So guys I understand that the diablo fans community as a whole likes data.
Well Im Crusader and I have this....stream twitch.tv/cultistsofscorpitox now but before you stop reading hear me out. Im simply stating why this is happening why we are doing what we are doing. To explain a little bit about the stream for those that do want to come hang out we are a multibroadcaster stream meaning we have 5 uniques players that are part of the broadcast. Myself, Davidson, Andrew, Skydriver, and Majarcus. Anyway enough about the stream.
The otherday we decided to do our usual restock of rift key stones and like many others we decided to save up a few bags. As we progressed we remembered a video from here of someone opening 170 act 1 caches. This gave us an idea.
We decided collectively over 4 players to collect 1000 caches. Our Current progress is at 159 caches. We are collecting the caches from acts 1-4 on normal. We intended to do these bags on torment but realized that 1000 bags is quite a few and went with normal instead.
Now since I shamelessly plugged my stream I should probably give the community here on diablo fans something in return. That something is the data. My question for you all is what do you want us to track?
On a side note we have decided that all the loot and data we collect will only come from the caches themselves.
Here are some of our ideas of data to collect:
Number of legendaries
Number of Gems and How many of each type
Of the legendaries collected how many were cache only and how many were not
Number of bloodshards total
Average Number of Bloodshards per bag based on a 1000 bag sample
After salvaging all Rares and Magic item the total number of veiled crystals and arcane dust
Average Number of arcane dust and veiled crystals per bag based on a 1000 bag sample
If there is anything else you guys would like us to keep track of souley based on the collected caches let us know.
We finished the stream at 351 bags we will keep this thread updated until we open all 1000 bags. At that point we will make a new thread with all the info
If you've been tracking the acts each cache is coming from, I'd be interested to know whether the act 4 caches have a higher legendary drop chance than the other acts (since it pulls from a pool of all available cache legendaries).
Of the legendaries collected how many were cache only and how many were not
Would be cool
We will be sure to provide this information as well as the others stated but those will be the focus!
If you were able to do the caches on T2 that would be much more appreciated, we would be able to see;
how many cache only legendaries
how many non-cache legendaries
how many torment only legendaries
this would make the whole project quite more effective.
(flaws about this; you won't be able to determine which chest is from which act, only if you separate them while stashing)
I dont know how many people are interested in this but, It would be also great to learn how many rift keystones and how many bloodshards per chest (average)
We did consider doing them on T2 but to save time we just decided to do them on normal. Later on down the road we may decide to do this again and do them on T2. Also, as far as the rift keystones and bloodshards, we are going to give the total number we got as well as the average per cache.
Of the legendaries collected how many were cache only and how many were not
Would be cool
We will be sure to provide this information as well as the others stated but those will be the focus!
If you were able to do the caches on T2 that would be much more appreciated, we would be able to see;
how many cache only legendaries
how many non-cache legendaries
how many torment only legendaries
this would make the whole project quite more effective.
(flaws about this; you won't be able to determine which chest is from which act, only if you separate them while stashing)
I dont know how many people are interested in this but, It would be also great to learn how many rift keystones and how many bloodshards per chest (average)
thanks, and keep it up the good work guys
As you said there are some flaws in how we did this (ie not knowing what came from where) but this is only a rough basis of 1000 bags we are probably going to do projects like this in the future and they will be much more precise down to for example 250 act 1 bags 250 act 2 bags etc as andrew said we are going to keep track of blood shards and per cache and give you every number we possibly can.
Just to give a update at the end of the stream and give perspective on time taken as well as some other factors playing into this grind.
As previously stated this is a 4 man effort but we have only been running with 3 for the past two streams.
Current Cache Count: 567 (our 4th as previously mentioned has missed two of the grind sessions and only has ~20 caches these are not included)
Time taken: ~13 hours so far this is with time in between runs etc. I would guess roughly ~9 hours of farming with few interruptions to get this far
Other: at this point I would have to guess ~95% of the bags are from act 1 act 3 and act 4 we have only done a few act 2 bags but our goal isn't finding out specific drops rates of specific legendaries but instead the drop rate of cache items as a whole.
Lets compare notes and I'm looking forward to your results : )
Mit
Im very impressed that you have done this solo as far as I can see. When we have finished our treck I be sure to post everything and you can use any of the information that you'd like.
Edit:
We had a very short stream finished the night with 621 gaining only 54 bags today due to real life getting in the way we plan on hitting the ground running tomorrow.
Well Im Crusader and I have this....stream twitch.tv/cultistsofscorpitox now but before you stop reading hear me out. Im simply stating why this is happening why we are doing what we are doing. To explain a little bit about the stream for those that do want to come hang out we are a multibroadcaster stream meaning we have 5 uniques players that are part of the broadcast. Myself, Davidson, Andrew, Skydriver, and Majarcus. Anyway enough about the stream.
The otherday we decided to do our usual restock of rift key stones and like many others we decided to save up a few bags. As we progressed we remembered a video from here of someone opening 170 act 1 caches. This gave us an idea.
We decided collectively over 4 players to collect 1000 caches. Our Current progress is at 159 caches. We are collecting the caches from acts 1-4 on normal. We intended to do these bags on torment but realized that 1000 bags is quite a few and went with normal instead.
Now since I shamelessly plugged my stream I should probably give the community here on diablo fans something in return. That something is the data. My question for you all is what do you want us to track?
On a side note we have decided that all the loot and data we collect will only come from the caches themselves.
Here are some of our ideas of data to collect:
Current Count: 817
http://www.twitch.tv/cultistsofscorpitox
Would be cool
how many cache only legendaries
how many non-cache legendaries
how many torment only legendaries
this would make the whole project quite more effective.
(flaws about this; you won't be able to determine which chest is from which act, only if you separate them while stashing)
I dont know how many people are interested in this but, It would be also great to learn how many rift keystones and how many bloodshards per chest (average)
thanks, and keep it up the good work guys
http://www.twitch.tv/cultistsofscorpitox
As previously stated this is a 4 man effort but we have only been running with 3 for the past two streams.
This is the blog where I post my results: http://one-thousand-horadric-cache.blogspot.sg/
Lets compare notes and I'm looking forward to your results : )
Mit
Edit:
We had a very short stream finished the night with 621 gaining only 54 bags today due to real life getting in the way we plan on hitting the ground running tomorrow.