Exalted Orb Drop Rate in Standard

Hello everyone!

I'm a very casual PoE player who has played basically only ever in Standard league. After clocking 300 hours on Steam, I still haven't gotten an Exalted Orb drop once.

Am I a little sad? Not going to lie yes, but I understand RNG. However, as I've been stalking these forums every now and then, it seems that other players can manage to find an Exalted Orb once at least every two weeks of playing. I imagine they clock quite a few hours into this game each week, but still.

My question is, do Exalted Orbs drop more often in challenge leagues than they do in Standard? To me, it would make sense since Standard's economy is so saturated with... everything. Of course, I guess there's no real way to "confirm" this but is anyone else in the same boat as I am? Or am I just quite unlucky?

RNG is RNG.

For example I dropped 9 exalted orb during the Talisman league (1 months play) and maybe 1 or 2 during Prophecy (3 months play).

Don't count on Exalt drop to buy stuff, focus on getting chaos instead (they are multiple ways to get some either by regular drop, chaos recipe or trade).

All the same base drop rate.

I clocked up 870 hours on HC prophecy according to steam and got 1 exalt. To be honest though I was probably afk for about 2/3 of that, so I guess that means I got one in 300 hours of actual play time as well?

The people who are finding at least one every 2 weeks are likely playing builds with higher clear speed and increased quantity of dropped items than you or I are.

Thanks for the replies :)

All your comments make me feel better about myself, so thanks haha.

But wouldn't it make sense for GGG to tone down the amount of Exalt drops in Standard though? Since everything from challenge leagues just eventually trickle down?

Just build a IR/IQ Character and grind.

Can't see that going down well with the community. Then playing the leagues would feel even more like something you HAD to do, rather than a personal choice.

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Sounds good everyone! Thanks for the friendly replies.

I'll mess around with IR and IQ and I'll watch a feel videos on how to make a decent build (newbie here would appreciate any good links or videos). I might even try playing Atlas next month :P.