After 3 million tries, this item can only drop once. Yet Diablo II gamers do not hesitate to sell it for a good price.
In the monster-picking game Diablo II, the ancient Zod is a legendary item. As a top level rune, used to craft one of the most powerful melee weapons, Zod has an extremely low drop rate. According to calculations by D2RuneWizard, Zod has the highest chance of falling from the final boss Baal, fought at hell difficulty; Even now, Zod’s drop rate is still 1/2,987,183.
There are a total of 33 runes in Diablo II, and lower-level runes can be used to combine into higher-level runes. To successfully combine the Zod rune (highest level) from the El rune (lowest level), a player will need more than… 14 million billion combinationsto be exact 14,281,868,906,496 times.
Bên cạnh đó, nguyên liệu cần có bao gồm 241.864.704 Chipped Topaz, 80.621.568 Chipped Amethyst, 26.873.856 Chipped Sapphire, 8.957.952 Chipped Ruby, 2.985.984 Chipped Emerald, 995.328 Chipped Diamond, 331.776 Flawed Topaz, 110.592 Flawed Amethyst, 36.864 Flawed Sapphire, 12.288 Flawed Ruby, 4096 Flawed Emerald, 2048 Flawed Diamond, 1024 Topaz, 512 Amethyst, 256 Sapphire, 128 Ruby, 64 Emerald, 32 Diamond, 16 Flawless Topaz, 8 Flawless Amethyst, 4 Flawless Sapphire, 2 Flawless Ruby, và 1 Flawless Emerald.
Understanding Zod’s rarity and preciousness, gamers who have never played Diablo II can partly imagine the weight of… outright “non-shop” Zod. Meanwhile, there are people who have played Diablo II for many years and have never directly seen the ancient Zod language.
Not far from New Year’s Eve in the year of the Dragon, Diablo II streamer named Kano picked up a Zod ancient language while… farming monsters. And to the surprise and excitement of the chat channel, Kano immediately teleported back to the city and sold Zod for 35,000 gold.
The chat channel immediately reacted violently to Kano’s unexpected decision, and the streamer pretended to ignore the viewers’ dissatisfaction. He thinks that 35,000 gold is not a small number, worthy of an item like Zod.
Later, Kano also admitted that he understood the value of Zod’s ancient language, and confessed that that was the first time he picked it up. “Now when someone asks what the highest level rune I’ve ever picked up is, I can finally confirm it’s Zod”, Kano said on stream.
