Gavel drop rate or rather lack of it

Gavel drops for me around 1 per map. Can't say that about 1ex+ unique. And no it's not the rarest base weapon.
Spine bow is definitely rarer. Ambusher is around the same rarity.

Heh I wonder if I can get a chaos for.a white gavel? I see them all the time.

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sidtherat wrote:

well.. all that 'rng is rng'.. rng can be rigged and i think that gavel drop rate IS rigged

What do you mean by rigged? Do you mean the drop rate of gavels is lower than that of siege axes? That's not 'rigged', that's just how it is. Axarion already gave you the reason why hammers are rarer than axes.

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sidtherat wrote:

i literally found more 1ex+ uniques than gavels during entire WEEK of playing

I imagine you are very alone with that experience :3 RNG is RNG (or you are simply exaggerating).

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sidtherat wrote:

in similar time ive found easily 100+ siege axes, imperial/spine bows, mealstrom staves etc - all bases drop pretty equally - but gavels? no. not for me.

As mentioned before, gavels are more rare for a reason. They still drop frequently, you might've just had bad luck.

The idea that GGG would nerf gavel drop rate to prevent chancing of Mjolner is tinfoil hat country. The probability of chancing Mjolner is a system-side variable and a million times easier to adjust down without causing complaints.

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Nemmerle wrote:

The idea that GGG would nerf gavel drop rate to prevent chancing of Mjolner is tinfoil hat country. The probability of chancing Mjolner is a system-side variable and a million times easier to adjust down without causing complaints.

It's not about Mjoler, but about chisel recipe. While mapping in 74+, my low maps are just piling up, I cant consume them, because there is not enough white hammer drops. And I'm paying attention to hammers all the time. Dunno, maybe my RNG is broken..

It's very fast to farm stone hammers. Rush a ST Scion thru act 1 normal. Get to act two by level 13. Farm levels in Riverways and buy hammers from act 1 and act 2 vendors . Multiple hammers every 5 min - I've farmed hundreds this way.

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Nemmerle wrote:

It's very fast to farm stone hammers. Rush a ST Scion thru act 1 normal. Get to act two by level 13. Farm levels in Riverways and buy hammers from act 1 and act 2 vendors . Multiple hammers every 5 min - I've farmed hundreds this way.

I'm pretty sure a 1 chisel worth will drop more frequently than a stone hammer with your method, while still progressing with the main character.

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tinko92 wrote:

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Nemmerle wrote:

It's very fast to farm stone hammers. Rush a ST Scion thru act 1 normal. Get to act two by level 13. Farm levels in Riverways and buy hammers from act 1 and act 2 vendors . Multiple hammers every 5 min - I've farmed hundreds this way.

I'm pretty sure a 1 chisel worth will drop more frequently than a stone hammer with your method, while still progressing with the main character.

That's definitely not my experience. I can get about 20 hammers per hour.

You also need 4 blacksmith's whetstones and 1 map per hammer.
How many whetstones go for 1 chaos? 60?

And I've said 1 chisel worth, 6S items drop at least once per map, on average.
Chisels themselves, fusings, etc.

Plus the character progression remains ongoing.

I've put a lot of thought in that method months ago, ended up with less efficiency and zero progression, plus a boring gameplay (a matter of taste).

While this thread was about gavels i can comment on other 'chisel' stuff.

If one farms for hammers he will waste his time. But if someone races then supply of hammers is limited only by stash tabs. As these drop a lot in races.

Other way:farming vaal orba (that are limited by ammount of crap vaal gems). Gems drop in early corruptes zones and these are almost guaranteed in normal. Doing both hammer and vaal burning arrow farming can be more viable