Forsaken lockbox

rev · December 2020

Are the contents of the lockbox correct? if they are, depending on the drop rates i will actually applaud you for the first time since mod 16

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11481673

xenocide · December 2020

Yay, 3 jadeites, a minor stone voucher and some trade bars

regenerde · December 2020

Well, no Champagne or Cigars from me for that lockbox... sure it's a step into the right direction, but i guess you missed the
- - -
- Rank 9/Rank 10 Enchantments
- 3 Jadeite
- - -
- Cube of Augmentation
- 10 Reward Reroll Tokens
- 3 Scrolls of Life
- Stronghold Voucher
- - -
entries here. Had they packaged up that HAMSTER into something tradable like they did before within the older lockboxes, the lockbox would have been a real improvement.

But at this point just imagine getting 30 Jadeite, 250 Tarmalune Trade Bars and 10 Stronghold Vouchers from 10 lockbox keys - would you still be in the mood for applauding to them?

Anyway, i've 40 ViP lockbox keys banked right now, so i might consider burning the usual 30 on this new lockbox, but i'm pretty sure i'm not going to see anything good from them.

mythdemeanour · December 2020

Not to bad when you consider a minimum of 25 trade bars every box guaranteed.
At that rate it is approximately 11 rank 15 enchantments when they are on sale for 800 a year.

I'll take that over the refinement garbage I get now nine times out of ten with the current ones.

rev · December 2020

you do know i'm probably the one who has flamed them the most since mod 16 to the point of my posts getting almost insta deleted right? as i said depending on the drop rates, this lockbox is looking better than everything else we have right now, resurgence drop rates are extremely bad and new opportunities lockbox has kinda be dropping me good suff ever since i started opening them.
You need to take a chill pill

plus i prefer a chance for 1000 tradebars then a chance for a garbage HAMSTER weapon enchant
and on top of that no one is forcing you to open them

regenerde · December 2020

Well, i spend 100 keys on the Redeemed Lockbox, got a whole load of HAMSTER plus one King of Spines, and that was right at the release day of that lockbox, when that mount was dropping every damn second - with that personal experience in mind, i've a rather realistic view on the drop chances of any good or decent item listed in the Forsaken Lockbox.

I'm pretty sure the drop chances between the Redeemed and the Forsaken Lockbox will be similar or just the same, on the bright side, i'm also sure that many players will jump on this lockbox right away, and the prices for the Polar Siege Bear will drop much faster then they did with the King of Spines.

Btw. King of Spines has gone from 3m AD to 6m AD over night... got one for 2.7m, going to give it a week or so, and then sell it.

mythdemeanour · December 2020

regenerde said:
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Btw. King of Spines has gone from 3m AD to 6m AD over night... got one for 2.7m, going to give it a week or so, and then sell it.

I missed my chance at getting one of those and I won't be bothering to try now with my daily keys. The new lockbox is far superior to it and I am sure there will be other mystic mounts added in the future. If not it is no big loss for that price anyways.

kreatyve · December 2020

This new lockbox makes me happy. Hope it has good drop rates too.

rev · December 2020

I gotta give credit where credit is due, 4 lockboxes 300 tradebars 2x (10 mount upgrade tokens), 6x genie's gift, if this box isn't bugged, sure as hell is the best one in the game. I was almost temped to buy more keys, good job cryptic

@nitocris83

mythdemeanour · December 2020

rev#7881 said:
I gotta give credit where credit is due, 4 lockboxes 300 tradebars 2x (10 mount upgrade tokens), 6x genie's gift, if this box isn't bugged, sure as hell is the best one in the game. I was almost temped to buy more keys, good job cryptic

@nitocris83

Your luck is definitely better than mine (1 key only - 3 gems, 25 trade bars, and 1 cube), but you give me hope for the future.

reg1981 · December 2020

New box looks good! Really with the rerolls were movable though! I open my keys on a different toon than my main so my first round of rerolls tokens were wasted on a toon that has close to 4k rerolls already.

darthpotater · December 2020

This box is really a big change... only the tarmalunes in average make all the keys worth more than its cost

thany · December 2020

darthpotater said:
This box is really a big change... only the tarmalunes in average make all the keys worth more than its cost

Sure. But if all people "invest" tarmalunes into bondings we will get huge impact on zax when they decide to remove bondings. On whole economy. So there must be something else will come, something we don't know yet.

winteranesti · December 2020

I too love this new box...Thank you so much for this cryptic. I love the increase of trade bars big time. With the new changes coming..I can see myself using them very much.

rogueassassinx · December 2020

There should be far less randomness in this box, otherwise it is just gambling.

But seriously, 25 bars on the low end and 1000 on the high end and no guarantees at all on anything else (3 jadeite in the same category as account bound mounts is absolute BS)... yeah sorry, I won't applaud for these cash-grabs.

regenerde · December 2020

Well, i started with 10 lockboxes, and 5 of them were filled with those 3x Jadeit... and the rest were Rank 9 enchantments. The extra Tarmalune Trade Bars are a plus, but so far i'm not really impressed with this new lockbox.

I'll try 30 more of them on another character and will report back with the outcome.

ltminns · December 2020

But those Tradebars take up one of the three 'Reward' spots and then no Tradebar add-on. I also noticed a lower drop rate of the Boxes themselves.

lordhagen · December 2020

This lockbox is the death of all players who invest countless hours in the game instead of money. While these players may get 2 trade bars as a reward for 10 dungeon runs, paid players get up to 1000 trade bars per box. Which you can exchange directly for binding rune stones and later redeem for 2,600,000 ADs. Plus mystical mounts and upgrade tokens. This makes the difference between pay players and non-pay players huge. I'm happy for the VIPs that they finally get very good rewards, but the system against non-paid players will be destroyed. How are we ever going to catch up with these millions of ADs. And where is our reward? The new companion system already cuts us off enough. It's so frustrating. It's no longer fun. I could write pages about the disappointments of the past few months. Cryptic - that can't be your goal, can it? Don't you want us anymore?

plasticbat · December 2020

lordhagen#9257 said:
This lockbox is the death of all players who invest countless hours in the game instead of money. While these players may get 2 trade bars as a reward for 10 dungeon runs, paid players get up to 1000 trade bars per box. Which you can exchange directly for binding rune stones and later redeem for 2,600,000 ADs. Plus mystical mounts and upgrade tokens. This makes the difference between pay players and non-pay players huge. I'm happy for the VIPs that they finally get very good rewards, but the system against non-paid players will be destroyed. How are we ever going to catch up with these millions of ADs. And where is our reward? The new companion system already cuts us off enough. It's so frustrating. It's no longer fun. I could write pages about the disappointments of the past few months. Cryptic - that can't be your goal, can it? Don't you want us anymore?

I am a non-pay player. I am okay. If you mean new non-pay player, that is different story.

jules · December 2020

Hey hey... Non-pay is not non-vip. (or no keys)

regenerde · December 2020

30 Forsaken Lockboxes:
- 69x Jadeit, that's 23 times out of 30
- 7x Rank 9 Enchantments
- 1600x Trade Bars
- 5x Cube of Augmentation
- 108x Insignia Powder
- 9x Genies Gift
- 3x 10 Companion Upgrade Token
- 3x 10 Mount Upgrade Token
- can't say for sure how many Reroll Tokens, but i'm currently sitting on over 4500 of them
- 3x 3 Scroll of Life
- 4x Stronghold Vouchers

Anyway, as mentioned before, if they move the Jadeit, Enchantments and Cube of Augmentation into one tradable pack,
Genies Gift, Reroll Tokens, Scroll of Life and Stronghold Vouchers into another trabable pack,
then we would actually have a decent lockbox here for a change.

Feels like Jadeit have a 50% or higher drop chance for me... if the Devs want to keep RP HAMSTER inside a lockbox, at the very least upgrade the Jadeit to a Brilliant Diamond to make it worth wasting a key on it.

To be clear, i wasn't counting on getting any of the mounts, but not seeing a single epic Companion Pack or even one lonely Insignia in 30 pulls is really sad.

Forsaken lockbox

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