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Legendary loot oddities

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packetloss

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I generally don't give much credence to the tinfoil hat theories on loot and all, but after having run 2 bots for over 10 hours a day since 1.0.5 came out, I have found over 40 legendary/set items on one bot and 1 (that's right one) on the other. Both have similar paragon levels (50+) and similar magic find.

Everyone likes to say RNG is RNG and toss out stuff about streaks and all that, but seriously 10+ hours a day for a week and one bot finds over 40 and another only 1. Something has to be seriously wrong with either their RNG function, loot function, or there is something else they aren't telling us which affects legendary drops (i.e. bugs in their code).

I'm curious though, has anyone else seen such legendary loot disparities amongst their bots?
 
I wouldn't believe it either, but it's true.

Not a filter issue as I have switched which pc I run which bot on (I normally wouldn't do this but after 3 days of noticing this I switched it up just to see). Both running the very same version of DB (latest beta) and both running the very same version of Giles with the same settings (not that it would affect legendary pickup).

Keep in mind there have been folks on the Bnet forums claiming to have over 200 hours and not finding any legendaries. I too didn't believe them, but after seeing this..... It's statistically improbable.
 
Well, one of my 2 bots, which works for a month now, gets much less legendaries than another, which is on duty for about 1,5 weeks. Also, the second one already made twice more money than the first for the whole month. And the money he made all came from selling decent legendaries, while the first gets a lot more crappy ones. They both have almost the same stats, they both farm the same routes with the same MP, on the same profiles and with the same DB's. I run them both on the same PC and on one IP. First bot has paragon 58 now, second - 36, almost no MF on gear. And all the time I felt like I know that something is wrong with this first loser.:D Now I see that I was right.
 
Just imagine the frustration for people who play this game normally without bots :(.
 
Statistics, improbable is not impossible nor as improbable as one would imagine.
 
brollysan said:
Statistics, improbable is not impossible nor as improbable as one would imagine.
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Certainly not impossible even if we knew for certain that their RNG function and looting algorithm worked properly. However, when such huge deviations occur, often the simplest answer is that something is broken.

If you recall way back when, there used to be a bug in multiplayer games where when a treasure goblin dropped gold, whoever picked it up first got it. Who knows what other coding gems they have in there. Maybe it's rolling some legendaries but they don't drop or just don't show on the client.

True, imagine the frustration of the ordinary player, playing with their friend that gets tons of legendaries and they only get 1.
 
packetloss said:
I'm curious though, has anyone else seen such legendary loot disparities amongst their bots?
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I went through a spell like that for awhile, it was a few months ago. All my bots would have legendaries in the stash, at least 1 a day. Except one bot, it Never had a single legendary drop in a month's 24/7 use. I triple checked all settings, no idea what caused it but it eventually came out of that rutt and the drop rates are the same as all my others.
 
i find tons of legendaries since 1.05 but the thing is .. 90 % of them are CRAP! i salvage that shit.
 
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