This is all conjecture, but did Blizz lower the drop rate on legendaries? It seemed fairly easy to find legendary drops with high MF after 1.0.4 launched but the last few days I've been farming like crazy with no success.

Yes I'm aware that it's all RNG so luck is a huge factor. But when I asked some friends they said they noticed it as well. A friend with an uber wwbarb told me he used to find 1 every 3 or so runs for a full clear of a3 with 398% MF, but not lately.

I've been experiencing the same lately.

User @gnawol (pretty stand up guy I might add) found two rather good legs last night killing azmo on inferno in the same drop! Go check out this thread for peoples updates on their luck at the "legendary hunt".

So what have you found in 1.0.4

My luck however is far less reliable than his apparantly...

Insane. That happened to me off an elite in tower of the cursed. Unfortunately it was a night or two prior to 1.0.4 launching so sever and blackthorne's pants were near worthless.

I just did another complete run of act 3, as in every dungeon, and every elite. I got squadoosh, which isn't too unusual for one run. But insane considering it's been a few days and many many runs. 398% mf isn't doing it anymore.

If I had to liken it, I would say the legendary drop rate skyrated with 1.0.4 and is now back to "normal" like it was in 1.0.3.

@Baldy thank you :-P

@Victorytomb I have been using zero MF Gear, all my MF only comes from the Templar, Paragon + NV Stacks which has netted me the legendaries i have found so far. Every time i have attempted to put on MF gear and do runs, i generally end up with worse rolls than without, as well as zero orange or green items.

This is purely from personal experience but maybe you should try running without all that MF gear and see if it works out for you. I have another friend which used to run with MF and recently swapped off MF and is now finding those legendary orange items too

Weeks of running Act 3 with 360% mf (total) and I had found nothing. These runs were a little slower/more deaths.

Now I'm using a pure damage/crit set wiith only paragon 25/5 nv stacks, clearing much faster and actually dropping more legendaries.

Paranoia makes me feel that MF GEAR is a farce, but in reality I think its just that I can clear act 3 so much faster and consistently.

Apparently there was a study done that you get a legendary after about 500 elite packs with regular magic find.

@AwesomeusPrime referred.

i hope they add a legendary ping feature for people that kill too fast.

i found 2 set items and 4 reg legendaries in 1 day at 250ish mf. for a few days before i couldnt find anything. its all RNG

This might just be me but set items seems a lot more rarer than legendaries. I have found 9 legendaries over 200~hours and only one set item.

I found maybe 7 legendaries pre 1.04 and have only found 1 since the patch :(

Posted by AwesomeusPrime at 09/15/2012 01:03 PM

Apparently there was a study done that you get a legendary after about 500 elite packs with regular magic find.

And something like 85 with 300% + 5 stacks on NV. the drop rate is something like 0.05%

I found 1 legendary pre 1.04. Somehow I've gotten 4 after the patch.

I personally always felt that i would get 1 legendary every 2-4 runs, when i was full clearing act 3.
now i am level 25 paragon, and doing act 3 speed runs and appears to be getting 1 every 3-6 runs. Last legendary was Visage with +190int +80 vit, sold for 10mill.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/BobTheBuilde-1485/hero/21356957 20min 10-15mill xp. act 3 runs

I don't think they lowered the drop rates; you're probably just having an unlucky streak. When 1.04 just launched I found only 1 legendary, but now I tend to find one at least every 5-7 runs.

Indeed after hitting parargon lvl 30 not one has dropped for me.

I really do wish I've gotten more then three drops. Jesus

I have gotten 2 legendarys since 1.0.4 and I've gotta tell ya... still not happy,.

I haven't gotten a single legendary since 1.0.4. I've been all over A3. Maybe it's because I sacrificed all my MF to actually kill stuff in A3. Is it more worth it to load up on MF and kill in A1?

Have not even seen one legendary since 1.0.4 xD

I haven't noticed a decrease since 1.04 but, probably completely randomly, have had far higher success finding legendaries on Saturdays. 4 today so far (none worth more than the brimstone they salvaged into) and 4 last Saturday (which were far better actual drops).

I'm gonna with its probably a RNG thing just because I found two this morning, and only one since the paragon patch (Level 14 paragon).

found like 6 so far

I've been playing since the start of the game and I have droped only 6~8, some of them being duplicates. I think they incrased the rate with the legendary patch.

I personally don't think they have lowered the drop rate since the release of 1.0.4. It feels like they raised it with the 1.0.4 patch, but that might just be because they're actually worth keeping/selling now.