Is the drop manipulated or random?

How is it possible that almost every streamer I've seen has had a mirror drop, in one way or another? Some even had two. And thinking about it, it would make business sense, as people would get hooked on the game watching their streamers get those rewards, awakening the desire in their drugged minds. This would make the number of users grow and keep them around over time, especially since now every two months we'll have updates between poe1 and poe2. We've been a year without poe1, and I'm sure the drop was manipulated at the beginning to hook people. At the beginning of the league, I had some big drops, and now nothing at all. GGG, your tricks are obvious. Will you explain?

Players manipulate drop rates by min-maxing and stacking quant and rarity and pack size and number of hours played. ;)

They play a lot more and are more efficient than you are.

We've had these tin foil hat theories since the D2 days before streamers were a thing where people were fully convinced that your routing and the server ip somehow would affect loot.

Are you at least playing a currency focused atlas strategy?

you seem to be implying some kind of ghost nerf/buff to drop rates, or the notorious "streamer client".

Neither are things.


However, there are plenty of things that anyone can do to increase their chances of high value currency drops.



1. Time. More maps run = more chances at drop. The average streamer you are watching plays 8-12 hours a day. How much do you play?

2. Map Juice. Scarabs and Rolls matter, ALOT

3. Group play. Huge multiplier to loot and do the ability to handle insane amounts of map juice.

Thanks for reading and commenting. I know what you're saying, and I'll do it. I love farming, and I've done about 500 T17s in this league. I'm one of the players who puts in the most hours of the game. And what I'm telling you is something I think could be true. And yes, it is? It's not normal that almost all of the streamers I run have been hit by Mirror.

No, it isn't true. It's tin foil hat nonsense.

The current league offers multiple currency-focused strats that will drop you a mirror "frequently" if you match streamer playtime and play/minmax efficiently (invasion Alva, risky abyss, cascading breach, bottled exiles). I have dropped 3 mirrors myself this league.

Also 500x T17 isn't a crazy amount. People reach that during the first 10 days of a league.