Talk:List of Everfall Loot/@comment-5128971-20120806085119

I don't know whether these percentages were found in the guide or not, but I find them to be inaccurate, if not a bit misleading. I've done hundreds if not thousands of checks/suicides on various chests throughout The Everfall, and I've come to this conclusion, which seems much more accurate:

The percentages listed for loot chance is actually SHARED, not distributed. To get the actual % chance of a specific item drop, divide the listed % by the number of items that share that %.

For example, if a chest's listing looks like this:

5% Item A

5% Item B

2% Item C

2% Item D

2% Item E

Then Items A&B have a 2.5% chance each of dropping, and Items C,D&E have a 0.67% chance each of dropping. Those numbers seem to resonate more with players actually farming chests looking for specific equipment, as well as my own test results.

Ultimately, if you are looking for a specific piece of equipment, this explanation means that it is better to farm the chests that have LESS items sharing its percentage. It also means that farming chests with more drop possibilities does NOT mean you will have a better chance of getting any rare item on any given attempt.

I strongly believe these are the accurate chances, and that the source for the numbers in this wiki page might have been lost in translation over to English.