Is Cow Level ACTUALLY Good For Finding High Runes - Diablo 2 Resurrected

People have been running in the secret cow levels for literally decades now. But have we been lied to, deceived? Is it really as good of a place to try to find high runes as we have been led to Believe?

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[SweetPhil]

Do you ever find high runes when your out there slaying cows???

[generaladvance]

I love cows for the mob density. I'm doing a no sorc ladder season so been using a trapsin instead. Tearing through cows with lightning & corpse explosions racks up kills & runes quickly. Best I've found there this season so far was a sur & cham.

[spraycan]

I must say I've really taken to farming Trav for high runes.

Quick and efficient, down side to it is that you won't get any rw bases from them but it's very beneficial in long run.

[bobnewkirk]

I did the same math with Ber runes, and came up with a 1-3-6-9 ratio for Council - Ghosts - Cows - Regular mobs, and after that it just comes down to kill speed. After averaging out how long each run takes, how many kills you can get in different areas you will probably end up with different ideal areas for each class.
Just like with TC87 MF Horking (Trav council) is the top spot because you have lots of chances for high odds in a small area with a 75% chance to double your finds.
After that running Lightning Fury, CE, or Nova while just pushing areas with really high density can be just as productive. Personally I like anywhere with the Fetish type mobs because they have the standard drop rate but have low HP and spawn in really dense packs. Edit: the sleeper spot is the Tals tombs because they can spawn with ghosts and a boatload of skellies, but its a bit random because the Gorebelly and Beetle tombs tend to have really low density.
Lastly running Chaos is always a good option because you can either full clear or skip most of the actual killing and still get loot by manipulating how long mobs stay active offscreen on a seal-pop.
I don't enjoy Horking so most of my runes have been from Chaos, but I also played Bliz sorc for the first 2 months of ladder and didn't have good density clear.

[petkostoyanov]

This ladder season in D2R I found 0 high runes in cows and 0 mid runes in cows...However, during one of the all day cow terror zone events, I found a perfect superior etherial great hauberk with 4 os, which I sold for 6 high runes. Is the secret cow level the best place for high rune drops? Deffinetly NOT. Is it worth doing it? Deffinetly YES.

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[SmoothJK]

The great thing about cows is that it fulfills multiple things at once. Provides some runes, runeword bases, the occasional unique/set, and lots of flawless gems.

[MetalCheva]

Another con is that d2r doesn't have an ítem filter.. So runes might be hidden

[amfitness]

I can only speak for myself…I’ve never found anything higher than a Gul on cows. Years of playing…I find most of my runes in CS, WSK, Arcane Sanc and so on. I personally only run cows for gems, charms and bases.

[mdnfsfm]

Cow runs are my personal favourite place to farm. I have come across Gul, Lo, Sur, Ber, Jah and Cham runes there. I didn't manage to grab all of them as I usually play online with other players and sometimes they get there first but I have obtained 4 out of those 6 mentioned.

[Saren-ycrk]

One of the fairly fine source of runes that I've noticed is:
1) Running Countess. Not for the Countess herself, but for trash on the way to her that can drop up to Ber, but unlike cows, all that trash falls really easy. I'm usually running frozen orb sorceress, and one orb is what it takes to kill most of the crowds.
2) Flayer jungle. Again, high density, easy to clear, can drop Ber.

[Abber]

I have found a ton of high runes, but none in the cow level. I believe the highest rune that I ever found in the cow level is a PUL, and I do not consider that a high rune, hi-mid maybe. Maybe I just have bad luck in the cow level, but for me, cows give very little experience as compared to areas in Act 4 & 5 which counts for a lot when playing ladders as you want to farm in areas with hi experience. I do cow runs now for bases ONLY, not for anything else, and certainly not for runes. To get high runes, you are better off doing Baal runs and Chaos runs, finding great gear which is easy, and trading that for high runes. I am now rich with high runes, but most I traded for gear which I have found farming.

[dmtr]

Very interesting video. Thank you sir!
I've found a lot Hrs in cows, cuz i played game a lot, but to be fair cows never been a good thing for ladder start. It so much easier to find gear and trade it for Hrs than to farm some location for Hrs.
The only one exception is probably travi runs with barbarian. But no one really start ladder for effecienty as a barbarian, for fun maybe, but after 2.5 probably the only and and right choice for ladder start is blizzard sorc. So as for me the best way to start ladder - to do Mef/Andy runs and after that HCs.
Yeah for sure you can run cow but main target for that should be charms and runes can be only a nice additional to that.

[anderswallermo]

I've been wondering about stats on opening the chests/containers there. I usually open all of them even on P1. There's no super chests like on many other farming spots so I'd have to take that into consideration as well. Nice vid :)

[Crtical]

Did a test a few years back where I was running multiple bots for hours on end. Different builds, speed and set player difficulties. They run more efficient than a player can ever do but it was obvious that cows are by far the best spot to farm HR's if you're efficient at it. Followed by Lower Kurast, Shenk, Travincal, Mephisto. The later few can vary a bit based on the build. With a Horker everything is close so it's best to run to easiest spot.

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[twistedninjafishz]

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[topejames]

Does crushing blow works in a javazon?😊

[Holyhairyareola]

Its either cows, chest behind mehpisto, or shenk for me. Only places where ive found runes above ist. I tried kurast and travincal but best thing I ever found was unique items that arent worth a pul even.

[ethanwong]

I’m a fan of most your vids, but not the clickbaity ones.

A pic of a diadem and a title like ‘you’ll never believe what I found!” Then showing a griffons drop is a cool vid. A vid about “we’re we lied to about cows being good for runes?” Then stating no, we weren’t lied to, it’s good for runes, oh unless you can’t kill the cows… Phil musta been having a rough day