Else you'll spend a few weeks having a nervous breakdown. My advice to you all: Walk backwards slowly out of this thread screaming, before the mechanics of Diablo 2 suck you in.

Or rather, different from GoMule, which of course means it's wrong, right? I can't remember, but one of them is wrong. ATMA isn't absolute, but it's damn close Now Normal Diablo.I'd worry about that. (Monsters can't drop more than 6 items, so this works, unless they do a no drop or something and so then they drop from their 7th pick, so technically ATMA is wrong (technically)).Īnyhoo, I wouldn't get too excited. Increased number of items in 6 picks: 5.821 / 4.874 * 100% - 100% = 19.43% (an atrocity of numerical math, I presume) Now, let's compare those values by calculating the relative increases when going from /p1 to /p3:

This dungeon is also a place that has very few cold immune. The Ancient Tunnels is one of the most popular farms in the game because it's a level 85 zone and it's only in Act 2 which means despite the enemies being level 85 the zone isn't as difficult as say Baal Farming or Chaos Sanctuary Runs. His chance to drop 6 items in 6 picks is (1 - 0.0299) ^ 6 = 0.8335. Ancient Tunnels (Act 2) Farming Guide - Diablo 2. His average number of items dropped over 6 picks is 6 * (1 - 0.0299) = 5.821. Hence, his average number of items dropped over 6 picks = 6 * (1 - 0.1875) = 4.875. What I meant was that you can't translate Meppy's chance-to-drop-X (as calculated by ATMA) into Meppy's average-amount-of-X dropped per kill. You'll have to make your /p3 runs in less than 110% of the time it takes you to make a /p1 I wasn't talking about comparing various monsters. Whether you'll actually get more items over time on /p3 depends on your run times.

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