Guys, If blizzard lower the season time, they will have to increase the drop rates.
Now it takes months for many casual players to find loot, to gear up. If season will be 4 months for example, these players, including me since we all have to work, personal time, hobbies etc, we wont gear any beside the sorc we started with.
Logically speaking when lower something—have to increase something else to bring balance.
If you had something generating money with minimum effort would you just get rid of the thing, whatever it is? LoL
Stop calling other legit players RMT users, I don’t buy or sell high runes and I still don’t want the drops to be dumbed down.
If thousands of bots are farming constantly 24 hours a day 7 days a week do you think that would affect drop rates for casual and legit players?
It doesn’t and souldn’t so I don’t know what you’re on about, reduce droprates or increase them bots will still be here as long as you have an open trade system and the open trade system is why people still play this game.
What does that change for you personally that other are botting? Nothing at all, these bots are here to make profits using RMT, do like me, ignore RMT and play the game normally, I already dropped a few HR and very rare drops myself mostly playing solo to boot.
Spend less time whining on the forums and more time farming, your drops will get better just doing that.
If you don’t think drop rates are affected from bots farming then you maybe just need to think about it and use your brain a little more.
The ratios are chewed through by bots playing. If a bots farming 24/7 and hoarding all the drops then of course you aren’t going to see many good items when you play. Is that not common sense?
For example 1000 bots vs 1 player farming for loot. What does that do to drop rate ratios? You honestly believe that it has no effect? 
Of course it has no effect, your chances to drop a HR are the same with 1 bot or a 1000 bots playing because drop rates are not magically adjusting.
The only thing that affects drops are the number of players IN YOUR PARTY, nothing else.
So you are stating that drop rates are not universal across the server but they are individual for the person playing? For some reason I doubt that.
Citation needed.
Have any actual proof to back up your assertion?
I despise cheating and all its forms, and I don’t like botting either, but my drop rates haven’t changed since the beginning of the game. They simply remain inconsistent.
Until you can prove it otherwise I’d say: yes the drops are personal and not serverwise. This always how it was in D2 (and every other arpg I played so far), I fail to see why that would have been changed for D2R.
I assume the game has a loot pool that is mined by the players and bots. Like a lottery. It isn’t just your account the drop rates are allocated right?
Exactly, you assume. That proves nothing, it is just an assumption and one I believe to be quite wrong.
I’m ready for you to prove me wrong anytime, good luck!
You both ganging up on me denying that bots affect legit players? When they operate 24/7 you don’t think that effects the loot pool? How about when they ruin the trade market by price fixing?
For there to be a loot pool, there would need to be a finite amount of items to exist.
That’s why in my opinion discussion about value of items is irrelevant. There is no definitive amount, and there is no truly unique amount of items to be had.
Rarity is only determined by access to the items.
Why does a loot pool need a finite item amount when it can operate off ratios? You don’t make any sense. Just arguing with bot devs here nothing to see
What is a pool, in your definition?
Theres no loot pool, never was, never will be.
Just a % chance to drop items that change depending on various factors, in the case of runes the number of players in the game.
All players on the server have 1:xxxxxxxx chance to get the loot, spread across the server. Isn’t that how a drop rate ratio would operate on an online multiplayer game?
ROFL, I have no proof so others calling me out must be botters / bot makers … OK, keep that tinfoil hat on.
What do you mean I have no proof why do I need to prove what is obvious. Just because I’m not oblivious like other players doesn’t make me wrong.