Unique hunting resource help?

[Kasreyn]

Hi everyone,

These days I'm actually playing quite a bit of LoD 1.10 Open, and currently am running an MF FO/Meteo Sorcie, 73, and rearing a young Hammerdin, 35. I've discovered the joys of crafting and Countess runs for runes. However, I've been appalled that in four months of playing 1.10 and easily well over a billion gold gambled away, only one unique has appeared, and that was in the first 20 minutes after patching (I'm serious) - and it was just a Steelgoad.

Since unique gambling is so heartbreakingly rare, I'm looking for tips on where are the best places to look for certain items. I'm aware that once a monster's level is high enough, it can drop certain items; I'm also aware that if its level is TOO high, it may drop something which the game may consider "better", but which might not be precisely what I'm looking for.

Now, I had never attempted to look for this sort of information before, so I simply *assumed* it would be available on one of the major D2 sites. Since a unique's ilvl determines whether a monster of a given mlvl can drop it (to my knowledge), it would seem to follow that I should line up a list of all uniques by ilvl next to a list of all monsters by mlvl, and see what falls where.

As a sample case, one of the items I am hunting for is Skin of the Vipermagi. It would have to be in an area where serpentskin armor could drop, and where monsters' mlvl would be high enough to generate the Skins. But if their mlvl were too high, their overall chance of a Vipermagi would decrease. There would be a minimum cutoff but (afaik) no maximum cutoff. (If there IS a maximum cutoff, by all means let me know). So the chances for a monster dropping the Skin would start at some integer at the minimum cutoff, possibly grow to an ideal "sweet spot" point, then decline over time as the monsters became more likely to drop higher level armors than serpentskin.

Again, this is all conjecture, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

But what surprised me was the inability to find something so simple as a list of monsters by ascending mlvl, and uniques by ascending illvl. There are pages to be found with monsters, but they are often scattered among multiple pages by act or species, which makes it problematic to eyeball the ones with better drop chances for specific uniques. And I have been totally unable to find ANY resource on unique item levels.

If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it. Reply here or by email to kasreyn@gmail.com or by AIM to LordKasreyn.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

P.S. if it matters, the MF sorcie is running with 310% MF.