7.1 Legendary bad-luck save is active

[Mosg2]

I've opened 8 legendaries in the two weeks since 7.1 hit. Before that, a mere 3.

Let me tell you... The Haste-->Speed boots are ridiculously good. As soon as they add a way to get specific legendaries I'll gladly shard every other one I have to give all my team these boots.

[JohnGabriel]

I have managed to get 4 total. 3 are from world bosses and 1 today from an emissary cache. 1 each on 4 toons and nothing on the last.

I don't think there is bad luck protection involved. I play a lot, lots and lots, and its just the more you play the better your chances. Plus maybe a bug that effects some people and they get lots of them. Blizzard says the bug is fixed, but they suck at math so probably still have a decimal point in the wrong place somewhere.

[daanji]

A real bad luck prevention setup would invoke something like "this person has been playing 24/7 since release and still hasn't seen a legendary, next drop will be a legendary"

Some sort of threshold. Also, did they ever say if the legendary/bad luck prevention is on a per-account basis or Battle-net basis?

I assume on a per character basis, but you never know.

[Lyonheart]

I got three at the end of a two chest mythic+ DHT run. Now all my paladins have one.

[Andreauk]

I think it has more to do with the increase in difficulty in heroics/mythics soon.

[MadMilitia]

I shut down back in the beginning of October. My usual post-launch lull has hit and I'm playing other games. Before that though I got one legendary from an emissary cache on my MW. After grinding caches on all 5 from launch to start of October. It's luck yeah but some have better luck than others.

[Mosg2]

They said at Blizzcon that the bad-luck protection went active with 7.1

I still don't have any characters with two, but I'm now at 12/20 characters with one.

[JohnGabriel]

I had another drop, thats one last week and four this week. All on different toons, and all different legendaries. As with OP its certainly looking like bad luck protection kicked in for me. Just RNG doesn't seem to explain it very well.

I wonder if /played time factors into it, maybe we should AFK while we're at work to increase it.

[Mosg2]

I'm now at 14/20, but four of them are the f'ing shield necklaces. Sigh.

[JohnGabriel]

I'm now at 14/20, but four of them are the f'ing shield necklaces. Sigh.

Those are probably best just for jumping off cliffs absorbing fall damage doing world quests. ;)

[daanji]

Hey Mosq2, just curious, with your 22-box setup what is your main focus? Are you running raids, mythics, farming?

[valkry]

I finally got a legendary on each of my shammys :P 1x legs, 1x secret ring, 2x necks.

[Mosg2]

I mainly WPvP with my team. With the new cross-realm sharding there's always a bajillion Horde to fight.

As an aside, I recently finished the Highmaul arena quest on all the accounts, so now I drop pretty Alliance flags on all the corpses as I kill :) It's pretty satisfying (for me; the Horde tears are insane).

[daanji]

Nice! I have to say this is the best expansion ever for World PvP, not only due to the sharding that makes the world always populated but also all the quests makes people go out and adventure.

[JohnGabriel]

Here are Blue Posts (from the EU forums) about the legendary bad luck protection system, and yes it really does exist.

http://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17614472761?page=2#post-27

http://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17614401625#post-15

Your /played time has no effect on it so just parking in Dalaran AFK wont help. Every time you do something that gives you a chance at a legendary and you don't get one, your chance increases for the next time. Nothing about the exact math used though.

I'm saddened the EU community manager talks freely about it and the US community manager keeps silent on most everything. But thats going off topic.

[valkry]

Here are Blue Posts (from the EU forums) about the legendary bad luck protection system, and yes it really does exist.

http://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17614472761?page=2#post-27

http://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17614401625#post-15

Your /played time has no effect on it so just parking in Dalaran AFK wont help. Every time you do something that gives you a chance at a legendary and you don't get one, your chance increases for the next time. Nothing about the exact math used though.

I'm saddened the EU community manager talks freely about it and the US community manager keeps silent on most everything. But thats going off topic.
This was all explained at Blizzcon though and before it. I haven't read anything new in those posts.

Here is my post in the other thread; http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/53337-The-lucky-few-to-have-legendary(s)?p=407421&viewfull=1#post407421
So somehow I was pretty confident to claim that on the 23rd Oct

[Lyonheart]

My main paladin got his second legendary yesterday. He now has chest and the belt. 4 of my guys have the belt now! The belt is getting a huge buff in the next patch.

Chain of Thrayn (http://www.wowdb.com/items/137086#22900-23038) - New effect: Grants an additional 70% healing done (35% for Holy) and an additional 25% damage done while Avenging Wrath / Crusade is active.( and is good for all three specs )

[daanji]

Got my thrid legendary on a dk - sephuz secret. I actually dont recall how i got it. I was running heroics, mythics, and emissaries, world boss, etc. It was only later when i reviewed the guild log one got an epic.

[JohnGabriel]

Now we have the 4 legendary soft cap rumor to deal with.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752276726

[MiRai]

Now we have the 4 legendary soft cap rumor to deal with.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752276726
Watcher actually posted in that thread earlier today, and it's been removed.

[daanji]

Looks like rhe 4-legedary soft cap speculators were indeep correct. According to watcher, it has been removed a week ago.

I have to say this legendary system has generated the most extreme whining in the woe forums in years

[JohnGabriel]

Looks like rhe 4-legedary soft cap speculators were indeep correct. According to watcher, it has been removed a week ago.

I have to say this legendary system has generated the most extreme whining in the woe forums in years

Does it even make sense to anyone why they did it? There's already a cap of 2 that can be equipped, so what does it hurt if people have 4? 6? 8?

In any case, I'm reading between the lines but it seems the best way to get legendaries is to farm mythic+. I have actually been missing out a lot since most of the time I was just doing world quests, the gear drops are 845+ compared to mythic 840+. But now I am doing more mythics and mythic+ so maybe I'll see more now.

[JohnGabriel]

Seems there are diminishing returns on legendary drop rates.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2091126-Real-Legendary-drop-rates-and-other-statistics-for-9785-chars-Spreadsheet

If true its just not going to be very likely to get best in slot legendaries for multiple specs.

While its true most people don't need legendaries to do current content and its mostly just for mythic raiders, but multiboxers need the extra dps and utility as we generally need to outgear the content greatly.

[Bzyta]

Does it even make sense to anyone why they did it? There's already a cap of 2 that can be equipped, so what does it hurt if people have 4? 6? 8?

In any case, I'm reading between the lines but it seems the best way to get legendaries is to farm mythic+. I have actually been missing out a lot since most of the time I was just doing world quests, the gear drops are 845+ compared to mythic 840+. But now I am doing more mythics and mythic+ so maybe I'll see more now. From my personal experience I have only got 1 legendary out of 12 on mythic+ and it was just normal mythic VotW it dropped plate boots for 1 of my paladins, all other legendaries I got from Mythic Weekly chest ( which doesnt really count for mythic+ since u just gotta do it once to get chest ) and rest of legendaries from Emissary Cache from World Quests, 2 legendaries on my hunter team are from world bosses ( i dont do anything else on them tho ). I mean just keep doing what you doing and you will get legendaries.

[Lance]

I was just moaning (to myself) that my 5 hunter team wasn't doing too well on legendary drops. Got 2 very quickly after hitting 110 and that was it until today. Got 3 all from the same nightfallen emissary quest! That's got to be some kind of record. 2 roar of lions and 1 sephuz's secret. Now 5/5 for my hunter team. My pally team has done way more quests is 6/5. Not done many mythics yet but not had any drop from there yet all from emissary and one from world boss.