03-23-2004, 05:52 PM
adeyke, the ATMA calculator currently has one known flaw, which is that it overestimates the odds for Countess rune drops (up to Ist). This is because we haven't found a neat way to account for the 6 item drop cap and its potential interactions with the 8 potential item drops the Countess gets.
It is easy enough to do that for Act bosses who get 7 potential drops all from the same TC, but because of the Countess' split TC it would require some more sophisticated special-case coding to account for it.
The numbers ATMA does list are as if the Countess could drop all 8 items. This does not affect her Item drop chances because the full Countess Item drop can always occur. But it does mean the runes get overestimated. The actual chance of an Ist dropping in a single player game is about 1/1300, to give you an idea of the magnitude of overestimation. Also, because the odds of an Item drop rune are so low compared to the Rune drop runes, it is close to a linear scaling factor that they are out by.
It is easy enough to do that for Act bosses who get 7 potential drops all from the same TC, but because of the Countess' split TC it would require some more sophisticated special-case coding to account for it.
The numbers ATMA does list are as if the Countess could drop all 8 items. This does not affect her Item drop chances because the full Countess Item drop can always occur. But it does mean the runes get overestimated. The actual chance of an Ist dropping in a single player game is about 1/1300, to give you an idea of the magnitude of overestimation. Also, because the odds of an Item drop rune are so low compared to the Rune drop runes, it is close to a linear scaling factor that they are out by.
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