1.1.4 patch MATH! is it necessary?

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F1ghtClub wrote:

This drop rate "increase" will be like most of the other increase/decreases GGG implemented before it...imperceptible to player...placebo effect mostly.

People panicked that everyone with have a shavs soon are drama queens.

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artsy23 wrote:

So i heard unique drop rate will be doubled for common to rare uniques and super-rare will be increased by 20% in 1.1.4 patch. So if my calculation is correct.. it willl be like this.

common: crown of thorn drop rate (0.001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.002%)

Uncommon: facebreaker drop rate (0.0001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.0002%)

Rare: Bino's Kitchen Knife drop rate (0.00001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.00002%)

Super-rare: shavronne's wrappings drop rate (0.000001%) after next patch will be (0.0000012%)

you say why not (0.000002%) well because (20%) of (0.000001%) is (0.0000012%).

lol nice balance... (i'm not whining I'm just really saying what's the point of this patch buff drop rate). Is this drop rate buff really necessary?

edit: But then again i'm not sure the exact drop chance(percentage) of a unique.. this is just my estimation based on my experience.. (all those drop explosions from unique bosses, rare and magic mobs).

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Actkqk wrote:

0.001 the common and 0.0001 the Uncommon??? Go to another place. Go around the block or something similar. You really have something wrong...
These are the unique items I have, I'm selfound player and I don't have much space, so if something is not really useful to me I sell it to NPC.


Not enough for you?

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artsy23 wrote:

So i heard unique drop rate will be doubled for common to rare uniques and super-rare will be increased by 20% in 1.1.4 patch. So if my calculation is correct.. it willl be like this.

common: crown of thorn drop rate (0.001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.002%)

Uncommon: facebreaker drop rate (0.0001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.0002%)

Rare: Bino's Kitchen Knife drop rate (0.00001%) after 1.1.4 patch will be (0.00002%)

Super-rare: shavronne's wrappings drop rate (0.000001%) after next patch will be (0.0000012%)

you say why not (0.000002%) well because (20%) of (0.000001%) is (0.0000012%).

lol nice balance... (i'm not whining I'm just really saying what's the point of this patch buff drop rate). Is this drop rate buff really necessary?

edit: But then again i'm not sure the exact drop chance(percentage) of a unique.. this is just my estimation based on my experience.. (all those drop explosions from unique bosses, rare and magic mobs).

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Khisanth wrote:

I don't think that is how the drop rates are going to get changed.

I am assuming rolling for loot works something like this.

1) Roll for rarity
2) If unique is rolled then roll for the unique category

If we ignore Qarl's post then only 2) is being changed. If the chance of getting a unique before the patch was 0.01% then the chance of getting unique after the change is still 0.01%.

Examples using made up numbers in case that was a bit muddled.
Before patch.
1) Common - 85%
2) Uncommon - 10%
3) Rare - 4%
4) Super-rare - 1%

After patch.
1) Common - 70.8%
2) Uncommon - 20%
3) Rare - 8%
4) Super-rare - 1.2%

Chance of getting a unique from a particular category ...
Before patch.
1) Common - 0.0085%
2) Uncommon - 0.001%
3) Rare - 0.0004%
4) Super-rare - 0.0001%

After patch.
1) Common - 0.00708%
2) Uncommon - 0.002%
3) Rare - 0.0008%
4) Super-rare - 0.00012%