So for the last 2 weeks I’ve just been farming pit lvl 101, to get Stygian stones and neathiron to prep for s5 (I play eternal). I’ve farmed now 30k neathiron and that’s netted me only 51 stones. Lvl 101 pit gives 60 each time so that’s a total of 500 runs. The patch notes say that pit lvl 100 should have 18% drop rate. I have only 51 stones from 500 runs that’s a 10% drop rate, pretty big gap. I think 500 runs is a pretty fair amount for testing, at that amount you can’t use the bad rng excuse anymore. An 8% discrepancy is pretty huge. Anyone else properly test this out with real numbers, not just oh I seem to get them every few runs.
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I do the same, speed run 101. Probably done about as many, have 28k neathiron after using a lot. I didn’t count my drops but around 50 seems right. Unfortunately, to be close to conclusive we would need to run a lot more than 500. It does seem below 18% to me but maybe if I run 10 000 it would even out. That in itself seems like a problem to me.
I always took it to mean it was increased by 18% rather than it was boosted up to 18% total. Which would make more sense seeing all the posts about drop rates.
500 definitely is not a big enough data set to go on.
That’s literally 5 rounds of x in 100.
You’ll need to do it 10x more to begin to get an accurate read, and it’ll continue to get more accurate the more you do.
If patch notes say “drop rate increased by 18%”, then that doesn’t mean it’s 18%. I don’t know that we know the actual drop rate but I’m not sure what patch notes you’re refering to either.
In S5 it’s coming down afaik.
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Wait what are they dropping the rate ??
Well that just takes the cake 
F that
Ok then , can we just get stone for sale in the shop??
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Don’t waste my time
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You’re right, I misread it, which also explains why it feels like nothing happened and the drop rate still sucks. It sounds like a buff saying 18% increase but if the initial drop rate was around 8,5% adding 18% to get it to around 10% drop rate, you’d never notice that small of an increase. That would be in line with what blizz considers a buff
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i don’t really think the patch should be interpreted as “increased by” where “by” is not included. it subsequently lists examples starting at pit 1. if it actually were “increased by”, the chance at pit 1 would be close to 0 before and after the buff which is meaningless to mention as examples.