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pandora1x
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........ 7 healing potions, is this normal? If not... time to tweak the Chest items a little don't you think devs?
Same thing can apply for Cask of Wonders, I get semi-excited when I get it, I open it......... a green mark.
Same thing can apply for Cask of Wonders, I get semi-excited when I get it, I open it......... a green mark.
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Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
Believe it or not, the drops were actually WORSE before.
That being said, I am also hoping that they upgrade the things (a chance to give you 1600 R.A.D., perhaps?).
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
Personally RAD is the last thing i would want , and i know a lot of people who are in the same boat, roughs are <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>
I would rather like a 5k-10k refining stone for the ultimate grind for legendary artifacts and R10's
Oh, I agree, I was just trying to think of something I could see them actually doing, and I doubt that a Stone quite that valuable would drop from even the Purple chest. Maybe a small chance at an Aquamarine or something similar could happen and would be a most welcome addition.
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
The only thing professions are good for is mining AD. No sense crafting any equipment in them because you've already grossly out leveled their usefulness and their not really worth the trouble to post at AH. So I focus on AD generation or leveling-up the profession. Once it's at level 20 then start crafting decent gear... to sell on the AH for AD.
As for the invoking boxes? Pah-leese. I've been invoking for more than a year now. If memory serves, I got there (!) Blue Coalescent Wards in that time. Then, and only then is it a "oh, nice" result. The rest of the time it's "I wonder how much silver I'll make from the Bazaar vendor this time?" LOL
I managed a couple of Blue Marks Of Potency back when they were dementedly expensive. That was certainly a nice surprise. And any number of items can be sold on the A.H. for A.D. when you get a full stack going. Not to mention a steady stream of the rarer Crafting Resources (like Marks of Gratitude or Siege Weapons) which save quit a bit of Crafting Time and keep some nice 1600 A.D. options open more often. Not great, but not a complete wash either.
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
You think the rates would be upped much more but no, those very large chests are hard to get and are very time consuming. It requires 3 mark of gratitudes which means you have to do 3 Build Shelters that take 12 hour each. But before you can even do 3 Build Shelters you first have to do 15x rescue prisoners for the 45 refugees and that takes 40 hours. So a total of 52 hours just for one chest and none of those required tasks even give you RAD either. Let's not forget Build Shelters is a rare task, so you may have to put off days to even see the task show up.
And of course after you get your very large chest you open it and... get 7 potions... Complete ripoff. Spend the 52 hours to do 24 fight off spellplauge or battle undead and get 9600 RAD. Do it 3 times and you can afford yourself a Mark of Potency. Remember, I opened over 60 of these and got only 1 mark of potency. I could've gotten nearly 20 marks had i just sold the materials. (note i didn't include the other materials which is the mining claim, siege engine, and region map).
I suggest a fix to this and be like what the Barrel of Goods offers. Give out 3 items but disable the chance for getting duplicates of blue Mark of potency. So that means you can get 21 healing potions or 14 healing potions and 1 mark of potency (if lucky). But not 2 mark of potency and 7 healing potions, or even 3 mark of potency. For god's sakes it's a very large chest of goods, how do you find less rewards compared to a barrel of goods?
Exactly. You open this ENORMOUS chest, and inside is a magic bean and a k-ration. w00t! Couldn't put that in a small bag? Had to store it in a giant "rare" chest?
Hey! How about I just keep the rare/epic highly detailed, gold filigreed chest itself instead??
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For the same reasons as have been stated.
I now go for mainly, Barrel of Goods,
as I find its better to open them.
At least you get a variety of stuff and not just potions,
most of the time.
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Crushed by wall of text. Dropped plenty of Coals and other nice goodies,always have my alts getting refugee's.
Yes i've had the health potions,but it hasn't put me off.
This is too easy to exploit by bots and will severely devalue the economy if PWE and cryptic aren't careful with what they put there
I can tell you right now I've got more than 20,000 large chests just waiting for a new prof, new change etc etc and I don't use any third party programs.
Aquamarines (1500 RP) would likely be the highest we'd see out of them. Which I'd totally take over 7 health pots or 2 marks of gratitude.
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Have you ever gotten an epic item from those chests?
They only go up to Blues.
But some of those Blues can be both rare and valuable (at least compared to most Leadership Rewards).
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
Nope -- most you might get is a *blue) Rare Profession Resource in your "epic" purple chest.
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He mentioned epic items which is why I asked him
Yeah, getting a pair of R4s from the coffers when you're using an adamantine gauntlet truly bites the wax-fattened mare.
Make the good stuff account bound, like coal wards are for the invoke chests.
Same thing for the leadership goods, I think green, blue and purple coded chests from leadership should have a chance to drop an item from that same rarity, such as purple chests in leadership should offer a shot at purple marks of potency. This would then at least make the arduous task of leveling up leadership something worth while because as i see it right now once you unlock rank 16 or 17 and open up the rare task that gives 1600 ad for 1 mining claim you don't need or even have a reason to go higher due to the pitiful excuse for rewards that are less than rewards from lower levels. I have a lot of thoughts on profession skills as it is, but this ties into reward vs time and effort and its just not there. Most games professions is supposed to provide things others might not get and those who spend the time either get unique stuff you can't get otherwise or can make things to provide to others for a fee.
Regardless a purple item should be providing a bit more reward than green item stuff.