Thank you Jason!, much appreciate your detailed answer 
Any advice on farming Sparkthrowers?
what I’ve been doing is farming The Undergrowth with the bounty for Swillius active
It’s in the OP
oh right, derp.
still, managed to get a Skyfallen of Alacrity, so I don’t think i’m getting any better than that
Not sure about now (vendor farming is supposed to be nerfed), but in the past I’d target some crazy double rares
Double rares do still appear in vendors on occasion, but my gut feeling is I get about 1 every 5-10 visits.
And that is one among ANY of their items. Not just the one you are looking for.
I for one would not spend time trying to vendor farm double rares.
But it’s always worth keeping an eye out when you come by with another character. I’ve picked up some sweet double rares from vendors that I was not looking for, but bought on the off chance I will ever make a character that can use them.
iirc, Modal said after merchants got fixed it’s like 1% or little under/right around 1 % now. Which was half or less than half of what it was before?
Definitely a significant change for dungeon merchants if after a super specific one and not just interested in decent rare+magick or multi shopping items like at Vinelton
Also unsure if it was affected “more or less”, but it kinda feels like world merchants like Hyram is way worse than previous, *tho he’s ofc not really related to Sparkthrower
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That kind of matches my impression, if a merchant carries a dozen items or so and the rate is 1%, you’d see 1 double rare every 8-9 or so visits on average. So perhaps I was a bit optimistic.
Though when I was checking just now to count how many items Hyram had, I did immediately spot a double-rare one. Not a very useful one, Essence Drinker’s Fleshwarped Tome of Arcane balance. But still.
My general impression is that town vendors and skeleton key dungeon vendors spawn double-rares at the same rates.