Season 33 primal drop rate problem. I’ve been playing for about 6.7 days, and in this interval not a single primal has fallen. 50 rifts a day. The first 2 fell quickly, but for a few days something happened. Can it be checked? did anyone else get any primal in the last few days?
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That’s just normal RNG, sometimes you hit a dry spell.
On a long term you will average 1 in 400 drops but on a short term the variance can be massive.
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In the last 3 days, I’ve gotten 8 (double drop is unlocked).
Like Kirottu mentioned, the rarity of primals can naturally produce long spells without them. They also can come rapid fire like they did for me these last 3 days.
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I play 1 hour a day, but nothing for a week, I couldn’t even finish my altar 
I really hate that without seasonal buffs UE6 has a hard time with pushes. I’m probably going to have to bite the bullet and just do a GoD setup for my 110. Of course, I’m having the same problem with ancients (yes, just regular ol’ ancients) dropping here as everyone else is with ancestrals in D4 - as in they aren’t dropping for the pieces I wear and after crafting literally 300 pieces of capt. crimson’s belt and pants, zero, I repeat ZERO usable ancients.
There are times it truly feels like Blizzard has dialed stuff back into the ground and through the planet just to get time played metrics higher. Ironically, this is the first season primals haven’t been a big problem for me. I did find that if you want a steadier stream of them, visions seem to put out more than GRs. Either way, at least visions keep me materialized.
And just managed to get a belt ancient for CC’s set. Yay. It gets the crappy 95 whisper gem I have laying around.
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I say go for it!
Regardless of what class I go with in a given season, I always make a GoD DH as well just for farming purposes. Being able to rapidly blast through serial Visions feels like it helps up the chances for primals. Granted they would be DH primals, but I’m more interested in the Ashes.
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I have found UE better for Visions because you don’t have to worry about momentum and Taeguk stacks when picking up all the stuff.
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I’ve accumulated about 700 ashes so far this season, far more than any season yet.
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I feel like we’ve had this sort of post recently… 
anyway…
this season I managed to unlock the potion nodes way before completing the other nodes on the altar this season. usually primals are my bottleneck!
then, after unlocking double primals, I went through a lean patch. I haven’t played for a few days but picked up 4 primals in an hour at one point.
good luck! don’t forget that town is lava and you’ll acquire those primals soon enough.
Well, I had enough Primals to unlock all my potions plus a correctly rolled Captain Crimson Belt before I got my first scream on regular SC (about 90 runs).
No need. RNG = RNG.
Don’t worry, we will get another 10+ “I didn’t get what I want, RNG is broken” threads before the season ends.
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I’ll say go for that, it’s really comfortable to do it with GoD and it can even do it with really mediocre equipment. I was in the same situation in the past Season as well. Also, Unhallowed Set have Convention of Elements or Odyssey’s End, available for this Season as an extra power creep; latter have better sustain and might fit your taste better.
You unlocked Primal drops with GR70, right? As with above said, the average drop rate of Primal items are around 1 in 400 Legendaries or 0.25%. This ratio can deviate around ~20% up or down as expected value in practice, making it 1/340 or 1/525 which is normal. But sometimes, it can get a real dry spell where it can get you thousands of Legendary and Set items to find one. Don’t get discouraged, and just keep playing the way you find effective. At lower paragons, Visions are a great place to start; when you have high Paragon level, then Greater Rifts are the way to go.
If you guys would quit nerfing the game it would be fine. even gold drop is down. But then again you
want us to buy D4 well that is NOT GONNA happen money hungry corps
Me, too, every season! Better post in bug reports! 
Imagine thinking that D3 isn’t suffering from rampant power creep. 
Not that I mind, but… wow.
Frogg, if you feel stuck and want help with something, there are knowledgeable ppl here willing to help you if you ask nicely. Blaming the game isn’t going to lead anywhere good though, and is also a little ignorant.
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It’s not me or my guys nerfing the game.
As for your assumption, I wholly disagree.
First, you replied to a post where I said I got a bunch of primal drops in a short time.
Second, there’s is no shortage of gold what so ever. Playing for five minutes can net millions of gold. I even had a single goblin floor in a Vision complete the Avarice conquest without me even trying.
So as to your conspiracy theory, maybe, but not for the reasons you’re attempting to push.
Wisdom.
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So what you are saying is that you already got between 12 to 13 Primals already. WOW Plus you are not even out of the gate yet with your 2 builds this season and at 752 paragon too!!!
On one of my accounts I’m at 900 paragon. Have finish the season journey, & the 26 slots on the Altar. Plus only have got maybe 5 or 6 primals.
I thought about posting about how you can salvage Whispers of Atonement now after I accidentally salvaged one last week but I presume that change came in with the altar and I don’t want to clog up the bug reports forum with frivolous posts because I was an idiot with a fast click and a slow brain. 
PS I deleted one by accident then another on purpose to see what you get. Three forgotten souls. That’s it. 
What about 1/1000? And that’s not 1 dry strick. It’s very often. Bad case is 1 in 2000+
Counting only my dry spells, I am at 0 primals from 45,302 legendaries.
Between that I am at 100% primal drop rate though! 
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I gave up on primals. They seem to never drop for the build you are using… good options to change builds but that’s not for me.
Game drops plenty of primals. Problem is 99% of them is insta salvage!
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