šŸ›‘ Did maintenance massively lower chance for Ancient/Primal?

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Well not sure ofcourse, small samplesize, but I read this post and though damn thats real bad RNG.
Just did some runs and counted non-ancient vs ancient drops/gambles.
I had 71 non-ancients and 2 ancients.
Could be a case of bad RNG ofcourse, but they might have introduced a bug with the maintainance.

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Evening all,

Nothing to the game code has changed. The weekly maintenance is more for Battle.net features and such.

To make it clear, there has been ZERO changes to drop rates or anything related to in game.

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Hi Matt

Can you confirm that these Maintenance that occur are actually test. Seems abit game breaking how the Party System and Chat System is completely botched and it didnt come up when testing the actual patch ? This has been completely bugged for a while now and its making it beyond difficult to party with people and causing people to leave S19

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For me, it looks like standard RNG. Kadala is her usual stingy self. Iā€™ve had run after run of full bags of blue/yellow with her. On the other hand, I got a BiS Primal to drop out of a chest during a run, too.

RNG is part of the Diablo experience. 99.99% of items generated are crap. If you get a long run of crap, itā€™s likely because the gameā€™s designed to give you that most of the time.

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And they wonder why people use bots.

The RNG is freaking miserable in this game. The lack of any linear progression is soul crushing.

Every reforge that doesnā€™t result in ancient should increase the chance of your next reforge, and the same for primal. The way things are right now, pure RNG, is just garbage.

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Havenā€™t found a single primal yet, but Iā€™m still looking!

Played DIII the day of release back in 2012 and went three whole weeks before finding my first legendary. The roll was absolute garbage but Iā€™ll always remember the feeling I got when it dropped.

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Have you done a GR70 yet? :thinking:

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Just cleared 52. Primals only drop after 70?

Havenā€™t played RoS since 2014 so Iā€™m basically newb.

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You get one guaranteed upon your first timed gr70 and it unlocks the chance for them to drop.

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You have to clear a SOLO GR 70 before the timer for them to drop. In Seasons, doing so gives you a guaranteed primal the first time you do the solo GR70 and beat the timer.

Once you do that, you can get the super rare primals in any level. You just have to unlock them.

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I once went 5 days playing 6-8 hours per day and didnā€™t get any primals. But I also had a day where I got 3 primals in under 30 min. RNG.

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You wouldnt belive this but abouy, a year and a half ago i tryed to upgrade a gem at70%ā€¦it failed 15 times in a rowā€¦15ā€¦at 70%ā€¦though i have not yet past at 1%, im sure failing at 70%15 times is the other side of it lololā€¦man that day was frustrating lol

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At OP if you want to feel better, Im at 76 reforges on my weapon for TR build and havenā€™t gotten a single ancient yet, let alone a usable rolled one.

And at p920 playing solo outside of bounties havenā€™t had an ancient weapon drop yet either. And it took me 250k shards to get and ancient POJ helm, and it rolled meh.

RNG is RNG, for everyone of us that gets ridiculous bad luck, thereā€™s an outlier on the opposite end of the spectrum rolling in primals. Get over it.