A player has taken it upon himself to defeat thousands of bosses in Diablo 4 to document the drop rates of the loot. His conclusion: Those hoping for the best items in the game may be disappointed.
Which bosses has he defeated? The player has defeated each boss at Torment level 4 in Diablo 4 numerous times to farm loot: Grigoire, the beast in the ice, Varshan, Lord Zir, Andariel, and Duriel.
The bosses are available from Torment 1, but the drop chance for strong loot increases with higher difficulty levels. With these bosses, you not only have a chance at the coveted Mythic Uniques, but also at “bequeathed” items (Ancestral items) with “greater affixes” (GA).
The GAs are 1.5 times stronger than normal affixes and therefore very popular for many builds in the endgame. You can find our tier list for the best builds in Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 of Diablo 4 here.
The Torment levels were introduced with Season 6. You can learn more about it in the video:
More Mythics than Uniques with 3 GA
This is the result after the runs: On Reddit, the user Visible-Brief-2477 presents his results after 2,400 runs using various tables. In the tables, he lists the drops after the runs – including Mythics and GA-Uniques. In total, he received 14,400 loot drops, including:
- 1,978 items with 1 GA
- 136 items with 2 GA
- 17 items with 3 GA
- 5 items with 4 GA
- 36 Mythic Uniques
Each boss drops 6 items per run at Torment 4, the player notes. Considering the drops of items with 3 and 4 greater affixes, they account for 0.12% and 0.03% of the 14,400 drops. And 0.25% of the 14,400 drops are Mythics.
Specifically, that would mean: You will get the rare Mythics faster than strong items with 3–4 greater affixes. And when the GA-Uniques drop, it may still be the case that the aspects on the items, which have a significant impact on the build and individual skills, have a low value.
The player’s goal was to show the drop rate of 3GA- and 4GA-Uniques. He finds the drop rates for both to be “catastrophic” – especially when compared to the rate of Mythic Uniques, which are supposed to be the rarest items in the game, he notes. His conclusion: The grind is not worth it, and he hopes Blizzard increases the drop rates.
“Loot drops in Season 6 are terrible”
What do other players say about the drop rates? In another Reddit post, Bored_guy_in_dc explains that the item drops in Season 6 are “just terrible”:
- The GA items drop rarely and with minimal aspect values, meaning: They are only rarely useful.
- As for Mythics, some players are lucky, but others farm bosses every day and hardly get any mythical drops.
- The drop rate of legendary runes is also “almost as bad as that of Mythics,” he finds.
Another user writes on Reddit that he killed the boss Duriel 100 times to get two specific items for his build. He farmed materials for two weeks for this. He received three Mythic Uniques, which he broke down for “Magnificent Sparks” – but none of the items he needs.
Duriel and Andariel remain at least good starting points for players to farm the coveted Mythics. One player has defeated the boss Andariel in Diablo 4 250 times – and he has also documented his loot drops. The result is sobering, but does not really surprise the community.
