Talk about items.

[weakwarrior]

That's nifty. It should go without saying that the best items in Diablo, while plenty hard to get in their own right, are far from the being the most rare. About 10 years ago, someone posted that the rarest item would be an emerald (specific melee weapon) of slaying. According to your calculator, an emerald bastard sword of slaying will show up about once every 2,840,000 games! On the bright side, you only have to get to level 14 and check for Dreadjudge before starting a new game. :D No need to bother with Wirt since even he cannot sell such a combo. At 30 seconds a game, 24 hours a day, it should only take a couple weeks eh?

I noticed a mistake with the calculator which, I think, would make it take a little longer. The calculator gives the same value for an emerald bastard sword of slaying and an emerald short sword of slaying. However, after the game decides to drop a bastard sword from a unique boss there is a 16% chance of the item being unique; there is no unique short sword. Thus, the chance of magical short sword drop should be higher than a magical (non-unique) bastard sword. Either, the calculator always counts the 16%, even when there is no unique, thus underestimating the probability in the case of the short sword, or it never does, thus overestimating the probability in the case of the bastard sword. Langolier? I´m willing to try 2,840,000 games, but 3,400,000 is just too much.