I don't think the newer versions changed the drop stuff, so atma's drop calculator should be accurate... not sure if the drop stuff is the same between xpac and classic, though...
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NM andarial can NOT drop sojs (classic boss mlvls are lower than that of xpac), hell andarial has the highest chance of dropping sojs, with norm diablo as runner up.
hell CS is the best/only place for GG drops (highest mlvls: uniques, seal bosses, and diablo: mlvl 90: highest in classic. too lazy to look up orphans mlvl guide but the seal bosses are like mlvl ~81: ~9 mlvls less than hell diablo, so really hell diablo is your only source of GG, and maybe seal bosses, and maybe uniques in hell cs)
so, if you're able, fast CS runs/clears are best (only source of) for GG drops.
Hell diablo is the ONLY source (from monster drops) for +2 amulets
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however, there's also gambling, which uses your clvl, so get a really high leveled character and good gold find character, and gamble for GG, which can rival doing hell cs runs if you can get gold fast, even with the low odds of rolling an exceptional and then even lower odds of it being GG, it's probably not much different (or maybe not any different) from the odds from a monster drop, and you can gamble faster than you cs run, though you got to have a good/fast gold finding character.
gambling is another good source for sojs, as rings and amulets don't have a 'exceptional' type.
gambling is the other source for +2 amulets, you need to be at least clvl 86 (too lazy to look up) for being able to get a +2 amulet, and the higher the clvl the better the odds until you hit clvl ~94, where you hit the max odds possible.
as in classic I think the mechanic for gambling is: -4/+5
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it really is about doing hell cs and/or gambling+gf
if you're not hack-botting, you need a team to do fast hell cs runs (along with also having a popper for additional attempts at drops)
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hell flayer is good experience (lots of uniques and should be able to do it fast with a good physical character) from like ~ clvl 80-84
urders (even normal ones) give best experience (much better than cs normal monsters), and then it's just hell diablo runs
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hell cs normal monsters: mlvl 78
hell cows normal monsters(cows): mlvl 78
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I've done a lot of 8 player hell cow games with a pure blizzard sorc (pwns cows, except the cold immune/resistant) with full MF (~500) gear, and have gotten no good gear from them (the problem is that there's very few non-normal cows: a few by the fort and a few not by the fort, maybe 5 non-normal cows max, excluding the cow king).
having a popper, would be great, as another chance at drops. poppers double the drops.
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the hell cow king, is another matter, if you got a buddy, you can keep doing the cow king over and over, and he probably drops about as good as hell diablo.
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also, in my experience, I really think that 100 mf is optiminal, as it's all about killing speed, and more mf over 100 is very diminishing returns (I've even done max mf, and I've not noticed any difference).
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