item quantity and zone drop penalty

I was wondering the interaction of increased item quantity on gear in lower level zones. the wiki uses both terms reduced and less to describe the amount of items you get, but i havent found any documentation to how item quantity on gear factors with the penaties.

I am very interested in this as well. Namely, I want to know if quantity can cancel out drop rate penalty at a 1 to 1 ratio.

Worth noting that for the purpose of drop rate penalties, you are never considered to be above level 68. Therefor you will never have a droprate penalty as long as you are in a zone level 66 or higher. Honestly, IMO there is zero reason to farm in any zone lower than that anyway (Dried Lake in merciless is 67, and is the lowest level zone I would ever consider farming...)

I know about that. I personally farm a few cards in lower areas but run with a lvl 93 char. I run with 93% quantity and was just wondering if say a 61 area (12.5% penalty) would have a profound effect on quantity or if it would be a simple subtraction from my added quantity from gear (93-12.5).

According to the wiki, drop penalty is a "reduced" modifier, so yeah, in theory at least it should be a simple subtraction.

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yeah hopefully. Thank you much.