11-07-2006, 10:09 PM
Quote:I believe that your way how to count final probability is right, but when I looked at it, I got different arguments:
Totally its (1/41580) = 0.00002405 what means 7 days 5 hours and 15 minutes of shopping.
Thanks for checking my math, Sekel. I appreciate it. I forgot that the max ilvl is 30, so that does narrow it down a bit. Also, I forgot to use the prefix/suffix charts in Jarulf's Guide that were ordered by lvl instead of type, which might have saved some time.
The answer to why I only included haste and bastard sword is that I'm obsessed! I already HAVE a king's broad sword of speed (which is a fine weapon). The point is I won't rest easy until I find a King's Bastard sword of Haste :) (crazy, yes.)
Anyway, good news. I shopped pretty much all day and I actually got one! Woohoo! It's got a +dam of 157, which is okay, but it's got a 99% +hit. Almost perfect!! I was excited about that...
And, I switched to shopping with my level 33 character, since I noticed that the 4 extra levels would knock off a few of the lower level base items and prefixes. So Alamara was right in saying that 29 wasn't the optimal level. It was just the MINIMUM level so be able to buy one...
Thanks for your help all. LennyLen, I appreciate the support. (By the way, the reason I had the +2 was because of the last Gris slot where ilvl = clvl+2. I was unclear on that, sorry).
Well, now I guess I'll have to leave Griswold alone and show my new sword to Lazarus.
-mekane