actually meph CAN drop Arkains and Hydra bows can ONLY drop in Act4 or Act5 but even if they could drop in act three there are no monsters that can drop it because
Windy is Treasure Class 87..the highes TC Monster in act3 is Mephisto(TC 78).. Multiple player games are the best to mf in since the drop rate increase in the same manner Monster Toughness does in multiplayer games explaining the windy big D dropped.... but what cant be explained is this...Diablo supposedly
can only drop weapons up to treasure class 84..if windy is treasure class 87...how did Big D drop it???But he does ive seen him drop windforce just one of those unexplained blizzard
mysteries
Baal on the other hand drops treasure class 90 as do
Pindleskin,Snapchip,Frozenstein,Thresh Socket,Colenzo,Achmael,Bartuc,Ventar and Lister
most of which take a long time to get to and fewer yet have very good drop rates.
But even though Meph can only drop up to TC 78 his drop rate is extremely high...so its possible to do ten runs real fast and look like this
02/12/24 06:32:56 : [Exceptional] Herald of Zakarum
02/12/24 06:39:20 : Unique Amulet Dropped
02/12/24 08:29:49 : [Set] Whitstan's Guard
02/12/24 08:35:07 : {Ecpt}Unique Rune Bow {Magewrath} Dropped
02/12/24 08:40:25 : [Exceptional] Gerke's Sanctuary
02/12/24 08:51:14 : [Elite] Stormshield
02/12/25 02:14:36 : Unique Ring Dropped
02/12/25 02:16:39 : [Set] Set Amulet (possibly Tal Rasha's Amulet)
well 8 runs oops
where as ten pindle runs with his disgustingly low drop rate might look like this
02/12/22 12:47:57 : Large Charm Dropped
02/12/22 12:51:50 : Jewel Dropped
02/12/22 12:51:50 : Rare Amulet Dropped
02/12/22 12:54:06 : Rare Amulet Dropped
02/12/22 13:06:30 : Grand Charm Dropped
02/12/22 13:11:04 : Jewel Dropped
02/12/22 13:11:05 : Large Charm Dropped
02/12/22 13:35:02 : Large Charm Dropped
02/12/22 14:17:44 : Large Charm Dropped
02/12/22 14:22:34 : Set Cuirass Armor {Haemosu's Adament} Dropped
02/12/22 14:34:05 : Grand Charm Dropped
02/12/22 14:56:01 : Grand Charm Dropped
02/12/22 14:56:06 : Rare Jewel Dropped
not very promising but once in a while he drops VERRY NICELY
i guess its all according to how much time you want to spend ..
a long and grueling trip to baal and his minions?? 25 pindle runs?
3 meph runs??? by the way 1 meph run is equal to about 25 pindle runs as far as the drop rate is concerned even though he cant drop anything higher than TC 78 ...he drops a whole lot more
in a shorter amount of time.....buy the way those are actual pickit logs pfft...