07-17-2003, 06:09 PM
You needed NA5? I killed Diablo a couple(read, 20) or so times in Normal, and he eventually dropped a SoE(granted, if you added all the other characters I'd used who'd killed him before, the number is closer to 50 :D )
It helps to have a high kill rate, I guess. My Sorcie's level 27 Inferno is toasting most things in Act 5 Normal with a single GLANCING shot. :P I think I read somewhere that the more monsters you kill within a certain period, the better your drops. Perhaps it's their way of "rewarding" players who can "handle themselves well"
This also explains why higher level characters are generally better for magic finding(apart from being generally hardier to begin with, they have a MUCH higher kill rate)
It helps to have a high kill rate, I guess. My Sorcie's level 27 Inferno is toasting most things in Act 5 Normal with a single GLANCING shot. :P I think I read somewhere that the more monsters you kill within a certain period, the better your drops. Perhaps it's their way of "rewarding" players who can "handle themselves well"
This also explains why higher level characters are generally better for magic finding(apart from being generally hardier to begin with, they have a MUCH higher kill rate)