cookiegirl2: When you are fighting monsters you notice there are numbers on their monster pic It has a higher level. As RPG players know that stronger moster gives better stuff but what I noticed also you can test it out if you like when I fight monsters I see how much stamina is used for a attack I notice that when you attack and kill a monster with higher stamina use for attack like 10 11 12 and so forth equals higher chance of a item. Hope this helps.