x2 Drop Confusion

Reico_M - Dreamweaver
Reico_M - Dreamweaver Posts: 72 Arc User
edited February 2010 in General Discussion
On January 28, 2010; at approximately 12:00pm Pacific time, something incredible happened: The Perfect World International Facebook Page achieved its 50,000th fan! To celebrate this momentous occasion, and to reward all of you for your dedication, we will be turning on 2x EXP, 2x Spirit, and 2x Drops for a solid two weeks!



I'm just wondering why I keep getting single item's while I am grinding. 2x drops should mean I get 2 instead of 1, right?

Or does 2x Drops mean 2x Drop Rates..?
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  • maocchi
    maocchi Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's 2x chance of an item dropping, not stacked item drop.
  • Sirrobert - Dreamweaver
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,395 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    last time it was double amount of drops, effectively doubling the chance of a drop.

    However, you see mobs droping nothing all the time. So if said mob would have droped 0.5 item (rounded down to 0) before double drop, it would drop 1 item at double drop (I know, bad mathical example, but our drop calculation system thingy is to complex and I'm to lazy to explain it here)
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  • Brigid - Harshlands
    Brigid - Harshlands Posts: 1,332 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    What I actually believe it does is doubles the number of drop "rolls". For example, normally a mob can drop 0-3 items, with X chance per item. Now it drops 0-3, twice, for a total of 0-6. This results in, on average, double drops, but naturally there's variation.
  • FranzKafka - Dreamweaver
    FranzKafka - Dreamweaver Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think it-s both double chance and double drops.So if normally a mob drops 0-3 items now you get that twice 0-3 and another roll of 0-3,which can be a max of six items(best i got so far from a butterfly i'm grinding on is 3 lethal venoms and 2 glaze) but you can also roll twice 0 and you'll end up with nothing anyway.Hope it's clearer and didn't make it even more confusing.
  • ChaoticTears - Harshlands
    ChaoticTears - Harshlands Posts: 323 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    maocchi wrote: »
    It's 2x chance of an item dropping, not stacked item drop.

    Really ??

    Wonder why 6 GBA's dropped in one 3-1 then
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  • Sirrobert - Dreamweaver
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,395 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Brigid - Harshlands wrote: »
    What I actually believe it does is doubles the number of drop "rolls". For example, normally a mob can drop 0-3 items, with X chance per item. Now it drops 0-3, twice, for a total of 0-6. This results in, on average, double drops, but naturally there's variation.

    That's what I meant
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