How rare are pearlescents?

[Wolf Man Dan]

So i've got just under 200 hours on my save file, completed the game at least a half-dozen times with currently a Lv69 Rolland and Lv69 Mordecai on my account, and playing as Lillith now.
However I have never seen a pearlescent in any of my playthroughs. Yet I saw my friend with 25 hours on his account get a hold of 3 from farming the developers chest.

He literally got 2 in 10 minutes. Now I've also farmed this chest a bit for my Masher+Equalizer revolver etc, and still never found one.

Does anyone know the actual stats or % chance of finding a pearl?

[billthebetta]

"Yet I saw my friend with 25 hours on his account get a hold of 3 from farming the developers chest."


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Bruh. That's a special chest in the vanilla game. Pearls only spawn while you're in the DLC3 area. From certain Badass enemies, Drifters, Crawmerax, and Lance Chests. And that's it. There's no way your friend could've gotten any pearl ever from the Dev Chest.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

i've gotten a few Pearls from either joining someone's game or a friend joining my game, and both times were Pearlescents given to me. but i've tried farming for them legitimately from Lance Chests, Knoxx's Armory, certain Badass enemies, and even Drifters and Crawmerax himself, but haven't gotten a single drop.

And this is coming from someone who had close to 1500-hours on record

[Juzt_Lernin]

Publicado originalmente por DrQuagmire1:

i've gotten a few Pearls from either joining someone's game or a friend joining my game, and both times were Pearlescents given to me. but i've tried farming for them legitimately from Lance Chests, Knoxx's Armory, certain Badass enemies, and even Drifters and Crawmerax himself, but haven't gotten a single drop.

And this is coming from someone who had close to 1500-hours on record

If you got them from someone elses game they are most likely created ones. Craw does take forever to get them. I have went 100 kills without, then gotten two on one kill.

[Volcanic]

One pearl should drop every 30th-60th Crawmerax kill. Its the easiest way of obtaining them.

Its way harder obtaining them in the armory.

Its way way harder to obtain them from Drifters.

And... Its way way way harder to obtain them from badass Lance, since they dont spawn that often to begin with.

I also heard the badass desperados (Knoxx DLC) can drop pearls.

V

[Volcanic]

To be clear:

There are 12 obtainable Pearls in the game.

The guns have a 0.158% chance of dropping from Craw on single player.

The shields have a 0.078% chance of dropping from Craw on single player.

0.158% x 9 equals a 1,422% chance in total.

0.078% x 3 equals 0.234% chance in total.

Craw has about a 4x bigger chance to drop Pearls than de badass lance soldiers.

Drifters have a 0.007% chance of dropping a Pearl gun, which renders this farm useless in my opinion.

There is no information to be found regarding the lance chests drop rate unfortunately.

There are more numbers out there, but these are the most interesting ones.

Now im done!

V

[Aki-San]

sorry to semi-un-necro this thread, but that calculation is just wrong.

you can not multiply the types of pearls with the chance, you divide the chance to get the chance per type.

the chance is 0.142% for SP craw (0.158 only on 4 player mode).
which fits with most of the players saying around 1/30 kills.
~1/24 is the most accurate number based on the amount of weapons craw drops on average.

Chests have according to some sources a 0.011% chance (which i highly doubt).
this would equal to 157 armory runs per pearl (which i highly doubt and does not fit with my personal experience at all).

from my personal playing, its 1/400 to 1/800 chests, which are around 20 to 40 runs.
the average chest should, if all possible chest configurations (2 large guns, 4 small ones etc.) are equally likely, contain on average 2.75 weapons.
-> 20/40 /2.75 ~ 7-14 runs, which seems a bit low.

tldr: so the reality is somewhere between 7 and 157 runs. which means most people should get at least 1 pearl every 80 armory runs.

from my personal experience the drop rate is for sure higher 1/800 (and a lot higher than 0.011%). so i would say around 20-40 runs per pearl seems likely. (aligning with a lot of mentioned drop rates for armory runs, though on the higher end.)

my own chest-tracking is 22.78 runs per pearl based on an average of 21 chests per run and 61 pearls total. (we dont talk about the time this took...)

though i had some dumb luck with like two double pearl chest or 4 pearls in a single run, which for me means, that my drop luck is above average / slightly skewed.