Progressive drop rates

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3-28-2009 @ 8:40PM

my2cents said...

TLDR Version: Average drop rates and progressive drop rates can coexist. That may be the case in Wrath.

I think what he meant was, in its early implementation in beta, the progressive drop rate system was still set up to have an average 35% drop rate. What I mean is even with a progressive drop rate, you can set it up in such a way that the overall average drop rate will remain fairly constant (assuming a large enough sample size.)

However, to compensate for the eventual 100% drop rates on a bad streak, they had to reduce the initial drop rate in order to maintain an average 35% drop rate. But this made getting a "good streak" even less likely than before, which was an unintended side-effect of the change. So they ended up adjusting the numbers to arrive at an average 42% drop rate.

I hope that makes sense, and hopefully it was readable enough to get through =P

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