I will agree the randomness is off a bit. Often, I'll see the same rare item drop 4, 5, even 6 times in a row. Now obviously, this happened on Live as well but it nags me that it feels like it's a bit too common on Emu.
Now, unless the code has changed in the past year or so when I did my test, I have to disagree that the math is off. One weekend I had nothing to do, and so I killed and respawned 3 NPCs and recorded their drop rates. I did this exactly 200 times each. In the end, I wasn't surprised to see that the actual drop percentages were extremely close to the percentages in the DB. It was close enough that I was happy with it, and I bet if I kept going eventually those percentages would have became identical. If I remember, I used one NPC with 1 single short loottable, another with several medium length ones, and another with a table so long the rates were like 2 or 3% each. All of them were fine.
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