Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-5179958-20140505005854/@comment-24756074-20140505174106

Well the differences I noticed while farming King's Passage for Llewellyn gear could be chalked up to chance alone. It is hard to conduct propper tests because of how much time they comsume but I cleared the passage 3 times (no more spawns each time) and I was getting drops just as often in full Faraam as I was with jester cap, prisoner tatters and gold serp ring +2. With the drop gear on I was getting more frequent drops for titanite slabs but the Llewellyn gear drop rates didn't seem bothered. I hear lots of people have these same frustration as you with red phantom drops. Like those going for the Catarina set. I think the drops rates are so low that even if the items drop increses stacked to 300% (or whatever the limits are) a 1% chance only becomes 3% (just an example). I have no idea how to confirm any of this without looking at the code and I kind of wish we had someone who could just do that.