Maybe someone with more time on their hands than I have at this can do some proper sized experiments, but something definitely feels off and I'm not the only one that has observed it. With your Blood Shards, you want to gamble early on at Kadala ( gamble table here) to try and get an item with a big multiplier (that ideally synergizes with your weapon). If you are looking for a royal ring of grandeur, used in many builds, you cannot get this by upgrading or kadala (gambling), you can only get this ring from doing bounties. (~21 pieces of armor in a similar number of shards)

Went back to gambling armor and my rates went completely into the shitter again. I was blown away by how many legendaries I saw at first: over 40 quivers in roughly 5500 shards (3 ~full packs of shards) worth of gambling. Then when I made my demon hunter, I farmed shards 1800-1900 at a time on my wizard and gambled them on my DH. This is the Mega Guide for Diablo 3, season 26 - your key to a fast and efficient start in a new season. But 99 of the time she just turns my blood shards into crafting mats. She's given me at least 10 each of Nat's Helms, Deathseeker's Cowls and Mempo of Twilight in the last few days. When I started gambling armor I suddenly felt like it wasn't working anymore. Kadala tips QUESTION Having a really hard time getting last piece of my set (Marauder Helm) from Kadala. I came to this conclusion strictly by relatively anecdotal evidence and not large scale statistical analysis, but when I first started my Wizard I was gambling sources and this node seemed perfectly fine. My tinfoil hat theory: It's only working on some items (in particular those on weapons tab: Sources and Quivers, maybe others)

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