Hope this information helps you out and lends at least a bit of value to this thread. Interestingly, these regular monsters actually have better odds of dropping a Zod than any of Baal's minions. Regular monsters with the best odds of a Zod drop are Black Souls, Burning Souls, Dark Shapes, Doom Casters, Ghosts, Gloams, Specters, Storm Casters, Stranglers, and Wraiths in various areas of Acts III, IV, and V. Interestingly enough, Coldworm the Burrower in Act II, random Fetish bosses in the Spider Forest, and random Flayer bosses in the Flayer Jungle and Flayer Dungeon have the same odds of dropping a Zod as the Act V Superuniques do.Īfter these monsters, the odds drop by an order of magnitude. If these monsters aren't your cup of tea, any of the Act V Superuniques or seal bosses in the Chaos Sanctuary have the next best odds of giving you a Zod. After that, Hephasto and Nihlathak are the best bets, followed by Diablo or Baal non-quest reward drops.

The best odds of a Zod are from Diablo or Baal's first (quest reward) drop, at 1 in 2,987,183.

non-boss, minion, or champ) monsters which could drop a Zod are Skeletons and Hungry Dead in the Crypt and Mausoleum, but their odds are less than 1 in 61,000,000. All of the higher-level areas in Hell contain monsters which could potentially drop a Zod, but the odds in pretty much all cases are astronomically low.Īccording to ATMA's drop calculator, the earliest place you could expect to see a Zod drop is from a random boss in the Den of Evil, but the odds are less than 1 in 11,000,000. Zod's can only be found in Hell difficulty. Quote:Anyway, to keep it on topic, does anyone know what areas can give you Zod? To put another perspective on this number, if one El rune dropped every second, it would take over 450,000 years of continuous, non-stop play to amass this number of runes. When you get to creating runes at Amn (11) and above, you will need to add in Gems of varying types and qualities. three El (1) runes will create one Eld (2) runes.

You can create a higher-level Rune by combining 3 Runes of the next lower type ie. Quote:The actual number is 14,281,868,906,496. Upgrade a Rune using the Horadric Cube in Diablo 2 Resurrected. I'll get this one out of the way first, as I've already written a Diablo 2: Resurrected rune and runeword guide with information about 'cubing up' runes.

How many el runes to make a zod