Gambling exceptionals

[boogieback]

I have difficultylevels.txt set to 500 for uber gambling which should bring my odds to about 1/200 for an exceptional. All of a sudden, my assassin hits level 42 and BLAM - 90% of all items gambled are exceptional. Can anyone shed some light on how to even this out?

[Dark Spot in the Corner]

The formula to upgrade an item to exeptional, or elite, works differently than the 100,000-chance-formula for quality on gambling.

First, the game calculates a random level that is your character-level plus/minus 5:
ilvl = clvl + rnd[10] - 5

Then, this level is used to determine the chance that the item will be upgraded.
exceptional chance = 1 + (ilvl - excep qlvl) * GambleUber / 100
elite chance = 1 + (ilvl - elite qlvl) * GambleUltra / 100

So, if you enter a value of 100 in GambleUber or GambleUltra, you'll have a 1% chance of upgrading for every level that exeeds the item's level. So a character with level 99 would have an average chance of 30% to gamble an elite item with level 70.

[strike]hth[/strike] hope that helps!
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[54x]

The Society for Abolishment of Unnecessary Acronyms (SAUA) is most unhappy with your acronymisation of the phrase 'hope that helps.'

[boogieback]

What are qlvl and md[10]? Is that a 1% chance for every level above the base item or the quality being considered that determines if it's converted? I lowered all item levels to their clvl requirement levels, so that may have something to do with it. Thanks for your help.

[boogieback]

Can anyone answer this last one please

[kingpin]

Please, use the edit button instead of posting several message in a row.

[Dark Spot in the Corner]

The meaning of "ilvl = clvl + rnd[10] - 5" is explained above, but i will clarify it again if need be...

- ilvl is a number that is calculated by the formula.
- rnd[10] (in captials: RND[10]) is a programmers way to describe a random number from 0 to 10.
- clvl[10] is your characters level.

So put in to plain text, the formula would mean:
Take you character's level, and add a random number between 0 and 10. Then substract 5 from that value and store in in a variable named "ilvl".

hthmtmlp
For non-SAUAs: "hope that helps more than my last post"

EDIT:
Oh, and qlvl[10] is the level of the item in the quality that the upgrade check is made for.

[boogieback]

Thanks again. Finding the perfect number that works is difficult for the odds I'm looking for. I think I've found it in 300.

Edit: One thing I've found is that setting uber to anything above 100 is a real bad idea if you want to continue to receive normal or elites in gambling. The game seems to take exceptionals over any other quality, no matter how high you set ultra. At 200 uber and 50,000 ultra, my 87 sorc receives exceptionals exclusively (out of 100+ items gambled, not one normal or elite). Anyone know more specifically how this works? You'd think elite would take a preceedence.