Hi...
Last ladder I used to run Pits with an Assassin with no more than 250mf.

Right now, I run a fohdin, 350mf, doing Chaos and Pits and can't find nothing at all after 100 runs. Stop doing countess after 30 runs and only one Tkey found.

Am I doing something wrong? Did drop odds were changed??

Best regards

RNG. Your sample size is to small.

Drop odds the same.

all starts with the problem of areas...

while you mostly dont need more then 300mf on main spots there are alot other factors...

lets keep it simple: 300mf is what you want mainly
mostly of rated farmspots double mf wld increase around 10% better droprate when you doubled your mf but there are still spots you (or lets say ppls like me) want the 600mf for more yellow items instead of blue or whites. alot are in a5 like as example: ancient tunnels
the mainly reason why i am using a 600mf char is for getting as example more/faster yellow 2 skills 20 fcr amus/helms or nice yellow 10 fcr rings...without dropping my chance to get great legendarys too! mostly of ppls are running a goldfindbarb and gamble instead ;-)

lets take a look on a 85 spot mainly farmed area and lets say you are looking for an arach belt on diabloruns:
0 mf = 1:2733 dropchance
300 mf = 1:1158 dropchance (just 1,16x (around +13,75%) better dropchance when you double your mf now)
Edit: 300+ mf dont increase alot anymore here...
600 mf = 1:991 dropchance
you can clearly see why over 300mf isnt worth here anymore... the lost stats vs mf just decrease your farmtime and the chances to get your needed item arent alot better anymore... i am sure you need minimum the double time on killing all in a full 8player game for getting those 1,16x increase dropchance...

there are also alot things witch dont count on mf like as example runes... you got same chances to get a jah with 0mf like 1000mf on spots jah can drop... Edit: bc you wrote 1 key dropped: also keys arent effected on mf - you got same chance with 0 mf like 350mf - thats why i am loving to farm keys on ladder resets while my mf sucks to get first items ;-)

in the end if you arent special 300mf is what you want - if you are special and do different things like mostly: optimaze your mf by checking droprates on locations before you joice your needed mf for your char ;-) just google: d2 drop calculator

hope that helps!

This post was edited by Destroyer1991 on Oct 28 2022 02:03pm