Yeah, I would drop infinity and put grief in its place. Infinity is great and all but its cost kinda justifies how powerful it is. Grief is significantly cheaper and just transforms any melee character...
@@chrisnoble7765 Most my magic users don't use infinity. All my melee characters use grief, because there's no realistic alternative. Just putting Grief on a physical clawsin improves her damage output, despite all the bonuses to claws, and it's kind of sad and wild.
I play non-ladder but have never traded for any item. I got a Jah drop about a month, a month and a half after D2R was released. I got a Ber rune finally 2 weeks ago. There is such a clear before and after the Enigma being rolled. Almost game-breakingly good. As far as budget runewords go, Spirit has to be up there.
Tbh Grief is just gg, way better than everything else. Grief or enigma should be #1 and #2. Probably enigma first but grief just everything else looks bad, so op that I hate to use it, and only for a Lo, at least enigma is way more expensive
I guess it depends on what you define as OP id argue insight and spirit are 1 and 2 in terms of ease of access to them now if you are just talking about how powerful a rune is grief and enigma are better for sure.
@@ta-zm7tg Grief is OP because it doesnt work like all the other weapon mechanics. Ill give you and easy example of why Grief is broken. Lets compare the "best" weapons, Grief and BOTD. Both in Berseker Axes. Aplying Fortitude armor to see total damage. BOTD: Base damage 36-106. Perfect ROLL: 180-530 damage. You add extra 300% damage from fort to the base damage. So will be a 700%ed Zerk (400+300) Total: 288-848 GRIEF: Base damage: 24-71. +400 damage from runeword. New base damage 424-471. Now lets multiply by fort ED. SO 300%ed extra to the already gg base damage of 424-471: 1696-1884 So 288-848 vs 1696-1884. How fair does it sound? I might have done some calculation wrong but overall grief works like that. Not to even mention Grief adds the flat damage to Smite (it doesnt show) So your base smite damage get a nice bonus of +340-400. While smite doesnt even work like a frenzy hit or something like that. I think I already wrote too much. I would Say Grief is #1 by a huge ammount, but not every char uses it, while Enigma just makes all the characters more viable, so I dont mind considering enigma as the Best runeword in the game.
I think the reason why he rates this rws better than grief is because with this rws you get more bang for your buck in the longer term, almost any class can use them. They are even staples on mf builds. While grief isnt that "universal" lets say. Im not saying grief is bad. But if you craft a grief for a pitzerker and then you decide that you dont like the build, you cant just say "oh whatever, ill put this grief on my sorc and ill mf with her"
I finally got my endgame spirit made in a 45 all res sacred rondache pally shield base and it's just nuts for my hdin. 45 fire res and 80 to all others, and I landed that 35 fcr roll to boot. Still no cta, and 1 rune away from enigma, but using an insight as well. Definitely agree with your list, good work!
Its very niche but I don't think any of the lower level rune words have the same impact Leaf does. As a fire sorc, putting it on a base will th +fireball will quadruple your damage and double your mana regen. You go from meh to broken instantly.
Thank you I am an old school vet played back on PC and never understood the rune word just got back in to playing when they released d2r and now I see how the rune words help... keep up the video and keep slaying!!
I actually use enigma on a sorceress. Yes you don't need it to teleport but pretty much all the other stats are very useful. It also has +life after kill which is great since the sorceress can't leech. And if you want you can save one or two points (telekinesis and teleport) which is not bad.
Grief is a bit over rated imo.. sure its stupidly good, but its cost is so high and most builds cant use it. not saying its bad but i dont think its better than hoto or CTA especially engima..
I think a cool vid that would be super helpful that I haven’t seen anyone else do. Is best bases for certain rune words. Like enigmas, merc forts, insights, infinity, etc. I know that’s something newer players probably struggle with.
Insight. I have 3-4 of them that I swap around to whatever character I’m playing. Love the prayer A2 merc vs the cold. Life and mana pots mostly go to keep the merc alive. With a lvl 20 Valkyrie he’s even better
The problem with doing a overpowered runeword list is that "top 5" is too small. Top 10 and you can get all them in there. Not seeing HOTO, fort, grief, stealth and a few others just feels wrong ya know?
This is why i keep asking changes, Jah is currency many years now cause of enigma. Cham is a useless rune cause it doesnt fit to any strong runewords. Zod is very rare and yet is trades for 1 Lo rune cause like cham, it doesnt fit to anything than BOTD. We need more runewords for rune like Cham and Zod, we need changes to Enigma or more runewords with Teleport without Jah inside. But in general you are right, i think Spirit should be 1 cause it costs nothing and it carries charas to Hell so ez
It only works if multiple sources of an aura are on the same character. Your mercs skills are completely separate from yours, and enemies can only be effected by one instance of an aura at a time.
Just got to hell online and still found only one Sol. 3 4 soc weapons. Had to do 3 amh to get it too. Have an entire page full from Countess farming :)
I think personally I'd put HoZ up there with Spirit in terms of power from an off handed item. Yes that's Paladin specific and otherwise I would agree with you, but it still deserves at least a mention.
@@symijohn Yet Phil mentions and compares Lidless briefly as on off hand item. That's why I brought up HoZ. Had he not said an item that wasn't a Rune Word, I wouldn't have mentioned HoZ.
@@SmaugUKA yea and homunculus is also pretty damn good as well. I'd say that spirit is the best easily obtainable offhand item for a caster, aside from actually getting a monarch
I make the CtA in a double axe. Flail uses HoTo and Crystal Sword uses Spirit. That way I never mix any of them up. If only Grief wasn’t so good with a Phase Blade, it would be idiot-proof! (aka me-proof)
@@SweetPhil what if i do a lightning energy shield sorc? I was thinking of insight for my merc so i’d be immortal with the mana regen. Or is it better to just use pots of flat damage reductions?
@@Magus86 ive done this build before on botnet using infinity made in a scythe on my Nova sorc but you need all the maximum mana possible so 2 sojs silkweave, arach, 2 skills fcr ammy with mana, griffon, and bunch of mana scs with the light skillers of course add torch and anni so its end up behind a very expensive build!! Super fun though!!
Najs puzzler is decent for teleworking but i ttakes up my back bar and I just made a cta I would rather use there but I'm necro and need Tele port for clear speed
Forts ok but I was expecting grief on here fore sure. He swapped it for CTA from the list in my head before starting, but I think he's right since cta is used on literally every character. Even barbarians benefit from dual cta, they only get 3 BO max on themselves but the additional 1 to all skills brings that to 4.
Agree with everything until you said even sorc’s want enigma as an mf build. 3 piece tals armor belt and ammy will always trump enigma. When I started my sorc I told myself I wanted 400 mf. Surprisingly I was able to obtain 520+ actually pretty easily and still hit very hard with Fire wall/frozen orb combo. Also I know it’s hard to narrow it down to 5, but Grief makes that cut in my opinion.
Depends what you are looking for at that moment, some people value that +2 skills more for faster clears and only want 280%MF before they hit major DR. I still use 3 pc tals though
after the server crush on me wen i did ubber and i was not available to return just feel like crap to lose all the portals! i workd hard for this i want to quit this game!
No HOTO? No Grief? I know it’s your opinion but damn thought for sure they would be in. Grief is by far most op runeword. Don’t get tp but get almost everything else 😂
It's already boring with them. Blizzard needs to add content. Id rather play the mods that are out that actually add end game content and new runeworda and uniques than a game that has so many bugs and is stale
Finally, someone else who says nigma is op.. Imho its so op that its game breaking and should be nerfed big time or be completly removed from the game.
Its a nice item to chase. Sure its op, but balance is severely overvalued in pvm games today. I still love 45 ias and fade from treachery (especially in D2R), 300 EDmg from fortitude, big res and skills on CoH. Theyre all great. You can replace enigma with a naj staff on your offhand too.
Overpowered? Seriously, unless monsters simply die the second they see you, nothing is OP in a hack and slay game, where monsters swarm you! ps: Try playing sorc without Insight...hell, she still burn mana like nobody's business with it!
Don't make your Insight out of a Colossus Voulge like he is showing (I know, he's just showing an example). Your merc won't be able to equip it until he's in his high 80's A Bill or a Battle Scythe are better options until your merc has enough strength.
True for the playthrough, not true for endgame. Yes, there are better elite polearms to make Insight in but they are harder to find due to them not being capped at 4 sockets. Trading for them would be expensive too as they also happen to be the best Infinity bases. As for the strength requirement, players usually solve the issue with Andariel's Visage.
No offense but this is BS. Just to get the weapons you can use to be socketed takes more time than anybody is going to waste on this game sorry. I play Solo and have been playing for over 120 hours with not one 4 socketed anything in Nightmare mode. Waste of time.
I don't think so. All the ones here deserve the spot more, and if we were to add a sixth, that spot would surely go to Grief. In a top 7 though, I can definitely see a spot for Fort. But then again it would have to compete with HotO, Treachery, Faith etc.
YESSSSSSSS. Casters are just OP. Melee is too gear dependent. "SPIRIT" is WAY too cheap. Insight is WAY too cheap. These should require mid runes (Pul- Ist). Class abilities should NOT be found on runewords (teleport, shouts) or on any item for others to use. Infinity is OP, because the game is broken with its BS immunities (even so, it would still greatly increase damage of casters).
And here I am, crying in "Grief"
Yeah, I would drop infinity and put grief in its place. Infinity is great and all but its cost kinda justifies how powerful it is. Grief is significantly cheaper and just transforms any melee character...
@@chrisnoble7765 Most my magic users don't use infinity.
All my melee characters use grief, because there's no realistic alternative.
Just putting Grief on a physical clawsin improves her damage output, despite all the bonuses to claws, and it's kind of sad and wild.
1. Enigma
2. Infinity
3. Spirit
4.CTA
5. Grief/phoenix
Great list man!
Shout out to Spirit for single-handedly making Fire Res wayyyy more valuable on charms than all the other elements
I play non-ladder but have never traded for any item. I got a Jah drop about a month, a month and a half after D2R was released. I got a Ber rune finally 2 weeks ago. There is such a clear before and after the Enigma being rolled. Almost game-breakingly good. As far as budget runewords go, Spirit has to be up there.
Tbh Grief is just gg, way better than everything else. Grief or enigma should be #1 and #2. Probably enigma first but grief just everything else looks bad, so op that I hate to use it, and only for a Lo, at least enigma is way more expensive
I guess it depends on what you define as OP id argue insight and spirit are 1 and 2 in terms of ease of access to them now if you are just talking about how powerful a rune is grief and enigma are better for sure.
Yeah grief not being on this list is just plain wrong. Grief enigma and infinity should be 1-2-3 then id put dream and spirit
In regards to being best in slot as well as enabling certain builds to go above and beyond, totally.
@@ta-zm7tg Grief is OP because it doesnt work like all the other weapon mechanics. Ill give you and easy example of why Grief is broken.
Lets compare the "best" weapons, Grief and BOTD. Both in Berseker Axes. Aplying Fortitude armor to see total damage.
BOTD: Base damage 36-106. Perfect ROLL: 180-530 damage. You add extra 300% damage from fort to the base damage. So will be a 700%ed Zerk (400+300) Total: 288-848
GRIEF: Base damage: 24-71. +400 damage from runeword. New base damage 424-471. Now lets multiply by fort ED. SO 300%ed extra to the already gg base damage of 424-471: 1696-1884
So 288-848 vs 1696-1884. How fair does it sound? I might have done some calculation wrong but overall grief works like that.
Not to even mention Grief adds the flat damage to Smite (it doesnt show) So your base smite damage get a nice bonus of +340-400. While smite doesnt even work like a frenzy hit or something like that.
I think I already wrote too much. I would Say Grief is #1 by a huge ammount, but not every char uses it, while Enigma just makes all the characters more viable, so I dont mind considering enigma as the Best runeword in the game.
I think the reason why he rates this rws better than grief is because with this rws you get more bang for your buck in the longer term, almost any class can use them. They are even staples on mf builds. While grief isnt that "universal" lets say.
Im not saying grief is bad. But if you craft a grief for a pitzerker and then you decide that you dont like the build, you cant just say "oh whatever, ill put this grief on my sorc and ill mf with her"
I finally got my endgame spirit made in a 45 all res sacred rondache pally shield base and it's just nuts for my hdin. 45 fire res and 80 to all others, and I landed that 35 fcr roll to boot. Still no cta, and 1 rune away from enigma, but using an insight as well. Definitely agree with your list, good work!
Nice. I went with a hoz, going to cham it.
So good, I also got 35 fcr on my first roll... Not so lucky on my monarch for my sorc, lol *cries in 15 rerolls*
Hell yeah! And I feel the pain 🤣
Its very niche but I don't think any of the lower level rune words have the same impact Leaf does. As a fire sorc, putting it on a base will th +fireball will quadruple your damage and double your mana regen. You go from meh to broken instantly.
Thank you I am an old school vet played back on PC and never understood the rune word just got back in to playing when they released d2r and now I see how the rune words help... keep up the video and keep slaying!!
I actually use enigma on a sorceress. Yes you don't need it to teleport but pretty much all the other stats are very useful. It also has +life after kill which is great since the sorceress can't leech. And if you want you can save one or two points (telekinesis and teleport) which is not bad.
Best Value Runewords:
Stealth
Spirit
Insight
Treachery
Smoke
Best Overall:
Grief
Enigma
Infinity
HOTO
CTA
i think u can squeeze obedience there too (value)..alot of people dont use it but man, if u try it out on your merc...he is smashing
i rock lore until I get shako. every. time. ol reliable
Grief is a bit over rated imo.. sure its stupidly good, but its cost is so high and most builds cant use it. not saying its bad but i dont think its better than hoto or CTA especially engima..
Tal Thul Ort Almond is my favorite runeword.
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Man, I'm glad I ran across your channel. You are great 👍. Rock on :D
Hope the family is good. How do you like your new job.....mad props to you Phil
So far so good. Im just hoping I can keep the viewership high enough to be able to continue.
I think a cool vid that would be super helpful that I haven’t seen anyone else do. Is best bases for certain rune words. Like enigmas, merc forts, insights, infinity, etc. I know that’s something newer players probably struggle with.
I think the most Overpowered is Harmony. It's cheap, and it's give all Char the ability to solo kill Uber.
Grief is pretty OP for whirlwind barbs, dual grief.
Insight. I have 3-4 of them that I swap around to whatever character I’m playing. Love the prayer A2 merc vs the cold. Life and mana pots mostly go to keep the merc alive. With a lvl 20 Valkyrie he’s even better
The problem with doing a overpowered runeword list is that "top 5" is too small. Top 10 and you can get all them in there. Not seeing HOTO, fort, grief, stealth and a few others just feels wrong ya know?
HOTO ain’t over powered
@@philmarshall6231 Krrrrrrrappa
The list should be named effective runewords. These aren't op in fact we need more like them
Only problem is that monarch shield needs a bit much strength... but then again, after you get enigma that helps a lot.
Love your videos Phil! All the best!
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Good video. I didn't know you get +1 to a skill even if that character doesn't inatley have it, and still be able to use it
1. Enigma
2. Infinity
3. Grief
4. Fortitude
5. Faith
Do spirit weapon and shield stack if you have both
Ya
Any tip on how to get the socketable items? Looking in shops seems very.. inefficient.
This is why i keep asking changes, Jah is currency many years now cause of enigma. Cham is a useless rune cause it doesnt fit to any strong runewords. Zod is very rare and yet is trades for 1 Lo rune cause like cham, it doesnt fit to anything than BOTD.
We need more runewords for rune like Cham and Zod, we need changes to Enigma or more runewords with Teleport without Jah inside.
But in general you are right, i think Spirit should be 1 cause it costs nothing and it carries charas to Hell so ez
Play pd2 . They just added like 4 new runewords for the new upcoming season 4 that make the use of Cham and zod more
Does an infinity on your self, and on your mercenary brings you double conviction aura?? Like double Dream runeword in helm and shield??
😊👍🏻
No, it does not.
It only works if multiple sources of an aura are on the same character. Your mercs skills are completely separate from yours, and enemies can only be effected by one instance of an aura at a time.
Phil, ur too sweet!
I do agree with your choices, but grief definitly is missin, bud ☝😉
A top 5 is tough to do for this one. Hoto, Last Wish, Grief, Fortitude, Chains of Honor... Should have been a top 10. Lol.
Just got to hell online and still found only one Sol. 3 4 soc weapons. Had to do 3 amh to get it too. Have an entire page full from Countess farming :)
nice items. i would have went for most op cheap melee item for #1 spot like grief that all it needs is a LO. but your choices are good too.
Enigma is my favorite.
Tier list are all subjective. But phil must like casters.
Would ve swapped 1 and 2 due to the cost good video sir ;)
My top 5:
5. Spirit
4. Infinity
3. Grief
2. Cta
1. Enigma
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Does spirit work in a paladin shield?
Yup.
Insight the best ever.
Cool man I disagree on number one spot hands down Phil Stealth is the best. 😆
I think personally I'd put HoZ up there with Spirit in terms of power from an off handed item. Yes that's Paladin specific and otherwise I would agree with you, but it still deserves at least a mention.
Hoz isnt a runeword.
@@symijohn Yet Phil mentions and compares Lidless briefly as on off hand item. That's why I brought up HoZ.
Had he not said an item that wasn't a Rune Word, I wouldn't have mentioned HoZ.
@@SmaugUKA yea and homunculus is also pretty damn good as well. I'd say that spirit is the best easily obtainable offhand item for a caster, aside from actually getting a monarch
I would add Heart of the Oak and Chains of Honor.
I make the CtA in a double axe. Flail uses HoTo and Crystal Sword uses Spirit. That way I never mix any of them up. If only Grief wasn’t so good with a Phase Blade, it would be idiot-proof! (aka me-proof)
with patch 2.4, I think this video could use an update.
If it was top 6 overpowered rune words Grief would've been in there. Nice video 👍
Meanwhile BOTD and Last Wish are appropriately OP considering the cost
I would put infinity on my sorc to get that -55 lite dmg and insight on my mercenary
grief, nigma, infin, exile, .... faith or fort?
Is it advisable to equip my sorceress with infinity so i can benefit from the -lightning res or is there something better?
For a lightning sorc having infinity on your merc is amazing.
@@SweetPhil what if i do a lightning energy shield sorc? I was thinking of insight for my merc so i’d be immortal with the mana regen. Or is it better to just use pots of flat damage reductions?
I never use energy shield really. Very very very rarely for any builds.
@@SweetPhil ooooooh thanks for your perspective 😁
@@Magus86 ive done this build before on botnet using infinity made in a scythe on my Nova sorc but you need all the maximum mana possible so 2 sojs silkweave, arach, 2 skills fcr ammy with mana, griffon, and bunch of mana scs with the light skillers of course add torch and anni so its end up behind a very expensive build!! Super fun though!!
Gee, I wonder what will be the number 1 spot.
What a mystery. Or should I say, what an enig... Oh, wait.
Enigma would be a candidate for #1 of this list without Teleport.
And if it had only teleport and nothing else, it might sneak in a #5 spot.
Najs puzzler is decent for teleworking but i ttakes up my back bar and I just made a cta I would rather use there but I'm necro and need Tele port for clear speed
I would personnaly place Grief as one of the top5 instead of insight.
Everything else i agree
i would have put stealth honeslty. even though its low level its got insane stats for such an insanely cheap runeword
Fortitude and grief ,need harder endgame the end.
no lo love? where my people at! fortitude grief for the melee win!
Forts ok but I was expecting grief on here fore sure. He swapped it for CTA from the list in my head before starting, but I think he's right since cta is used on literally every character. Even barbarians benefit from dual cta, they only get 3 BO max on themselves but the additional 1 to all skills brings that to 4.
Been trying so hard to get hoto and enigma but no good
CTA most op rune word
made 1 class completely useless
Completely useless? 🤔
That's a stretch..
Agree with everything until you said even sorc’s want enigma as an mf build. 3 piece tals armor belt and ammy will always trump enigma. When I started my sorc I told myself I wanted 400 mf. Surprisingly I was able to obtain 520+ actually pretty easily and still hit very hard with Fire wall/frozen orb combo.
Also I know it’s hard to narrow it down to 5, but Grief makes that cut in my opinion.
Depends what you are looking for at that moment, some people value that +2 skills more for faster clears and only want 280%MF before they hit major DR.
I still use 3 pc tals though
Last Wish is OP. Grief is also OP but not as much as Last Wish is.
Guessing off the thumbnail... Sprit, CTA, Leaf(?), HOTO, Enigma
Ah maybe Grief instead of Leaf cry laughing emoji
3 for 5 I would've def put Grief on there though
Na just grabbed random transparent background rune pictures I had laying l around.
hard to find the sol rune though
after the server crush on me wen i did ubber and i was not available to return
just feel like crap to lose all the portals!
i workd hard for this
i want to quit this game!
No HOTO? No Grief? I know it’s your opinion but damn thought for sure they would be in. Grief is by far most op runeword. Don’t get tp but get almost everything else 😂
a bit too overpowered, especially spirit and insight considering the cost. Maybe all the other runewords cost too much... the HR ones.
The game would be boring and characters would be weak without these
It's already boring with them. Blizzard needs to add content. Id rather play the mods that are out that actually add end game content and new runeworda and uniques than a game that has so many bugs and is stale
Finally, someone else who says nigma is op..
Imho its so op that its game breaking and should be nerfed big time or be completly removed from the game.
Its a nice item to chase. Sure its op, but balance is severely overvalued in pvm games today. I still love 45 ias and fade from treachery (especially in D2R), 300 EDmg from fortitude, big res and skills on CoH. Theyre all great. You can replace enigma with a naj staff on your offhand too.
It's nerfed in pd2. And still very strong
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Yeah nyukkah
Overpowered? Seriously, unless monsters simply die the second they see you, nothing is OP in a hack and slay game, where monsters swarm you!
ps: Try playing sorc without Insight...hell, she still burn mana like nobody's business with it!
the most OVERPOWERED is grief for sure?
Insight: infinite mana glitch.
True they are all in Res, but Theres nothing New here, was The same in The old diablo 2. + old has ebugged
Enigma is the king
Don't make your Insight out of a Colossus Voulge like he is showing (I know, he's just showing an example). Your merc won't be able to equip it until he's in his high 80's
A Bill or a Battle Scythe are better options until your merc has enough strength.
True for the playthrough, not true for endgame. Yes, there are better elite polearms to make Insight in but they are harder to find due to them not being capped at 4 sockets. Trading for them would be expensive too as they also happen to be the best Infinity bases.
As for the strength requirement, players usually solve the issue with Andariel's Visage.
"Good Grief!"
No offense but this is BS. Just to get the weapons you can use to be socketed takes more time than anybody is going to waste on this game sorry. I play Solo and have been playing for over 120 hours with not one 4 socketed anything in Nightmare mode. Waste of time.
Literally NOTHING is overpowered at Hell difficulty. My mum said.
Just make a second account with a Cry Barb on it.
Harmony
Enigma no brainer but u missed fortitude
I don't think so. All the ones here deserve the spot more, and if we were to add a sixth, that spot would surely go to Grief.
In a top 7 though, I can definitely see a spot for Fort. But then again it would have to compete with HotO, Treachery, Faith etc.
Grief?
YESSSSSSSS. Casters are just OP. Melee is too gear dependent. "SPIRIT" is WAY too cheap. Insight is WAY too cheap. These should require mid runes (Pul- Ist). Class abilities should NOT be found on runewords (teleport, shouts) or on any item for others to use. Infinity is OP, because the game is broken with its BS immunities (even so, it would still greatly increase damage of casters).
Resistances are definitely not broken.
Algo
yo
This guy LOL
wuit your job and now oly 6k views told yas so diablo is dropping player base so fast
Grief?