But then, next day, 2 ‘red beam’ Primals fell in one single drop. This included getting a double drop of yellow items with the affix primal in same drop, a fairly rare occurrrence. And I have an factual story about a curious, coincidental run of 6 Primals dropped the day after finding 6 yellow primal affix items in the vault. I’ve seen near concurrent ones (within 20 drops). I’ve experienced one drought that lasted for 810 legs before finally getting a Primal item.Īnd of course, there are always exceptions to the rule. Pure speculation on my part but it’s likely no more than 2 x the normal drop rate. Chances are there’s also a ‘pity’ drop built in to ensure players eventually get a Primal drop. Blizzard will never tell us, but there must be a counter in the game and I believe the counter resets when you leave a game and start a new one. Though I can’t be 100% sure of this, I believe you must remain in the same game. That said, I think there are conditions for this to work. It doesn’t ALWAYS work, but it works enough to be able to use it to your advantage in removing some of the RNG. But for the most part, I got the Primal I was after. It ended up being # 496 and used up a huge number of mats. I’ve had some that became Primals within 8 tries. Consequently, I start reforging whatever legendary I need around legendary 425 and continue until I get the Primal or use up the mats I budgeted. 40 to 50 reforges around the time you expect) yields a Primal much of the time.įor me, the average number of legendaries I’ve had to find, craft, or reforge before I could reasonably expect a Primal to drop is in the mid 400’s. Crafting or reforging inside a tight interval ( i.e.

With record keeping over a number of weeks, I very quickly learned that Primals drop with fairly consistent regularity. What it requires, is knowing when a Primal is likely to drop.

Additionally, I have subsets of bracers, amulets and rings, all primal as well, for specialized tasks. All of this was done before Paragon 2000. And that’s 11/13 primals for my GR push build (missing bracers and boots) and 12/13 for the farming build (missing the boots). I’ve kept very detailed info on my drops and if you look at my profile for Octavia, my UE Multishot DH for Season 19 (zarkano#1336), you’ll see I’ve had no problems outfitting my character nearly completely in the appropriate Primals for the spec I run.

There’s nothing wrong with the drop rate of primals. Despite this being an old post, I felt I needed to add something here.

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