Talk:Item Discovery/@comment-172.9.105.59-20170616011819

I find this game mechanic incredibly interesting as well, especially because I'm offline and play the game "Pre-patched". Based on my experience, I do believe that holding 10 Humanity does have a somewhat modest effect on drop rate... or maybe I'm just luckier than my last run (especially in regards to Black Knight weapons/armor...I have received two so far instead of none in my previous run up to the same point).

--In my first run, I had little humanity because I was a casul and lost it all (lol), I never acquired any of the Black Knight weapons or armor, never got any weapons/armor from the Bell Gargoyles, never got any humanity whatsoever from Sewer Rats, no matter how many hundreds I slaughtered, didn't get anything from the Berneke Knight in Undead Parish Church lmao it was just bad. The only good drop that I can remember was the Balder Swag Sword from the Balder Knights in the church and a Stone Greatsword that I was not willing to use.

--Fast foward to this current playthrough (haven't gone into Blighttown yet but have done the Burgs, Parish, Darkroot Garden & Basin, took out Havel, Depths and Undead Asylum...basically the exact same thing as last playthrough): I walk around with 11 humanity, and so far I have acquired: 4 Gargoyle Haldberds,, 5 gargoyle helmets, 4 gargoyle shields (yes I farmed the hell out of those Gargys), 1 Stone Greatsword (only killed 3 Giant Stone Knights, so that's pretty good), 1 Black Knight Shield (dropped at Darkroot Garden), 1 black knight sword (dropped at revisited Undead Asylum),1 humanity from an unlucky rat, Fang Boar Helm dropped at Undead Parish Church, all kinds of Balder shields/armor drop except for what I want--the Balder Swag Sword, more frequent drops of Blue Titanite Chunks from Crystal Golems (so far I have killed maybe 14 crystal Golems and have gotten 3 Blue titanite chunks total... more frequent drop rate than last time). IDK, the item drop rate for me is just higher all around this time, from all enemies. Except for the fact I didn't get the Black Knight Halberd, I'm pretty pleased with the difference I'm seeing from 10 Humanity.

Then again like I said, maybe I'm just luckier this time around...? Who knows. Good luck!