Also note that gold and purple items typically have lower requirements than corresponding white or blue items. This can be somewhat useful in a limited manner. It is quite annoying to get purple or gold salvageables with no runes, however. Just earlier today I got both a purple and a gold salvage item with no runes in the same run... but then later in the run I found a gold salvage item with a superior vigor rune, which was nice.
Hmm, the no rune thing does seem to happen more often with purple and gold salvage items than with blue ones, though. Perhaps it's an ad hoc modifier to limit rune drops from certain commonly farmed areas with relatively good drop rates.
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