Since the 1.03 patch, it often feels as the purple monsters (unique monsters, often related to quests (e.g. the monster which spawns when you retrieve Zoltun Kulle's head)) drop really crappy loot. Oftentimes, they only drop a couple of gold piles. Do purple monsters have a better chance of dropping magic, rare and legendary items than white monsters?
To clarify what I am looking for:
Is the chance to get magic (or rare/legendary) items any greater from unique purple-named minibosses than from normal white monsters?
Best Answer
Your problem is that you expect the loot to be better simply based on the type of monster (namely, a boss or mini-boss). This is not the case. While these monsters are guaranteed to drop X items that are magic (or later, possibly rare) or above, the ratios of magic:rare:legendary:set is still the same. You simply remove the lower tier items from those calculations. So, if the ratios are 100 magic per 25 rares per 5 legendary per 1 set (and I know those aren't the right ratios, but bear with me), then you still have a 100/131 = 76% chance of getting a magic item, regardless of the monster you just defeated.
While your magic find is effectively 100% on these monsters, the loot that they drop is just as good as any other monster that happens to pass the magic find check.