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It's hard to directly compare the two since there are hundreds of TCs, and PD2 has even more than LoD (mostly because of maps). But we can compare a TC from LoD to a TC from PD2 and see how the NoDrop chance has changed.
 
Let's look at the TCs called <span class="d2-white">Swarm 2 (H)</span>, a worst case scenario, and <span class="d2-white">Act 2 (H) H2H A</span>, a common case used by many monsters. In thisthese exampleexamples, the first number is the amount of players in the game and the second number is the amount of players in the party. So p3/2 means 3 players in the game but only 2 in your party. If you used the <span class="d2-white">/players 8</span> command in single player that would be equivalent to p8/1.
 
 
Chance for NoDrop to be selected by the "pick" (i.e. the chance that ''no'' item drops):
 
{| class="wikitable"
LoD
! scope="col" | Treasure Class
! scope="col" | LoD !! scope="col" | PD2
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! scope="row" | Swarm 2 (H)
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* p1/1, p2/1 = <span class="omod">83.33%</span>
* p2/2, p3/1, p3/2, p4/1 = <span class="omod">69.14%</span>
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* p7/7, p8/6, p8/7 = <span class="omod">26.47%</span>
* p8/8 = <span class="omod">21.88%</span>
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PD2
* p1/1, p2/1 = <span class="nmod">40.85%</span>
* p2/2, p3/1, p3/2, p4/1 = <span class="nmod">16.64%</span>
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* p7/7, p8/6, p8/7 = <span class="nmod">0.17%</span>
* p8/8 = <span class="nmod">0%</span>
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<span! classscope="d2-whiterow"> | Act 2 (H) H2H A</span> - one of the most common TC types:
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LoD
* p1/1, p2/1 = <span class="omod">62.50%</span>
* p2/2, p3/1, p3/2, p4/1 = <span class="omod">38.78%</span>
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* p7/7, p8/6, p8/7 = <span class="omod">3.23%</span>
* p8/8 = <span class="omod">1.64%</span>
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PD2
* p1/1, p2/1 = <span class="nmod">9.52%</span>
* p2/2, p3/1, p3/2, p4/1 = <span class="nmod">0.88%</span>
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* p7/7, p8/6, p8/7 = <span class="nmod">0%</span>
* p8/8 = <span class="nmod">0%</span>
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=== Key drop rates ===
This is a common enough question that it probably makes sense just to show what the drop rates are.
 
There's very little difference between p1 and p2-p8 so group key farming isn't really necessary.
 
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! scope="row" | Blood Raven
|11.55%||11.58%||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>
|-
! scope="row" | Countess
|9.45%||9.46%||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>||<span class="omod">9.46%</span>
|-
! scope="row" | Bloodwitch
|11.55%||11.58%||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>
|-
! scope="row" | Summoner
|12.83%||12.88%||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>||<span class="omod">12.88%</span>
|-
! scope="row" | Izual
|11.55%||11.58%||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>||<span class="omod">11.58%</span>
|-
! scope="row" | Nihlathak
|12.00%||12.02%||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>||<span class="omod">12.02%</span>
|-
! colspan="9"|
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! scope="row" | Countess (LoD)
|7.14%||9.08%||9.61%||9.80%||<span class="omod">9.80%</span>||<span class="omod">9.80%</span>||<span class="omod">9.80%</span>||<span class="omod">9.80%</span>
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! scope="row" | Summoner&nbsp;(LoD)
|8.62%||11.61%||12.48%||12.80%||<span class="omod">12.80%</span>||<span class="omod">12.80%</span>||<span class="omod">12.80%</span>||<span class="omod">12.80%</span>
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! scope="row" | Nihlathak (LoD)
|7.93%||10.41%||11.10%||11.35%||<span class="omod">11.35%</span>||<span class="omod">11.35%</span>||<span class="omod">11.35%</span>||<span class="omod">11.35%</span>
|}