How does item Generation Work in Parties?

[TheWanderer]

How does item Generation Work in Parties?

In D3, each monster killed will give different items to each player, unseen by the other players. But this gives good oppourtunity for low level characters to join Hell Baal runs(as an example), party with the other guys, wait till Baal is almost killed, get in a few free shots, and when Baal dies, you get free items for almost no effort. Even though this is a good system to prevent creatures from picking up your hard earned loot, they also get a break.
Anyway, how does this system work? Does any monster that dies spawn items for everyone, or does the player have to attack the monster and decrease its health by a bit to get the items?
Anyone with a Bizzard account can ask this on the official forums?

 

[Gonzo]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

this gives good oppourtunity for low level characters to join Hell Baal runs(as an example), party with the other guys, wait till Baal is almost killed, get in a few free shots, and when Baal dies, you get free items for almost no effort

And this is different from D1 and D2 how...? The good thing is that this time the low level guy can't steal the loot from the higher levels that did all the work.

 

[AkumaSlayer]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

I think the drop should be less for each person if there are more people in the game.

For example, 1 or 2 items might drop for each person from a boss, with a full party. But if you made a solo game and killed the boss yourself, you should get 3 to 4 items.

 

[Akse]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

I think the drop should be less for each person if there are more people in the game.

For example, 1 or 2 items might drop for each person from a boss, with a full party. But if you made a solo game and killed the boss yourself, you should get 3 to 4 items.

Thats how it will work I think. Jay said something about balancing the drops for party sizes.

 

[AkumaSlayer]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

That's good to know. :grin:

 

[illuvium]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

how about u get loot (and the quality of it) by % of the total dmg done to the monster. by that way low lvls cant get that much gear besides the leech of xp...

 

[Akse]

Re: How does item Generation Work in Parties?

They should fix the leeching in the first place. If you are 10(or such 10-20) levels below any party member you get only 0.01% of the exp.

This way everyone is pretty much contributing to the killing when there is no one that is a lot weaker than others.