I can't believe you actually said you're "really impressed" by the rate at which legendaries drop. I didn't know people had so much fun farming for fricking blues and rares.
By "impressed", I mean to convey shock, not approval. Now that I have seen the power of the auction house, however, I think the rarity is warranted.
As we all know, Legendary items, formerly Uniques, drop at a much lower rate than they did in Diablo 2.
I'm really impressed by how rare they are, so I decided to start a thread on the topic so we might find out, roughly, how rare they are.
Considering how rare Legendary items are, I'd be willing to bet that most people can count on one or two hands how many Legendary items they have actually witnessed drop. Since they are so few, many of you probably remember whether it was an elite or normal mob that dropped it.
So, here are my statistics...
I have killed 2,902 Elites and 72, 405 total kills. Assuming Elites are included in total kills, I have killed 69, 503 Normal or white mobs.
I have witnessed 4 Legendary items drop.
Unity (ring) - from a normal mob (Somewhere in Nightmare)
Thundergod's Vigor - from an Elite pack (Hell Act 3)
Zunimassa's Attunement - normal mob (Inferno Act 1)
Cindercoat - normal mob (Inferno Act 2)
So, out of 2902 Elites, 1 has dropped a Legendary
of 69,503 Normals, 3 have dropped Legendary items
Obviously, we'll need more people to contribute to get some reliable stats, so if you remember what kind of mobs dropped your Legendary items, click on your character and relay your stats in this thread. Once enough people post their info, we'll have some good stats on our hands.
Feel free to include any other information about your drops!
Edit - This is assuming you don't have a significant amount of MF gear on. I never had more than 10 mf or so for all of these drops. Of course, if you did have a lot of MF gear on, you should mention it, but I'd say if you had 20 or less, don't bother. Personally, I don't think MF gear will affect the statistics much unless you're rocking 1k MF or more. Legendary items are so vanishingly rare that you probably need a HUGE multiplier to make any significant difference.
STATS SO FAR:
Elite Legendary drop rate: 1 in 4,536 Elites or 0.022% chance
Normal Legendary drop rate: 1 in 56,096 Normals or 0.0018% chance
Interesting stats so far. It appears that elites are about 10x more likely to drop a Legendary than Normals and people are, typically, killing about 20x to 30x more Normals than Elites.
38% of Legendaries have come from Elites while Elites have accounted for 4.7% of total mobs killed
62% of Legendaries have come from Normals while Normals have accounted for 95.3% of total mobs killed
By "impressed", I mean to convey shock, not approval. Now that I have seen the power of the auction house, however, I think the rarity is warranted.
Need more input!
I'm really impressed by how rare they are, so I decided to start a thread on the topic so we might find out, roughly, how rare they are.
Considering how rare Legendary items are, I'd be willing to bet that most people can count on one or two hands how many Legendary items they have actually witnessed drop. Since they are so few, many of you probably remember whether it was an elite or normal mob that dropped it.
So, here are my statistics...
I have killed 2,902 Elites and 72, 405 total kills. Assuming Elites are included in total kills, I have killed 69, 503 Normal or white mobs.
I have witnessed 4 Legendary items drop.
Unity (ring) - from a normal mob (Somewhere in Nightmare)
Thundergod's Vigor - from an Elite pack (Hell Act 3)
Zunimassa's Attunement - normal mob (Inferno Act 1)
Cindercoat - normal mob (Inferno Act 2)
So, out of 2902 Elites, 1 has dropped a Legendary
of 69,503 Normals, 3 have dropped Legendary items
Obviously, we'll need more people to contribute to get some reliable stats, so if you remember what kind of mobs dropped your Legendary items, click on your character and relay your stats in this thread. Once enough people post their info, we'll have some good stats on our hands.
Feel free to include any other information about your drops!
Edit - This is assuming you don't have a significant amount of MF gear on. I never had more than 10 mf or so for all of these drops. Of course, if you did have a lot of MF gear on, you should mention it, but I'd say if you had 20 or less, don't bother. Personally, I don't think MF gear will affect the statistics much unless you're rocking 1k MF or more. Legendary items are so vanishingly rare that you probably need a HUGE multiplier to make any significant difference.
STATS SO FAR:
Elite Legendary drop rate: 1 in 4,536 Elites or 0.022% chance
Normal Legendary drop rate: 1 in 56,096 Normals or 0.0018% chance
Interesting stats so far. It appears that elites are about 10x more likely to drop a Legendary than Normals and people are, typically, killing about 20x to 30x more Normals than Elites.
38% of Legendaries have come from Elites while Elites have accounted for 4.7% of total mobs killed
62% of Legendaries have come from Normals while Normals have accounted for 95.3% of total mobs killed
THE NUMBERS:
Drops/Elites included in calculation
Me: 1/2902
Shiaku: 0/1200
Urumii: 2/2679
Alamar: 0/2369
Bleu42: 1/2759
Nightmare13: 1/2523
SFJake: 0/1874
RMrulz: 0/1993
xxtheglovexx: 1/1167
Phatosen: 0/2525
Dreamion: 0/2616
TheWaitIsNearlyOver: 0/1167
GetStupid: 0/3250
ScyberDragon: 0/3386
Deja: 1/6354
Battle: 2/4229
CrazyYuan: 2/1890
Kruis: 2/5040
Shroomz: 0/3172
Moltres: 0/1824
DerfOnTurf: 0/2595
Nihth: 0/3049
Kashiim: 1/2816
Derenzy: 0/2500
Yazla: 3/3631
Excesso: 0/1818
Reuggax2: 1/1434
Reiser: 0/2651
Antrodax: 0/1846
Corbarian: 0/4397
Tally: 18/81,656
Drops/Normals Included in calculation
Me: 3/69503
Shiaku: 1/43800
Urumii: 1/57803
Alamar: 0/58083
Bleu42: 2/59470
Nightmare13: 0/36137
SFJake: 0/30152
RMrulz: 2/31361
xxtheglovexx: 0/26119
Phatosen: 1/54959
Dreamion: 1/52485
TheWaitIsNearlyOver: 0/18817
GetStupid: 0/48151
ScyberDragon: 0/66142
Deja: 3/171286
Battle: 3/98678
CrazyYuan: 0/43119
Kruis: 1/74341
Shroomz: 2/49328
Moltres: 0/39356
DerfOnTurf: 0/34603
Nihth: 0/52402
Kashiim: 0/33,588
Derenzy: 0/60000
Yazla: 4/74375
Excesso: 0/41949
Reuggax2: 0/25920
Reiser: 1/52880
Antrodax: 0/40254
Corbarian: 4/81737
Tally: 29/1,626,798
More stats coming soon!
Thanks for all of the input so far!