[UPDATE] Rare Instance Chest Rewards Temporarily Unavailable

forthewinwin

Update

Feature is now live. Please see this follow up forum post for additional info.

Rare end chest rewards have temporarily been disabled for all Dungeons, Trials, and Skirmishes on both PC and console versions of Neverwinter.

Our team is hard at work finalizing a new system that will improve loot tables, which requires this temporary change for testing. We appreciate your patience and will provide more information as soon as possible.

Forthewinwin
Senior Community Manager

nova

Do rare chest, include both chest at the end of specific dungeons, or rare chest as in the chest that require a special key? Could we get some additional information on this. Thank you.

joe7777

So does this mean no collars from chests until this is resolved?

carloswartune

novaiidbzii#7952 said:

Do rare chest, include both chest at the end of specific dungeons, or rare chest as in the chest that require a special key? Could we get some additional information on this. Thank you.

I believe they mean the rare end chest *rewards* (mounts, companions) were disabled, not the chest themselves. Many threads were created on the forum about this topic, but it was just a rumor until now.

joe7777 said:

So does this mean no collars from chests until this is resolved?

As per above, i think this change is already live since Milestone II. So collars probably will still drop.

mparcher

Can you please add the Bruenors Helm artifact to the loot tables? If we discarded this item 3, 4, or even 5 years ago, we are unable to attain it again. Thank you in advance.

joe7777

Yeah I see now they were telling us after the fact...

cts2000

So basically I've wasted a LOT of reroll tokens over the past week. That about right? Well, thanks for letting us know I guess...smh

btw - welcome to the Forums forthewinwin#6386 - Senior Community Manager.....interesting.

thefiresidecat

on the re roll.. me too. many many many. how irritating. well I guess there is zero reason to run dungeons til this is fixed.

mightyeriksson

Come on Cryptic, people have probably wasted a TON of re-roll tokens since Tuesday, and only when a lot of complaints surface, THEN you tell us the rewards are "disabled".
Why not include this info in the patch-notes?

Not cool, not cool at all...

cts2000

mightyeriksson said:

Not cool, not cool at all...

...and yet so typical of Cryptic.

mercbenz360

Seriously???? With no in game message. You know how many rerolls me and others used farming collars?

sh00th3r3

Normally I am the one saying, "Hey guys, don't be so hard on the devs, they're trying to fix things!" but this really is kind of a kick in the pants. I've spent a lot of reroll tokens, I've grinded to make the keys from campaigns and spent gold on them, I even bought some legendary keys, just to find out all I had a chance of getting was loot from 5 or 6 mods ago? And we all knew it, but I think we kept hoping anyway. This better be on heck of a loot table you guys are redesigning. Cuz my greater girdle of strength and decanter of atropal essence don't even come close to making up for what I just lost in time/gold/ad/Zen.

froger

Shame I burned some reroll tokens. But it really blows for people who used AD to reroll.

bergs9979

So... can we get all our reward tokens and the hundreds of thousand AD we spent on rerolls this week back? Was wondering with all those rerolls why nothing was dropping

applecup

not to mention all those keys that were used on opening the extra chests...

greywynd

And once again the lack of timely communication rears its ugly head...

cts2000

greywynd said:

And once again the lack of timely communication rears its ugly head...

What exactly does a 'community manager' manage? Cuz from the players side it doesn't look like they manage hamster (self censored)...

"bah....more of Neverember's lackeys"

jedia

How you can do this over and over again? Typical cryptic. Just give us our rerolls back and dont hoard real money...

thefiresidecat

oh you guys with your whinging. don't you know we're not here to get rewards for the time we spend in game. we're here for the knowledge of a job well done. that warm fuzzy feeling that we were able to finish that dungeon/trial whatever.

welcome to the future of neverwinter where instead of something good from the chest, we put ad into the chest.

I for one, welcome my lizard overlords.

(and i'm totes cereal)

rev

meh nothing unusual

kierlakx

This is so underhanded and skeevy that it's probably literally illegal in some jurisdictions.

darthpotater

- "Players are bussy thinking in the new mount system, they wont notice anything"
- "Damm they noticed the change!!, lets say something.... and give them a title: Noob adventurer"
- "Err.... the chest rewards are broken.... is a planned change... but we wanted to give you a surprise, so we told nothing, tadaaa!"
/sarcasm>

Really? How is this not in the patch notes? How there is not a better comunication with players? Every effort you do to make your game better is automatically destroyed by your lack of communication.

justtester

forthewinwin#6386 said:

a new system that will improve loot tables, which requires this temporary change for testing.

Wait, this is episode 3 thing if I understand correctly. Do we really have to wait until mid October to see the rare rewards coming back?

autumnwitch

darthpotater said:

- "Players are bussy thinking in the new mount system, they wont notice anything"
- "Damm they noticed the change!!, lets say something.... and give them a title: Noob adventurer"
- "Err.... the chest rewards are broken.... is a planned change... but we wanted to give you a surprise, so we told nothing, tadaaa!"
/sarcasm>

Really? How is this not in the patch notes? How there is not a better comunication with players? Every effort you do to make your game better is automatically destroyed by your lack of communication.

A - Either they forgot

or

B - The needed to be that way on purpose to get data and now they will compare it the data that we all know. But, since a tiny amount of NW players ever come here the data will probably not actually be that reliable.

or

C - They don't care.

depamina

Oh, nice to know that. So when do I get back my ~20 ToMM keys from last week and hundreds of thousands of AD wasted on rerolls?

lantern22

lol

Thanks for not telling us for days, really appreciate it.

Obviously the 15 seconds to write out that post just couldn't be fit into the busy schedule.

lol

thefiresidecat

and it's on top of the vip still has to pay fees in ah bug. they probably did it as a favor to us so we wouldn't waste all tha tmoney selling our drops on the ah when they were charging us all posting fees.

alchemistxiii

This is absolutly disgusting....how can you do that and feel that it is acceptable to just post it like this on forums where only a % of players come. Wasted time, effort and money in doing this? This could be considered fraud, people have spent real world money on a chance to get rewards and they aren't even there.

Hidden behind the hgh level of drops from the lockboxes now but still so underhanded its why i am considering leaving the game, others here are surely thinking the same.

And what do we get for your mistakes? Nothing, you couldn't even say sorry in the post

venevra

Это фиаско, братан! xD

bumhug

venevra#8120 said:

Это фиаско, братан! xD

Thank god there is google translator xD. You are absolutely right

kungskabb

I usually think that if I can't add something useful to a discussion, it's better to stay quiet. But now I gotta say what the actual flying <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>? Are you guys completely incompetent? You don't stealthdisable loot in a game where loot is central to the experience. Bunch of amateurs.