When killing Andariel..

[[wcip]Angel]

Whenever you kill Andy - just as when you kill Shenk the Overseer - all monsters in the immediate vicinity will perish without you having to lay a fireball on them.

My questions are

1. Do you get XP from the victims of what I refer to as Andariel's "disaster-zone", meaning these monsters who automatically die after Andy's been killed?

2. Does your magic find apply to the drops these monsters make?

edit: And thank you, Pete, for giving me a new word to play with. :)

[Ruvanal]

1. No. The death effect is from Andariel not you, so you do not get credit.

2. No. Related to 1 above. Since the effect came from Andariel it would not be doing a check on your characters MF% for generating their drops. It might do a check against Andariels MF but that would be zero MF%. The check may not be made because the source of the death is not a player, players minion or a henchman class that is doing the killing; I do not recall if there were checks for these statuses on the function that calls the MF and drop routines.

[[wcip]Angel]

Damn. I thought it'd be so much easier to do andariel-runs by using her as some sort of bomb to kill everyone else, but in order to get the better drops, I actually need to kill the monsters myself.. Bah!