Sooo I get RNG and all but is anyone else having really bad(almost seemingly buggy) drop rates when it comes to farming keys and respec essences? I have seen 1 from baal, and 2 from diablo in hundreds of runs… yet I throw away andy/meph’s all the time. I have yet to get a key from countess and only one from nihli.
It encourages spamming game creation.
- Make Game
- Teleport to Nihlathak
- Kill Nihlathak.
- Remake Game
It makes for ~1-2 minute runs.
Maybe they need to double or triple the number of bosses that drop these items so that you can spend more time in the same game.
Make these items drop from more act bosses like:
- The Countess
- Griswold
- Radament
- Coldworm the Burrower
- Geleb Flamefinger
- Icehawk Riftwing
- Izual
- Hephasto
- Snapchip Shatter
- Frozenstein
That’s two per act.
Diablo and Baals drop chance is about 1 in 20. From what I’ve seen in my runs that feels about right for how many essence I have. You may have bad luck or it might just feel like you’ve done more runs than you actually did. Idk
The one thats been tough for me is Baal essence, every other essence drops like candy, but he’s a stingy SoB when it comes to his.
Stop please, clearly you aren’t convinced what RNG is.
Not really farming Diablo and Baal atm but i started doing the countess more to get keys as me and some friends are close to being able to do ubers and just last night i got 3 keys from her in like 5 kills, i even got 2 keys to drop at the same time. So it’s certainly not buggy if anything i was surprised at how fast i got 3 keys from her.
Speaking purely on essences here, yes.
Diablo and Baal seem to rarely drop any essences at all, realistically I would say I probably throw out at least 30ish meph and andy ones before I see a single diablo essences, and more so for baal. I don’t think I seen an essences from him for at least the first 50 runs I got one not last week the week prior, haven’t seen one since.
Keys on the other hand, I have felt that their drop rates may be altered a bit or just I have really bad RNG on them but, they are so easy/quick to get to that It hasn’t really bothered me personally.
I’m just going to say that the drops, are working fine. And many long time players will confirm the same thing.
This isn’t one of those things, where some of us have proper code, and some of have bugged code… it doesn’t work that way.
It is not similiar at all to some people having crash issues, and others not.
That’s all i’m going to say.
PS; 50+ countess runs , not one key, i lost count before it finally dropped. Rare as all hell to have this happen, but it does. IT can.
For the keys, it takes me about 5-8 hours to get all 9.
For essences, Baal is the only stubborn one when it comes to dropping them, so he takes some time to get. But normally I don’t have a lot of trouble getting Tokens. Respecced my Sorc at least 6 times by now.
I do wish keys and essences dropped more often though.
You get lucky some days and other you don’t. In the weekend I played 3 hours only got 1 key. But last week in a day I got a fulll 3x3 set in about 4hrs maybe, and some extra keys too. Hardest is nihaltak.
best method is to do all the 3 runs in the same game. Even if one doesn’t drop the other 2 might, its better than making a game after game just to get a Dkey from nihaltak
BTW doing key hunts in high player games make it better for drop since the no drop goes to 0% and you get more chances. A friend of mine got 3 keys out of the summoner in 1 kill. never happen to me yet, but have seen 2x keys in the same drop
I have said it in other threads and I will say it here. It would not shock me if the current group of people working on this game messed with drop rates. Keys in particular for me have been almost non-existent.
Got 2 essences in like 5 kills today probably just rng