Does repeatedly farming a boss give reduced rewards?
I've noticed while running through Terramorphous and The Warrior over and over, the drops are getting worse each time. By worse I mean any color of drops are getting rarer and the total sell value keeps going down as well.
After beating the boss and looting everything I just do a save quit, then continue.
Best Answer
No, there is no such thing as deteriorating drops.
From the dawn of time there were legends of subtle dependencies and rituals, that help a player boost his chances at games like Borderlands. When I was young, I had to convince my friend that shutting down Diablo 2 and restarting it does not boost his loot quality in Baal runs.
Of course, your theory makes more sense than dependencies like that one, but it is still wrong. It is just an unlucky streak and the way humans perceive randomness. Cognition is always working through expectation, and when you come up with a theory, your brain starts picking up evidence of it being true and ignoring conflicting facts.
The only way to check it for sure is to keep a list of every drop, color and price, and look at it when it becomes long enough - say, a hundred runs, but a thousand is better. Any sample less than a hundred would be random and would not demonstrate tendencies and chances.