Let me start off by saying this - I know that there are still people waiting for their first legendary.
My response to this complaint: When you get your first, you will be sorely dissapointed.
I play as a DH - I have stabalised after the nerf to attack speed and I now have Act 1 Inferno on farm, I rarely die to anything short of fast frogs and those insect buggers.
I have completed about 20 or so elite/champ/warden/butcher runs this week and experienced much of what everyone else has complained about (useless rares, ilvl 63 drops are mostly white/blue garbage etc)
But one interesting thing has happened, and I wanted to share it.
Extremely rare item duplication.
I have found 4 Legendaries so far: Sultan of Blinding Sand, Sultan of Blinding Sand, Barter Town Pads and Arreats Law.
I have found 3 crafting recipes in the last two days.
They are : Exhalted Sovereign Helm, Exhalted Sovereign Helm and you guessed it Exhalted Sovereign Helm!
I actually found two of these recipes them in the same run.
To date, I have only ever found 1 weapon above 1000 dps - its a mighty hammer @ 1207 dps.
I just thought it was funny that considering the ridiculously rare nature of drops.. that I would end up with two of the same legendary, and 3 of the same crafting recipe.
If you have experienced similar results let me know. I will update this thread if i end up with another helm recipe..lol.
I've found 3 of the exalted sovereign helm patterns so far. Two in one run, the other one yesterday... Still no legendary items or even a 600+ 1 hander, let alone a 1k dps 2 hander...
Maybe there's something to this "randomness" afterall... The best I can figure is that somehow the game knows my helm is really bad and wants me to craft a new one.
I had Exalted Sovereign Mail drop in one run, since I had it learnt I just sold it to charsi. NEXT elite pack on same run I kill, it drops again... ok, I'll sell it again, this time... harder.
What is more amazing to me is that Recipes for crafting items that you already know from the trainer drop! Nevermind the 6 prop patterns, I am sure one of those will drop over the next 4 years....
I went 160 hours with 0 legendary and 0 set items. 15 minutes after I logged in after the last patch, I'd found 2 legendaries - both crap. I haven't found any since.
I have 3 BS plans - all different.
What is interesting is that I had 2 ilvl 63 crossbows drop the other night from the same elite mob in Act 1!!! They were around 900 dps and were almost identical in stats. I practically gave them away at 7 million each.
What is more amazing to me is that Recipes for crafting items that you already know from the trainer drop! Nevermind the 6 prop patterns, I am sure one of those will drop over the next 4 years....
That's why I thought it was so strange in the first place. I had already trained the blacksmith on the helm... and then it drops two more times? Why is this even a possibility?
The auction house is already laden with garbage plans, and the blacksmith is useless until you find a 6 affix plan. Wouldn't it make more sense to only allow plans that you haven't learned drop?
Just think how much a Helm of Command recipe would go for if you had to make a choice: Learn it and have it forever (but it never drops again) or sell it for massive profit and hope you can someday find it again.
Exalted Pallium
Exalted Dread Shield (2x, one I gave to a friend)
Exalted Sovereign Helm
Exalted Fine Mystic Staff
Flawless Star Topaz
The lone Fine pattern, was an Act 2 drop.
Weapon-wise, had one 700+ DPS Fist Weapon, but was blue (still sold for half a mil). Highest 2H is a 998 2H Mace.
Legendary items... I got 6 total: L15 Gloves, L16 Chest, L30 1H Sword, L45 Might Belt, L55 1H Spear, L55 2H Sword
Grantedly, I don't got much MF on my Wizard's gear, but oh well, I'll live.
RNG is RNG. Does it suck? Yeah. As to the stuff about getting just white/blue ilevel 63 things in Act 1: It's a 2% drop chance to even SEE an ilevel 63 in Act 1. And this is NOT modified by MF. So yeah, a good chunk of them won't be good. Hell, a good chunk of what we find in GENERAL will not be good. Diablo 3 is (in general) running on a 90/10 rule: 90% of your profit comes from 10% of what you find. And even that might be a stretch.
At almost 300 hours of playing with 2 60's I have found 3 legendaries. I sold one of them for 70k, the other two I cant seem to get a buyer for.
I have managed to find 3 JC recipes and consider myself extremely fortunate to have gotten those.
I have found the Exalted Slag hammer, Exalted Shield recipes so far both 4 prop. I have tried to make maybe 2 dozen of them in total and have had very little luck. That is not including the belt, shoulders, and other crap I have tried to craft without sucess.
Oh, I am wearing, I think, one piece I have found on my own. Everything is off the AH.
There is some kind of bug, I once got the exact same sword twice. Killed elite pack one got yellow sword identified it. Killed elite pack 2 and got the exact same sword with the same stats.
Speaking of crafting patterns - has anyone confirmed a drop of the higher level patterns (fine, grand, legendary, etc) from Act 1 yet? Act 2 has seen Fine and Grand at least, but nothing on Act 1.
There is some kind of bug, I once got the exact same sword twice. Killed elite pack one got yellow sword identified it. Killed elite pack 2 and got the exact same sword with the same stats.
i had this happen to me before except off the same lite pack haha. literally the same armor piece with the same stats affixes but different numbers. and this has happened more than once too.
I've only seen 4-property recipes, and I've been through all of Inferno. Never seen a Jewel recipe drop for anyone, ever. Three legendaries, one set item, and ~150 hours on my Barb.
I am just curious to all these people who say they are not finding any legendary's . How are you playing ? Are you just doing Boss run's ? I prefer to explore a little more and kill the elites , boss'sand everything else in between. as well. But i have found 7 lgendary and several good rares 1230 dps weapon etc....
if what you say is true thats very disappointing, there should be enough items, and randomness in this game for that NOT to happen, everyone ending up with the same 2 items would be lame =/
I've had two items of the exact same kind drop at the exact same time from 1 monster. Also had 2 tyraels following me, one leaving due to quest, other staying with me all the way to Azmodan.
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My response to this complaint: When you get your first, you will be sorely dissapointed.
I play as a DH - I have stabalised after the nerf to attack speed and I now have Act 1 Inferno on farm, I rarely die to anything short of fast frogs and those insect buggers.
I have completed about 20 or so elite/champ/warden/butcher runs this week and experienced much of what everyone else has complained about (useless rares, ilvl 63 drops are mostly white/blue garbage etc)
But one interesting thing has happened, and I wanted to share it.
Extremely rare item duplication.
I have found 4 Legendaries so far: Sultan of Blinding Sand, Sultan of Blinding Sand, Barter Town Pads and Arreats Law.
I have found 3 crafting recipes in the last two days.
They are : Exhalted Sovereign Helm, Exhalted Sovereign Helm and you guessed it Exhalted Sovereign Helm!
I actually found two of these recipes them in the same run.
To date, I have only ever found 1 weapon above 1000 dps - its a mighty hammer @ 1207 dps.
I just thought it was funny that considering the ridiculously rare nature of drops.. that I would end up with two of the same legendary, and 3 of the same crafting recipe.
If you have experienced similar results let me know. I will update this thread if i end up with another helm recipe..lol.
20 minutes later still on same run, it dropped.
...I haven't slept that day.
I have 3 BS plans - all different.
What is interesting is that I had 2 ilvl 63 crossbows drop the other night from the same elite mob in Act 1!!! They were around 900 dps and were almost identical in stats. I practically gave them away at 7 million each.
That's why I thought it was so strange in the first place. I had already trained the blacksmith on the helm... and then it drops two more times? Why is this even a possibility?
The auction house is already laden with garbage plans, and the blacksmith is useless until you find a 6 affix plan. Wouldn't it make more sense to only allow plans that you haven't learned drop?
Just think how much a Helm of Command recipe would go for if you had to make a choice: Learn it and have it forever (but it never drops again) or sell it for massive profit and hope you can someday find it again.
Exalted Pallium
Exalted Dread Shield (2x, one I gave to a friend)
Exalted Sovereign Helm
Exalted Fine Mystic Staff
Flawless Star Topaz
The lone Fine pattern, was an Act 2 drop.
Weapon-wise, had one 700+ DPS Fist Weapon, but was blue (still sold for half a mil). Highest 2H is a 998 2H Mace.
Legendary items... I got 6 total: L15 Gloves, L16 Chest, L30 1H Sword, L45 Might Belt, L55 1H Spear, L55 2H Sword
Grantedly, I don't got much MF on my Wizard's gear, but oh well, I'll live.
RNG is RNG. Does it suck? Yeah. As to the stuff about getting just white/blue ilevel 63 things in Act 1: It's a 2% drop chance to even SEE an ilevel 63 in Act 1. And this is NOT modified by MF. So yeah, a good chunk of them won't be good. Hell, a good chunk of what we find in GENERAL will not be good. Diablo 3 is (in general) running on a 90/10 rule: 90% of your profit comes from 10% of what you find. And even that might be a stretch.
I have managed to find 3 JC recipes and consider myself extremely fortunate to have gotten those.
I have found the Exalted Slag hammer, Exalted Shield recipes so far both 4 prop. I have tried to make maybe 2 dozen of them in total and have had very little luck. That is not including the belt, shoulders, and other crap I have tried to craft without sucess.
Oh, I am wearing, I think, one piece I have found on my own. Everything is off the AH.
It sucks.. but it makes sense.
2 Legendary (both crap)
2 BS Recipes (both crap)
About 75 hours played.
I also use no gear that I farmed myself. Everything comes from the AH.
i had this happen to me before except off the same lite pack haha. literally the same armor piece with the same stats affixes but different numbers. and this has happened more than once too.