ive killed summoner 100+ times today and have only gotten one key. Anyone know what the drop rate is for keys?
Like 1 in 12 or something like that. Basically you got extremely unlucky. Sorry
It’s about 8%. There is a reason keys are still decently valuable, and summoner and nihlathak’s are worth more.
At least farming countess you always get some rune drops, summoner is just as likely to drop a random blue and nothing else as he is a key.
Dude just buy a key from Akara.
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Ya about 1/12, esp since he spawns in a random direction with no set pattern its only viable for chars with teleport to do. It is a good spot for runes due to ghosts having a 3x higher chance of runes but again the summoner has bad drops other then his key so many dont farm him due to that.
Summoner worst farm confirmed
I dont think its the worst as you can kill ghosts for a 3x chance of dropping a rune, and theres a lot of ghosts though they drop nothing if over pits and if you have teleport you can reach him decently fast, but again…
compared to the other 2 keys theres not much else esp comapred to countess and her guranteed rune drop table. Arcane isnt terrible if you arent looking for uniques and only runes and hate keys.
It’s the worst psychologically.
Just because you always get the first 3 lanes wrong then get blue boots for it. All the while fighting space goats and ghosts on a 1x1 hallway.
And then you get to summoner and he’s got that semi-maniacal laugh soundtrack that pisses you off even more because he’s literally paper thin and so easy to kill for all that work.
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Then there is the barbarian over there with pro gamer strats like “just jump over the gaps and monsters lol”
It’s one of the few places where leap is (almost) (not really) as good as teleport.
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True, Leap and charge are two underrated skills with definitive advantages over TP imo
If only we could jump through walls… 
Another good spot for leap is on the way to chaos sanct, you can just jump past the area before it.
The A2 maps, A4 over the crevasses and in river of flame ez skips. A5 up to Shenk.
The advantage being you see what you’re jumping into vs tp’ing blind into a boss.
Mb I’m wrong but when D2 launched I think barbs could, like in Maggot Lair. They eventually fixed it.
They didn’t need line of sight to leap.
yeah i run a 89 sorc. takes me around 15 seconds to 1 min 45 seconds per run. I ran it another 40ish times since i created this thread and still no key and i crashed and so screw it im going to bed.