@venoom yeah, use that to hurt Bashiok for the "Bashanisu" Achievement

Don't know what's going on, im certain the Legendary drop rate has increased..

Found this Act2/Black Canyon with 2NV stack, just started the run and it dropped from one of those white trash annoying ass bees

Legendary drop rate increased? I'm feeling pretty ill cough cough. I think I'll have to go home from work early today. cough cough. I know I got an update from the Launcher last night. You're the second person to notice it so I'm inclined to believe it may be a legit increase.

i soo hope that update is gonna fix my crashing issues

it seems like every time i try using exploding palm, the game lag and crashes

I've only gotten 1 Legendary (bow; Windforce) when farming Act3 so I wouldn't necessarily say the drop rate has increased. I'm at Paragaon lv8 (pretty much at 9) and haven't had the same luck w/ drops like you guys. :(

@EEYAR I'm referencing a higher drop rate since late last night. I haven't found a Legendary in at least the last 80-100 hours.

Posted by gnawol at 08/28/2012 04:47 AM

@baldy Is that intentionally blank, meaning you found 0,0?

That is an affirmative my good man.

I did just find this however...hoping it sells well.

@Baldy nice, has that socket too, good luck with the sale

I have found another legendary today, that's 2 for today and 2 junk ones for today... but they are dropping

Act 3 / Core of Arreat (the area just before azmodan)

Found a Fire Walkers today, sold for 6 millions.

Also found some epic bracers in act 1 with 58 resist all 140 dex, 150 vit and 4% crit... still waiting for them to sell.

Decent source:

Posted by Methrin at 08/28/2012 06:39 PM

Found a Fire Walkers today, sold for 6 millions.

Also found some epic bracers in act 1 with 58 resist all 140 dex, 150 vit and 4% crit... still waiting for them to sell.

How much for bracers? Looking to upgrade mine.

Found this and just sold for $15 on RMAH.

Posted by zerokewl at 08/29/2012 06:40 AM

Posted by Methrin at 08/28/2012 06:39 PM

Found a Fire Walkers today, sold for 6 millions.

Also found some epic bracers in act 1 with 58 resist all 140 dex, 150 vit and 4% crit... still waiting for them to sell.

How much for bracers? Looking to upgrade mine.

Well, Anuiran estimated them at 40-50 millions gold but I'd be willing to trade them for less than that to another d3rmt user. Just add me (Methrin#1631) or pm me and we can work something out to make us both happy, just ask Buzzell, I let him have a 900 dps three hundredth spear for cheap.

Sounds good, but diablo3values.com estimates value at 1.97 million. Though I guessed at armor and D3 pricing in general confuses the help out of me most times.

Like yesterday I bought a xbow with 1100ish dps for 22k...wtf am I missing. It is on my DH located via my profile link. Was it a good deal?

Posted by zerokewl at 08/29/2012 07:00 PM

Sounds good, but diablo3values.com estimates value at 1.97 million. Though I guessed at armor and D3 pricing in general confuses the help out of me most times.

Like yesterday I bought a xbow with 1100ish dps for 22k...wtf am I missing. It is on my DH located via my profile link. Was it a good deal?

That crossbow looks like a good deal. I mean it's a starter weapon to hold you off until you can get one with either or both a socket and crit damage.

Yeah, I worked it out for my exact build and I get:

25 dps per point of Dex
71 dps per average point of damage
94 dps per 1% crit damage
307 dps per 1% atk speed
400 dps per 1% crit hit

In general, that means when I picked up a 876 dps socketed 1H xbow with 60% crit damage vs. my 875 socketed 1H xbow, I gained about 6,000 dps. I would've needed a socketed 960 dps 1H xbow as an equivalent. I can look for the best bang for my buck knowing all of the above and finding the cheapest upgrades that will raise my dps in a notable way.

This also means my 6 Paragon Levels have added 450 dps which is not insignificant when getting that same +18 Dex from new gear could be really expensive.

Woo! Finally found my LvL 61 Legendary. An Ageless Might with a moderate Str/Dex, Str/Vit modifier which is nearly as good as it gets for mods on it. Should pull in 7 figures, but I'm just happy to have gotten my first Legendary drop in over 100 hours!

Edit 9/1/2011: dropped price until it sold for 2 million. I'm quite happy.

@ecocd congrats! Where'd you find it?

Let us know how much it goes for ;-)

@gnawol It dropped in the Vault of Assassins from an Elite mob with 5 stacks of NV (of course, after my advocating not worrying about killing Elite mobs when running for Legendary items, but whatever).

if it doesn't take too much time to get the stack, it helps for the Legendaries hunt.
you get an additional guaranteed Rare drop, and that one can be a Legendary.
It's just guaranteed to be at least a Rare, but could be better.

I know a few days ago @gnawol made a comment about drop rate being increased and I completly agree with him. Have had much better items drop the last few days. Did a bunch of runs to get that damn gibbering gemstone and had 2 crap legendarys drop in normal mode (took me over 10 hours of play to get that to drop). Then found a 850 dps mace which sold for 2M asa I posted it up on the GAH and a pair of boots which went for $2.00 on the rmah - my first rmah sale. Sucks loosing 1/2 of the price due to blizz taking $1.00 per auction, but I really didn't even think somebody would pay real $$$ for em - figured the were worth maybe 200k on the GAH but put em on the RMAH for shits and giggles and it sold.

Anyway, either rng has been very, very good to me or they upped the drops - and I think they upped the drops. My best guess is they may have gone from a 1/10,000 rare to legendary to a 1/2,000 rare to legendary rate. Had significantly more since 1.04 than all the other times combined.

RNG is RNG, I got the gibbering stone when I was levelling my DH in Nightmare or Hell, without even trying, just got lucky.

I found ~1 Legendary per day farming the Leoric ring in Normal Mode.
none was the ring :(

what worries me is that they're often barely visible (specially when the ground is orange) and I probably missed a couple :(
I also worry I missed one that was dropped by an ennemy outside of the screen.

@baccarat0809 it's possible that it isn't the drop rate that's increased so much as the number of Legendaries that can drop. If the item generation system RNG hits for Legendary, but there aren't any Legendaries available for the item chosen, then it will drop a 6-affix rare. Given that Blizzard added a lot of Legendary items in the patch, what used to be a 6-affix rare "miss" is now a Legendary hit.

@Venoom I doubt you're missing many, if any Legendaries. Even at their increased drop rate, there are still going to be extremely few dropping and with such low probabilities, their empirical drop rate is going to be highly variable. If you're killing 10% of the monsters off screen, that means you're still seeing 90% of the items dropped which would be hardly perceptible in the number of rares, let alone legendaries, dropping from white mobs off screen.

If you're really worried about it, I suggest running a reasonably-quick experiment. As you're making a normal run, don't open any chests and keep a running tally in your head of how many Whites you saw drop from monsters. It doesn't have to be exact, but you do want it to be close. After you've completely cleared the area, clear out your inventory and go back. Make a very detailed scan of the area picking up every white you see. Once your inventory is full, drop all 30 items on the ground, make a tick mark on a piece of paper, and start over picking up every white you see. Once you're done, note how many White items you picked up, how many you saw drop and do the whole thing again.

Assuming 10% of items of the items are dropping off-screen, you want to repeat the above experiment until you've recorded a total of 250 White items dropping by the end of that run. That will get you an estimate +-4% of the true proportion of items enemies are dropping offscreen (make it 500 White items if you want an estimate within +-2.5%, 1000 White items for +-2%). I bet you're missing many fewer items than you think you are.

@ECOCD - your explanation makes a lot of sense. Thanks