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A Tale of RNG
cdnbison
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 806 Arc User
We've all heard, or worse, experienced, the fickle nature of Neverwinters RNG. Dozens of wards wasted on "50%" chances, and the like.
Last night, though, all that fickleness got bounced into the Mirror Universe.
I bought a 50 pack of keys in the early evening - I'd scored a '20% off Anything' coupon, and was hoping to flip the box contents for AD, and come out a bit ahead. After opening 10 boxes of general HAMSTER, I set it aside, and went for supper.
On my return, I went back to Omu for my last patrols, and while turning in some Lich Lore to Makos, I cracked a few more boxes open. And there it was, for all the server to see - Glorious Resurgence Legendary Pack.
Oh. Baby.
I set the box in the bank, while I pondered my good fortune, and went back to maps / patrols / quests, wondering what mount I should choose - Black Ice Warhorse (ACDC, so +4k power would be great to share) or the Flail Snail (for that mount power). An alliance member was looking to fill a Fane group, so I signed on. The fifth member was still en route, so I figured I'd waste a few more keys.
And there it was. Again.
Glorious Resurgence Legendary Pack.
Two. In the span of less than 30 keys.
My RNG luck has been legendarily bad to this point, but as a guildie told me (and he's right), I've lost any and all right to complain about RNG forevermore.
Fun addendum: a guildie pulled 2 Mist Form mounts within about 10 minutes of each other soon after my luck. Was a good night to open boxes in our guild...
Last night, though, all that fickleness got bounced into the Mirror Universe.
I bought a 50 pack of keys in the early evening - I'd scored a '20% off Anything' coupon, and was hoping to flip the box contents for AD, and come out a bit ahead. After opening 10 boxes of general HAMSTER, I set it aside, and went for supper.
On my return, I went back to Omu for my last patrols, and while turning in some Lich Lore to Makos, I cracked a few more boxes open. And there it was, for all the server to see - Glorious Resurgence Legendary Pack.
Oh. Baby.
I set the box in the bank, while I pondered my good fortune, and went back to maps / patrols / quests, wondering what mount I should choose - Black Ice Warhorse (ACDC, so +4k power would be great to share) or the Flail Snail (for that mount power). An alliance member was looking to fill a Fane group, so I signed on. The fifth member was still en route, so I figured I'd waste a few more keys.
And there it was. Again.
Glorious Resurgence Legendary Pack.
Two. In the span of less than 30 keys.
My RNG luck has been legendarily bad to this point, but as a guildie told me (and he's right), I've lost any and all right to complain about RNG forevermore.
Fun addendum: a guildie pulled 2 Mist Form mounts within about 10 minutes of each other soon after my luck. Was a good night to open boxes in our guild...
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Recently I used a pres ward for lolz on a 5% chance and got a success first time - that made me smile.
So yes its all about the RNG
I had some good luck with RNG finally during the anniversary event and the Ravenloft boxes... got both the Mist form and the Swarm mounts.
Though I have to admit, with Fane and the Omu patrols... RNG has been laughing at me.
Got another Legendary mount pack on about key #25. I think a couple guildies have started a GoFundMe to have bad things done to my knees....
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
Not one legendary mount.
Congrats, I guess...
Cries in a corner
Bad bad RNG
about 6-7 months ago, i burned 90 pres wards on 10%, RNG are really bad.
why cant we add "multiple wards" instead 1 ward, put extra wards to increase better chances?
concept here.... 1 ward on current chance of success, then add 1/2/3/4/5 wards in same slot for better chances of success than it was.
But i doubt that, devs need players to get to buy coalescense wards to feed devs and pay for designing projects for modules.
1 pres ward would still be standard, and adding 1 extra equal +10% chances if the base chances are in 10% or lower, and 5th ward would be the limit cap before trying again.