Lousy drops on first boss kill

[GameHat]

Lousy drops on first boss kill

I've been away from DII for a long time; the fairly recent DIII announcement piqued my interest again.

I'm playing hardcore. I currently have a lvl 50 assassin on the ladder.

I thought I remembered that the first time you kill a boss the drops are better than usual. I killed Duriel (nightmare) today (solo, to finish my NM Act II quest) and got a grand total of:

...wait for it....

A single rare war staff. It was ****. There was no other loot.

Did they change how bosses drop the first time you kill them? I was pretty disappointed with this. Andariel, for the record - I also killed her solo for the first time (nightmare) and got similarly low drops (I think I got one rare, one blue and nothing else)

My quests were uncompleted, and as far as I know I hadn't been in a game where other random people killed either Duriel or Andariel.

 

[TurbulentTurtle]

Re: Lousy drops on first boss kill

Just so you know, just because the boss drops have a higher chance of dropping better items, essentially you're not guaranteed an excellent and amazing drop, since just the chance is better, not the actual drops.
You got your hopes up for nothing.

 

[Are]

Re: Lousy drops on first boss kill

Duriel very frequently drops poorly, since there are lots of areas in his chamber where loot simply disappears (similar to how you don't get loot from monsters that are above water or lava when they die).