Haven't got laurel in 100 levels, unlucky or hidden mechanic?

[pocbame]

Basically title, I'm trying to do crimshon shroud + infinite coridoor and I've done two seperate runs where I've gotten to level 50 and I've not got a single laurel option. Can you not get the laurel if you have any curse or is there any hidden mechanic like that?

[Luciandevine]

I've had that happen too where I just can't find the last piece of my build for the life of me. Are you using your banishes on the other things to increase your chances of it spawning?

[Vexillarius]

Its just because drops are weighted. Drops are going to favour things you already have so getting the last piece/s can be hard sometimes. You just need to start maxing stuff out really to open up your roll options. Some things accessories and weapons have lower drop rates then others as well which. Like if your looking for tiramisu and you already have several other accessories you are leveling up your going to have a really really hard time getting it to drop.

[Miss Poopie]

Upgrading Skip, Reroll and Banish to the max will help with that! I always get my desired loadout.

[Arlian Sellan]

Yep, IIRC, laurel and Clock Lancet have a "weight" of 60. Some weapons have a weight of 40, most are 100, and 5 are 1.

The higher the better.

The way weight NORMALLY works is "the amount of the pie they get", let's say you have 5 weapons: 100, 100, 60, 60, 40. If you sum (add up) the numbers, you get a pie of 360 units.

The 100 gets 100/360th. The 60 gets 60/360th of the pie. When a random number generator is called, it choses a number from 1 to 360; and whatever the number lands on is the item chosen.

As you play, you start getting a knack for which weapons are common (100) and which are rarer (60 or 40) and you can usually weed out undesired commons with a banish. This makes the pool smaller which makes it more likely to land on a rare (as the percentage of the pie for the rare is bigger).

[BigFatJuicyMonkeys]

Is it ever worth picking up the weight 1 items? I've only unlocked two so far, the bone and the exploding bouncy ball from the panda dude.

[Arlian Sellan]

Originally posted by BigFatJuicyMonkeys:

Is it ever worth picking up the weight 1 items? I've only unlocked two so far, the bone and the exploding bouncy ball from the panda dude.

Yes, if it's part of your build. They are powerful weapons in their own right, but they are (currently???) unevolvable; but this does allow for more build variety for your passive weapons.

If it is part of your build and doesn't harm your character, why not?

[Albireo]

Originally posted by BigFatJuicyMonkeys:

Is it ever worth picking up the weight 1 items? I've only unlocked two so far, the bone and the exploding bouncy ball from the panda dude.

yup, the bone as an example keeps bouncing and scales great with speed and duration and so goes well with other weapons that benefit similarly. the flower farts at max level make ALL kills have a good chance to heal you. the mine cart is strong as hell and due to its left /right alignment works awesome in the tower. the fire crackers scale awesome with area and luck as more will explode and the explosions are bigger to the point that nearly the whole screen will have petals filling them.

[Y|yukichigai]

Not to unduly necro this thread, but I was having this problem until I remembered that Laurel is a weapon, not a passive. Kept taking 6 other weapons and then wondering "why isn't Laurel dropping?" Whoops.

[Moonbane]

Also, dont forget to check if you have accidentally sealed Laurel.

And yes, both Laurel and Clock Lancet are weapons.

So that means they can spawn in normal candy boxes.

[Egor | 2003]

feel you man i think thats unlucky