And once again, 100 runs is waaay to low to notice a pattern.
That’s normal, just as it should be. Loot tables are programmed this way. It has always been like this. You just remember the good drops from 10/20! years back.
Playing single offline D2LoD Hell Mausoleum - the Archon Plate (white or socket) is not something unusual. Yes it’s not dropping every run but it does drop “regularly” for this type of armor. It’s not a kind of something to farm 100 runs in a row… if I could I would give them to you for free…
Playing every day actually and have no perception of extremely low dropping rates for elites on Hell. Yes normal and nightmares are still there but I would say every 5th-6th item dropped is elite. Which is good enough.
If anything, the loot is more common now in D2r than LoD. In a few days of farming Meph ive had, 3 bartucs, 4 Titans, 5 Lycanders aim, 2 Buris, more than two dozen lv60-80 unique weapns and armours and of note a Stormshield and a Shako that i wanted.
And thats just from sunday to today, probably about…500 runs?
Took me months before i got a Stormshield drop in LoD. But you know what, thats just RNG
I respect the comments made to mine. I will not argue them as everyone is entitled to their own opinions. The only comment I have 0 respect for though are the ones who say ‘if you don’t like it, go play D3’. If someone cannot express an opinion about topics, then why create a topic? Why make a comment if you are going to get shut down instantly?
What I’m trying to say is there will always be a comment for and against this game, saying go back to D3 is such a childish response to them.
I do like this game, but I am not going to kiss Blizzards’ ass or anyone else’s by making it sound perfect. As I keep saying, it’s just my opinion.
I dont get it some people are saying they have 400+ mf and find nothing, ethier you have some good gear and have 400+ mf or they are running blue mf gear and taking 10-15 mins to run and kill meph.
kill speed is more important then how much mf you have, I run pindle I’d say it takes me 15-30 secs per run most of the stuff i see is blue and yellow I dont pick it up rarely is it something to id even more rare is somthing to trade.
This thread isn’t about magic find but about normal vs elite drops.
the elite drops are the same thing if u had lots of elite base drop there would be more unique items of that base and they are sup to be rare how many white diadems do you see thats why griffons eye is so rare and sought after.
Yes so you’d expect 1/3 Normal + 1/3 Exceptional + 1/3 Elite (assuming you’re on area level 85 ).
Instead they are getting 99% Normal.
From my experience I am in area level 79 grinding away, I get very, very few Elite item drops, most are indeed Normal.
Maybe this is the way D2 is written, I am not sure and am not going to fire up D2LOD and do 100s of runs to prove it 
Exactly. Elite gear is pretty rare.
Almost … this is about D2 normal and elite vs D2R normal and elite
And still I say that in 100 cow run U can measure/remember/see/count the D2 original rate of normal - elite vs D2R original normal and elite drops. Thats all, very simple, no matter the MF no matter the exact count of items just: D2 x/y <> D2R x/y. It must be the same and 100 run * 400 - 450 cow drop (40000 - 45000 drop!!) can be a good base to compare d2 and d2r
And for this sinmple math U dont need to know rng, nor mf … nothing just divide x y and compare.
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100 runs is not enough, 40k kills are rookie numbers, stop claiming this nonsense.
I’m done with this thread.
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To the ibnes that says alway: “it is random”
Countess MUST drop ONE RUNE, the second is almost quaranteed and even a 3rd one can drop(rarely indeed). This was D2, Countess shall drop runes always.
Like I said, I got a Countess run with no runes, she dropped 3 blues. How this is random? when Countess SHALL DROP AT LEAST ONE RUNE. It is a bug, not random.
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More nonsense!
Countess has ALWAYS had a nodrop chance on her special rune drops.
Now I’m really done with this thread. Have fun spreading dumb claims and fake numbers.
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where did you get this info? She has a chance of 1/64 for no-drop. Chance is not huge but it’s not 0.
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Lol no, 1 in 64 u get nada
the first boss kill does not give 100% of the drop of a unique or set item. Increase your% chance of getting magic items. That will get you more unique and set items.
Quest drop bugging is the process of killing ant act, receiving a quest drop, and not completing the quest. This allow us to receive a quest drop every time we kill the boss. Quest drops ensure you won’t get any white items, arrows / bolts, potions, or any other “trash” from the drop
Just bad luck, have seen this happen to me in the old days
No, it is not in Hell. At least in D2 LoD you get elite drops any other run in Hell… stop spreading this nonsense about rare elites. In Hell they are pretty common to drop. So far I would say I’ve done approx 100-150 runs to Mausoleum D2LoD and results of elite armor drops approx to my memory: about 10 Archon plates, About 7 Shadow/Laquered/Sacred (each). Among Laquereds - 2 Tal already… not mentioning other elite items.
Rare?
in normal a-g . in NM a-p in hell a-z . swirling crystal more change drop in NM because in the drop list there are fewer things that fall from the boss, it has always been this way and this is not a bug, you do not play in d3 where the drop is tied to the class, the difficulty level adds the next variation of the thing, but does not remove the previous one