Starlight Parcels

yiazzy · December 2016

So Winter Festival is here, my first time playing it!

However, I'm potentially troubled. Could be working as intended, could be bug. Don't want to post it in the bugs section in case it's just horrible rng.

Can you honestly get double Winter Novelties from the Starlight Parcels? Two days in a row, I've had 10 Sky Lanterns and the Gift, nothing else.

Bug or.....horrible luck at play here?

Edit: Make that three in a row. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT 10 USELESS CONSUMABLES?

alucard · December 2016

waste of time and bag space there is nothing if you are lvl 70,all they want you to do is fill up bag space so you buy another bag,tried it for a few hours it was boring tbh

ltsmithneko · December 2016

I mean you can get retraining tokens, un-obtainable transmutes since we've never had the CTA's they're from, preservation wards, un-obtainable mounts, event mounts, hard to get companions, forge hammer of gond, scarfs~<3

So far opened about 100x gifts n' no Primitive Swordclub.... :c

Other than that if you fish you can get treasures for campaign curriencies which you can find the vendior near the bonfire up a set of stairs, great for Linu's Favor, and faster than if you farmed Tiamat all day. c: Well depending on your RNG...

armadeonx · December 2016

I got a respec token... but yes it's mostly been rubbish lol

oldbaldyone · December 2016

Until you break the 20 bag barrier, its not that great. After 15 or 20, the rewards start coming and are much better

ltsmithneko · December 2016

oldbaldyone said:
Until you break the 20 bag barrier, its not that great. After 15 or 20, the rewards start coming and are much better

True, but sadly you can still get just fireworks as an Reward.

yiazzy · December 2016

Thanks Mith, so my luck is just terrible. Sadface...

And I got the Legendary fishing rod on Day 1. So my treasures luck is pretty good, breaking 400 in the fishing contest.

ltsmithneko · December 2016

Got my Swordclub. ^•^

cscriv79 · December 2016

It seems to work it in 'rounds' after opening over 150 of the parcels/bags I get several rank 5's followed by something different and then on the something different every 3 to 4 seems to be a purple item.

crystal courser x2 (got blue mount both times)
Dwarven scroll case x2
throne of the lion
pres wards x50
scroll of mass life x20
scarf xTOO MANY
lillend x2
a bunch of other companions

All in all the rewards have been ok so far and I am happy with them but I do have 2 major gripes.

1: Companions from starlight bags should be account bound and not character bound.

2: Scarfs drop far too often (seeing as they are epic quality I'm certain the game counts them as a good reward for you).

mordekai · December 2016

These events rarely give up anything for 70+ unless you have a specific build that a reward suits. For example, one of my characters relies a lot on AP gain, so I'll save for the Sprite. Siege provided the horse that gave me an insignia bonus I wanted...
There are many events that haven't interested me, so I didn't bother with them.
But, on the whole, riding the rng roller coaster with any sense of expectation will most likely result in disappointment.

My only beef with it is that the Artifacts don't refine into others.
Refining artifact equipment is already enough of a ballache. But having stuff that should refine into it but doesn't is a proper pain.
I know the rewards are meant to be a way for lower ranked characters to add some diversity and variation in their artifact options, but it would be nice for those who have their four slots sorted to get something useful from them.

ltsmithneko · December 2016

they couldn't do that since if you discard your current event based artifacts, you can reclaim that artifact free of charge, these artifacts are open to everyone they're not really supposed to be BiS.

yiazzy · December 2016

I get where Mordekai is coming from, refining up equipment is horrible. I personally have three Dragon's Hoard Enchantments, and get about 2 Peridots, a White Pearl, and maybe an Aquamarine a day. Add to that the Lesser Res from Bruenor, and I get a whopping 5100 per day in rp. Great....

Today my parcel gave me a Rank 5 Enchantment. Woo...such need.

ltsmithneko · December 2016

yiazzy said:
I get where Mordekai is coming from, refining up equipment is horrible. I personally have three Dragon's Hoard Enchantments, and get about 2 Peridots, a White Pearl, and maybe an Aquamarine a day. Add to that the Lesser Res from Bruenor, and I get a whopping 5100 per day in rp. Great....

Today my parcel gave me a Rank 5 Enchantment. Woo...such need.

Use Wander's fortune, quartermasters, or fey blessings, they're much better than DH

cscriv79 · December 2016

yiazzy said:
I get where Mordekai is coming from, refining up equipment is horrible. I personally have three Dragon's Hoard Enchantments, and get about 2 Peridots, a White Pearl, and maybe an Aquamarine a day. Add to that the Lesser Res from Bruenor, and I get a whopping 5100 per day in rp. Great....

Today my parcel gave me a Rank 5 Enchantment. Woo...such need.

Put wander's fortune and 1 DH on my char and took off the other DH's and i get far more RP than when I was running 4 rank 12 dragon hoards.

yiazzy · December 2016

I don't have an Epic mount with that insignia combo.

And Qm's were awful. Kept giving me potions...

zephyriah · December 2016

yiazzy said:
So Winter Festival is here, my first time playing it!

Edit: Make that three in a row. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT 10 USELESS CONSUMABLES?

You might want to read the parcel tooltip. You will get winterfests items out of every one you open, in addition to other items. So, 3 in a row is not surprising, it's working as designed. As for why, I like the lanterns, ice rockets... fun to set off to celebrate stronghold dragons and other events in game.

mordekai · December 2016

yiazzy said:
I don't have an Epic mount with that insignia combo.

And Qm's were awful. Kept giving me potions...

I run 5 R9 Fey blessed.
That gets me a rank 5 enchantment for every nine or ten things I kill. Doesn't make a difference if its Orcus, Tiamat, or Redcap Powries.
They are standard Azure, Dark, Silvery, and Radiant. I use them to refine artifacts and my own/companions enchantments, cos they are bound to account. This frees up proper refinement for artifact equipment cos even with ID scrolls now being 999 to the invent slot rather than 99, using green loot drops to get you weapons up is an exercise in futility.
Using bound enchants to boost slotted enchants also free up thaums to either sell, or refine other enchants like weapon or armour, or bondings.
It took me a while to get 5 rank 9s but well worth it. Specially in mob heavy areas like Sharandar and Dread Ring. All that annoying pointless slaughter when you get too close to a mobs trigger zone now either gets me a R5 or closer to the next one.

Just done Wyldwood Gate (not including Grimaks lair) and picked up 11 BtA enchants. Got two walking from Feydark Breach back to the camp from killing 12 Redcaps.
Looking forward to the Quickling den in about ten minutes... that usually drops five or six on its own.

yiazzy · December 2016

Zephyria, I've read the tooltip, but where in the second section does it say, 'Winter Novelties'? Considering it says you WILL get one of the following, and not "You may".

I'm not really running around Sharandar atm Mordekai, focusing more on Well of Dragons, and levelling other toons with the x2 xp event. Though I probably should, just for the final two boons.

kraven · December 2016

This pack contains the following:
Gift of Simril
Winter Novelties

This pack also contains one of the following:
Refiner's Cache
Rare Equipment
Retraining Token Pack
Zen Market Consumables
Rank 4 Enchantments
Seasonal Event Rewards After 5 gifts
Call-to-Arms Rewards After 15 gifts
Highly-Sought-After Rewards After 20 gifts

yiazzy · December 2016

Exactly. But those three days in a row, I had nothing from the second section. Which is why I was asking if it was bugged.

thejawlives · December 2016

Does it count the gifts per character or per account. What I'm asking is if the magic number is 20 for the best tier...does each character have their own gift count or does it carry over from toon to toon?

cscriv79 · December 2016

thejawlives said:
Does it count the gifts per character or per account. What I'm asking is if the magic number is 20 for the best tier...does each character have their own gift count or does it carry over from toon to toon?

per character

sundance777 · December 2016

I opened 20 of the parcels and received a retrain token, a blue companion, two green companions, a couple refiners cache and nothing else of interest other than the free charge event companion.

This was a great way to turn $20 into 75K AD. I wish the rewards were a tad better as it is not really much fun to receive 1/10th of your investment in return. I don't need to profit but at least 50% would be more tolerable.

thefiresidecat · December 2016

I think it may be a bug. I've also had a few that were just fireworks and gift no additional item from the second column. it does say that one of each.

kreatyve · December 2016

thefiresidecat said:
I think it may be a bug. I've also had a few that were just fireworks and gift no additional item from the second column. it does say that one of each.

That is currently being investigated. @nitocris83 posted something about it on another thread.

yiazzy · December 2016

....I knew it! Sigh, ah well. Got a Refiner's Cache earlier, and I got all excited until I opened it and got an R4 with 2 Lesser Marks of Potency. The facepalm almost broke my nose (Metaphorical....I didn't smash my own face)

cscriv79 · December 2016

kreatyve said:

thefiresidecat said:
I think it may be a bug. I've also had a few that were just fireworks and gift no additional item from the second column. it does say that one of each.
That is currently being investigated. @nitocris83 posted something about it on another thread.

I have opened about 250 and got that bug on a lot of them and probably missed out on a bunch of stuff.

sundance777 said:
I opened 20 of the parcels and received a retrain token, a blue companion, two green companions, a couple refiners cache and nothing else of interest other than the free charge event companion.

This was a great way to turn $20 into 75K AD. I wish the rewards were a tad better as it is not really much fun to receive 1/10th of your investment in return. I don't need to profit but at least 50% would be more tolerable.

Once you have opened over 20-30 parcels you will start to get better rewards, you are best to get into a group and open the free ones until you get 20 of the bags to open from the floor (You can use the stars to get more gifts to open for others too) then spend the money on the 20 parcels from the market as you will get the better rewards then.

cscriv79 · December 2016

Link to video showing parcel not giving correct rewards.

http://xboxclips.com/CScriv/e6bb08bb-7524-42af-9f74-32cf41d93726

yiazzy · December 2016

Well, that was my 21st parcel. Know what I got? A gift and 5 god damn iceworks.

ltsmithneko · December 2016

mordekai#1901 said:

yiazzy said:
I don't have an Epic mount with that insignia combo.

And Qm's were awful. Kept giving me potions...
I run 5 R9 Fey blessed.
That gets me a rank 5 enchantment for every nine or ten things I kill. Doesn't make a difference if its Orcus, Tiamat, or Redcap Powries.
They are standard Azure, Dark, Silvery, and Radiant. I use them to refine artifacts and my own/companions enchantments, cos they are bound to account. This frees up proper refinement for artifact equipment cos even with ID scrolls now being 999 to the invent slot rather than 99, using green loot drops to get you weapons up is an exercise in futility.
Using bound enchants to boost slotted enchants also free up thaums to either sell, or refine other enchants like weapon or armour, or bondings.
It took me a while to get 5 rank 9s but well worth it. Specially in mob heavy areas like Sharandar and Dread Ring. All that annoying pointless slaughter when you get too close to a mobs trigger zone now either gets me a R5 or closer to the next one.

Just done Wyldwood Gate (not including Grimaks lair) and picked up 11 BtA enchants. Got two walking from Feydark Breach back to the camp from killing 12 Redcaps.
Looking forward to the Quickling den in about ten minutes... that usually drops five or six on its own.

They were awful because you didn't meet the % requirement once you do meet that requirement every bag will drop 1-2 R6's, and 2-4 R6's during 2x, and a chance for a few R7's so save your bags until you reach that % threshold and you'll get the good rewards, in the end unless you farm about 5 hours everyday with Fey Blessings you won't pass the amount of Rp the R6's and R7's are worth.

To sum this up and any other needed info you need just go to the guides section you'll see a guide on it there.

sundance777 · December 2016

kreatyve said:

thefiresidecat said:
I think it may be a bug. I've also had a few that were just fireworks and gift no additional item from the second column. it does say that one of each.
That is currently being investigated. @nitocris83 posted something about it on another thread.

Seconded! I was just going to mention that I opened at least one that had lights of simril, fireworks and nothing else. I will try to screenshot if it happens again, but I might not open more until it is fixed.

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