I'm starting to get a little frustrated that I've spent so many hours playing my WD and have NEVER seen a Starmetal Kukri. I don't understand what else I could possibly be doing to get a better shot at the thing. I have spent just about every blood shard since the patch on 1h weapons, pushed through grifts 30+ non stop, farmed t6 at about 7 minutes per rift for hours, dropped it to T4 and blazed through doing full clears, everything. It's a class specific weapon that has a game changing affix. How is it even remotely okay that 1,200 hours of farming results in ZERO drops? I have only seen the Rhen'ho Flayer AND Tasker and Theo gloves once... and am super lucky both rolled well. These are two class changing items but they drop so infrequently that I've only seen them once??? Obviously, I have spent that time in game since launch and the odds of getting any legendary at all have changed drastically over that time, but I simply can't wrap my head around a Witch Doctor specific item not dropping for me in all that time. RNG is RNG but you'd think over time you'd get a little of everything. I just don't know how much more time Blizzard expects me to put in before it drops a class specific legendary?
get yourself a sader to farm them ,i was like you farming non stop on my WD wishing to get lucky with SMK ,and my DH needed that sentry arrow bag, farmed a lot ,spent all my shards gambling on arrow bag and got non , so i gave up and tried to farm FOTF on my sader and bah ! SMK + sentry arrow bag, now im trying to get WOH on my sader coz my bud's sader got it with jade set pieces the other day .
SMK is the biggest setback for any grift group right now. Few people have SMK and out of all of the ones that do there is only a handful that are good at playing support.
The problem seems to be a general lack of ceremonial knife drops coupled with the low drop rate (~1.5% from the leaked rates). IMO they should bump up both slightly, say 50% more of each which would more than double the odds.
If Bliz separate weapon sections (2h maces,Axes,2h swords ... etc) on Kadala could be more easy to get it . Its a pain to spent 500 shards for 6 weapons .I usually get 1-2 leg for 3-4k shards. U want SMK ,thats means u spent 75 shards to roll for swords,daggers ,c-knives ... i think the chance is terrible low .
Lack of knife drops? There was a night last week I got 2 or more of every other ceremonial knife in the game other than the Rhen'ho Flayer and Starmetal Kukri. I'd be okay-ish with the drop rate if I'd get a decent shot at one of the two biggest game changing legendary ceremonial knives in the game. To think I almost junked the Rhen'ho Flayer I have because I didn't really want to go frogs!
I've never seen a frunace in all my 620+ paragon levels, on the other hand friends found at least 3-4.
I don't mind tho... you gotta do what you can with what you have. Eventually it will drop. Especially if you focus on khadala ( I know on weapons it sucks but eventually you will get what you want from her).
Well thats the problem. It might never drop with the current format. And when we talk about items of such importance (furnace,SMK etc) that make or break your leaderboard progress it should be easier to acquire them.
Add them to bounties. Or add all weapon categories to Kadala so you can gamble for the one you really need. You still have the RnG of not only needing the specific item but it has to get rolled well so isnt exactly ez mode to get a good one.
The problem seems to be a general lack of ceremonial knife drops coupled with the low drop rate (~1.5% from the leaked rates). IMO they should bump up both slightly, say 50% more of each which would more than double the odds.
Add them to bounties. Or add all weapon categories to Kadala so you can gamble for the one you really need. You still have the RnG of not only needing the specific item but it has to get rolled well so isnt exactly ez mode to get a good one.
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/88935-the-rng-thread
Thanks.