Another Uber Duriel drop post

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I’ve been playing since release with a friend. We have been material farming for Duriel constantly, as well as joining in on other runs.

Every single run we have done has been together.

He played a Rogue, with a switch to Necromancer to target farm the Grandfather, I play Barb.

After 400+ runs, we have the following Uber drops to share.

Drops:
Rogue run 15 - Ring of the starless skies
Barb run 32 - Doombringer
Rogue run 48 - Doombringer
Rogue run 79 - Ring of the starless skies
Rogue run 96 - Andarial’s Helm
Rogue run 128 - Harlequin Crest Shako
Rogue run 169 - Doombringer
Rogue run 226 - Andarial’s Helm
Barb run 276 - Grandfather
Rogue (switch to necro) run 287 - Grandfather
Rogue run 316 - Melted heart of Selig
Rogue run 379 - Harlequin Crest Shako
Currently at run 418

We also have 2 other friends that have been playing since season 0 but not consistently by any means who have done somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 (all of their lifetime) runs with us. They have found 4 and 5 Ubers each respectively.

Currently at run 418.

I fully understand RNG, but the statistical chance of this happening is getting to be pretty wild from the stories I have heard from some other players as well. Going 32 runs for 1 Uber, followed by 244 to get 1 more Uber, and currently on another dry streak of 142 really has destroyed my motivation to grind materials.

Crazy to think I have more play time than all 3 of them combined and spent time grinding Helltides and nightmares target farming Ubers since the day it was possible for them to drop.

This system needs to be improved upon. There are far too many oddities with loot drops in the game I’m not going to get into at this point that further shows something isn’t right, and this doesn’t just simply boil down to RNG.

Uber drops at Duriel are tied to double unique drop procs. The issue being I rarely see double unique procs, and without that it’s next to impossible for Ubers to drop at Duriel.

EDIT: Now at 810 runs, still at 2 Ubers. I appreciate friends/clan members now turning this into an experiment because this is nuts.

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As I put it in my post about “incremental probability”, I stopped playing. Feeling of wasted time. No matter how many times you try, the probability is individual each time you try. So it is possible to do it 5000 times and achieve nothing.

There should be a system that increases the probability every time you kill Duriel. I wanted Uber Item to create new characters. As I no longer believe it, the season is over for me. And honestly, I wonder if I’ll play the next ones…

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Yea I fully understand statistics, but to have no transparency on how the RNG works exactly is what bothers me. It isn’t as simple as a roll between 1-100 for example, with landing on 1 or 2 being an Uber.

Double unique drops are tied to the Uber dropping which seems to be another layer of RNG.

It would be nice if someone with a good understanding of D4’s system in this particular instance could offer some in depth insight.

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At the very least, some kind of duplicate protection. I’m at about two dozen runs, yet I have a small collection of Black Rivers. All I wanted was the damn horse.

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Well some news… Run 887 - dry spell is broken - Second Grandfather drop - on Barb after I rotated to Sorceress for 50 runs. Not what I was hoping for but it is what it is.

That makes 2 Grandfathers, 1 Doombringer in 887 runs.

Thankful for people donating runs/taking me along.

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took 276 runs to get the grandfather? ive been running nightmares and helltide hoping ill get the that thing to drop. im 95 and havent seen one but… that figures why.

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Lets just hope this is a time waster just for now because there is nothing to do. But we’re 3/4 into the season now and I have 323 runs with 1 ring. I don’t want to have to 500 Duriel runs every season, I want to play.