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Prospection (PP)

Each point of PP corresponds to 1% additional chance to loot.
Let's say you want an item which has a 20% base loot chance. With 0 PP, you will stay at the base loot chance, so, 20%.
Now with 100PP, you have 100% additional chance to loot the item. It does not mean you have 100% loot chance, it means that the base loot chance is increased by 100%.

Quick example: let's say a baguette (hon hon) costs 1€. Its price is increased by 100%. The baguette will not cost 100€, but 2€ (its base price + 100% of its base price).
So, in short, 100PP means 2 times more chance to loot.

Factors that change loot chance

• PP (capped to 200, irrespective of the PP sources, including in-fight bonuses)

• Whether you use a Booster Pack or not (+25% loot on regular servers, +50% loot on single-account server)

• the bonus % loot from stasis dungeons system + from loot consumables (loot potions for instance) + from PvP pacts

• the bonus % loot from temporary events (an event week with +25% loot for instance)

• the famous loot penalty when you are on the staff blacklist (or if you suck with stats)
  
  

Effective loot chance formula

Effective loot chance = base loot chance × (1 + (PP / 100)) × [1 without Booster Pack ; 1.25 with Booster Pack on regular servers ; 1.5 with Booster Pack on single-account server] × (1 + ((% loot from stasis system / 100) + (% loot bonus from loot consumables / 100) + (% loot bonus from PvP pacts / 100))) × (1 + (% loot bonus from increased loot events / 100))

Example: an item with a 1% base loot chance, on a character with 50 PP, with a Booster Pack (so +25% loot) in a stasis 3 dungeon with competitive mode (so +40% loot bonus), with a +50% loot potion, using the opportunist PvP pact (+50% loot), during a loot x2 event (so +100% loot).

1% base × (1 + (50 PP / 100)) × 1.25 from Booster Pack on regular servers × (1 + ((40% loot from stasis dungeon system / 100) + (50% bonus loot from loot potion / 100) + (50% loot from opportunist PvP pact / 100))) × (1 + (100% loot from increased loot event / 100))
= 1 × (1 + 0.5) × 1.25 × (1 + (0.40 + 0.5 + 0.5)) × (1 + 1)
= 1 × 1.5 × 1.25 × 2.4 × 2
= 9% chance to effectively loot the item

What really happens when you attempt to loot an item

To determine whether you will loot the item or not, the game makes you draw a number (which can be decimal) at random, between 0 and 100. If the number that you drew is inferior or equal to the effective loot chance of the item, then the loot attempt is successful, and you will get the item.
In the example a few lines above, you would need to draw a number between 0 and 9 to loot the item. If the number that you drew is superior, the loot attempt fails, and you do not get the item.

Loots attempts

So far I have only tackled the loot chance of an item - but it is not the only factor that is considered when trying to loot items.

Each item/type of item has:

• a number of allowed loot attempts

• a specific distribution of these attempts between the characters in a fight

In other words, all the characters may try to get one or more copy of an item, or on the other hand, only one character may be allowed to try a loot attempt on an item, for instance.

Possible loot attempts distribution

• Each character in the fight makes one or more loot attempts on an item

• A number (inferior to 6, superior to 1) of character (chosen at random) makes one or more loot attempts on an item (note: it is unclear whether this loot attempt distribution still exists in the current game)

• Only one character (chosen at random) makes one or more loot attempts on an item

Loot table and loot distribution

Every mob has a loot table, with all the items that this mob can loot. To each item is associated:

• a base loot chance

• a number of loot attempts per character

• a number of loot attempts per team

At the end of the fight, the items from the loot table that have loot attempts limited to a small number of characters are distributed at random. In other words, for items in limited quantity, the game says "you will try attempt to drop that, you will attempt to drop that other item, etc.
Then, once the loot attempts have been distributed, each character draws a random number for each item for which he has been given a loot attempt, and for each loot attempt. If that number is inferior or equal to the effective loot chance, then the item is obtained.

How does the game decide what should go in the Cautious PvP Pact?

The cautious PvP pact gives +25% bonus loot, but these 25 extra % go into the pact inventory - while the base loot goes into the regular inventory.
In that particular case, the game calculates 2 separate loot chances per item: one without the loot bonus from the pact, and the other one with it.
When the character draws a number at random between 0 and 100 to attempt to loot an item:

• if the number drawn is between 0 and the effective loot chance without the pact bonus, the item goes into the regular inventory

• if the number drawn is between the effective loot chance without the pact bonus and the effective loot chance with the pact bonus, the item goes into the pact inventory

• and obviously, if the number drawn is superior to the effective loot chance with the pact bonus, then the loot attempt is failed and the item is not obtained

Example: on an item with a 10% base loot chance, without any other loot bonus,

• without the cautious pact bonus, the loot chance stays at 10%.

• with the cautious pact bonus, the loot chance is increased to 12.5%.

When the character draws a number at random between 0 an 100 for his loot attempt on the item:

• if they draw a number between 0 and 10, the item goes into the regular inventory

• if they draw a number between 10+ and 12.5, the item goes into the pact inventory

Conditions to loot some items

Some items require that some conditions should be met before a character may be given loot attempts for them. For instance, a character can only be given a loot attempt on a Prismatic Dofus if they have finished the Prismatic Dofus questline.