Raptors Revisted

Ok this is going to be long,but decided to try and tear apart Raptor Farming for myself and share what I experienced.

My solo farm NM raptor runner
[build=Raptor Runner;OQYTk44UZ6uMvgHiuItAuMVsrAA]

My gear is Knight's Insignia on all armor.+3 Tactics rune in helm.Superior rune of absorption in chest.+3 Strength rune in gauntlets.Rune of attunement in leggings and boots.

Weapon is a Req 9 axe with a 20% longer enchantment grip and a +5 energy inscription.Axe haft is unimportant as no upgrade affects this build.

Shield is a Req 9 gloom shield with a +45 while in stance handle and a run for your life inscription -2.

Movie of this build in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynx54HCXgwE

Now that that's out of the way.What I did was run the raptors 30 times each different way to try and come up with an average of what was going on drop wise.Whites were salvaged for crafting materials.Blue,Purple,and Gold items were perfect salvaged(kit) for usable runes/insignia(if they were worth salvaging)and then sold to merchant.Here's what happened to me.

Solo NM
6.1 avg items per run
1 Gold Item per 10 runs
1 Dye per 5 runs(had to be blue,silver,red,white,or black all other dyes dismissed as merchant fodder)
1 Lockpick per 30 runs
1 Green(Claws of the Broodmother) per 30 runs
2.3 Holiday items(birthday cupcakes) per run
1.2 Saurian bones per run
1 min 5 seconds per run(includes aggro and killing on ALL raptors and zoning)

Sum total(did not sell "good" dyes to merchant)
32.5 minutes running time(not counting salvaging or selling time)
3 platinum 80 gold
5 bones
7 steel ingots
10 bolts of cloth
15 piles of glittering dust
16 iron ingots
32 wood planks

Solo NM while "Greying Out" Heroes and Henchies(max group of 8)http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9601/flagtj6.jpg
5.2 avg items per run
1 Gold Item per 7.5 runs
1 Dye per 7.5 runs(had to be blue,silver,red,white,or black all other dyes dismissed as merchant fodder)
1 Green(Claws of the Broodmother) per 10 runs
2.1 Holiday items(birthday cupcakes) per run
1.1 Saurian bones per run
1 min 5 seconds per run(includes aggro and killing on ALL raptors and zoning)

Sum total(did not sell "good" dyes to merchant)
32.5 minutes running time(not counting salvaging or selling time)
2 platinum 186 gold
4 bones
3 steel ingots
10 bolts of cloth
15 piles of glittering dust
11 iron ingots
21 wood planks

To me it appears that with Heroes and Henchies,I got a lot more Golds and Greens and valuable Dyes.But overall less items and whites.I would like to see someone else try this with different characters and post their results.Afterall this pretty much only took 45 minutes total time per experiment.