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MOUNTAIN COSTUME GRAB BAG
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Rock on with these new costume pieces, only in the new Mountain Costume Grab Bag.
Link to the news article.
Link to the news article.
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You've included a costume drop with each bag so I can't complain about this anymore ...
...fer now
Well..dang.
Too late. And you get the pieces from the mobs, well most of them.
You have to find a good spot and do zone-hopping. I did the quest today with 14 characters and have all
of the earth items. Can't really say i have problems if we get more sets in that way
Wait so this is how they're going to release costume sets from now on?
I see no drop rates listed... All I see is "you will get one of the following and one of these" but I see no percentages or odds for any of the pieces that you will get one of.
It's still gambling, I still don't know what I'm buying. Half costume parts appear to be recycled content. Even if it only gave you what you don't have yet, you still spend around 3 times more than previous flat rate costume sets. This is unacceptable to me.
I'm willing to pay more at a flat rate. I'm not willing to pay more at an unknown, gambling rate.
At least if I knew the odds, I could run some math to figure out how much money it would PROBABLY cost me to buy the whole set. Even then it'd still be gambling, just not as much of one because I've got fancy math in my head to figure out the mean, average cost, etc.
From my understanding, you have a 100% chance to get a costume part out of the ones listed. Yes, who knows the exact drop rate odds of each of the parts (and woe to be those who get the Resistance Wings of Everyone On The Planet Already Has Three Of), but you'll always get a costume part at least.
It's a lot better than in the past, where the costume drop rate wasn't that high. I'd have to dig up the old thread, but the Infernal set was what, 50%? 75%?
All i can say is .. i did the quest 14 times and have all the earth items. Not one of the Resistance items, but
i don't care about them.
And if the one part we really want has only a 1% chance of dropping and the rest are evenly distributed? I hardly see that as being 100%? Seriously saying "you have a 100% chance to get one of the following" is totally meaningless.
Hey, here's how you make Roulette not gambling.
You have a 100% chance of winning one of the following prizes at Roulette:
No chips,
Half the chips you bet,
The same number of chips you bet,
Twice the chips you bet,
Three times the chips you bet.
See? It's not gambling, you have a 100% chance of winning one of those. Totally not gambling.
There are at least 7 new costume pieces in there. 3 are from resistance and 3 are from the geo armor set with added auras.
The difference here is that if I went into a Casino and tried to exchange no chips for 3 times what I would bet on Roulette it wouldn't happen. Trading the items you get from these bags is very easy.
Look, I wasn't a fan of the previous grab bag incarnations and honestly I still prefer costume sets as a 1-off payment, but give credit where it's due. This is a happy medium.
I'm okay with buying these bags, provided that Cryptic doesn't get it into their head to release all content like this. If I see the 90s set in a grab bag...well then we're going to be back to square one again.
For now, these make me hopeful.
I will say getting a consistent message from Cryptic as to their intention for using grab bags would be helpful. Are these just going to be filler items and reskins of old costume bits? If so its a good sell and I like it. If on the other hand you want to sell us new full sets in grab bag form...well thats a horse of a different color.
600G is a rather small sum to come up with...
If you're willing to work a little for it, you can easily get yourself 30-40G per costume unlock in some very short very repeatable mission, so long you don't take the final reward. (Hint: CS-2.3, VBA-BTTP...)
I was completely opposed to the gamble bags, but with their new implementation, I really have no issue:
- You can buy the bag and be sure to get a costume piece, 100% drop-rate (this is a world of improvement).
- You can buy pieces in the AH, or trade doubles with friends / players.
- You can do the mission for a free bag (yes it takes time, but it's free).
As it now stands and barring some policy rollback from PWE-Cryptic, I find it difficult to complain as hard as before. Note that I'd like the completely new sets like Bird hero or Avian to be released as a pack and not bags.I understand that Las Vegas is legally obligated to issue an apology every time someone blows their life savings at the slot machines they were in no way forced to play.
That having been said, not having the full costume set for proper sale after the Roxstar event will be a douchebag move.
Didn't have the Resistance Hands or Wings before this event.
Very pleased indeed.
If you look in your quest log under the "Completed" tab, the Roxstar mission appears under the "Events" heading.
It's not an event, even if the mission appears under that heading. The mobs don't drop pieces from the grab bag, forget that notion. You get a grab bag from completing the mission.
No there are no other missions like this for other grab bags and it wasn't in the patch notes because the patch notes were incomplete.
IMHO, a better way to do it would have been to restrict the grab bag missions to Gold members. Then, you'd have the following options for costume pieces:
1 - Subscribe to Gold, pick up missions, farm pieces (Cryptic make more sub)
2 - Be a silver and buy a grab bag (Cryptic make money from the bags)
3 - Buy on AH (Cryptic don't make anything directly, but the price inflation you would see on the AH due to the piece missions being restricted to a subset of CO users would lead more people to participate in either [1] or [2])