Playing through a nightmare tournament with UB: Ooze build and after a near defeat I decided to watch the replay to see how much the opponent AI was "cheating" By way of gold and so on.

Game start I pick DA to see what gear he starts with and what skill selected. The Item he purchased is Nimoth's Ring, here I was surprised as I figured they got more starting money but not 3K more. But when I checked the rest of the enemy side none of the others had started with such a big item, just banded armor and tp scrolls for the most part.

SO my question is, is it normal for one opponent character to get a hefty boost in starting money or was that specific to DA?

edit note: the above bolded used to say income which I KNOW is higher for NM, what is weird is that DA was the ONLY one that seemed to have more starting money.