gg xd

GG, love the rules haha. Will be a fun challenge but do-able I think

During development of Patch 1.13 someone at Blizzard decided to alter Duriel's TC towards increased chance of picking STP multiple times per drop.
The evidence can be read from the TC file; number of picks and probabilities for the main TC entries for Duriel were modified in 1.13.

Changes like the one above make you question if they know exactly what they are doing ...

In past, duriel dropped maximum of 1 stp iirc.
This is silly....takes solid 10 minutes of pain in the ass, for what? ^^

Yes, on a quest kill the Lord of Pain would always drop exactly one STP.

It is a pointless change really, considering Duriel was already dull enough. If anything they ought to have improved his TC. He does not even drop an essence that you cannot get elsewhere (Andariel).
I checked the data; it seems that in Patch 1.13x Duriel rolls up to 5 times (!) between STP (1:3) and all the interesting stuff (2:3). The odds of dropping multiple STP at once are thus discouragingly high.

A similar quest kill during 1.10-1.12 would return exactly one STP and up to 5 additional items (gems, jewels, runes, charms, armor, weapons).

I can only infer that someone must have been half asleep at the switch while working on Patch 1.13.

This post was edited by Quorra on Nov 15 2013 08:12pm