1. Act boss drops (essences and Ancient statue)

Hell, 1 player, normal farming (repeat kills, not the first quest clear). These are the four Token of Absolution materials. Andariel and Duriel share Twisted Essence of Suffering.

① Essence — one boss

• Andariel — Twisted Essence of Suffering: about 2.33% → 2.51% per pick. Seven picks, so about 15% → 16% per kill (at least one). Catacombs Level 4 as a Terror Zone is similar: about 2.34% → 2.50% per pick.
• Duriel — same essence: about 2.86% → 3.87% per pick
• Mephisto — Charged Essence of Hatred: about 1.22% → 1.71% per pick
• Diablo — Burning Essence of Terror: about 1.22% → 1.71% per pick
• Baal — Festering Essence of Destruction: about 1.22% → 1.71% per pick

Even when the essence slot weight goes 7× or 3×, gear and no-drop rise with it, so the feel is only the numbers above.

On a normal Hell farm, essences line up Duriel > Andariel > Mephisto / Diablo / Baal.

The file’s tes=1 row and these numbers disagree because of why Andariel’s tes=1 row is a dead table.

② Ancient statue

As essences went up, the statue slot went down relatively.

• Andariel: about 2.33% → 0.72% per pick
• Duriel, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal: the first quest drop has no statue slot at all.

③ First kill only

• Andariel: same as a normal farm. Essence and statue are the numbers above.
• The other four: first-kill essence still uses the old weights. (Duriel tes 2; Mephisto / Diablo / Baal stay at 1)

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2. Worldstone Shards

① Selection chance (about 23% lower)

• Champion: 3/103 (about 2.91%) → 3/133 (about 2.26%)
• Unique: 2/64 (about 3.13%) → 2/83 (about 2.41%)
• Super Unique: about 6.24% → about 4.82% on two attempts

② Bonus when a shard hits (Citem A Shard / Uitem A Shard)

• Champion: gold 60%, Act 1 (H) Equip A 37%, Good 3%
• Unique / Super Unique: Act 1 (H) Equip A about 93.5%, Good about 6.5%
• Good bundle: rings, amulets, gems, jewels, charms; the rune chain includes up to Vex (very low weight)

③ Super Uniques that do not drop shards

They use a dedicated TC.

• Act 1: The Countess, Blood Raven
• Act 2: The Summoner, Radament
• Act 3: Travincal, Durance of Hate Level 3 council
• Act 4: Izual, Hephasto the Armorer
• Act 5: Nihlathak

The Smith, Griswold, and The Cow King share a Uitem table, so shards do drop.

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3. Sunder Charms

① Drop conditions

• Latent Sunder Charm qlvl 69 → 75
• cond('Difficulty', hell) — Hell, monster level 75+

② Field grand-charm unique roll (Gheed's Fortune rarity 1 → 15)

• 3.2: Gheed 1/7 (14.3%), sunders combined 6/7 (85.7%)
• 3.3: Gheed 15/21 (71.4%), sunders combined 6/21 (28.6%), about 1/21 each (about 4.8%)

When a grand charm goes unique from Pindleskin, Travincal, and similar, it still uses this pool.

③ The Herald-only slot is 2/407

One Herald item pick (Act * (H) Herald Item *) weighs gear 360 + Good 30 + shard bonus 15 + Sunder Charms 2 = 407. Only after that 2 hits does the 101 table pick the type. Magic find is irrelevant.

Do not use the field 6/21 as a Herald chance.

Official type names (101 weight, Latent Sunder Charm):

• Cold Rupture 30/101 (about 29.70%)
• Flame Rift 30/101 (about 29.70%)
• Crack of the Heavens 20/101 (about 19.80%)
• Rotting Fissure 12/101 (about 11.88%)
• Bone Break 6/101 (about 5.94%) — physical
• Black Cleft 3/101 (about 2.97%) — magic

Do not swap the physical and magic names.

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4. Herald QF

This is the Unique column in TreasureClassEx. The formula is final denominator = base denominator * (1024 - QF) / 1024.

① QF by tier

• Base 2 picks: QF 800 — (1024-800)/1024 = 224/1024
• Tiers 3–4, extra 1 pick only: QF 850 — about 1.29× unique on that pick
• Tier 5, extra 2 picks only: QF 870 — about 1.45× unique on those picks

The whole kill is not 1.45×.

② Pick count

• Tiers 1–2: 2 item picks (QF 800)
• Tiers 3–4: base 2 picks + 1 extra (QF 850)
• Tier 5: base 2 picks + 2 extra (QF 870)

The condition is heraldtier. Tiers 3–4 are >2 and <5. Tier 5 is >4.

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5. Runewords, uniques, sets, skills

Display names are from D2R string files. Community nicknames are not used.

The nine uniques with changed mods and the new Angelic set stats are Ladder-only by the official notes.

① Seven Ladder Season 3 runewords unlocked on Non-Ladder (runes.txt, lastLadderSeason=14)

• Weapon: Mania (internal name Hustle)
• Armor: Hysteria (internal name Hustle)
• Druid helm: Metamorphosis
• Resist helms: Ground, Temper, Hearth, Cure, Bulwark

② Nine low-tier uniques (uniqueitems.txt, firstLadderSeason=15)

• Gravenspine: Faster Cast Rate +10%
• Bane Ash: Increased Attack Speed and Enhanced Damage removed → Faster Cast Rate +20%
• Blinkbat's Form: Faster Run/Walk 10% → 30%, +1 Mana after each Kill
• Pluckeye: Increased Attack Speed +25%
• Rogue's Bow: Fire Arrow or Cold Arrow +1-3 (not both)
• The Ward: 1 socket
• The Battlebranch: required level 25 → 17
• Bloodletter: Faster Run/Walk +20%
• Manald Heal: Faster Cast Rate +10% (cast2 10). Not Faster Run/Walk.

③ Angelic Raiment (setitems.txt / sets.txt)

• Angelic Sickle: 3-set +6 damage
• Angelic Mantle: 3-set +100% Damage to Undead
• Angelic Wings: 3-set +1 to All Skills
• Full set: another +1 to All Skills

④ Sunder Charm cube (cubemain.txt)

Crafted Sunder Charm (6 types) required level 69 → 75

⑤ Warlock (skills.txt)

• Bind Demon: physical damage bonus on the bound demon (base 50, +25 per level)
• Seal: Death: the explosion proc damage type is fire

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Related posts

• Why Andariel’s tes=1 row is a dead table
• Ladder 15 · Patch 3.3 schedule
• Manald Heal Faster Cast Rate correction

Sources

• D2R source tables (TreasureClassEx.txt, uniqueitems.txt, runes.txt, setitems.txt, sets.txt, skills.txt, cubemain.txt, monstats.txt)