Last I checked two-handed swords don’t drop very often for sorcs. Is it even possible to get a grandfather?
It’s not possible to get it on any class. You’ll drop 40 Magebloods in PoE or 50 Zod runes in D2 before you drop a gf in D4.
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I have never had a Unique drop that I couldn’t use but Druid bugs aside I suppose it isn’t impossible. Just unlikely. I believe when they fixed the Druid issue they said there was still a small chance to get Uniques for other classes.
True. But many people don’t understand scale or numbers very well.
They really do not. There seems to be a huge group of players on these forums that are deeply confused about what the difference is between really rare and infinitesimal. Whenever I see someone say they are ok with the odds, I immediately assume they are a dropout that has never taken a statistics course.
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It’s 1/800000 chance or something completely stupid. Nothing should be that rare in a video game. They are promoting medical conditions just having it in the game. Sometimes I wish Diablo 3 was remade into better modern darker graphics. There is so much about it that blows D4 away.
Don’t worry about the Grandfather. You and all your friends and pretty much everyone you know or seen in game or on youtube will never have that or any other of the ultra-rare uniques.
That’s how rare they are unless Blizz changes something. Just forget about it and pretend it doesn’t exist because it effectivly doesn’t. Not for Sorc. Not for Barb. Not for anyone but 1 person in Asia after a month of release.
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Yeah I’d be more concerned with it dropping at all. “Ultra Rare” is a weird direction to take, I mean I played d2 for many many years and never personally dropped a zod, and grandfather is 50 times more rare than that?
It’s silly that there are unobtainium items in a game that revolves around gathering up items. Once the hype dies down they will either increase the drop rate or people will stop caring and go on as though said items simply don’t exist.
Come to think of it there’s a lot I didn’t personally drop in d2, and nothing was as remotely rare as this. It’s just odd to me.
It took me 11 years of pretty consistent play to finish finding every item in Diablo 2. I believe the math works out to something in the neighborhood of 31,000 years before one would be on the positive side of the probability curve to find one of these items. It’s REALLY stupid and just bad design, honestly. It’s not defensible to anyone that actually understands what they are talking about.
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There are three types of people that do not worry about the odds. One, no lifers. They play so much that RNG is bound to fall their way. Two, people who want trading or an auction house. They are sure the item will be available and that means the odds do not matter. Three, people who are bad at math. Even taking a stats course will not change this because some of them have problems with simple addition.
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Your post made me laugh and you are probably right that there are a lot of no lifers that think that, but even they won’t get these items. Look at streamers, for example. These are the most degenerate trihards we know, and none of these guys have the items. As in, zero of them. Finding these items is not a question of effort or intelligent, optimized playing strategy. It is simply just walking around hoping to get struck by 14 lightning bolts at the same exact moment. Luck should always be a factor for finding these items, but when there are no legitimate, feasible ways to manipulate that luck through engaging in the games content, what you have is nonsensical design. These guys talk about these things - trust me, they do. I work with developers for my companies application almost on a daily basis, and no core design decisions for applications are made in isolation. These things are discussed at length by any competent organization. What really concerns me is that there were multiple people on this dev team - at least a majority - that were likely ok with this. Stupid stuff like this is never one persons fault. It comes down to not enough people using their brains and raising their concern about something that, on it’s face, makes no sense. If they somehow came to the consensus that this was a good idea, and at this point we know they did, what else can we expect in the future? I have concerns.
