Quote (Quorra @ 16 Nov 2013 04:11)
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.
yeh, back then when ppl boosted their exp in "travi runs" and such, they were mfing duriel as well since drops were not as terrible as nowadays and he was easily beaten.
i used to like a2 in past, but since i get 5 stp and a magic Cleaver or such shit, i started to hate it more than labyrinths in a3 ^^