The main benefits of this runeword are pretty obvious and that's the massive amount of resistance, you get 43% to cold res and 48% to fire, lightning and poison, those type of resistances can really help you out when you're taking on the Baal waves and then Baal himself.

And the base to make this rune word is the three socketed Shield, you can actually buy it from Farah in ACT 2 in Normal even. Even without getting the runes on this particular quest, they're not incredibly uncommon the Ral and Tal you can actually just get farming the normal Countess.

The Rune World requires level 21, you should be right around the end of Act 5 getting that level anyways, because you have to be level 20 in order to do the ancient quest, in order to advance on to kill Baal here in Act 5. The Ancients pledge is an incredibly easy runeword to make, you can make it right at the beginning of normal and that's because all of these runes are actually a reward for the quest rescue on Mount area. So here are the top 5 Rune words for playing through normal here in Diablo 2 resurrected if your new player makes sure you stick around all the way to the end of the guide, so you get some great ideas of rune words to make to help your characters out. Everyone's got to start somewhere now it can be incredibly difficult to find those uniques and those set items or magic items that can really help your character out, but actually, Rune words can be some of the most consistent items to make yourself because you can just run the Countess and get the runes and a lot of the bases to make D2R runewords you can just buy straight from one of the vendors.

Runewords diablo 2 by level