Has anyone analyzed LK drop patterns for D2R

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In LOD, the drops for the 6 Lower Kurast Super Chests weren’t as random as the drops from monsters. There were 65536 drop patterns and whenever a super chest is opened, one of the 65536 patterns was rolled.

Out of the 65536 patterns, 3 patterns contain Ber rune and 11 patterns contain Sur rune. This is only in player setting 7 and 8. So opening a single super chest in player 7 LK has 14 / 65536 chance to drop Sur or Ber or roughly 0.021% chance. Since a good LK map has 6 Super Chests, the odds of getting Sur or Ber per LK run is 0.128%.

This means that if you do 800 LK runs in player 7/8 Single Player, you have a pretty good odds to get a Ber or Sur rune. With how quick a single LK is, it’s probably the best way to farm HRs in Single Player.

If you consider the rates for other runes, not as high as Sur or Ber, but useful regardless, this is the data I found for LOD.

Player Settings 7/8
(30) Ber 3
(29) Sur 11
(28) Lo 2
(27) Ohm 5
(26) Vex 6
(25) Gul 11
(24) Ist 7
(23) Mal 15
(22) Um 10
(21) Pul 14
TOTAL: 84

Oddly enough, Sur has one of the highest chance at 11/65536, which is better odds than some lower runes like Um, Ist, or Vex.

Strangely, Lo has the lowest odds, even lower than Ber at only 2/65536.

I have run Single Player LK at Player 7 for the past 9 days and I think? the same patterns still exist in D2R but my sample size is of course too small.

These are my drops so far in the past 9 days.
3 Surs
1 Ohm
1 Lo
2 Um
2 Gul
3 Pul
1 Mal

Does anyone here know if someone tested the patterns in d2r? Are they still pretty much the same?

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Players setting 7/8 is not “single player”…

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lol

/20charactersplz

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Manually adjusting the player setting can only be done in single player.

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Patterns should be same.

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And if you are adjusting the setting away from 1, then you’re not playing single player any more.

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In orig Diablo II, I clicked ‘Single Player’ to go to the character screen and start the game and then issue the /players X command in game.

Should I call it Offline game with 7/8 players setting then?

Edit: the point is that either there needs to be 7 or more players in the game or simulate a game in that setting for those drop patterns….

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yes:

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Lol, k.

Single player is single player, no matter what difficulty mode you set. It doesn’t magically become multiplayer by changing the difficulty setting.

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Except the game thinks it does… loot, monsters, etc… the game thinks there are multiple players…

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Yes. I’m aware of that. It is a legit feature of single player implemented by Blizzard. It’s has been for a long time, so I don’t quite understand what the argument here is. And random too since this thread isn’t even about this in the first place.

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What? You’re playing single player on an increased difficulty setting. Alone, single player without the ability to ever play with others, but on the 7-player setting.

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Thank you! Seems like a lot of good info. I’ll read through it.

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Holy crap, Geezer posting in the forums still? Figured you would have left the forums behind after launch. You have the same negative posting Micro does, odd.

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Did not know the content of chests was different with more players, I thought it affected only drops of white mobs and bosses.

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I think it only affects Super Chests, unsure if all SCs are affected this way, but LK has been known for years. Any YT video or even old D2 forums have all the data on them. Most efficient way to find HRs and even Skillers while playing Offline, but boring as hell. I did it earlier this year on Plugy, made probably 1000 runs or so, and got a Vex, Sur, some Ums and Mals.

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I’ve been curious about this as well, if D2R still uses the same 1.13-1.14 patterns as original D2. It theoretically should since it’s based off 1.14, but I did notice one or two LK drop posts on Reddit that didn’t seem to match any patterns listed on the diabloii . net/purediablo forums or jsp, and they didn’t match up with a superchest pattern generator program I downloaded a while back (I’d share it if I could but the link/download is broken :frowning: ) either.

But I did see another post that did match up with a 1.13-1.14 pattern, so it’s hard to tell. The game’s only been out for a month and a half, so as people post more of their screenshots/patterns we can gather more info.

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Haven’t posted much, too busy irl/ playing when possible.

Negative posting? unsure what you mean.

Edit- oh like the -169 posts? I have no idea what that’s about…it’s Blizzard so…they like to do weird things.

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Same, playing most of my free time. I think maybe 3 days since launch I hadn’t touched. Disappointed in the two week delay in FF 14 so may skip it for now with the D2R update patches coming.

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Here my LK chest runs stats.

6200 runs

2 bers
9 surs
2 Lo
2 Ohm
6 Vex
2 Gul
1 ist

That wierd only 2 gul and 1 ist!!