[Shawnski]

OK, this game is punking or trolling me. As noted above, followed those "rules" and got a RROG right away.

But upon further reading, the "pity" timer likely doesn't even start until about the four hour mark of gameplay (without a legendary drop) so it didn't even come into play.

Blue (mod) posts on battle.net suggest that if a target of one legendary drop is intended for every two hours of gameplay, then the RNG effect basically sets a bell curve around that time. Should also note that the legendary boost after the anniversary and also the higher difficulty levels also play into this. Not only is it time played, but likely how many monsters are killed during that span.

Bottom line is that the longer you wait without a legendary drop, the more likely one will drop from the cache when you decide to open it.

I did some timing measurements on Normal mode bounty clears and it was usually about 8 minutes for all five bounties. This was just running through whatever didn't need to be killed and avoiding any chests etc. That said, my auto-trig meteors and follower killed a lot of them anyways.

Here is the previous data, and some new data converted into number of bounties cleared relative to legendaries found:

15* (estimated) bounties, then 6 caches opened, RROG dropped (* the bounties were a combo of solo and paired with BloodFetish)
15 bounties, then 5 caches opened, leg ammy in last cache (all bounties solo and will be until otherwise noted)
20 bounties, 7 caches opened, nothing
1 bounty, 1 cache opened, nothing
2 bounties more, a leg drops, so 23 bounties between legs.
5 bounties more, a leg drops.
8 bounties more, a leg drops.
7 bounties more, a leg drops.
6 bounties more, a leg drops.
3 bounties more, a leg drops.
10 bounties more, a leg drops.

Now, I timed four total clears and it averaged around a minute and a half for each bounty. Those last 7 legendaries dropped within an hour of total gameplay.... on Normal.... when I didn't really want to see them!

19 more leg-less bounties and BloodFetish rejoined the game(s).
10 more bounties (that I personally cleared) passed, and after each game (all 5 bounties combined) I opened some caches (5,5,5 then 3) before I got a leg in the cache, and it was a green belt.
12 more bounties, then a leg dropped.
6 more bounties, then two legs dropped.

Soooooo..... this is a small sample size (and perhaps BloodFetish will add some other data to the mix) ~130 bounties run, 37 caches opened, and still only that initial RROG dropped (and total of 3 legs within those 37 caches.)

Bottom line is that I am surprised by the amount of legendaries dropped in normal mode without trying to get any, and two, RNG RGMG.

Edit, and I almost forgot!

Vchoychoy is on the cusp of joining the Paragon 400 club. Kudos for the upcoming milestone!