10-06-2003, 04:29 AM
I still quite disagree.
If you want a Countess-droppable rune, it's well worth it to kill the Countess for it. Even though it takes time to go down there, the drops are so much better that you still get the most runes/time by repeatedly killing the Countess.
There just isn't something like that for jewels. Suppose you want to kill Andariel for the jewel. If you end up killing at least 11 monsters (any monsters), those monsters contributed more to the jewel chances than Andariel did. So, there's no single boss monster you can repeatedly kill for a good chance at jewels.
If we only look at normal monsters, the drop chance difference drops to just a factor of 3.6. A factor of 3.6 is easily overruled by monster density and ease of killing.
If you have the choice between farming area A and farming area B, and you can kill four monsters in area A in the same time as you can kill one monster in area B, then area A will give you more jewels, regardless of what the actual monsters are.
As you want Rainbow Facets, though, you need jewels of ilvl 85+. That rather limits your options for good jewel dropping areas. You'd have to go to an area with monsters of mlvl 85+, preferably high concentrations of ones that are easy to kill.
If you want a Countess-droppable rune, it's well worth it to kill the Countess for it. Even though it takes time to go down there, the drops are so much better that you still get the most runes/time by repeatedly killing the Countess.
There just isn't something like that for jewels. Suppose you want to kill Andariel for the jewel. If you end up killing at least 11 monsters (any monsters), those monsters contributed more to the jewel chances than Andariel did. So, there's no single boss monster you can repeatedly kill for a good chance at jewels.
If we only look at normal monsters, the drop chance difference drops to just a factor of 3.6. A factor of 3.6 is easily overruled by monster density and ease of killing.
If you have the choice between farming area A and farming area B, and you can kill four monsters in area A in the same time as you can kill one monster in area B, then area A will give you more jewels, regardless of what the actual monsters are.
As you want Rainbow Facets, though, you need jewels of ilvl 85+. That rather limits your options for good jewel dropping areas. You'd have to go to an area with monsters of mlvl 85+, preferably high concentrations of ones that are easy to kill.