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Lockboxes chances to get something good...

arcofortep12arcofortep12 Member Posts: 2,265 Arc User
edited September 2015 in Player Feedback (PC)
... are they calculated per account, per character or completely random? Should one open them with the same character or it doesn't affect at all?

Thanks.

P.S.: Putting inside something worth 2k is an insult to money. :o
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  • sasagerusasageru Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    Answer ✓
    It's random.
    Some people muse that opening them in less populated areas of neverwinter increases your chances, or if opening small quanities at one time instead of all together gives you a better chance.

    From personal experience, none of thats true. It's entirely random. I've had epic and legendary mounts from lockboxes in the past, the first legendary I got was after 5 boxes, then it was months before I saw my second and havn't seen one since. I watched a video on youtube, someone used 1k keys on crushing waves, got 2 of the artifacts and 1 snail by the time they reached 600 keys... and then i got bored and stopped watching xD

    Only concern at the moment, with lockbox keys being given daily to VIP's, chances are that getting an epic or legendary drop from a lockbox is now even harder than before.
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  • killergilnyc1killergilnyc1 Member Posts: 175 Arc User
    per 150k rl $ made
  • santralafaxsantralafax Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,896 Arc User
    I got an Aranea (companion) on my second VIP key. Haven't seen anything good since, though. The Aranea sold on AH for about 2m AD.
  • canis36canis36 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 118 Arc User
    sasageru said:

    It's random.

    Some people muse that opening them in less populated areas of neverwinter increases your chances, or if opening small quanities at one time instead of all together gives you a better chance.



    From personal experience, none of thats true. It's entirely random. I've had epic and legendary mounts from lockboxes in the past, the first legendary I got was after 5 boxes, then it was months before I saw my second and havn't seen one since. I watched a video on youtube, someone used 1k keys on crushing waves, got 2 of the artifacts and 1 snail by the time they reached 600 keys... and then i got bored and stopped watching xD



    Only concern at the moment, with lockbox keys being given daily to VIP's, chances are that getting an epic or legendary drop from a lockbox is now even harder than before.

    It's highly unlikely that they're going to adjust the drop tables on lockboxes. The VIP system has almost certainly been in the works for a while now so if any lockboxes were going to have lower drop rates for the really good stuff we'd have heard about it at least a lockbox previous to the Crushing Wave, more likely two previous. Like as not the daily key was added to the VIP system to get people to try it out and because there weren't as many people buying keys since, iirc, lockbox keys in Neverwinter are bind on purchase and can't be sold in the auction house.
  • offpuddingoffpudding Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 32 Arc User
    arcofortep12 said:

    ... ..................Should one open them with the same character or it doesn't affect at all?



    What I am about to say has nothing to do with drop-rates ..

    If you open all lockboxes with the same character, then your accumulated Tarmalune Trade Bars will all be with one character and therefore reach a spendable amount quicker, since you can't transfer TTBs between toons. Of course, if the item you buy from the TTB-dude is bind on pickup, this will have to be factored in to your math

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