Mercenary Equipment Suggestions?

[the Langolier]

And what I'm saying is, if you play honestly, you will see a Zod in SP about as often as you win the lottery, if that.

For SP I edit the treasureclassex.txt just a little bit to decrease the chance that a high-level rune will be degraded. The standard odds are pretty ridiculous so I change it so something like 1:250 Zod runes will not be degraded and improve the odds as the rune quality decreases (i.e. 1:250, 1:215, 1:, 1:175...). It still takes a good number of rune drops to get the high-end runes but at least it is realistic.