Originally posted by Gripphon
Allow me to tell you my story of this RFO.
Set 1:
Well it was ordinary set overall, with slight annoyance at one part, I had between 900 and 1000 runs without qualifier in this set. That is very unlucky streak and it took me almost 5 hours to get out of it. I was very annoyed since last RFO I had even worse, 7 hours without qualifier. To connect that unlucky streak to this sorc of mine, that would be like near 1200 runs without qualifier. Luckily rest of the set was kind enough to drop me a total of 15 qualifiers which is slightly below expectations as is my final score of the set. Didn't find top 3 high qualifiers, but oh well. Overall quite good set, found fine of good luck and fine of vita here so I had horses for race at non-qualifiers stuff at least.
Set 2:
This is where fun began. Got Sur and Ohm first day of starting set, which was nice start. Second day was first highlight of RFO. Started with Vex dropping, 1 hour later first Cham and finally Lo dropped as last high rune of the day. I was very happy to find my first Cham on RFO ever and thought this could be first set where I might actually have at least average luck, and not below average like last 3 sets provided. I also experienced my first RFO death in second day of second set. Next day started with a bang, second Cham dropped inside first half hour of playing for that day. I thought to myself WOW, another Cham, am I lucky or what. This set is looking better and better. Can I aim for some epic score? This all happened inside first 2k runs of second set. Naturally other stuff dropped too, but who will memorize all the Ums and Guls and stuff.
Then came another shocker. OK, day started quietly, I think here was the point of approximately 500 runs without qualifier, and then Vex dropped. Nice. 1 hour later came that shocker aka best screenshot of RFO. Double event, as people from Pacific Rim would say.
This was also my last high rune of second set that ended as pleasant surprise. As interesting information, on half point of this set my score was in ~120 range already, so second part of the set got me 80 score worth to get to 200+. I finally had set above expectations aka lucky set for me. And 2 Chams too, great! I'm very happy, let's end this RFO at once.
But nooooooooo. 8k runs was done till that point, and 10k seemed like beautiful target. 3 days till the end, to go for it or not? I will go for it I decided, don't know will I do this again during RFO and lets use this opportunity to do it! And so it began...
Set 3
Set I call freak of the nature, or set on steroids if you like. Second set was on high lucky side, but nothing extremely overpowered. But this third set... it defies logic, math and statistics. Not de facto, but this set was obviously ridiculous and honestly I had slight dilemma whether or not to report it because how monstrous it looks. But decided with some thinking and suggestions (ty guys) it would be stupid not to report such thing, even if it seems ridiculous, hardly believable and overpowered beyond measure.
Set started kind of quiet actually. Ok, not THAT quiet, first qualifier Mal dropped inside 60 runs, but until 450 runs I found nothing else. And then magic started. From 450th run till 2000th run is one of most ridiculous things I've seen in diablo career. Let us go step by step now. Unfortunately I didn't memorize drops of Vex- runes, but they did drop along with high runes naturally, but I can only guess when something dropped since I didn't write it on paper.
13:32 Lo dropped
13:49 Vex made appearance
Talking about great start, already 30+ points and not even 500 runs done. Here I took slight pause since I started running before 11. And then before 500th run tick:
14:26 Jah dropped
It was first mentioning of god with this drop. After having that second set, it was quite pleasant surprise to get another one of big boys. Also having quite high score below 500 runs meant one thing, I must finish this set and hope for the best. Set didn't disappoint me.
14:41 Ohm
Ok, this set is looking really good, got 3 good runes quite quickly and I have even more reason to go all out and finish this set! What I didn't know is beast waited for me next.
15:02 Cham, third on RFO!
Holy jesus god! That was my reaction on this drop. Third Cham this RFO, what a the odds? That's it, this set is going full 20 hours, no excuses. I play for the rest of the day to use all my luck while it lasts.
There was no quiet period yet, this set was on fire and lower qualifiers dropped all the time as I ran. Until another drop happened that made my jar drop. Second Cham of the set, fourth of RFO. How, what, why?! Is this for real?!
17:42 Cham no. 2
This is just insane. I thought it is perhaps map thing, don't know. Chams are dropping like Mals lol. At this point I had more Chams than Ists on whole RFO. Ridiculous. This are not done just yet!
18:34 Ohm made appearance
Now it followed slightly quiet period. Not deaf quiet, but not period on steroids like it was until that point. And then toward the end of the day and I think it was at ~1700th run of the day, another big boy dropped.
23:16 Jah no 2.
Another mentioning of gods name. I mentioned his name enough time to become a believer! Second Jah?! Two Chams?! Seriously?! WTF. That was my reaction. I must keep going, my luck is obviously insane right now and must use all of it. I played till like 2 am with pauses until I finally stopped.
First day of third set: finished 2000 runs, played for 11 hours, had 13 qualifiers drop of which 8 were Vex+. That equals my previous record where I also found 8 Vex+ runes in 24 hour period, also in Travincal. But this was freak of the nature of the set so far, nothing I've seen before. My score at halfway point was... 166.9 if I remember correctly. Yes, freaking 166.9 after 11 hours of playing.
Amusing this was, this set looked a lot like second set, like a twin brother, until second Jah dropped. I thought I could have exactly same set twice! Yeah right, but it would be amusing for sure.
Second day was quiet one and I also experienced second most unluckiest streak this RFO here, it was ~650 runs without a qualifier. But like I care with drops from first day, I'm already super happy and will finish the set satisfied. Ok, I did want to get another 200+ score set and this one was meant to be. During second day I did 950 runs and found 3 qualifiers in it.
Third and last day of third set and also of RFO. This set obviously took rest day and now it was ready to explode again! I still battled to get 200+ score and hoped I will make it. Well, it didn't take too long for nice qualifier to show its face yet again:
12:20 Vex
Talking about nice start and crossing of 200 points! Hell yeah, I did it and still have like 900 runs left till the end of the set!
And then, Harry Potter stuff happened yet again. It was like 3300 runs into the set and like 600 runs before the end. BAM!
14:27 Cham no. 3
My reaction? I stood up from the chair and asked out loud "How is this possible?". I was shocked, me who sold more runes than I used in my diablo career, I was shocked with rune drop. Lol. Third Cham? Fifth this RFO? Sixth inside 12k runs if we include that Cham before RFO that I tossed on ground? I took calculator and wanted to know what a the odds to find 5 Chams in 12k runs. It so happens to be ~1.8%. If we seek to know what is probability to find at least 5 Chams instead of exactly 5, it could be 2% or more. So, this even happens once in 50 RFOs to someone who does 12k runs. Insane. I thought probability will be less than that since this kind of probability actually rivals the one to not find qualifier in 1000 runs, which is interesting.
Also at this point I felt really ridiculous for having that kind of luck. I almost feared to find yet another Cham in next 600 runs because they obviously drop at insane rate these days. What would people think when they see one set with 2 Chams and one set with 3 Chams? Should I report this freak of set to scores or not? Well, I asked myself stupid questions, I'm just sharing my thoughts process here.
I didn't yet know this set didn't produce everything it had in store for me. Let us continue, shall we?
It was now quiet period with runes in general... Until last 300 runs. Freakshow started yet again there!
18:09 Lo rune
Wow, yet another high rune. Amazing. Will this set finally end? No, it won't, in fact now it will produce insanity in number of qualifiers in short amount of runs. It didn't take long to find big boy yet again.
18:33 Jah rune no. 3
I think at that point I still had like 200 runs till the end. I don't have to mention I again called gods name when Jah dropped, right? I felt incredibly ridiculous. This set is on freaking steroids and it doesn't end. What is next, Cham and Ber on same run? How this set looked like, I wouldn't be surprised if I saw that. Nothing could surprise me anymore. Another Cham in 200 runs? NP. Ber? Why not. Let us continue and see what will happen.
What happened is I didn't find any of big boys yet again (luckily lol), but number of qualifers along with Lo and Jah in 300 runs? Man. Insanity. I think total count of qualifiers in that period was 6, which means I found qualifier once per 50 runs. What in the world. Statistics, math, they are all wrong.
Set ended, I lost count of qualifiers I found, I didn't know how my score looked like, I just had idea where I am. And then when I looked in stash... holy lord, what is this? 1..2...3... 26 freaking qualifiers in this set. 26! Expectation for my sorc is in range of 16, but 26! Insanity. I don't know what to think. Hey, lets finally count score. 292 points. WHAT! I thought I'm in 280 region, but not at reach of freaking 300 points. ROFL. Talking about set on drugs.
Superman of sets indeed. It won't happen again. Ever. I mean that thing is a monster, I'm losing words to describe it. You thought "WTF is this even possible?" when you saw my third set? Exactly that I thought after finishing it, and I did whole running. How is this possible? What if I continued running in fourth set, would I found another 5 Chams this time? Or 5 Jahs? I mean I felt ridiculous and this set was ridiculous.
I died with sorc during that set too, but who cares. I was tired as hell, and those insane drops kept me going and going without stopping. Would you stop? Neither would I and didn't, went till the end.
Also started fourth set just to do 55 runs to complete 12k runs for RFO since my time was worse in this third set due to exhaustion and unplayable atmosphere around with hot days and such.
This is my whole RFO with sorc:
Don't let total playing time fool you, I didn't overreach 20 hours, simply do number of runs * avg time. Total time included cubing gems and stuff when I didn't do running at all. I will upload haulpics etc, don't worry.