I went ahead with barb n cleaned arcane, followed with zon. Did act 2 with barb.

Then i went straight for duriel with zon. NNot doing the arcane quest. I decided to clean tombs until if ound duriel's tomb. That didn't happen. I did 6 out of 7 tombs.

ANd here's the big kicker. Every damn tomb has so much enemies!! It was like, 3 tims more than when i did it wit ht he barb!!!

Every turn, every room, sooom any, like more than usual, i'm not kidding. 4-5 guardians throwing unholy bolts, 30-40 skeletons getting revived, i'm like, it was too damn hard a few times!!! 250 hit points, i had a few moments, i had to turn. But could sneak by a lot of times.

Is this a known mechanic inthe game? If you don't do the summoner quest, the tombs get harder?????

Lucky amount of density

I run tombs a lot, and they seems fairly standard with their size and enemies.
1 real, 6 fake. Of those fake, 2 are usually quite large, 1 medium, and 3 small. Enemies are often mainly undead, while1-2 are mainly animals . The monsters and size seem to be random (ie, the large is 4/6 undead, and 2/6 animals)

But what about dat summoner quest done or not done..... i wonder.

I highly doubt that has any effect. If it did, data miners would have found that and used it as a glitch to level up faster.

Similar note: Glitch Andy drops are a real thing. D2r made Andy drops always glitched

Data miners.. i wish i knew how they did that. Maybe nobody tested it before? I mean, i recommended kira's guardian for many builds 10 years ago, and gavel of pain for goldfind barb. And got humilitated and ridiculed for it for years and years. Now, i see many people recommending kira's, and gavel has been teh most popular build on the site. Yet someone else took the glory for it. But !I! was the one that figured it out first ........ 10 years ago.

Maybe i'm onto something. Data miners........... they see numbers... they don't actually PLAY, do they........

Yes i now about this very long time ago much longer before you did. Also if you open teh cow lvl without saving cain you get many cows.

Never knew that ty for info