Do all the class sets have the same drop rates?

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I am collecting all DH sets, I have all of them between half and full ancient except the GOD set where I only found 1 ancient part.

Given the amount how many set item i have already collected, the fact that items have a 10% chance to be ancient (is this true?) it seems very unlikely that i dont get ancient set items for the GOD set compared to what i get for the other sets.

is there a difference in drop rates for class set items? maybe because it is the new set it has a lower drop rate? Or is it just weird randomness, which should result in an increased return of ancient GOD items at some point according to the rules of stochastics.

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We don’t have access to the numbers but the drop chances are most likely the same. I also collected all sets to do gr 55 with them all. For the shadow’s set I even got primal pants, just from random drops in game. I’ve managed to get three ancient Dreadlands items by now.

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Well, we sort of do. The d3planner/kadala numbers come from datamines, I believe: https://www.d3planner.com/game/71510/kadala

With a few exceptions for some slightly rarer items, nearly all items have equal weights. The exceptions include things like Tasker’s (0.75 weight), the immunity amulets etc. Every set piece should have equal weighting.

There can be some differences in different sets if they have items in different slots (e.g. you might find a some different numbers of Nat’s pieces since it has a ring and weapon instead of a shoulder). Drop rates for set pieces will also change somewhat on different classes if there are additional class-specific items on one class that dilute the pool (e.g. DHs can gamble either cloaks or chest armors, which dilutes the chest pool relative to other classes. It takes more blood shards on average to get a GoD cloak on DH than it does to get a set piece chest on other classes).

But on a given class, for a specific slot, all the set pieces available for that slot should have equal weighting. You have the same chance to get GoD pants on a DH as Nat’s pants, UE pants, Marauder’s pants, Shadow pants. Just luck of the draw.

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Weight at cube and Kadala for any individual item can differ. So we may never know but it seems for looting all Set items have equal chance to drop. Only exception appear to be a few very rare legendary items.

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It can change with patches as well. For instance Istvan’s Paired Blades used to be much rarer drop. Iirc the patch notes even stated drop rate increase (but no from/to numbers given).

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I have the same experience. I haven’t found one ancient Masquerade setitem, I am still using the gift by Haedrig bags from first day.
I found plenty ancient items from tragoul, pestilence and Inarius.

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I collected some more experience. without documenting it feels the new sets are rarer than the old:

  • DH, found less GOD than others
  • Sader: found less of the new one than others (which is good, im going for akkhan condemn)
  • Barb: found quite a lot of the new set while looking for frozen wastes.