money for 20 more years, haha. I'm not sure I want to own all the gear I need in a day, yet I do not think that seeing certain of these runes shouldn't also be a lengthy journey over a period of months or years to be experienced the most mind-numbing manner possible (lk run as a robot). If the drop rate was modified in a manner which made them easier to find while doing other tasks better instead of running the mind-numbing loop.
I've played this game since I was a as a child and have not come up with anything similar to the enigma or the infinity, or anything that requires the use of a zod or cham.
As I've heard about the issues on trading, I've actually been trading in the past to acquire a few things. However, if you're offline, that's not possible and you'll not see anything for a very long time, perhaps never , because the gods of rng are extremely unstable within Diablo 2.
As someone who was a child of d1/d2, it is possible that something can be addressed about the rareness however it will need take extreme caution. P2pah also offer best d2r ladder items, join now.
