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Uniques (purple mobs) that aren't bosses usually don't drop loot anymore. I think this may only apply to the ones that always spawn in the same place in certain areas, like at the entrance to the Waterlogged passage in Act 2 (used to be a rare, yellow, now changed to unique that drops nothing).

A lot of people have "cleared" A3. When you take a closer look, though, you notice that Tyrael was the one doing the clearing and half of the champ packs have to be skipped entirely.

Not talking to either of you, specifically, just saying.

As we all know, Legendary items, formerly Uniques, drop at a much lower rate than they did in Diablo 2.

I'm really impressed by how rare they are, so I decided to start a thread on the topic so we might find out, roughly, how rare they are.

Considering how rare Legendary items are, I'd be willing to bet that most people can count on one or two hands how many Legendary items they have actually witnessed drop. Since they are so few, many of you probably remember whether it was an elite or normal mob that dropped it.

So, here are my statistics...

I have killed 2,902 Elites and 72, 405 total kills. Assuming Elites are included in total kills, I have killed 69, 503 Normal or white mobs.

I have witnessed 4 Legendary items drop.

Unity (ring) - from a normal mob (Somewhere in Nightmare)
Thundergod's Vigor - from an Elite pack (Hell Act 3)
Zunimassa's Attunement - normal mob (Inferno Act 1)
Cindercoat - normal mob (Inferno Act 2)

So, out of 2902 Elites, 1 has dropped a Legendary

of 69,503 Normals, 3 have dropped Legendary items

Obviously, we'll need more people to contribute to get some reliable stats, so if you remember what kind of mobs dropped your Legendary items, click on your character and relay your stats in this thread. Once enough people post their info, we'll have some good stats on our hands.

Feel free to include any other information about your drops!

Edit - This is assuming you don't have a significant amount of MF gear on. I never had more than 10 mf or so for all of these drops. Of course, if you did have a lot of MF gear on, you should mention it, but I'd say if you had 20 or less, don't bother. Personally, I don't think MF gear will affect the statistics much unless you're rocking 1k MF or more. Legendary items are so vanishingly rare that you probably need a HUGE multiplier to make any significant difference.

STATS SO FAR:
Elite Legendary drop rate: 1 in 4,536 Elites or 0.022% chance
Normal Legendary drop rate: 1 in 56,096 Normals or 0.0018% chance

Interesting stats so far. It appears that elites are about 10x more likely to drop a Legendary than Normals and people are, typically, killing about 20x to 30x more Normals than Elites.

38% of Legendaries have come from Elites while Elites have accounted for 4.7% of total mobs killed

62% of Legendaries have come from Normals while Normals have accounted for 95.3% of total mobs killed

THE NUMBERS:
More stats coming soon!

Thanks for all of the input so far!