more items vs better items gear

[CorwinOfAmber]

There are 2 types of items:
1. find more items by %
2. find better items

Anybody tried to see which gives you better chances at legendary gear?

[hockeyhacker97]

Would have to deconstrust the code to actually know the answer because lets do some simple math

Lets say there is a 5% chance for items to drop and when they do there is a .1% chance for it to be legendary. Obviously increase item find rate 100% would increase drop chance from 5% to 10%, but question is what number scale does it take on find better items to increase the chance from .1% to .2% to be the same type of doubling your chances.

With that said without looking through the code I couldn't tell you wither +50% drop rate or +50 quality drop rate will yeild better results.

[CorwinOfAmber]

i do appreciate the answer. i have been running with a "better item drop" weapon for a long time and I have amassed a decent number of legendary weapons. i used to use a weapon that incresed the drop rate by 25% which allowed me to mass a large sum of gold.

At this point i realized that simply playing the game allows for a decent change of legendary from random mobs. I think the way the drop rate is structured is actually quite balanced.