Quote Originally Posted by Byrth View Post
Unfortunately, it is known that monsters with the same name in the same zone can have different drop pools. For instance, Ghrah M. Chips can only drop from first floor Ghrah (in both zones), but not second floor Ghrah. This is the first example I've heard of where drop rates vary on the same type of monster within a zone, though you could view the first example as a special case of the second.

Now, tin-foil-hat-ACTIVATE, but if one were to hypothetically look at the .dats, one might see that there's no noticeable difference between top and bottom floor Ghrahs / Aura Statues. Similarly, there's no real reason why monster drop rates couldn't vary between monsters on the same floor. Who would have predicted that Raxa only drops off Aura statues near Ulli's spawn point? Maybe (in addition) it only drops off the third, fifth, and seventh statues at Ulli's spawn point. We could be discovering a whole new sampling problem.
This is depressing on so many levels. It's a really great point, though.