Does magic find affect rune drops?

[Johnny Casey]

Yeah, yeah, 'chance to find special item property'. In other words, MF. Does that affect the rate of rune drops?

Every time I tried to search that online, I get result for Diablo 2 instead...

[nepisman]

If I remember properly, the chance to find special item property is mainly for unique or set gear items, it should not effect the drop rate for runes but you can increase you chance of getting them by not using every rune for your character you get (if you don't think you will use the skill that the rune upgrades for you) as many people in the old online Sacred message boards said that the more runes you use makes it you get a bit less of a chance of getting more to drop. The first way is to save scum just before finishing quests or killing special boss or miniboss enemies as they have good drop rates. The second way is to go to "underground cave" locations on the map to farm strong enemies that respawn every time you enter them, like the small undead cave that has a number of coffins and graves in it (in the forest I think near Faeries Crossing). There is also like one unique gear piece that specifically increases rune drop rates and a few quests that give you 100% of getting one (like the wizard in the desert that asks you to pick the right pot).

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by nepisman:

If I remember properly, the chance to find special item property is mainly for unique or set gear items, it should not effect the drop rate for runes.

Got it.