Let's suppose (solo) I can clear T1 rifts just fine, but T5 and T6 rifts are just impossible to clear alone. But I still want that higher legendary drop chance (with the extra gold and experience being icing on the cake). What's to stop me from joining a T6 game with three other incredibly well-geared characters, and (assuming they don't kick me), just letting them do all the dirty work. Would I still get the same drop rate bonus as the other three players, or does Blizzard have some sort of mechanism in place to prevent this sort of abuse? (Allowing the other players to kick the 'abuser' isn't going to cut it because it could be that those other players are my friends who want to gear me up real quick.)
Diablo – What stops underleveled players from ‘leeching’ in high torment levels
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Best Answer
Nothing at all. What metric can be used to determine if someone is leeching? There's at least one build I know of that can't kill anything at all by itself, but is invaluable in rift efficiency. If you used kills as a metric, that build would be completely useless, as its pure support. No one would run with it if they didn't get the same drop rates as those doing the killing.
And what about partying with friends? If you can handle T6 on your own, maybe you want to invite a friend along, to help him get better gear faster.
Essentially, Blizzard wants you to play with other people. Doing anything at all to penalize what, in some cases, can be construed as leeching, would run counter to that ethos.
You can run what you want, with whom you want, at any difficulty you want, and everyone in the game will have the same drop rates (so long as you're in the kill radius, anyways), regardless of whether or not they're contributing or not.