Drops are making me sad!

Just to illustrate, I give you dord

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

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I may have to make a density-controlling character called "Lord Dord" now.

One does not simply walk into Mordord...

You shouldn't poke fun at these kinds of mistakes; it is a matter of great dord.

/win

That's my bet..

Wow.. That's heavy.

Sucks to be you!

I don't think I've found anything that affects the drop rate in any way other than "bump the multiplier difficulty so there are more enemies to kill", thus giving you more chances.

Other than that, random means random.

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My guess as well.

And I'll add the paragonwiki is one of the most relaible and tested sources of information about this game.

Hey, thanks for posting that -- that's one I didn't know. I love finding out that kind of stuff.

If he was, I doubt he would have given up so easily.

The scary thing is: he's not. He legitimately thinks this way. He even occasionally goes out of his way to explain the details of why he's right, which is sometimes hysterical because his foundation knowledge of City is totally skewed and oftentimes completely wrong. His foundation knowledge is his own subjective "data" (which is colored by his incorrect suppositions about the game), instead of developer comments, hundreds of hours of testing, and intimate knowledge of the numbers (even before there were Real Numbers).

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

That's just sad.

I have seen it frequently.

"I'm right!"

"Really? Prove it."

"Didn't you just see where I SAID I was right? That proves I am!"

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

This is pretty much it. It sucks because not all builds are equipped to play this way. I'm sitting on so many right now I'm thinking of giving some away since I don't have a personal base for storage space.

My advice is if your are looking for purples to try sets that deal a lot of AoE damage. My favorites are Fire/Dark or Fire/Rad (they can toggle herd better IMO) Corruptor. Some players have success with Fire/Kintrollers but I enjoy the Corruptors more.

I see your Tank and raise you my Fire/Dark Corruptor. 4 Purples in the last month and I don't even play more than 3 hours a week anymore if that.

Sell a couple, convert the inf to prestige, and build a base to store the rest :-)

I would if I weren't horrible at base building. I tried it a couple of times, I just find it too confusing even with help from a few forum threads.. Someone should write a base building for dummies book or do a video tutorial.

Alright, I've got what I believe to be an accurate figure that comes from testing with a sufficiently large sample size that takes LTs and bosses into account. This makes for a much more applicable calculation for anyone who happens to be interested in this. Considering average spawns that include bosses, the estimate is 1 purple drop per 3700 defeats.

Let's run the same calculations again.

After 3700 defeats, it's 63% likely that you've gotten a drop. Note that this is the same as the 5000 defeats at 1/5000 odds calculation. This is not a coincidence.

To be likely (50%) that you've gotten at least one drop, you only need to defeat 2565 enemies.

To be 90% likely that you've gotten at least one drop, you will need to defeat 8520 enemies.

Remember that all of this is by yourself. Multiply by 8 if you're going to be with a full team all the time.

Conversely we see people saying the exact opposite on a regular basis:

"You're wrong!

"Really? Prove it!"

"You're wrong because I say you're wrong!"

See: discussions regarding the actual randomness of the RNG, especially re Incarnate trials, see past discussions of whether or not it was a good idea to bother taking Stamina.

It is a ridiculously clunky and unintuitive system.

If you like, if you get a character ready with a bunch of prestige and let me know when you're online, I could roll a throw-away character up on that server and make you a very plain but functional base with some storage.

I appreciate the help!

Fix'd for ya.