Problem
Quest glitched act boss always drop from frome their regular quest drop table even when in a terror zone. Thus resulting in worse drops than they should.
How to test ?
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create a new character, when killing normal andariel, save and exit (do not talk to warriv). Then finish normal and get to a high lvl (48+) : when in a normal TZ, Andariel drops from her TZ table (goes up to Act 3 (N) Equip A, or armo51 or weap51 and lower.
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create a second character, after killing normal andariel, talk to warriv (andariel is quest glitched). Then finish normal and get to a high lvl (48+) : when in a normal TZ, Andariel drops from her quest drop table (limited to TC : Act 2 Equip A or armo 15 or weap15 and lower).
It usually takes about one try to get an armor or weapon strictly above TC15 with the first character, and the second character
never gets anything of the sort.
other act bosses ?
This has also been tested with duriel. It’s most likely the case for all act bosses. It’s mostly inconvenient for Andariel who get’s quest glitched just by doing “normal things”.
what’s happening behind the scene ?
It seems that the code that chose the drop table column in monstats.txt looks first if there is a quest going on and selects the quest drop table if that’s the case, when it should first check if there is a terror zone, and return the terror zone drop table if that’s the case, and if it isn’t THEN check if there is a quest going on.