Can't confirm it, but however, there seems to be an increased drop chance for legendaries when you kill an act boss for the first time. I've experienced it while leveling a new hardcore character. RNG didn't favor my softcore char to have any legs from any of the bosses though. So un-sexy.
Guess they haven't "reset" for existing characters.
Yeah, it's increased to a 100% ;-) At least that's the last info I've heard.
But it's really only for your very first kill on that new character in story mode. Someone said in clan chat that killing bosses in adventure mode and then going back to story mode doesn't work, so you can't "save" the 100% legendary chance for your first kill at level 70.
Can't confirm it, but however, there seems to be an increased drop chance for legendaries when you kill an act boss for the first time. I've experienced it while leveling a new hardcore character. RNG didn't favor my softcore char to have any legs from any of the bosses though. So un-sexy.
Guess they haven't "reset" for existing characters.
Yeah, it's increased to a 100% ;-) At least that's the last info I've heard.
But it's really only for your very first kill on that new character in story mode. Someone said in clan chat that killing bosses in adventure mode and then going back to story mode doesn't work, so you can't "save" the 100% legendary chance for your first kill at level 70.
From what I've experienced playing on the PTR, you actually can.
Because there's no more normal / NM / hell / inferno to work through, killing an act boss counts as your one kill, no matter your level. So you can start off level 1, go through the entire story getting all 5 legendary drops, and be level 30 - 40. OR, you can farm act 1 over and over to get to max level (because monsters instantly scale to your level), and then at max level go through the story.
Now if there's some artificial roadblock to this, I don't know because I haven't tried it. But from what I've experienced so far leveling a character from level 1 on the PTR in story mode, it seems feasible.
Ugh, I wonder what level is "too high" for the Butcher? I'm nearly level 20 and I only just killed Leoric. I haven't been farming, just clearing each map as I get to it, no restarts just the bonus XP thanks to Master Mode.
A dude in the DFans clan (Doombringer) tried levelling all the way to 60 in Act 1, then killing all the bosses (starting with the Butcher). He says he didn't get a legendary, so it doesn't work.
I also think there was a recent blue post confirming that, if your level is deemed to high for that boss to count as a 1st kill, you won't get a legendary.
Oh wow that's a really good solution, because I was worried that it'd be easily exploited.
Target Legendaries from my understanding was going to be that certain bosses would hold certain legendaries that would either drop the first time they were killed or would only drop say 1 or 2 specific legendary items but would have a % drop chance.
For instance - killing Leoric for the first time would get you say Leorics Signet.
Or .. you would farm Leoric over and over if you wanted Leorics Signet/Leorics Crown and hoped that it would drop.
From what I am hearing we get a Legendary drop from first boss kills? But not a specific Legendary? That just sounds lame and is just a "guaranteedlegendary drop' not a 'targeted legendary drop' from my point of view...
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Can someone tell me if this feature is in the PTR/RoS?
I remember Blizz were going on about it and showed it off in gameplay video - go to 6.55 in the cliphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTeJOqO0Tbg
Ugh, I wonder what level is "too high" for the Butcher? I'm nearly level 20 and I only just killed Leoric. I haven't been farming, just clearing each map as I get to it, no restarts just the bonus XP thanks to Master Mode.
Hold on...
Target Legendaries from my understanding was going to be that certain bosses would hold certain legendaries that would either drop the first time they were killed or would only drop say 1 or 2 specific legendary items but would have a % drop chance.
For instance - killing Leoric for the first time would get you say Leorics Signet.
Or .. you would farm Leoric over and over if you wanted Leorics Signet/Leorics Crown and hoped that it would drop.
From what I am hearing we get a Legendary drop from first boss kills? But not a specific Legendary? That just sounds lame and is just a "guaranteedlegendary drop' not a 'targeted legendary drop' from my point of view...