Generally, Rare items will almost always be more superior. Some Magic items are actually even better than many Rare items, but that’s just ‘some’ and based on randomization. It’s the Magic and Rare items that you should be looking out for. You’ll find plenty of Damaged/Crude items along with Normal items, and they’ll almost always be the ignorable/sellable items. The only problem though, is the randomized spawning of these enemies, which makes repeatedly successful farming iterations almost impossible. Because of their high-spawn rate and the capacity to drop rare items, these should be of higher preference than bosses. Why is that? Well, because you are more likely to run into such enemy types than you are to run into a single unique boss (which is just once per quest attempt). Now, contrary to what may seem as the obvious winner amongst the above types, the Rare and Elite enemies considered by the community to be the most efficient high-quality item droppers in the game, even above Bosses.

Bosses tend to drop high-quality Magic items, and almost all of the main/heavy bosses (such as the Skeleton King, Maghda, Belial etc.) drop at least 1 rare item when killed.

On higher difficulties they can even drop Legendary Items, though the probability is very low. Rare Enemies tend to drop high-quality Magic items and at times good quality Rare items.On higher difficulties, Elite Enemies often drop Rare Items, and if you’re ultra-lucky they might just drop a Legendary Item, though the probability of the latter is very, very low. They also tend to drop normal items with slightly higher stats. Elite Enemies tend to drop relatively larger amount of gold and relatively better magic items.Normal Enemies will only drop mediocre normal items or average quality magic items, and low amounts of gold.Elite Enemies, indicated by blue font, and often having additional abilitiesĮach of these enemy types has a specific kind of farming probability and quality.

Normal Enemies, indicated by white font.

As is the case with items, there are multiple types of enemies in this game, ranging from normal demons to rare enemies to unique bosses.

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