So if I play with a friend, does he need to stay within experience range (2 screens ish?) to decrease nodrop chance, or does it suffice that he stays in the same map?

Also if my friend dies, does his corpse increase my drop chance?

Been googling for a long time but nothing, any source would be highly appreciated.

This post was edited by wilhelmw on Jan 3 2022 04:12pm

I can tell you literally took no time into "googling" like you claimed. I had no idea what youre talking about but a QUICK google search of no drop tables give me pages of information....


https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/no-drop-tables.741117/

no not no drop table
i mean how do you look the table up.
but nvm found what i was looking for in a large chunk of text (https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Item_Generation_Tutorial)

When you kill a monster in a multiplayer game, the game calculates a number to use as the nodrop exponent. This is not simply N.

It counts 1 for you, the killing player.
It counts 1 more for each player that is (a) partied with you and (b) within two screens of you.
It counts 0.5 for each other player, either unpartied or far away.
It rounds the final total down.

So, if you sneak into a full public game on the realms and don't party up but go MFing on your own, you actually only get a nodrop exponent of 4 (1 for you, 3 for the 7 unpartied players rounded down), while the other partied guys are getting an exponent of 7 (7 people in their party, and you rounded down to 0). Even though all of you are killing p8 monsters with their 4.5x HP. It is one of Blizzard's many measures to encourage party play.

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Item_Generation_Tutorial <-- complete info there



TL:DR need to be close to you.

Oh? Cool. I did not know about the penalty to solo mf'ing.
Thanks for taking the time to share of what appear to be the algorithm(s) for mf chances.