If you socket both ‘Tal’ and ‘Eth’ into a two-socket armor, in that order, you create ‘Stealth’, a runeword that gives you many more bonuses such as faster run/walk, faster hit recovery and faster cast rate. If you socket ‘Eth’, you’ll receive 15% better mana recovery rate. For example, if you socket the ‘Tal’ rune into armor, it gives you 30% poison resist.

Each of these runes has specific bonuses if socketed into a piece of equipment.

There are 30 total runes in Diablo II ranging from the most common ‘El’ to the rarest, ‘Zod’. I wanted to dive a bit more into this for those that may not be familiar with Diablo II and to give more background on that comment.

In Part I of the series, I mention at one point that finding runes for ‘Stealth’ armor was brutal. If you missed the first part of the series, you can check that out here.īefore jumping into my experience through Nightmare difficulty, I wanted to go over a few things I found out in between articles. Welcome back to my series on Path of Diablo where I chronicle my first experience with the mod and hobble through as a new player without any gear to speed along the process!

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