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D3 toons to receive a buff for a week. (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14005211/and-then-we-doubled-it-happy-birthday-diablo-iii-5-14-2014)

Double rift fragments, and "a +100% boost to their chance to find Legendary items". They said +100% instead of just "double", so I'm inclined to think the math isn't so simple.

Still, the buffs start on May 15 and go for a week. Happy Anniversary!

Well, I'll be playing a lot this week I guess.

I assume +100% means that if you have a 5% chance now, you'll have a 10% chance after.

I'm sure that's what it means. I wish it was a flat 10% for the week. Unf unf.

I am the 1%.

+100% means rifts have triple the legendary drop rate instead of quadrupled.

it's raining legendaries

Wife ran a bunch of rifts and bounties and got fuckall.

This just in:  The random number gods really don't give two shits about incremental increases to low percentages.

Stil, it is better then nothing :P

Ran a bunch of rifts with friends and random four person groups over the weekend.  Was pulling about 3 to 4 legendaries (though that includes legendary/set recipies) per run.

The game shit set and legendary plans all over me but not so much actual items.

Ditto, except for an almost perfect Xbow.

Then I put some more Legendaries into my bag to diss for a reroll of the only stat on the xbow that wasn't awesome.

And yes, I then disenchanted the xbow by mistake.

My weekend was RUINED.

Drops were - as always- dependent on how the RNG gods feel for you that moment.  I was running Sunday morning and the first group I had I got 6 legendaries and 3 recipes.  Then I switched to my monk and my luck dried out, not a single legendary in 3 rifts.  I was waiting for Lan to join me to try more but it got to be 1 and I had to do yardwork.

That evening, same story.  Ran a few on the monk and Nada.

customer support it, be extra whiney, complain about a laggy interface, etc

Nah, fuck that.

Life lesson.  Man up and whatnot.

I fucked up, I live with it.  It was a spectacular fuckup tho....

It's going to suck to go back to regular drop rates.

We were joking about passing around the lucky dice. With the three or four of us playing together all weekend, half of the time it seemed like normal, ie almost nothing dropped. But the other half of the time one (and only one) of us got drops right and left, off every elite, from corpses, cache, etc, for a half hour, then back to nothing. Half an hour later it started raining orange and green on someone else. Each of us had a couple bouts of incredible luck, and long periods of drought.  They are defitely monkeying with the RNG, and I too am not looking forward to it going back to "normal".

There's nothing funnier than standing in pools of shite when you have 3 bits of blackthornes and that set downing ring.

Especially watching others run around avoiding it.

I got shit this weekend.  If anything my dice were even more unlucky.  The quantity wasn't there, but at least I got a quality main hand drop for my crusader (Fate of the Fell).   The rest was mostly garbage, except for another cindercloak, I could perhaps give to my wizard.

Grouping with Ingmar was gross.  I got at most one legendary per run, while he was pulling around 4.   :mob:

 :awesome_for_real:

The Countess had the lucky dice last night. Her 60 Crusader got a Ring of Royal Grandeur (the set completing one). Then her 70 DH got a Cindercoat AND another royal ring AND an uber crossbow!

Meanwhile my 52-to-57 Wiz got a level 60 coat of some kind. LOL But I played less than half as much too.

So the doubled drop rates affect caches also?

No, not from my understanding. Purely affects the drop rate from monsters.

It feels like it increases the drop rate from chests and other in-world containers too.

Everything but caches (and Kadala) I think? Maybe?

I have gotten a grand total of 67 legendary drops so far

I like my strategy a lot.

Whats your strategy?

Play tons.

fairly certain it applies to the Puzzle Ring treasure goblin.   Completely anecdotal evidence to support: Out of 2 drops i got from him yesterday, one was a legendary.

Too lazy to look it up, but I'm fairly sure the patch notes listed some buffs to the puzzle ring goblin

Buff is now permanent:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12926172697#1

Increased rates are here to stay

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12926172697#1


Double rift fragments are going away, but who give a shit about those

Yes, we know.

It's an odd choice.

Last night I found the exact same legendary boots three times in one "a-couple-of-hours-long" play session. Yay for increased drop rate... :P

I continue to find piles of mutually exclusive mats and plans which is pretty cool if by cool you mean retarded.

So is blowing through act 1 bounties on normal mode really the most effective way to farm The Ring of Royal Grandeur?  Not having much luck with that so far, and it’s really boring playing through normal (though it is pretty hilarious to watch absolutely everything melt the second my disintegrate beam touches them).

Had the same shitty plan drop twice within less than 10 minutes (mantle of rydraelm I think?).  Probably because I hadn't bothered to take it to the smith to "learn" it yet.

Bummer, I coulda had a second shitty plan drop  :uhrr:

get four of us together and split bounty. everyone does a different bounty, clean up act 1, rinse, repeat

normal is such a trip. I just basically put on arcane orbit and frozen storm and ... walk forward, and everything gets eradicated by thunderfury procs and explosions