Optimizing chances for a Legendary?

[Wildjade]

My guild has had no legendaries at all so far and most of us, about 30 people, have been doing all mythics and spamming heroics on mains/alts and keeping up on caches. Clearly we're really unlucky XD I'm not overly bothered tbqh, it'll drop sometime.

[Deleted]

I wish right my guild has had 5+ groups clear mythic every week and people doing nonstop heroic and the only 2 we have are on gatherer alts from their first cache/random shit

Oh god that sucks.

First we got one on a semi-casual tank that may or may not raid with us. Then we got one for a healer, but for his offspec that he is pretty much never going to use in raids.

[Grandork]

Legendaries can drop from anything. Hunter in my guild got one off a random mob in Stormheim that was part of a quest chain when he leveled up.

So maybe it can't drop if you're doing a quest.

I call bullshit on this.

[Daan]

rng is rng. can you optimise randomness?

Randomness in computer science has to be generated somehow. How is it generated in WoW? Who can prove that this is really randomness here?

Btw, I shouldn't wonder if the top hardcore guilds get a free legendary to make the world first race not unfair, but this is my personal rumour.

[Jtbrig7390]

I call bullshit on this.

You can call bullshit, Hell you can call Ghostbusters if u want.

But can you prove what he said wrong? Because as it stands if you get loot from it then it has a chance to give u a legendary.

[Deleted]

People discovering the notion of randomness.

That's sweet.

[Deleted]

You can call bullshit, Hell you can call Ghostbusters if u want.

But can you prove what he said wrong? Because as it stands if you get loot from it then it has a chance to give u a legendary.

Devs said that it can't drop from mobs - they literally said that, so you are pretty bad troll or stupid - don't know what option if better

[Aphrel]

the best you can do is running hundreds of heroics and hope for luck^^
You also get tons of blood of sargeras and a shitton of ap. Aswell as a chance of getting gear upgrades..
Basicly heroics got everything you need

[Deleted]

Hey! Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but I'll give it a try. So I got this legendary neck just now which you would think is very nice. But the fact is it's not an uppgrade for me dps-wise so not sure if I'll use it in raids. The question I have is:

If I delete this neck, will it increase my chanses to get a other legendary?

I know you have a badluck-system in place, and I'd like to reset it back to were it was before I looted this one if it is possible.

Thanks for help and sorry for sounding so spoiled complaining about getting a legendary ^^

[Jtbrig7390]

Devs said that it can't drop from mobs - they literally said that, so you are pretty bad troll or stupid - don't know what option if better

Got a link to them saying that? Or are you just going to try to make a childish insult. Also you do realize things change when coming over from beta right?

[Deleted]

Hey! Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but I'll give it a try. So I got this legendary neck just now which you would think is very nice. But the fact is it's not an uppgrade for me dps-wise so not sure if I'll use it in raids. The question I have is:

If I delete this neck, will it increase my chanses to get a other legendary?

I know you have a badluck-system in place, and I'd like to reset it back to were it was before I looted this one if it is possible.

Thanks for help and sorry for sounding so spoiled complaining about getting a legendary ^^

If the pretebded anti-bad-luck-system exists, it probably works like bonus coins.

Works based on procs and looting, not owning.
Deleting an item is never a solution.

[Krimzin]

Legendaries can drop from anything. Hunter in my guild got one off a random mob in Stormheim that was part of a quest chain when he leveled up.

So maybe it can't drop if you're doing a quest.

Not possible. It has already been confirmed about what can and cant drop a legendary. Normal mobs can not drop one, zero chance.

[Noxina]

Haven't they said something along the lines about the more difficult the thing you do the more chance there is?

I got mine from a Mythic Boss the second week at least, first in my guild, a couple of hours later another one in my guild got one from the Emisarry cache (That he had forgot in his bag for two days, lol).

We haven't seen any other drops in the guild. 3 groups clearing Mythic every week, and a lot of HC spam. We are a bunch of people with 845+ ilvl now.

[Deleted]

If the pretebded anti-bad-luck-system exists, it probably works like bonus coins.

Works based on procs and looting, not owning.
Deleting an item is never a solution.

I'm not sure how the badluck-sytem works, but from what I've got the chances of getting a legendary increases over time

[Deleted]

I have two legendaries, one from mythic xavius dungeon and one from world quest daily crate - based on nothing I'm assuming these are the most likely places to find one so if that's true top guilds with 5 characters farming mythics and dailies should have a couple per person

[Thelin]

I can confirm you can get legies from fishing. Happend to a guildie of mine.

Lol, this fish swallowed a breastplate!

[Deleted]

I'll also confirm that they are spec specific, they don't switch when you change specialisation

[Protean]

rng is rng. can you optimise randomness?

Yes, absolutely yes.


If you want to roll a 6 on a die you want to roll as many times as possible to increase your chances of getting it.

Roll once and your chances are 1/6, roll 100000000 times and the chance that you haven't rolled a 6 would be astronomically low.

[Deleted]

Not possible. It has already been confirmed about what can and cant drop a legendary. Normal mobs can not drop one, zero chance.

One of my guildies obtained one whilst doing a LW quest - in his euphoria he didnt note the drop source but I have heard multiple people say they got theirs from a mob. I dont see why they would bother lying.

[hyperhyve]

Ok as im not here to fight at any point with anyone. Yeah I extraggerated and I do apologise.

Yet that wasn't the main point of my post tbh... Just wanted to say that there is no better way to "farm legendaries" than just doin your stuff because of no matter what you are doing it is always RNG

Well, that's your opinion. But your opinion is just wrong. Legendaries have a certain dropchance. So you can "farm legendaries" (ie increase your chances of getting one; "optimizing chances for a legendary" [thread title]), by increasing the amount of things you do that can possibly reward a legendary. It's as simple as that.
You can't get one guaranteed, but you will get one with a higher probability if you run a lot of heroics compared to not going a single heroic.
Just because you casually got 2 legendaries by luck, doesn't mean that "just doin your stuff" is the answer that OP was looking for.

I just wonder why you bothered to make an account to post here, seriously. You insulted people, and spread wrong and/or irrelevant information. Not cool.