back when .10 was first released i joined ladder and made my first ever sorceress.
after about 3 months of doing council runs one of them dropped a soj.
A tip you may want to know.
The game looks to see if you have a manald or nagerling.
If you have niether you have a 100% chance to get one of them before a soj.
So i suggest keeping all the unique ring you can.
Also another mf tip is to have your sorccer close to the required levelto use the soj ring.
which is level 29.
Umm well Kroft i think that the first part you mentioned is no longer used about the manald and nagel becuase that was how you used to be able to buy sojs.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Long ago it also applied to drops as well...in that a game wouldnt drop an SOJ until a manald and a nagel also existed/dropped. So by holding each in your stash you could have an SoJ drop a lot..and I do mean a lot...more than rares it seemed sometimes. The trick was once you had an SoJ it would then only drop rares. So those who didnt want to get another "useless" unique ring would keep a manald, a nagel and an SoJ in the stash to get more rares...those who wanted to horde SoJs would mule them and then continue with their main character until another dropped. All of this no longer applies to .10 though....or the patch before that either I think.