I just noticed that there is max 1 rune drop from countess on normal / nightmare (I’m level 53 rn). Maybe it is level related? Before it was 2-4 runs every single run
no level related, they tune drop rates down in patch 2.3 or somehow crashed the loot table.
It is true that since the patch every unique that has dropped for me - and I’d say this was about a dozen items - were for levels under 20. I didn’t even keep a single one. This was me playing a mix of chars in both Nightmare and Hell. Whether this an RNG bug or not I have no idea, and I do not even know what “crash the loot table” means, but it is incredibly unusual. That is a fact.
So many people experience extremely unusual things does make me wonder.
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Omg…it starts again…
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yes, with patch 2.3 is even worse. They crashed the loot table completely.
Sure they do, they wanna mess up YOUR loottable, so you’re motivated to spam the forums again 
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yes, probably this is the only end-game available in D2R, forum battles
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So many people
You and Danutz. What’s funnier, it is always you and Danutz. 
Simply reporting what I see. I am making no claim that loot is bugged.
I did notice something odd since the patch day. I play a LOT - like 4-6 hours a day easily. More on weekends. Before the patch, i dropped 2 surs, ber, jah, ohm, several guls and vexes, and more puls and ums than i can count.
After the patch, I got nada - four days of hard farming, and the highest rune I dropped was Lum. If I drop a rune, its Tir, Amn, thul or Ral. Occasionally other runes below Sol drop, and got 2 or 3 hels. When the OP mentioned Thul and Amn - I was like this is exactly what is happening to me.
Last night and today combined, I farmed cows for 8 hours, one Hel, and 20 amns or thuls. I have java, farming on p3-8, depending on what game I can join. On the other hand, a butt loads of charms, gems and jewels are dropping, more than before. I found 7-8 skillers since the patch day. Uniques drop rate seems largely unaffected for me, but there is definitely something wrong with runes.
Just to add, my cousin dropped two Ums yesterday, so I think this may only affect some unfortunate accounts. That being said, the rune drop rate for me is worse than in pre 1.13 patch
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After posting that, I decided to check up on Countess. Took my sorc to do 50 runs, to see if she is affected by that “curse of Thul”. TLDR - she isnt. 1st run, Pul, then (listing only hel and above) got 3 Io, 2 Ko, 1hel, 1 lum and 1 fal. And on the run #38 I got my first, and only, key of Terror.
A mate of mine was running travincal yesterday for several hours, and got a sweet nothing as well. I asked him, but he cannot remember if there were more thuls/amns than usual, all he remmeber is he got nothing worth of mentioning - which for him is Ko or above.
Tomorrow I plan to do 50 full sanctuary runs, along with the river of flame. That place dropped me a lot of nice runs before. But I predict a lot of thuls 
Hope I am wrong
for me was “curse of Ort” - I had 2 weeks were 99% of the rune drops were Ort…
I have made more runs on countless and she dropped more than 2 runes. Sometimes even 3 of them. So probably I was not lucky enough those early runs
And that’s exactly how this game works. Have fun 
I also noticed that the drop of unique items and runes has decreased.
Every day I do 50-100 races on cows and all the bosses. Before the patch, good things were falling steadily, even a couple of times Ber fell, and now nothing at all except ORT, THUL, TAL falls.
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So yesterday I did 50 Diablo runs on P1, killing every single monster in chaos and river of flame. The best rune I dropped was io, on my 2nd run. Got couple of shaels, and everything else was below. If anyone is interested, I have a full list of what dropped on what run, but to sum it up, I dropped 24 runes in 50 runs. So thats now 5 long days of farming without a single rune above Lum. At this point it starts to become just pointless to play the game 
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Yesterday I dropped in the span of less than an hour: Arach 93 from Diablo on a +5 player game, a Ohm from Meph chest on +7players and a Shako 135 from Diablo again in +7 player game. All of these in less than 15runs. I was just lucky…all about the luck.
Ps: I am using a fully geared blizz sorc(full talls with chances and wartravs, 10%fcr rare rings with resistances and MF, torch, anni, full inv of+1 cold charms and MF small charms, 105%fcr, 92%FHR,around 8.7k damage on blizz and 5.8k on iceblast, full reses, 310% MF-will get to around 400 after ists in weapon helm and chest) with a act 2 merc with Eth reaper, Andy and treachery. So no Infinity yet. Able to clear Chaos in 7+ players game not as fast as a Hammerdin, but under 4min on average, using seal popping.
Probably that doesnt register with you, but would you consider 40+ hours of farming time in last 5 days and dropping a highest rune Lum unlucky? I consider it down right impossible. Its like winning the lottery, twice in a row, except the opposite.
As I wrote before, it doesnt affect all accounts. My cousin dropped two um runes few days ago, and he plays much less than me.
Lets for a moment consider Ko and above high runes. In that case, 20 days of farming before the patch I dropped some 400 HR. 5 days farming after the patch, zero HR. For all those who says that is how RNG works, you are wrong. While it is possible in 100 coin tosses to roll 100 heads, it is so extremally unlikey it never happens in real life. And so is this. Something is bugged for certain accounts.
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Have in mind, that you need to take in account the clear speed also. If you are farming to slow…you basically decrease the chances to have a good roll. Are you farming level 85+ areas to maximize the chance of high rune drops? Does it take you less than 5min to solo clear a cow level? Are you joining +7 player servers and do fast runs there(chaos, trav, meph, ancient tunnels, arcane sanct, pits, mausoleum etc?)
To make things clear, describe in what areas did you spent farming those 40+ hours? What char and gear you use, tell us about clear times and speed.
Let me get this straight…you dropped an average of 20 runes above Ohm each day for 20 days straight? 
God allmighty, did you even read the whole thing? I clearly said “lets for a moment consider Ko and above high runes.” Please read the whole post, and try to understand it, before replying.
Also, I am not new to the game, despite low post count. I used to play a LOT of original d2. I know how to farm. I was farming cows on p3-p7 first two days after the patch with my java, which has really fast clear speeds, and dropped Hel as the highest rune. This is how this whole thing started.
When I said I did 50 full chaos sanctuary clears and dropped Io as highest rune, does it matter if it took me 2 hours or 5 ? All it matters that I cleared every monster in all 50 runs, and got bugger all as far as runes are concerned.
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