Rings?

[Diab]

They've definitely got a rare chance to drop things. I farmed them over and over a few weeks ago, just doing ~1-minute runs on them, till I filled my inventory. It was probably about 20 runs or so, with 0-3 items dropping per run, all white or gray in quality. I got maybe one or two magic items. Even with a run where I got lucky to have an MF shrine spawn right before SK's room, they didn't drop any magic items at all.

A good tip for farming these is to make a single-player game, go through the entire cathedral, all the way up to the checkpoint your character receives right before you get to the Skeleton King's door. Then just kill the skeletons in that room and quit the game without killing the Skeleton King. Then just click the 'Resume' button to start a new game and your character will be at that saved checkpoint right before SK's room again.

[Bowzer]

I've found a 10 to int and 5% mf ring in a total of 3 runs.

Loriku was there for one of them.

The drop rate isn't that low, it's just the amount of monsters you fight down there is low.

[chaosrulz]

Found three rings from the skellies near the locked gate before SK. Also found a magic warrior belt from them.

[fnwc]

The only ring I've seen drop in this patch was from the skeletons that SK summons during the battle. Now I always make sure to kill them!

Are you sure about this? I don't think *any* summons provide xp, gold, or items in order to prevent this very behavior.

[Gnome]

yeah summons dont drop anything good

I just farmed the returned before the SK gate about 10 time and got nothing of interest :( not worth the time.

Will just have to wait till the game comes out to see what the rings are like.

[Loriku]

I've found a 10 to int and 5% mf ring in a total of 3 runs.

Loriku was there for one of them.

The drop rate isn't that low, it's just the amount of monsters you fight down there is low.

Yep I was there, I've got several +2-4 dmg rings and 5%mf rings from them too, never seen anything as good as that +10 stat ring though you lucky bugger!

[Raging_Zealot]

Are you sure about this? I don't think *any* summons provide xp, gold, or items in order to prevent this very behavior.

I could be remembering wrong but I'm pretty sure that is what dropped it. In front of the gate would make more sense with what others have said though.

[z00t]

I can't believe my luck - I got like 3 rings in 10 minutes, from a few runs on those Returned skeletons, but after a half hour later, I didn't get any more :P.

[HardRock]

Yep I was there, I've got several +2-4 dmg rings and 5%mf rings from them too, never seen anything as good as that +10 stat ring though you lucky bugger!

Having +2-4 damage is way better than having +10 primary stat.

[aerial]

Lot of people is farming that skeleton pack before the boss, can be done really fast, with use of waypoint and rejoining games without killing SK.
From my experience their drop is quite low, need some serious luck to find something useful there. At least it is possbile to drop.