MEAT,Feb 23 2004, 03:40 AM Wrote:5.) Now your ready to MF and not a second too soon (our hour is almost up). With ZERO MAGIC FIND, have said friend make a Normal game (he must of already killed Baal) and kill all the minons to save you some time. Now you jump in to kill Baal and reap the rewards of uniques and sets with your ZERO MAGIC FIND.
6.) Repeat the proccess over and over. Watch as your drops start slowly getting worse and worse.
7.) Go ahead and make a new character and repeat the proccess to prove it's not an anomoly. I'll be waiting for you.
And as I had said in an earlier post here, "If you have not documented a pattern that can be consistently repeated to occur, then you really have not made a case for your argument in the first place." How about a listing of what items are dropped, their magical quality (and taking note of if they are failed uniques and set as LiquidDamage has described since few ever take that factor into account) and also note any 'junk' items that you may get in detail also. And explain in better detail as to what you are meaning by "drops start slowly getting worse and worse" since not everyone will have the same personal definition of what this would mean in context of a progressive series of drops.
And this is not a joke as this kind of detail is what finally helped showed what was happening with some of the drops in the v1.07 to v1.09 game that became known as the "Bishibosh Bug". It was from a poster at the AB that provided this kind of detailed list concering having problems getting runes from the Countess that ended up providing the final piece of the puzzle as to why there were problems with drops from many of the Super Uniques in the game. The detailed list showed some specific things that Countess should never have dropped, but few would have realized were important to reveal what had been happening (it was the 'junk' items that were the main clue, not the magic/rare stuff).
Personally if I am going to spend my time looking into a 'problem' with the game at this point, it is going to spent on something that I already know is not been covered correctly. In the current case it is that the bulk of various speed calculators that are out have some serious fundemental flaws in how they are figure the frames per attack for many of the characters. At this point the only one that I am pretty sure of being correct is the Dragoons wereform speed calcualtor and then only for the shapeshifted speeds.