Talk:Berenike Knight/@comment-6003396-20130227052253/@comment-151.55.193.138-20140427133930

quite oddly, if you run at him with no rings and 0 humanity, that's true (he basically drops that once every 2 deaths and almost never drops anything else). i put on the serpent thing (300 item finding) and he drops weapons/armor at the same rate of the shards, if not more (i am currently farming). this might mean that items have a "rarity" stat, and the higher your item finding stat is, the higher is the rarity of the items you get (he still drops a shard once every 2 kills, but also drops weapons and armor 3 times out of 4, roughly)