Curse

Lord Dagon · Jan 26, 2010, 08:39 PM // 20:39

yep ive had a friend of mine on his second or third VSF run i talked him on he got a double r9 VS drop. I ofc got one for brigning him but still... luck is insane to ppl lol.

mage767 · Jan 26, 2010, 08:45 PM // 20:45

I have gotten 2 VS in the SAME run, it was a r9 and r12. Lol, that was epic!

I just have to dig up the screenshot.

Dzjudz · Jan 26, 2010, 08:53 PM // 20:53

I've never had a VS or BDS or rare UW drop or rare FoW drop, so there's my luck.

own age myname · Jan 26, 2010, 11:40 PM // 23:40

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Originally Posted by Dzjudz

I've never had a VS or BDS or rare UW drop or rare FoW drop, so there's my luck.

Same here, best drop I've ever got was a Chaos Axe worth 25k. All my monies have come from farming.

I've done about 100 runs of VSF total, and I've never seen one dropped.

Raven Wing · Jan 27, 2010, 12:08 AM // 00:08

Fun enough I have been in vsf about 100 times and saw 1 drop, but not for me.
I have had 2 VS, but that was part of full slavers run. First time was with pure h/h in nm, next time also in nm, but with a few guildies. But I suppose the game first determines that you are assigned a chest drop, and next it determines (from some probability table) what drop you get, so it is fresh calculation for each drop. So its very possible to have consecutive VS drop or even double in same run, but indeed rare.
Just like with my 2 Oola wands. Same mechanism but 2 oola wands didnt exactly make me rich

HawkofStorms · Jan 27, 2010, 12:11 AM // 00:11

I once got 2 gold req 8 chaos axes drop from chests in the same FoW run.

15% while stance and 13% while enchanted.

Sold the stance one, used the 13% for Ursan.

worstnameevar · Jan 27, 2010, 12:29 AM // 00:29

It's called luck of the draw; no need to make a thread about it.

Fates · Jan 27, 2010, 12:57 AM // 00:57

Back in the day when Kanaxai's axe was worth 100k+e I had two drop for me in 1 run. Weird statistical things do happen.

Zehnchu · Jan 27, 2010, 02:30 AM // 02:30

I's had crazy loots drop......

Nexus Realized · Jan 27, 2010, 07:35 AM // 07:35

I've had two Murakai's Mauls drop in the same run...that must make me lucky...or...

Mistical miss · Jan 27, 2010, 10:34 AM // 10:34

Ok so for the numbers atm: I have nearly always done these runs as my assassin. I am a better safe than sorry runner so I use cons (yeah, bad me ^^) I've burned through 2 stacks of cupcakes and a couple more (which were donated by nice people in the team) but I have also used a few more on some runs if I failed the first try due to lag or so. So lets estimate that I've done about 500-525 runs In those runs I've seen 18 Voltaic Spears drop, of which 0 for me. Kind of annoying but nothing too surprising. Bad luck happens. But as we all love statistics I thought I'd post it. (btw, that means I burned a lot of money on this run :P good thing I got a few other nice goldies/mods on the runs)

As for lucky things, long ago I used to do a greens hunt with my touch ranger in mourning veil falls, I managed to get a green from all of the bosses except the elementalist and the ritualist boss (which I couldn't kill for some reason). Suppose lucky things happen just as bad things do ^^

I MP I · Jan 28, 2010, 02:22 AM // 02:22

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Originally Posted by joshuarodger

meh, the first time i did bogroots, three frog scepters dropped. 2 of them were for the same person. it was kind of insane. i had a screenshot at one point but probably deleted it by now.

LOL Yea that mofo made some $$$. Good times. On topic, its all dumb luck. I remember this kid who didn't want to do FoW one day then got a q9 obsidian edge. He went on another run after and got q11 obsidian edge. This kind of thing happens with all drops in game. Just need to have luck on your side. That's the real hard part.

Juhanah · Jan 28, 2010, 02:31 AM // 02:31

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Originally Posted by Puddin Cheeks

you do realize that there has to be some random programming system behind drops within the confines of the percentage of drops itself. That means someone had to program it and with all else at Anet that random system is probably fail within itself and no one ever will really know about it. Ive had 3 black dyes drop on a raptor run for me before. Hence fail on drop rate. But mega win for me.

The fact that you got 3 black dye drop in 1 run prove that the random system work perfectly fine.

If it wasn't working, everyone would be getting the same exact drop as the next guy every time.

Random cannot be fair.

Puddin Cheeks · Jan 28, 2010, 04:23 AM // 04:23

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Originally Posted by Mistical miss

As for lucky things, long ago I used to do a greens hunt with my touch ranger in mourning veil falls, I managed to get a green from all of the bosses except the elementalist and the ritualist boss (which I couldn't kill for some reason). Suppose lucky things happen just as bad things do ^^

Well on the touch ranger part, even the gods laugh at touch rangers, but expecially in PvE, that is some epic fail. Using a build that has been laughed at for almost 5 years. No wonder you couldnt figure out why you couldn't kill a rit boss. pvx and face roll moar it works great.

Zehnchu · Jan 28, 2010, 04:46 AM // 04:46

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Originally Posted by Mistical miss

But as we all love statistics I thought I'd post it.

Drop allocation and used to be an on going topic about how it's broken. And will be one of those thing's that are never fixed.

But I am sure if you do it 8 hours a day seven days a week in six years you might get one to drop and it just might be a r9 15^50..

mage767 · Jan 28, 2010, 04:49 AM // 04:49

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Originally Posted by mage767

I have gotten 2 VS in the SAME run, it was a r9 and r12. Lol, that was epic!

I just have to dig up the screenshot.

Found it, feast your eyes on this screenshot from Sept 2008...

Yes, the bars sucked back then!