Does the difficulty matter for gear drops?
I've just hit level 70.
I'm not strong enough to play at torment yet so I need to gear up.
My question is, will the same level of gear drop on Normal as it would on Master?
I know the drop rate will be lower, but I will be able to tank through bounties and rifts really quickly on normal. Obviously I wont get the EXP or Gold bonus but I don't need them anymore, I just need gear!
Will I be better off grinding on Normal difficulty until I can play on Torment?
Best Answer
The loot tables are the same for all non-Torment difficulties. What difficulty you should grind on at this time is an opinionated answer that can't be factually proven in any one way though. Most people seem to choose speed over drop rate, to an extent, but honestly you're either playing Torment or you're not so it shouldn't matter too much one way or the other.
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Answer 2
The drop rates are greatly increased with the difficulty, here are the applied mmodifiers : (note that each mob has a n base % to drop a legendary, if the proc is for example 10%, playing T6 will raise the probability to 23% instead, it's not guaranteed drop in any way, just better probability to have one. )
Torment I: 819% Health, 396% Damage, 300% extra gold bonus, 300% extra XP bonus,[1] 15% increased legendary drop rate
Torment II: 1311% Health, 575% Damage, 400% extra gold bonus, 400% extra XP bonus, 32% increased legendary drop rate
Torment III: 2097% Health, 833% Damage, 550% extra gold bonus, 550% extra XP bonus, 52% increased legendary drop rate
Torment IV: 3355% Health, 1208% Damage, 800% extra gold bonus, 800% extra XP bonus, 74% increased legendary drop rate
Torment V: 5369% Health, 1752% Damage, 1150% extra gold bonus, 1150% extra XP bonus, 101% increased legendary drop rate
Torment VI: 8590% Health, 2540% Damage, 1600% extra gold bonus, 1600% extra XP bonus, 131% increased legendary drop rate
Answer 3
You will get better chances at legendaries the higher the difficulty you play. That said... you can still get drops at Master or lower. Do what you are comfortable with. If you have friends.. join them. I'd be happy to help you gear up if we could find each other in game :)
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