I don't exactly understand how lot tables work. It's only a few weeks into 2.3and top players are full ancient on many toons. I'm farming inn groups for hours on weekends doing grifts and using kanias cube and still having a hard time even getting a. ancient lions claw. Been told it's about luck but how Can you have no luck for months and months playing?
Top players are on for 15+ hours per day, ~every day, so the number of drops they see will be much larger than most. It makes sense that they'd get the best stuff really quickly.
Just keep reforging and you'll get one soon enough.
I don't exactly understand how lot tables work. It's only a few weeks into 2.3and top players are full ancient on many toons. I'm farming inn groups for hours on weekends doing grifts and using kanias cube and still having a hard time even getting a. ancient lions claw. Been told it's about luck but how Can you have no luck for months and months playing?
1) "Top players" that are in full ancient gear play more than just a few hours every weekend - they've probably played 200 hours already in total this season, some even 300.
2) The best way to get items is actually: loot share. Run with 3 other monks, and at some point they find a second ancient Lion's Claw they don't need.
3) If you Cube a Lion's Claw with the "upgrade rare" recipe, approximately every 12th fist will be a Lion's Claw, and approximately 120 are needed to get an ancient Lion's Claw. Once you have two non-ancient ones, it would be faster to re-roll the one with lesser stats - however, that is quite expensive (5 bounty mats each and 50 Forgotten Souls), plus it has only a 10% chance to be ancient. Again, those players that already have everything play so much that they can complete 10 bounty runs in 2-3 hours and get 500 souls in a few hours, allowing them to re-roll a legendary 10 times - at which point you have a realistic chance of getting an ancient Claw if you re-roll it.
This thread is borderline RNG thread material: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/88935-the-rng-thread
I'm going to lock this, otherwise we'll have plenty of people come in here and boast their cube success rate, we don't really need that I think your question was answered. "Playing for months" doesn't mean anything, it's about total hours played and how efficiently to do so (in groups, loot share, being fast at killing stuff, not taking too many breaks, and so on).
I don't exactly understand how lot tables work. It's only a few weeks into 2.3and top players are full ancient on many toons. I'm farming inn groups for hours on weekends doing grifts and using kanias cube and still having a hard time even getting a. ancient lions claw. Been told it's about luck but how Can you have no luck for months and months playing?
The item has been in the game for barely two weeks.
Top players are on for 15+ hours per day, ~every day, so the number of drops they see will be much larger than most. It makes sense that they'd get the best stuff really quickly.
Just keep reforging and you'll get one soon enough.
2) The best way to get items is actually: loot share. Run with 3 other monks, and at some point they find a second ancient Lion's Claw they don't need.
3) If you Cube a Lion's Claw with the "upgrade rare" recipe, approximately every 12th fist will be a Lion's Claw, and approximately 120 are needed to get an ancient Lion's Claw. Once you have two non-ancient ones, it would be faster to re-roll the one with lesser stats - however, that is quite expensive (5 bounty mats each and 50 Forgotten Souls), plus it has only a 10% chance to be ancient. Again, those players that already have everything play so much that they can complete 10 bounty runs in 2-3 hours and get 500 souls in a few hours, allowing them to re-roll a legendary 10 times - at which point you have a realistic chance of getting an ancient Claw if you re-roll it.
This thread is borderline RNG thread material: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/88935-the-rng-thread
I'm going to lock this, otherwise we'll have plenty of people come in here and boast their cube success rate, we don't really need that I think your question was answered. "Playing for months" doesn't mean anything, it's about total hours played and how efficiently to do so (in groups, loot share, being fast at killing stuff, not taking too many breaks, and so on).