Loot Mechanics?

[UnderwearModel]

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1. Are the loot tables for a chest the same when soloing as when in a group?

I was soloing STK on elite to get the featherfall ring and ransacked it 4 times with 6 different toons, thats 240 chests with no ring. (have KY cause now my butt is sore) thanks alot DDO. ran it once with a new toon and in a group and got it first time thru.

2. Do "NAMED" items only drop if you're a certain level?

The "Sunblade" is a good example. I NEVER repeat NEVER NEVER NEVER can get one with my level 16 toons but on very rare occassions i can find one if i run a level 6 or 7 toon.

3. I was told a VERY long time ago that there is a hidden luck modifier attached to your account when you create it, but didn't pay it any mind as i thought it was BS. but it seems that some people get consistant pulls where others have none. and its ALWAYS the same people.

(example) the entire time ive played this game ive gotten a TOTAL of 4 (+1) tomes (and ive played since BETA with only a short 4 month pause), yet a friend of mine pulled 3 in one single mission (granted he was really lucky, but really he does this **** ALL the time)

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And you are a "founder", I would say your luck is el crappola.

STK, I find that on the lower level characters it is MUCH MUCH easier to get the ring. And if you join a group that is looting and you are on a new character, I always seem to get one. Currently, we have SEVEN RINGS of FEATHERS. I have not really run STK for loot in a long, long time. I do not think I have even run STK on my monk yet, and my monk is almost 9th.

My one and only SUNBLADE came on a toon that was 7th level.

I thought the luck modifier was that die roll thing in the beginning. I have never seen a 20 on my screen, but I have seen 19s.

I have played this game since October 2007. I have pulled around 30 +1 tomes, maybe more. In my bank, I have one page devoted entirely to storage of +1 tomes, my library. But never have I pulled a +2 or greater tome. Most tomes are pulled on my CLERIC. And tome pulling does come in spurts. Good places to pull tomes, for me, are gianthold quests and From Beyond the Grave.

On my other characters I might have pulled a total of four +1 tomes.

Now, just for your enjoyment, on ANY of the RAIDS, I have never pulled a NAMED item on ANY of my characters. I look at others pull them, sometimes, people take pity on me and give me one, like the "tenderizer" from the Reaver. It does not matter what character I play, or what class, my streak has stayed alive so far.

NO NAMED ITEMS FOR ME on any raid.

[DelScorcho]

The mechanics of loot are definately not random. Nothing good ever falls, with one exception: 1) a highly sought after item will fall to a person who has spent the majority of the mission playing as a soulstone; AND 2) the item will never be useful to the person who pulls it. The loot gods are dead.

[Altarboy]

I think the devs have pets!
Oh you might say...
Altarboy you crazy
they hate us exactly the same...
But, sadly no...it's not true
I had always suspected this until 1 day when my suspicions were confirmed!
The story goes like this...


Once upon a quest...
A buddy and I were muckbane farming
first run as luck would have it...Muck was home....oh goody!
I lag and my toon dies...
no biggie a little XP Debt...
I rez and we open the chest...

POP

He gets a Muckbane...
We're like GREAT!...a good sign right?
Not exactly...
This exact same scene plays out(minus the death)9 more times!
....read it slowly....
he pulled 10 in a row.....
10!
I got..... um.....killed
The odds of this must be astronomical...
can't be random....
or even randomish!....
hell it's not even in the same universe as random!

I hate you all...this will continue until further notice!

[Gringo]

I've been playing since launch and my loot luck has always been very hot and cold. What I have found in my own personal experience is when I roll a new toon and level them up I dont play my mains. They sit and all their ransack timers reset in the week or two it takes me to cap a new toon. Then I switch back to one of my mains and the loot rains down on me. Just my two coppers...

[Altarboy]

Very odd!
The day after I made my last post in this thread I pulled a reaver ring, Chaos Guards in the same run and a tome the run after.
The toon I was on has NEVER pulled a single decent piece of loot.
Very odd...
I think perhaps I need to send him bloodstone hunting.