Low Drop Rates in Underworld

[noperly22]

The new sets with them own, just saying, i can almost solo the levels not including the bosses with my bear level 74 with 71 flying set, they are wonderful, yet i still havent gotten a pink from there i like to farm there, i have only run underworld 10 times and seen 4 pinks in those 10 runs

[Ogbuehi]

Um, what? You're saying that if pinks have a 1% drop rate, then purples must have 0.2%. Whatever thread it is that "did the math" is just plain wrong.

Talking ballpark figures, if pinks drop at a 1% rate, then purples would be more like 5-10% range depending on the map. If you're on a Shamus elixir, then purples automatically equal pink, so your chances of getting a drop have jumped from 1% to 6-11%. In other words, from one-in-a-hundred to somewhere approaching the one-in-ten range. If you ask me, that's a more than "significant" change in odds.

If the drop rate for a pink is 1%, but you don't get a pink, 100% re-roll would simply guarantee a second chance at getting a pink effectively doubling your chances. When you double 1%, you get 2%. The one thing you're forgetting is that I arbritrarily chose 1%. Nobody knows for sure what the actual drop rate is except devs and I'm pretty sure it's way less than 1%. One correction I need to make is that those 25% and other xx percentage luck elixirs would take you from 1% to 1.xxx%. If having a 100% elixir simply added 100% to your chances, pink drop rates wouldn't matter, you'd always get it if the monster had it in his table AND dropped something.

[AresDamage]

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[AresDamage]

If the drop rate for a pink is 1%, but you don't get a pink, 100% re-roll would simply guarantee a second chance at getting a pink effectively doubling your chances. When you double 1%, you get 2%. The one thing you're forgetting is that I arbritrarily chose 1%. Nobody knows for sure what the actual drop rate is except devs and I'm pretty sure it's way less than 1%. One correction I need to make is that those 25% and other xx percentage luck elixirs would take you from 1% to 1.xxx%. If having a 100% elixir simply added 100% to your chances, pink drop rates wouldn't matter, you'd always get it if the monster had it in his table AND dropped something.

Thx alot! this helped tremediously

[McBain]

If the drop rate for a pink is 1%, but you don't get a pink, 100% re-roll would simply guarantee a second chance at getting a pink effectively doubling your chances. When you double 1%, you get 2%. The one thing you're forgetting is that I arbritrarily chose 1%. Nobody knows for sure what the actual drop rate is except devs and I'm pretty sure it's way less than 1%. One correction I need to make is that those 25% and other xx percentage luck elixirs would take you from 1% to 1.xxx%. If having a 100% elixir simply added 100% to your chances, pink drop rates wouldn't matter, you'd always get it if the monster had it in his table AND dropped something.

That math isn't correct, according to how 100% luck actually works. When you have 100% luck, you always get the next higher level of item, unless a higher level doesn't exist. For example, if you loot a pink, there is obviously no re-roll since nothing is above pink (except in the special case of the Humania elite map). However, if you loot a purple, it automatically re-rolls to pink, just as green re-rolls to purple, orange to green, etc. Therefore, if the percentage for looting a pink is X, and the percentage for looting a purple is Y, then your overall chances for looting a pink when on Shamus = X + Y, because either one results in you ending up with a pink.