Well you've been extremely lucky then. IIRC, the odds for sets are 1:10 000 and 1:100 000 for uniques.
I spent 17 500 000 GP gambling weapons with a few lvl 99 chars in Act 1 Hell. Weapons cost about 50 000 on average, so I gambled about 350 of them. None of them turned out green or gold, so my luck is leaning more towards normal I guess :) Interesting thing was that a lot of them were exceptional and elite. About 10% were elite and over 50% were exceptional. The odds for items upgrading may depend on clvl, but I gambled a little with a lvl 71 character as well, and she saw quite a few elites as well. Coupled with the new affixes available on rares, I'd say gambling is your best shot if you want a viable end-game weapon in v1.10.
I still hope the odds for gambling sets and uniques are vastly increased in the final version, since they're still far too low to make gambling a decent source of such items 1:100 for Sets and 1:1000 for Uniques I think would be enough if the odds for gambling exceptional and elite items are reduced, say to maybe 0.1% per clvl-40 and 0.05% per clvl-60. Giving a lvl 80 char a 1:100 000 chance of gambling an elite unique.
I spent 17 500 000 GP gambling weapons with a few lvl 99 chars in Act 1 Hell. Weapons cost about 50 000 on average, so I gambled about 350 of them. None of them turned out green or gold, so my luck is leaning more towards normal I guess :) Interesting thing was that a lot of them were exceptional and elite. About 10% were elite and over 50% were exceptional. The odds for items upgrading may depend on clvl, but I gambled a little with a lvl 71 character as well, and she saw quite a few elites as well. Coupled with the new affixes available on rares, I'd say gambling is your best shot if you want a viable end-game weapon in v1.10.
I still hope the odds for gambling sets and uniques are vastly increased in the final version, since they're still far too low to make gambling a decent source of such items 1:100 for Sets and 1:1000 for Uniques I think would be enough if the odds for gambling exceptional and elite items are reduced, say to maybe 0.1% per clvl-40 and 0.05% per clvl-60. Giving a lvl 80 char a 1:100 000 chance of gambling an elite unique.
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