61 SEARCHES to find my heirloom tonight. I did room orders like A B C and finally A B C D (so I never searched the same two rooms in a row). I also died twice.

Could we get a hard cap on the number of searches and the number of loots for heirlooms, please?

If you really want the logs....I do have them.

<Can we not search rooms in the order of A B C A B C to find an heirloom? This was stated by a GM as an acceptable method a couple years ago, maybe I can dig up the post.>

Been awhile since I got assigned this but even A B B A should work.

<Or am I just getting bad luck?>

Sounds like.

<There needs to be a ceiling on this.>

Yea, 58 is nuts.

I was under the impression you needed to go through at least 4 rooms for the best chances.

Assuming that there's a 10% chance to find the heirloom, you should have a 99.75% chance to find the heirloom in 57 searches. If it's 15% (which has been my impression, but I've never kept stats), that goes up to 99.99%.

So either there's a new bug or you're doing something wrong. I heard the 4 room advice somewhere, so I'd assume it's the latter.

>Searching the same 2-3 rooms over and over is not (nor has ever been) a successful heirloom search strategy. Search as many -different- rooms within the given search area as possible.

Thanks Coase! I guess I'm more likely to go crazy eating the bullet several times rather than how many attempts it takes for the next one.

:D

Just popping back to say thanks again for the advice. My heirloom searching is going much better now!