Did something like this happen to you?

[Kyneugh]

I just found this exact same rare two times in a row in a time span of 2-3 minutes:


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Sergeant's Pilon
Rare Polearm

257 DPS (238-303, 0,95)
+48-112 Damage
+75 Strength
+124 Intelligence
+95 Life after each Kill
1.90% of Damage Dealt Is Converted to Life
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Location was the Caverns of Araneae, Act 1 Hell. Everything, including the name is the same. This is so strange, hopefully my account isn't flagged for duping now. T_T

[swayzesghost]

This suggests that the servers pre-generate a list of rares per session or something...And it farted in a way that it reset the list..No way the game could generate the same rare twice in a row, would be one in trillions chance.

And the plot thickens.

[Draba]

Just something similar:

On a single inferno warden/butcher run I've found two skycutters less than ~100 yards away from the warden.
Both dropped from those dead guys in chairs, stats weren't the same( it goes without saying that they were garbage, around 2K vendor gold each ).

Considering that I've seen 4 legendaries in 150 hours including these ones, it's probably some kind of bug.
I've looked in every nook & cranny on that level, but no more interesting drops.

[Shadowtwin]

I have had this happen once with a rare (ring, garbage stats -but identical name/stats. It dropped twice in the same zone -dungeon under the desert in act 2 Hell- I salvaged them both). I remember thinking the odds of it were ridiculously low and wondering why I have the type of luck to get a one-in-a-billion double-drop of a garbage rare instead of the kind of luck to get a one-in-a-thousand drop with any stat I could actually use...

[Nizaris]

I had this happen as well. What's interesting is that the same thing dropped for two separate people on my friend's list and I asked them to give me the items so I could see. I still have the 2 identical fist weapons as proof. It's very odd, but I imagine it's some database hiccough that can drop two identical items of different ID's.

[AceOfJacks]

It happened to me too. Act 1, Hell, fighting those Moon Clan Goatse men. Don't remember what the item was, because it sucked moose balls, but I promptly NPC'd both of them on my next trip back to town.

I thought it was interesting, but I didn't give it much thought. I chalked it up to a glitch in coding and proceeded to kill more monsters.

[GoldenredDragon]

I remember this happening to me last night, but with white items. I was on a spree, and saw 4 cupola's one after the other, pack after pack, with always a bit of gold, and that's it.

I didn't look at the actual stats, however, I was intrigued to see that I got that many belts in a row. White ok, but in a row. Maybe just the RNG for me, but twice the same rare !? That's hard to believe, and I wouldn't if it weren't for those multiple whites I've seen.

G.R.D. (Everybody check : if same items drop, of any quality, pick up and compare. Even backtrack if needed, it's an experiment !)

[AceOfJacks]

Now that you mention whites, that triggers a memory in my head. While I was farming hell, before I became Inferno-worthy, I would notice many many white "Aspis" drops. Being the immature fool that I am, I would always think of the South Park episode regarding Tourette Syndrome, and would giggle about the many *** Pisses the monsters would drop upon death. "I hit that guy so hard he *** pissed" ... I'm pathetic, I know ...

[txfirefighter]

i had this happen to me in d2 once. it was a sword i believe. happened with a set item too...

[beingmused]

Now that you mention whites, that triggers a memory in my head. While I was farming hell, before I became Inferno-worthy, I would notice many many white "Aspis" drops. Being the immature fool that I am, I would always think of the South Park episode regarding Tourette Syndrome, and would giggle about the many *** Pisses the monsters would drop upon death. "I hit that guy so hard he *** pissed" ... I'm pathetic, I know ...

The Relevance is strong with this one.