I increased rare items drop rate to 120%, doesn't seem to work

[wanton axle]

I increased my mining tool to 120% rare loot. Is it supposed to apply straight to the hit, or does it just increases my mastery, which is just 1%?
i didn't understand it very well

[molten delta]

It increases the chance for rare items in drop table to drop when mining.

[wanton axle]

i know buddy, but i wanna know if it increases just the mastery (which is 1% rate)
so it's 120% over 1%? or 120% over all?

[molten delta]

It increases it overall, it’s for all rare items in drop table. Rare rocks is just ore

It increases it for geodes, fossils, essence and ore.

[wanton axle]

i'm sorry you still didn't get my point

[molten delta]

I’m trying to be clear it isn’t related to the perk. You don’t need any perks active for rare drop to activate/work. It has to do with drop tables, and increases the chance of items falling that aren’t rock.

[wanton axle]

ok, so the 120% rate increase ain't working :/ if it was, i should get rare drops on every hit, right?

i mean..

[molten delta]

No, because most drop rates are below 5% chance. Increasing 5% chance by 120% isn’t a flat increase

It’s an increase of the stat, does that make sense?

[wanton axle]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[wanton axle]

now it does!

so each drop has its chance, and it's like, from 5% it goes to 12%. right?

[molten delta]

Yeah, I think 5% is fossils and essence, geodes are 2.5% and coal is 12.5%. Those numbers might have been adjusted since I last checked, but that’s the base