Diablo III Season 24 ethereal item drop rates seem to be influenced or affected in some way that is unintended.
I have been playing with my wife Krystal#1955 and have noticed a difference in the rate we are finding ethereal drops that cannot be attributed to coincidence.
I have, to date found in the neighborhood of 50 ethereals at level 70. My wife has found a grand total of 6.
We have nearly identical play times on the two characters.
I realize there can be some wide disparity when it comes to random numbers, but even just today I have found 10 in the last 8 hours and she has found 1. We have been playing together all morning.
I know there might not be any forthcoming resolution, but it does seem worth looking into.
It’s RNG. Just because she’s having bad luck doesn’t mean something’s broken.
How many times must this be repeated?
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Might be worth your time to look into Normal Distribution.
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Oooh, at the third standard deviation. How statistically improbable!
Some people win the lottery twice. Some people get struck by lightning twice. Some people play solo and get ethereal items to monsoon; some people group.
Personally, my empirical anecdotes are that group play reduces your individual drops, but you can usually make up for it by getting the buddy to throw the item you want back down. That is not a fact. Just my annoyed experience.
I have played many times with 3 of my accounts all in the same game where I can see all the drops, and I have not observed this.
Obviously. That’s why its not your anecdote.
If it were, it would be a confirmation.
LOL, well, I guess I can’t argue with that.
Had this issue not only with Ethereals but also with Ramaladni’s Gifts. Ran enough normal rifts to get about 100 Grift keys, ran roughly 20 Grifts before seeing my first Ethereal, and I wish I was kidding, it wasn’t until my 3rd to last Keystone of the initial 100 when I saw my first Gift, I was around 750+ Paragon at the time, decently geared out to the point where I could farm Grift 90’s decently fast.
Meanwhile people all around me in random groups were finding ethereals like candy, various friends found them while leveling to 70. RNG just hates me this season but I pressed on regardless.
Skip ahead roughly another 100 grifts and god knows how many normal rifts, closing in on paragon 1K, I’ve gotten around 8 Gifts, 22 Ethereals for Monk, and 1 Ethereal each for 3 separate classes.
All I can say is, good luck, keep at it, and eventually RNG will come to you, or rather in this case, your wife.
I was hoping the bad drop rate was a bug oh well. I am only about 30 gifts in no ethanol weapon he had will keep plugging. But as to what’s the point if you have to spend this many hours grinding just to find the seasonal item isn’t that really missing the whole object of the new season