Question about green farming

jcorn427

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2011

Gods

N/A

So, when trying to get a specific weapon drop off of a boss, I know that it is best to have the fewest players possible present so that the odds of getting the green drop are better. How about using a party of heroes though? Since all drops are yours, if a green item does drop it will always be yours, and, since green items are excluded from the scaling algorithm shouldn't you get the same drop rate as though you were alone? Thanks in advance!

superraptors

superraptors

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2008

W/

they can be assigned to heroes as they can be assigned to other players.

Voodoo Rage

Voodoo Rage

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

Sacramento, CA

Geezers

R/

Heroes get their share of drops too, they just convert them to gold. Green farming with a full party can be a bit of an art form, knowing when is a good time to flag your heroes out of compass range so you will get the drop assigned to yourself instead.

Spiritz

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

DMFC

Only thing i can add is - never assume a green will drop anytime.
Yesterday i was shocked when myself and a guildie + 6 heros went to vq unwaking waters map for faction farming.Ive probably done over 80 runs here and only seen 2 greens ever drop and was from the ele boss.My guildie must have been the luckiest bugger going as he got green off the oni boss and razjans green sword in same run.
Ive seen people farm a boss for hrs solo and get nothing - then someone gets one first time on the map.
Infact i`ll say probably the easiest green to get is broodmothers claws - raptor farmers can vouch for that lol.

Missing HB

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2010

Anna

A/

Hello, you should try sorrow furnace in NM with 7 heroes. Once you killed everything but boss, flag heroes/henchs away and you will have chances on getting a green drop :
- NM is fine and bosses there don't have many skills, so it shouldn't be really hard killing them 1v1
- Bosses there can drop 3 greens, so you have more chances, but you can also have 2-3 greens dropping..

moldmaker

moldmaker

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Rochester ny

Bad companyclan BAD

Me/

i once read a theory about heroes in the party, the math looks like this. let say a boss drops a green every "X" amount of visits.
add an hero it lessens by 50%
add another hero and that divides again by 50%
so on and so forth.
that like 1 divided by 2 seven times.
that like an 8% chance divided by the luck of "x" about of sheer randomness.

add to this is the problem of is it an over farmed area? now it gets worse!
from what i also understand is if you visit an area to many times area net understand this , and makes drops more infrequent. i think you have to take a 20 min brake from that area after three times to bring drop rate back up.

if you guys have the current data.. please let me know if i have it wrong.