Do the drops get better in higher Nightmare dungeons? Im only doing 30’s but nothing good ever drops. All my gear has come from spamming normal dungeons. Multiple uniques and Ancestral gear all from Champions demise and other normals. Please tell me it gets better on higher tier runs.
I don’t know hat you mean by higher nightmare dungeons but i can say with 100% certainty that ancestral gear is total and utter S**T! At this point I have went through hundreds upon hundreds of ancestral gear and the only thing I manage to upgrade from sacred was my weapon everything else has horrible stats. If an ancestral gear drops and the best case scenario it could have 2 stats that are good everything else is trash every single time. There are waaaay too many useless stats that can roll on ancestral gear and stats like critical hit chance are so rare it is actually utterly ridiculous to hope to even see them on an item let alone see them with a high roll. I have to say I am really disappointed with the non existant rolls at the endgame 
gear in tier 30s is noticeably better than 20s for me lvling 60-70. going slower, but more of the drops are higher lvl as well as ancestral quality.
drops scale to the difficulty and clevel. (in that order)
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I feel that I get better items in vanilla dungeons than I do in lvl 15-19 nightmare dungeons . I’m lvl 56, so nothing crazy but still. That’s a huge problem imo. Should be an incentive for gear to do higher nightmares, but I honestly have felt it’s way worse.
Even if the same dungeon on lvl 19 drops the same gear as vanilla dungeon. That also sucks. But honestly , it seems nightmare dungeons have worse loot. I only see one legendary per 5 nightmare dungeons ? And typically it’s just regular legendary not even sacred . Almost feels bugged.
I guess the guaranteed legendary at the end could be added and can say I get 6 legendaries per 5 nightmare dungeons. But dam, I havnt gotten anything good from those either. They typically 670 gear. Vanilla I got all my 700 stuff from ? And honestly relatively fast in vanilla. I don’t want to speed run a ton of vanillas. I get it’s more efficient for exp. But for gear really should not be the case. Though it def feels that way. 670 gear can’t hit the next threshold with upgrades and so it’s dam near worthless.
Is it possible that nightmare dungeons are bugged at higher levels if my char is technically not suppose to be doing them. For example , I am lvl 56 doing lvl 19 nightmare ? I play solo.
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I am level 100 on my rogue and have tested this extensively. The drops I saw doing tier 50-80 maps was not drastically different than what I got doing regular wt4 Champions Demise runs. I didn’t track the percentage of ancestral items I saw in high tier nm dungeons vs regular wt4 ones, but they are very similar, if not the exact same. The only real substantive difference between running high tier nm dungeons and regular wt4 ones is the time it takes. Tier 70 dungeons will take you 30 minutes to complete, and regular wt4 dungeons will take you about 5. You can guess which one of those methods results in more gear.
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Yeah that’s super super lame imo. Puts a damper on my experience. I don’t want to speed run a ton of vanillas. I like the challenges. And you would think higher nightmares would give better than vanillas ?!? Makes no sense. Bug or intended ?
Likely just bad design, honestly. Most of us figured the drop rates for the wt4 uniques were bugged because literally none of them dropped for a week and only one of the four has been confirmed to have dropped in 11 days with over 5 million people playing, but blizzard confirmed this wasn’t true. If you like the combat, just try to focus on that instead of drops.
Yeah that blows. I love the combat. But I also love gear haha.
Just figured it was an easy way for the game to give incentives for wanting to play against tougher mobs and wanting to gear up as much as possible in order to do higher levels in order to get better gear . A great grind “loop” system that keeps you involved though. Seems that’s not the case though. Really hope they change that.
That whole Game is a Joke, you know where you get good lvl 820 Gear? From vendors at the Citys at lvl 90 plus. You have to Look every hour but they have better Chances than playing the Game lol.