Sorry if this has been asked before... but I've been trying to find an answer to a rather specific question, and I'm having trouble with the answer.
I know you can get the same legendary twice... but can you get the same legendary twice if you have it equipped? I've noticed I get a fair number of duplicate legendaries, but never ones I have equipped. Is this just RNG in my favor?
I'm curious because I want to make a build around a specific weapon, but the version I have of it is kinda crappy and I have other weapons that work decent for the build. I'd rather use it than not use it, unless it meant I couldn't have a chance at it long term.
I don't have a definite answer, but if we think of it in terms of probability, here's how it would work:
Imagine you have 1% chance to drop a legendary. You drop 1 in 100 drops on average. Now, let's say there are 50 different legendaries you can get, with no particular weighting towards one. The probability of getting any one of them is 1%.
However, you're looking at the case where you get a legendary, and subsequently get the same one again, ie 1% of 1% => 1/10000.
Looking at it this way, I would say that it is rarer, yet not impossible, to get the same legendary twice.
That being said, I have had the same legendary drop twice (Swamp Land Pants or something of the sort). So keep in mind that the numbers I gave here are far from accurate, but provide a good representation probability-wise.
Therefore, the fact that you don't find the legendary that you have equipped comes more from the fact that you have DROPPED it, more than you have it equipped.
Hope that helps
This post is ridiculously wrong on so many levels. For instance, it assumes legendaries of a type all have the same drop rates; they do not.
I know you can get the same legendary twice... but can you get the same legendary twice if you have it equipped? I've noticed I get a fair number of duplicate legendaries, but never ones I have equipped. Is this just RNG in my favor?
I have replaced legendaries I was wearing with better versions of the same legendary that dropped while I was wearing the poorer one.
yes you can. 100% sure. I got 2x firebird's eye shoulders. I received the 2nd one when I had the first one equipped. So definitly yes, you can get the same leg, even if you have it equipped.
Sorry if this has been asked before... but I've been trying to find an answer to a rather specific question, and I'm having trouble with the answer.
I know you can get the same legendary twice... but can you get the same legendary twice if you have it equipped? I've noticed I get a fair number of duplicate legendaries, but never ones I have equipped. Is this just RNG in my favor?
I'm curious because I want to make a build around a specific weapon, but the version I have of it is kinda crappy and I have other weapons that work decent for the build. I'd rather use it than not use it, unless it meant I couldn't have a chance at it long term.
I know you can get duplicates, was just curious about duplicates while the first one is *still in use*
And drop the same set item several times now, each time with worse stats.
Hopefully they can fix this and make it so the drops tuned better.