The drop rate on this item is so atrocious (so low) that it HAS to be a bug of some sort.
I’m nearing 400 runs at this point, and have tried relogging, changing torment difficulty, changing up gear sets, etc. (I’m superstitious)
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Ugh this is not a good post to read. I am just at the point of getting ready to farm it.
It’s pretty bad. I’ve already had 2 primals drop, loads of ancient puzzle rings drop, had 4 goblin rifts, 7 rainbow goblins, and various other rare items. Gibbering? No Gemstone in sight at 400 runs.
I realize its pure RNG, but holy moly, put in some sort of bad-luck roll system or something at this point. It’s ridiculous.
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I have had zero Petrified Screams drop and have probably run 100 Rifts & GRs.
I’ve even had 7 or 8 of those drop… still no gemstone. lol
If there was a bug, then no one would be getting it. Turns out, a lot of people have completed or nearly completed the Altar. Bad luck is not a bug.
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Thank you for not reading all of my posts, making assumptions, and then inserting your unwarranted penny thought. Quite helpful of a person, aren’t ya?
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And how are you helping? Posting non-bugs as “bugs.”
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Don’t attempt to turn this around with your negative connotations.
Regardless of if its an actual bug or not, it’s extremely frustrating for loads of people. And since it’s basically near the end of the altar, of course many have “almost” completed it - adversely, many have not almost completed it, so your argument is completely moot and unwarranted.
Moving on;
Dear Blizzard,
I swear to all that is holy, if you add any system like this in Diablo 4*, I’ll never touch another Blizzard title ever again.
Sincerely,
Frustrated.
*By “system”, I am referring to the RNG based system where you need the cave itself to spawn, then need the RNG of the mob to actually spawn, then need the RNG of the item to actually drop off the mob that is required to drop it in the cave that is required for the mob that is required to drop the item. It’s ridiculous.
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This is a bug report forum. It is for reporting and discussing bugs. Read the sticky notes at top. Feedback IS NOT A BUG. Post in GD or one of the other forums if you want to discuss the drop rate of the GG. Which, by the way, has been around for a long time. You do realize that this game has been out for over 10 years? The drop rate of the GG has been discussed ad-nauseum for almost as long.
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Yep, I do. I probably have more hours in the game than you do quite honestly.
I remember being frustrated by this RNG system a long time ago too. Not just the drop rate, the entire RNG system thats built on an RNG system thats built on an RNG system needs to be reworked. It’s not just feedback, it’s a terribly designed system overall.
and even if I don’t… I don’t really care. Your comments were and still are unwarranted.
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It’s funny that you think your comments are anything new, or warranted. Especially on this forum.
It’s funny you think that I think that. All you do on here is assume.
The difference between you and I? I know my comments aren’t new or warranted.
They’re pure frustration. If you can’t see that, then I don’t know what to tell you.
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So you vent on a forum because you haven’t been able to complete, for a season that isn’t even a week old? Wow, what a sad and pathetic life you must lead.
That’s not how algorithmic bugs work.
You have 1,900 posts and this is the information you provide?
Embarrassing. Stop.
Go on reddit or something.
About the original post:
It is likely a bug related to PID-Seed generation.
I guarantee this gets addressed silently.
Also, it’s extra tasty to see someone with nearly 2,000 spam posts on a forum flame someone else for having “a sad and pathetic life”.
That one is top shelf xD
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I second your report.
Ignore TimberWolf. This dude spends literal hours every day just flaming people for reporting legitimate bugs.
He is the reason most game companies keep bug reports private, and not on a public forum. But blizzard gonna blizzard.
Clearly mentally ill or something, idk.
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Roo,
Firstly, as to your posts here and elsewhere, you aren’t privy to the game service’s underlying coding. What you have proposed is just one speculative possibility, so using it as a “likely” counter to the bad luck argument is not a counter. In this case, you don’t have the insights needed to claim what may or may not a bug.
Based off the small sample size of those who haven’t gotten the GG combined with the known low drop rate, evidence points to probability as the problem. It doesn’t mean there isn’t a bug, but it also doesn’t point to your proposal as the issue either.
For example, based of hours played, I’ve gotten the GG, Liquid Rainbow, lots of Ram’s Gifts, two Ancient Puzzle Rings and several Petrified Screams. Yet I haven’t received a single primal (outside the guaranteed GR70) despite other players receiving several so far. Is this specific character somehow bugged? Evidence says no. It’s simply falling victim to probability.
Secondly, you are posting on public forums. Anyone with posting privileges may respond to anyone at anytime. You don’t have the authority to tell anyone to stop posting simply because you don’t like what they say. If you feel someone is violating the forum rules, simply flag the post and move on. And on that note…
Lastly, it’s one thing to stand up to someone you feel is attacking/criticizing you, but you instantly kill your credibility on all fronts when you act the exact same way, specifically with those ad hominems.
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- RNG is not a bug, it’s a feature, particularly of ARPGs
- A basic course in probability and statistics should be required to post on the official forums of an ARPG
- As an example, a drop rate of 1% for a particular item does NOT imply that it is guaranteed to drop once after 100 attempts
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You are a NOOB pair a lot people on this forum when comes to hours on this game.
Plus the DROP RATE has been this way from DAY 1.
Plus he has almost 19 million kills to your 1.3 million. But you played more hours!!! LOL LOL
Leviathan,
Firstly, this is a forum for reporting bugs. According to you, no user should be allowed to report bugs or claim that something is a bug because they “don’t have the insights needed to claim what may or may not be a bug.” This is a blatantly false and derogatory statement, since it is obvious that users don’t have access to the source code under any circumstances to verify that something is intended or not, no matter how counterintuitive something may seem. The best anyone can do is bring up clear issues that should be addressed.
The small sample size is larger than you’re pretending it to be. I have seen 7 different posts on this issue where multiple people in those posts report having 2-5 hundred attempts with no drop. Assuming they are at least in the ballpark of their figures, 200 attempts is plausible but still problematic (~1/3K), 300 is extremely unlikely (~1/5M), and the multiple people claiming to have over 500 attempts with no drop are statistical anomalies (1/142B, that’s B as in billion).
Unless you’re claiming that hundreds of billions of people are playing Diablo 3 to make that statistically feasible to happen more than once (there aren’t even 8 billion people alive), you’re calling the forum users a bunch of liars, which I hope you have some evidence to back up or you’re just baselessly attacking people trying to bring an issue to light. Regardless of whether you are lying or attacking forum users, your behavior is unbefitting of a user marked as MVP and I hope you start to hold yourself to a higher standard going forward.
As you said, when a person attacks/ciriticizes other forum users the correct thing to do is report them. “And on that note…”