Primal or ancient items

Whats the drop rate on it? I got the first one after 70 GR not Even for my set, i see ppl Running around with 3 primal items, i dont get any drop… Sick off this Running GR over and over and getting nothing, not Even ancient items and im paragon level 800+ and doing 95 GR… This is Sad and boring

On average, for every 400 legendaries obtained…
359 legendaries
40 ancient legendaries
1 primal ancient legendaries

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what MB said - roughly 1 in 400. Don’t be so worried about primals - they are not critical to doing well in the game.

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What 1 in 400, i got 3k legendarys not 1 ancient or primal.

Go talk funny some where els.

The chance of any legendary being ancient is 1 in 10 = 40 in 400
The chance of any legendary being primal is 1 in 400

So, the chance of an individual legendary not being ancient or primal is 359 in 400, i.e. 359/400

The chance that none of X legendaries is ancient / primal is (359/400)^X

If X is 3000, that’s (359/400)^3000 = 1.2687374257895434022034964970217e-141

That’s…
0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012687374257895434022034964970217

You’ve probably got a better chance of randomly picking a particular atom from the entire Earth than this claim being true.

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you would have got an ancient, just not an ancient you can use. The RNG isn’t just for gear for your build, it’s across the board. RNG is sadly RNG - nothing is guaranteed. On the first season that primals were introduced, it took me 2.5k legendary drops to get my first primal…primals tend to come in clumps from my experience - nothing for a week or 2, then bang, 2 or 3 in 2 or so days. I’ve even had 2 primals drop from the same RG. I’ve had one mate have 3 primals drop from the same RG.

I’ve had about 3.5k legendary drops so far for 4 primals - certainly not a 1 in 400 chance, but I’m not particularly lucky when it comes to RNG and not your “typical” player (luck wise).

As I said, primals aren’t critical to the game. The problem with your character is not the lack of primals (or ancients for that matter), it’s that you have the wrong stats on your current gear.

Of course, you may not be particularly good at the game skill wise, so even great gear may not see you push very high. Without seeing you play, I can’t be sure. I do know that the stats on your gear are sub-standard and they are most certainly holding you back.

Hi guys
Unfortunately PS4 has an offline drop randomness generation system. All drop chance numbers are correct for PC (blue post said tha chance for primal is 0,27%). It was tested and proved that to obtain the primal item on PC need 400 (± 25, math says 375) attempts on long range distance.
BUT. Then you get an item on console, the principle (sequence) of certain properties is already laid in it. It means that on PC the script on server decides which set of afixes your pre-roll item will have and a chance for primal. On the console, all subsequent changes (re-roll) to your item (in the Kanai cube) are predefined. You will need from 250 to 1000 re-rolls to get primal item, but the combination of affix could be not the BIS. For example it takes me more than 5000 attempts (it was the same amulet for all that attempts) to get Travelers Pledge with 1000 main stat (relloled into element dmg), 100% CD, 10% CH and Socket. I spend hundreds of hours on reroll process to dress my DH. But still several itemes needed to reroll (The Compass Rose is one of them)…

Here is my primal items
Most of them required about 20 playing hours of Re-rolling and a lot of ingredients (sorry for Russian version)

https://ibb.co/YDY61bR https://ibb.co/Gx9qy6v https://ibb.co/XSGjBPf https://ibb.co/JQy5PvW https://ibb.co/X7szS6X https://ibb.co/KWhW76F https://ibb.co/YQ3wpkM https://ibb.co/30ZhMG5 https://ibb.co/MgP4Nqz https://ibb.co/41M3kRD https://ibb.co/XCGBHgY https://ibb.co/0ZJph1j https://ibb.co/qs52jDK https://ibb.co/JRHtJL3

I am always open to exchange offers. Now collecting a Demon Hunter Shadow Impale Build