Question on Drop Rate

Thank you, this helps quite a bit. It confirms that the base drop rate is about 50.
It might be that we do have the same Greed Pendant as MSEA (only adds to equip drop rate), or it does nothing at all.
Is your NL's showdown level 10? It looks to be giving about a 20% buff.

funnily enough I have a feeling it may be the latter

remember when it said it could not be ruled out that it works doesn't mean it does work. it is like a double negative.

with more tests we can say that it is increasingly unlikely that the pendant works since we have had so many results which go against it working.

I estimate that with 25 or 30 tests with base and with a pendant we may be able to see if there is a statistically significant difference between them ( a 1 vs 1.2). then the variance should have reduced sufficiently so we can tell

also if i haven't mentioned already, a strange thing happens to me with EXP coupons, presumably it may with the drop coupons. ( these are the ones gifted in events that last for 1 hour). These have no effect for me until I cc. It might be that it takes a while for it to kick in, but I just don't get the bonus EXP until I cc. I have never waited for it to kick in though.
same thing could happen with drop coupons but it is hard to tell

as for the bonus for showdown by Itas. it is probably within statistically acceptable bounds
standard deviation for the 1.3 would be about 7.5/sqrt 10 which is about 2.5
multiply by 1.96 to get the confidence interval 95pc

so basically we have a range of values of +/- 5 where it could still be that it is still 30pc

and 10% of 40 or 50 is just within it 5 so it probably could still be 30% bonus. (just on the edge, have to redo whole calculations to be sure, too tired to do that now)

but as usual, nexon's RNG is on the borderline of being broken, but not broken enough that it gets taken to the trash