Originally Posted by Kazanir

YOUR ANECDOTE SUCKS.

SUCKS.

Read the above line again a few times. Yep, your anecdote still sucks.

I consider myself an open-minded kind of guy. However I have yet to see anything that -- even remotely -- resembles the data one would need to make a case that something other than a well-seeded PRNG determines what loot is on what boss. It's possible to gather this data, but so far I haven't seen any that would stand up to any kind of scrutiny or even the most rudimentary application of the scientific method. There is more evidence that the American government planned the September 11th attacks -- by which I mean very, very little -- than there is that WoW's loot is generated in a non-random fashion.

Come on people. Most of you are reasonably smart and well-educated. Wikipedia will tell you how a pseudo-random number generator works and you all know at least a little about the internet and WoW's server structure. You all got the basics of scientific data analysis beaten into your thick skulls in the NINTH GRADE (if not much earlier.) This is not complex, but the majority of this thread is full of mouth-breathing retards who want to whine about their awful luck, as if that somehow, in contravention of all principles of reason, means anything at all.

News flash: If you have done this or plan to you have failed at coherent, rational thought (and would thus make an excellent candidate for the presidency of the United States, as an aside.)

Anecdotes suck because they reinforce beliefs that may or may not be founded in reality. Please for the love of all that is good and holy STOP POSTING THEM.

Edit: For some reason I thought I was posting in the other thread about loot generation. My injunction about mouth-breathing retards applies mostly to that thread and only in small part to this one. Apologies.