Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.100.64.94-20190326150138/@comment-27660480-20190328235654

Jp356 wrote: Howard,

Strange isn't it?

😂 is the talisman broken? Or did you just happen to have a crummy baseline drop rate?

'''That X is a mystery. It is not constant.'''

(seekers star is very different).

100 successful plays might give an idea about a baseline drop rate (mistery "x"). It is about probability, so a solid base of observations is required.

I observed some baseline drop rates for the reagents/banishing items/fixers/keys and diagrams during the Falling stars mini event. Those elements drop pretty in a similar way, when the regular quests are played (that is what I do).

I played the puzzles more frequently vs other rooms chasing the silver paws rewards. I have noticed that some CIs drop less frequently and they are more often present on my friends WLs. So I pretty agree, that every element in the game has a baseline drop rate (some kind of attributed weighting): for example 1 for a rare and 100 for a frequent. A rare element will be won 1 time every 100 plays and a 'popular' will be rewarded for every play (100 items for 100 plays).

Regarding the fancy of the Garggoyle Pendant. The Artifact adds 60% to how often only the CIs and the fixers will drop. Let's attribute to a CI baseline drop rate 25 out of 100 and to a fixer 60 out of 100. The artefact will modify their drop rate baseline as following: for a CI the new baseline will be 40 (+60% to25) and for a fixer - 96 (+60% to 60). So 100 successful plays would probably pay 40 CIs and 96 fixers. "Would": because every successful play is like a spin on a game-machine with a certain number of slots: CI/fixers/reagents (flowers, runes, vials) /banishing items/keys and diagrams/APs.

The fixers have higher odds of dropping comparing to the CIs. If a CI has a really low attributed baseline drop rate, the luck artefact, including the most powerful the 2-h luck talisman (+90% luck) will have no fancy effect. I have not obtained some CIs at the first attempt running the SS.