Drop trivia
#1
What is the least probable drop in the whole game?



A Zod rune from a monster droping from the "Act 5 (H) Champ A" TC (A champion in hell dificulty of level 81 or 82). That monster will drop a Zod rune more or less once every 180 million time (if I calculated it correctly). Talk about low probability.
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#2
I think an even less probable drop would be a perfect rare "Condensing Hibernal Shocking Thunder Maul of Transcendence of Atlas of the Vampire". :o Anyone care to calculate those odds?
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#3
I only calculated the chances for base items, not for magical properties.
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#4
I'd think a Zod from a fallen in normal would be less, say around 0%. :blink:
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#5
Kartoffelsalat,Jan 1 2004, 07:00 PM Wrote:I'd think a Zod from a fallen in normal would be less, say around 0%.  :blink:
But as any good engineer will tell you - once every 180 million IS zero. :lol:
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#6
Actually, as any good engineer will tell you regarding a building's chance to fall (and other such unpleasantries) - 1 in every 180,000,000 is 100%. :D
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#7
Depending on what kind of engineer ;) To a computer engineer, 1 failure is 180 million makes for a pretty bad computer.
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Obi2Kenobi,Jan 1 2004, 07:33 PM Wrote:I think an even less probable drop would be a perfect rare "Condensing Hibernal Shocking Thunder Maul of Transcendence of Atlas of the Vampire". :o Anyone care to calculate those odds?
You forgot to specify the rare item "name pair" :P

should make it quite less 'common'..
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#9
sokken,Jan 1 2004, 08:19 PM Wrote:You forgot to specify the rare item "name pair"  :P

should make it quite less 'common'..
Glyph Smasher. And instead of a Thunder Maul, have it be an imbued Wirt's Leg. :blink:
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#10
Actually, that would be 0% (imbue affix pool and such). :P I thought of something that I think Blizzard should have added in as the "real" world event, but I am yet to test it out, since I only get 1 chance (it requires Wirt's Leg, and I only get one of these Wirt's Legs [you see, my Wirt's Leg is a very special Wirt's Leg, and I would wager it is less than 20 of a kind]), I want to make sure that it will work as it should (at least as it should IMHO). [/cryptic]

Glyph Smasher isn't good enough. It needs a cool name. Death Star. :D
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#11
To a computer engineer, 1 failure in 180 million is 179.999999 million failures in 180 million less than a Microsoft computer.
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#12
Well, I meant that if your computer stalls on 1 clockcycle out of 180 million, that's very bad even for a Microsoft-powered machine =)
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#13
And to give it even less of a chance to drop, it also has to be ethereal.
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Obi2Kenobi,Jan 1 2004, 11:54 PM Wrote:I thought of something that I think Blizzard should have added in as the "real" world event, but I am yet to test it out, since I only get 1 chance (it requires Wirt's Leg, and I only get one of these Wirt's Legs [you see, my Wirt's Leg is a very special Wirt's Leg, and I would wager it is less than 20 of a kind]), I want to make sure that it will work as it should (at least as it should IMHO). [/cryptic]
Like an ethereal, imbued, personalized, socketed by larzuk wirt's leg with a zod in it? :ph34r:
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#15
Must be some rare item with 6 specific attributes of the highest levels, Maybe one Hydra Bow with 300%ED, +30% to FR and CR, + 20 Dex, 5% Life Leech, and 20% Attack Speed Increased. Just seems to be impossible to find another hydrabow with the same attributes. There's no chance for poor monsters to drop an imbued personalized weapon, I'm afraid
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#16
I was in an AB hell game last night and 2 Griswolds Honor shields dropped from normal monsters within the space of a few minutes. Not impossible but humorous.
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#17
Hi,

Perhaps an ethereal Stormspire, the giant thresher? 'Tis a tad more rare than Griswold's vortex shield IIRC.
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#18
Stormspire's indestructible. So ethereal Stormspire couldn't spawn at all ;).
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#19
Pshaw! you and your right-ness... *grumbles* <_<
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