07-08-2003, 10:13 AM
I tried this a few times with Andariel, and indeed got (with one exception) nothing but rares when I let my merc get the killing blow. But then I tried leaving my merc dead and killing her myself, and got the same--almost all rares or better, like 2 magicals in 3 runs, plus one defective drop (nothing but a flawed diamond, must have killed her over bad map portion).
The occaisional magical from both ways makes me guess that the drop system is just more generous now and tends to give out rares for act bosses, since the first-time-uberdrop is supposed to always give rares or better (1024 in the appropriate slot). Also, I only got the normal quality gem the first time I killed her (used my merc), although that might be a different thing anyway.
-- frink
The occaisional magical from both ways makes me guess that the drop system is just more generous now and tends to give out rares for act bosses, since the first-time-uberdrop is supposed to always give rares or better (1024 in the appropriate slot). Also, I only got the normal quality gem the first time I killed her (used my merc), although that might be a different thing anyway.
-- frink