Thread: Spading Snatch

Originally Posted by Discoceris

In other words, if a drop rate for something is 5%, it DOES NOT MEAN that you are going to get the item after 20 attempts, or 100 attempts, or even a 1,000 attempts. It just means that on any given drop, the chance for that item to appear is 5%. No more. No less.

What a 5% drop rate means is that, over the course of 100 attempts, on average you'll see the item drop 5 times. If you were to repeat this course of 100 attempts many many times, you'd see a histogram approximating a bell curve where 5 drops was most frequent, followed by 3 and 6, then 2 and 7, etc. It wouldn't be quite symmetric because you can't get fewer than zero drops.

% rare item appearance increase - This means that the rate of appearance for normal loot is suppressed so that the appearance for rare loot can increase. Think of it as this way: the values must always add up to 100%. You cannot have 101%, or more, total (combined) rates.

I think this applies more to Gatcha than battle. 10 draws in Gatcha will get you exactly 10 things--the likelihood of getting one thing is directly related to the likelihood of getting something else (because you can't get both in the same draw). But in battle, the drop rates could be completely independent. You could get any number of chests, and getting one item doesn't necessarily affect your chance of getting any other item in the same battle, or even from the same mob. Or maybe it could, depending on the actual implementation in the game code.

Question:

If a base drop rate of, say, 10% were to be boosted by 10% with Snatch, would the resulting drop rate be 10 + 10 = 20%, or 10 x 1.10 = 11%?

The biggest problem is that game itself doesn't really tell us how much of boost snatch gives us. It's like asking us to believe that this skill does something without delivering any evidence. (as far as I know it might as well do nothing)

Originally Posted by Skulkraken

Question:

If a base drop rate of, say, 10% were to be boosted by 10% with Snatch, would the resulting drop rate be 10 + 10 = 20%, or 10 x 1.10 = 11%?

To rephrase the question: If Snatch boosted an item's drop rate to 11% from 10%, would that be a 1% bonus across the board, or a 10% multiplicative bonus to each item's drop rate? Or some variable rate applied to each rarity tier? Does it affect the rate of appearance of platinum chests in event battles? What about the contents? We don't have the data, or even the intuition, to begin to answer these questions, though a fixed-rate multiplicative bonus seems most likely.

In the end it helps... just its not really noticeable... because in the end if you were destined to get a bronze or nothing from the start... then you get a bronze with snatch... how would you even know if were going to get nothing from the start? Playing the guessing game really is pointless lol. It helps. but not in a "Huge" way. It's like using steal in a mmorpg... it doesn't always work... and doesn't mean your gonna get the best item in the game from that mob... wow i got 5% of the gold i'd get for killing him... or 1 piece of shit cloth... yay...............................................