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>And if you do look up runewords, then what's the difference with looking up a full play by play guide for your class?
Bingo.

>You could've also experimented with rune combos as well as work with other players back during the game's heyday for rune and cube recipes.
No one does that. No one ever did. They looked stuff up. Blizzard revealed all the runewords. If you wanted to just test a 2 socket for runes A,B,C there are 6 different ways to socket them (12 if you don't know runewords don't ever have duplicates) and even if you got enough copies of runes A/B/C to test all 6 or 12 combinations all you did was test on one thing. Some runewords only work on certain things (ie you could test the combination on a helm, a armor, a sword, an axe, a mace, a bow, a crossbow, a pole arm, a scepter, a spear, a dagger, a staff, and the only correct item was a wand). And if you did manage to do those hundreds of tests it could very well be that A,B,&C do not produce a runeword at all. And runes just put into a basic item are garbage compared to rares and even blues you find on the ground.

ITS A GIMMICK. They took something they already had (uniques and gems) and made it so you need to just collect multiple parts and constantly refer to guides to even remember what parts fit with which.

It's superficial, like all gimmicks are. You are being mesmerized by the complexity of it all when it's just bloat. If they wanted a system where players had some agency instead of relaying solely on drops there is already a system in place for that. It's called shopping. They could have just had merchants that sell special gems/uniques which are always in stock either for gold for a separate currency (say instead of enemies dropping runes they drop 'runic power' which is traded to the merchants). But using mechanics that are already there to achieve the same result with less mess doesn't have the same spectacle as a gimmick.

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