D-Key drop rate...

[Bruisr]

D-Key drop rate...

I just spent several hours and did ~100 Nihl runs.. I spent well over 2,000,000 gold to resurrect my merc and lost probably 5,000,000+ gold from dieing.... Afterwards I hopped on here and saw Meph's guide and read that if I just used my Natures Peace that I had in my stash, it would have been so much easier and faster (way to go numbnuts).

My point is this. I ran ~100 runs and only came out with 5 D-Keys... That's 1 key for every 20 runs... ~25 of those runs I ran all 3 key holders and only managed to get 1 Terror and 1 Hate and 0 Destruction.

Is this a typical drop rate? Does the drop rate seem to vary between high one day and low the next? Am I just super unlucky?? I ran H/T key runs one day about a month ago and got about 7-8 each. Other times I'll do about 10 Nihl runs at a time and get 2-3 Dkeys.

Just seeing if anyone else has had any experience with a sucky drop rate.

 

[0blique]

Re: D-Key drop rate...

Well, the drop rates are nominally higher (forget the specifics, but could be somewhere from 1/11 to 1/16 or so), but this is all random, so you won't see such rates unless you do a lot of runs (a few hundred more maybe).

I've had similar experiences to what you have- I've gone for dozens of 3-key runs with no keys dropped. But then, I've also had runs where I find multiple keys in a single run. So it's a matter of luck.

 

[Bruisr]

Re: D-Key drop rate...

........ I just did 15 runs and got 4 D keys.... What the heck!

 

[mephiztophelez]

Re: D-Key drop rate...

I just spent several hours and did ~100 Nihl runs.. I spent well over 2,000,000 gold to resurrect my merc and lost probably 5,000,000+ gold from dieing.... Afterwards I hopped on here and saw Meph's guide and read that if I just used my Natures Peace that I had in my stash, it would have been so much easier and faster (way to go numbnuts).

My point is this. I ran ~100 runs and only came out with 5 D-Keys... That's 1 key for every 20 runs... ~25 of those runs I ran all 3 key holders and only managed to get 1 Terror and 1 Hate and 0 Destruction.

Is this a typical drop rate? Does the drop rate seem to vary between high one day and low the next? Am I just super unlucky?? I ran H/T key runs one day about a month ago and got about 7-8 each. Other times I'll do about 10 Nihl runs at a time and get 2-3 Dkeys.

Just seeing if anyone else has had any experience with a sucky drop rate.

drop rates for keys are as follows:

5. How frequently do "the Keys" drop?
Adeyke had this to say on the matter:

Key of Terror has a 1/14 chance of dropping per kill in a 1-player game. Key of Hate has a 1/11 chance, while Key of Destruction has a 1/12 chance

You can get two, three, or possibly even more keys from a single drop.
These keys are nonmagical and your chance to find magic items does NOT have an effect on their drop rate. However, having more players in the game will increase your chances.

FYI: Adeyke is a well known code digger over at the amazon basin. he is seldom wrong about game mechanics.

i've also had wierd streaks where it seems like i do 100 runs for 1 key, the next day i get three double d-key drops in 10 runs.

it all averages out in the end.