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Path of Exile 2 players grew increasingly desperate while developer Grinding Gear Games was away for the holidays, even resorting to apocryphal rites<\/a> in hopes of summoning patches to address their early access woes. But for YouTuber Slipperyjim8, the interregnum provided just enough time to descend into a 16-day spite-fueled mania of data collection and monster killing to prove whether or not PoE 2’s item rarity stat does, in fact, produce more loot.<\/p>\n

The Slipperyjim saga began on December 23, when Jim uploaded a video<\/a> called “Does Rarity give you more currency drops?” The video was, itself, an offshoot of an earlier investigation of whether Waystone rarity affects loot amounts, spurred by a perception among PoE2 players that the item rarity stat\u2014a stat that can appear on both items and map-generating Waystones to improve the drops from enemies\u2014is overtuned. In the video, Jim explained that, while collecting loot data from 150 Waystone clears, he began having “doubts” about how the item rarity stat functions, particularly as it relates to currency items.<\/p>\n

“Here’s how I think it works: Rarity should make it so you don’t get any more <\/em>currency; the currency you do <\/em>get has a higher chance of being more valuable,” Jim said. “That’s how I assumed it worked. But based on just feeling, I don’t know. I’m starting to be doubtful of that.”<\/p>\n

Comparing the data he’d gathered while running Waystones at different rarity levels, his results seemed counterintuitive. As Jim crunched the numbers from 150 Waystone clears in real time, his data seemed to show that the item rarity stat was actually decreasing <\/em>the amount of currency that dropped. “That’s the complete opposite of how I assumed this worked,” Jim said.<\/p>\n

The numbers seemed to cause a small crisis of faith. Worse, Jim’s commenters did the cruelest thing you can do to a spreadsheet-wielding man in a precarious state: They criticized his dataset. Jim, they noted, hadn’t been considering Scrolls of Wisdom as a currency item\u2014a classic blunder! I assume!<\/p>\n

In doing so, they had initiated a grim transformation.<\/p>\n

One week later, Jim uploaded a follow-up video<\/a> called “I killed 500 rare monster and recorded every drop – send good vibes.” The video began with Jim, wearing tinfoil over his scalp for reasons I did not and will not investigate, declaring that “there’s nothing useful in this video.” Its main thrust was to outline a harrowing journey that Jim had decided to embark upon: He’d killed 500 rare monsters in PoE 2 with no increases to his item rarity stat, recording the number of modifiers affecting the monster, each of which provides an increase to resulting loot, and the loot that they dropped.<\/p>\n

And he was going to do the same for 500 more. And then 500 more\u2014repeating at progressively higher item rarity stat levels to prove, definitively, what exactly the stat was doing. “There’s no information in this video! Go away. There’s nothing useful here,” Jim said, hexing his viewers as he peeled the tinfoil from his head. “I put this out because I need positive vibes and lots of support so that I can go in and farm another <\/em>500 monsters.”<\/p>\n

The process would take another 10 days.<\/p>\n

On January 8, Jim uploaded a video<\/a> after 16 straight days of rare monster data collection, killing a total of 1800 rare monsters in the effort. Here’s Jim’s process, in his own words:<\/p>\n

“What I did is I went into a map, found a rare monster, stopped, and I took a screenshot of his name with all his modifiers, because each modifier gives rare monsters additional rarity, and I want to know how much rarity do those modifiers give you, so I needed to kill a bunch of rare monsters with a bunch of modifiers without any rarity on myself, without any rarity on the maps, without any rarity on my atlas, and then do it again but rarity on me, not on the map and not on the atlas, then even more rarity on me, none on the map, none on the atlas, and then even more <\/em>rarity on me but also rarity on the map and on the atlas.”<\/p>\n

To paraphrase, Jim developed an intricate process of snapshotting rare monsters and recording their ensuing loot drops, which he’d completed 500 times at escalating levels of item rarity stat\u2014except he only killed 300 at the last one, because he’d, you know, been doing it for 16 days.<\/p>\n

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