I'm pretty late to the party, but if anyone would send me a key,I'd really appreciate it. I've been watching this game for a while now but haven't been lucky enough to get my own key.
I'm with Nivrax. It's simply not worth it to put in the extra effort for the higher % chance. You only have to kill 3x~ as many elites in the same amount of time to break even, which as a glass cannon (maybe not as much for a barb) is easy to do, I can burst down a lot of the elites in act 1 before they can reach me at all. And don't forget, if you're not using magic find in act 3, and you are in act 1, increasing the number of rares by 2-3x would also bring the numbers closer together as well.
Later acts are still dead with this patch. If you're Athene geared, sure, act 3 is better loot. For those of us mortals who aren't handed all of our gold, stick to act 1.
Am I the only one who actually read the post and saw him ask for more data? "I see this trend, what have you guys seen so we might confirm or deny it"? Everyone bashing him on the stats, you could have just as easily mentioned your experiences, or gone into the game and done a couple of siegebreaker runs, keeping track of what affixes you got so we could begin to form a data set of the proper magnitude.
Seriously, yelling about stats 101 when you don't even understand the scientific method, which I'm fairly sure they still teach in grade school, is kind of pathetic.
I've successfully farmed siegebreaker runs and act 4 elites (haven't killed azmodan or diablo yet, too much effort for no reward) pretty easily. The arcane power on crit is really nice, though it only comes out to about 4.6 AP/swing for me, it tends to help a lot with the luls and peaks in spamming arcane orb. Else, you're just kiting and tossing out an arcane orb to keep them slowed while the hydra does the bulk of the work.
Edit: I wanted to point out that I've been playing with a build which drops diamond skin for Familiar: Sparkflint, and I love it for siegebreaker runs. The familiar has a chance to crit as well, which keeps my AP high, and lets me spam arcane orb much, much more. I've actually been considering trying the Obliterate rune instead of Tap the Source it's such a significant difference. With more crit, and perhaps AP on crit on my source as well, I think I could make an obliterate sig-less build work.
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Later acts are still dead with this patch. If you're Athene geared, sure, act 3 is better loot. For those of us mortals who aren't handed all of our gold, stick to act 1.
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Seriously, yelling about stats 101 when you don't even understand the scientific method, which I'm fairly sure they still teach in grade school, is kind of pathetic.
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My stats with a couple of key items.
http://us.battle.net...QXOR!XYU!YZYaYb
^My build.
I've successfully farmed siegebreaker runs and act 4 elites (haven't killed azmodan or diablo yet, too much effort for no reward) pretty easily. The arcane power on crit is really nice, though it only comes out to about 4.6 AP/swing for me, it tends to help a lot with the luls and peaks in spamming arcane orb. Else, you're just kiting and tossing out an arcane orb to keep them slowed while the hydra does the bulk of the work.
Edit: I wanted to point out that I've been playing with a build which drops diamond skin for Familiar: Sparkflint, and I love it for siegebreaker runs. The familiar has a chance to crit as well, which keeps my AP high, and lets me spam arcane orb much, much more. I've actually been considering trying the Obliterate rune instead of Tap the Source it's such a significant difference. With more crit, and perhaps AP on crit on my source as well, I think I could make an obliterate sig-less build work.