actually your theory may be possible because each time i bought a new gear, my mentality was sigh, i buy new gear, it's not going to pay off.. and then jackpot, something sellable. which pays off for the gear i bought and more.
i mean i didn't suspect at first, but it just so happen that each time i bought new gear, it pays off nearly immediately.
Now that u've mentioned it , i just swapped some gears just now and played my DH ,
got my first set belt, put it on to test and killed siegebreaker , got another legendary boots - fire walkers .
there is a thread for certain legendary drop area/elite in D3 forum pre 1.0.4, not sure if working now, but i have got some same legendaries from same map too, somewhere tower of the cursed/damned im pretty sure some mobs only drop certain items, but if someone could create a thread on where u get the legendary, from what mob/elites, if possible, with time and date too will be cool btw, once i got 2 absolutely same rare bracer from same kinds of mobs, those little scorpion in arreat crater, they come in big groups and the 2 bracers dropped closely, i was standing at the same spot while killing them (not sure if where i standing will affect the drops etc), this is what make me think that there are certain loot table for certain kind of mob, the 2 rare bracers shows exactly same stats after i ID them, not too bad stats and both sold for 1m+, and that time i dont even dare to post them together because i worry that blizzard think i duping and ban me
i've gotten 2 identical 1 handed crossbows too , still have it in the stash . i was wondering if i duped it without knowing how ..