I'll look into rewording that part, my head is pounding so I probably mangled my words!
Every container has a drop list that it draws from, some have rolls for a gem while many do not. All chests have a base roll for a gem so for my example I used a chest that has a 10% chance (urns don't have a gem roll for example). The number of 10% I used was just a number off the top of my head, the actual numbers vary for each type of chest (Draugr, Falmer, etc) and each category (boss, regular, etc) so I didn't want to flood people with too many numbers.
Prowler's Profit gives you *four* seperate and new dice rolls for every eligible container, that is in addition to any base rolls a container might have so a chest will typically have *five* seperate rolls while an Urn will have *four* (since it has no base roll).
Each roll has a seperate calculation
For clarity what this means is you do four rolls:
- First roll has a 100% chance of producing a leveled gem
- Second roll has a 75% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
- Third roll has a 50% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
- Fourth roll has a 25% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
So in any given chest you have a chance to get up to 5 gems and you're guaranteed to get at least 1 gem because of the 100% roll. As you mention, over a large enough sample you can assume an average of ~2.6 gems for every container, although it's slightly more than that because of containers with guaranteed gems plus some have additional rolls. If I recall correctly Prowler's Profit also affects some NPC loot tables such as those classified as 'Rich' so it should also help with your Pickpocketing since gems weigh almost nothing and have huge value.
I'll look into rewording that part, my head is pounding so I probably mangled my words!
Every container has a drop list that it draws from, some have rolls for a gem while many do not. All chests have a base roll for a gem so for my example I used a chest that has a 10% chance (urns don't have a gem roll for example). The number of 10% I used was just a number off the top of my head, the actual numbers vary for each type of chest (Draugr, Falmer, etc) and each category (boss, regular, etc) so I didn't want to flood people with too many numbers.
Prowler's Profit gives you *four* seperate and new dice rolls for every eligible container, that is in addition to any base rolls a container might have so a chest will typically have *five* seperate rolls while an Urn will have *four* (since it has no base roll).
Each roll has a seperate calculation
For clarity what this means is you do four rolls:
- First roll has a 100% chance of producing a leveled gem
- Second roll has a 75% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
- Third roll has a 50% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
- Fourth roll has a 25% chance of producing an additional leveled gem
So in any given chest you have a chance to get up to 5 gems and you're guaranteed to get at least 1 gem because of the 100% roll. As you mention, over a large enough sample you can assume an average of ~2.6 gems for every container, although it's slightly more than that because of containers with guaranteed gems plus some have additional rolls. If I recall correctly Prowler's Profit also affects some NPC loot tables such as those classified as 'Rich' so it should also help with your Pickpocketing since gems weigh almost nothing and have huge value.
