...How can my "luck" be THAT bad?

seitredici · April 2014

I'm going to write this because I'm genuinely kind of upset and frustrated right now.

Honestly, I don't understand why I never, EVER get the companions from the CTA events. EVER. I've done hundreds of runs on multiple characters through multiple CTAs, and I literally just get the same garbage rank 3 enchants and dye packs every single time. Companions DO NOT drop for me. TONS of other players get multiples and I get none. At all. Ever.

I want to know if it's possible that something is bugged for me. It's really kind of astounding that my "luck" would truly be that bad. Am I being punished for something? Do I not spend enough real money on Zen? Why is it always me who never gets anything, despite running the events hundreds of times and truly WANTING just one companion for my characters?

iambecks1 · April 2014

It's RNG so it's purely down to bad luck , the pit fight CTA took me over 100 runs to get the mount ,last CTA less than 10 runs to get the druid ,it's all pure luck, with all the positive feedback they developers got from the respens event I'm kind of surprised they didn't add a BoP version of the pet to the event store though.

jorifice1 · April 2014

Same here.
I have never gotten the Companion from any of the CtA's or Events OR Lockboxes (and, back when I could afford it, I opened a truly frightening number of those, probably several hundred, total, of every single kind. I got one single beetle mount, the common one, of course). I DID get one Blink Dog once on one of my End-Game toons. That's AFTER I did enough Celendine Runs to make a Greater Elvish Battle Enchant and put quite a few ranks on a couple of Artifacts. Several hundred runs between several characters. And back when they were so cheap I bought about two hundred of those Thayan thingies that gave you the Star Metal Gauntlet along with many, many runs in the Dread Ring Dungeons and no Artifact.
So, yeah, some folks are just SoL when it comes to drops in Cryptic Games. And I'm sad to say, Welcome to our club!

seitredici · April 2014

iambecks1 wrote: »

It's RNG so it's purely down to bad luck , the pit fight CTA took me over 100 runs to get the mount ,last CTA less than 10 runs to get the druid ,it's all pure luck, with all the positive feedback they developers got from the respens event I'm kind of surprised they didn't add a BoP version of the pet to the event store though.

Here's the thing, though... you're actually getting stuff. I'm serious when I say that the companions don't ever drop for me. EVER. No matter how many times I do the events, and I genuinely have done them hundreds of times. I've collected enough dye packs to last me until the end of time. LOL.

Really though, I guess it's just pointless to actually do these events. I don't want any more dye. I don't care about junk rank 3 enchants. The caches you can buy from the CTA vendor are dropping nothing but rank 3 radiants and peridots for me. I literally, ALWAYS, get nothing but trash no matter what I do.

I really wish I could buy the CTA companions. That was one of the BEST things about Respen's!!

cheesegromit · April 2014

It's not just you with the bad luck, I've not got anything useful either. Mind you, I've not put in the effort you have in terms of repetition. I'll give it a few tries and if I don't get anything interesting I'll move on, unless the event itself is amazing.

Same applies to lockboxes, profession packs, refinement caches etc. Event the last Tymora's Gift was pretty meh, the first one was much better.

It just reminds me why I dislike random rewards.

I admit I did get a Phoera in a lockbox once, although I had no interest in it so sold it. The only other reward companions I have are the Damaran shepherd, Fawn and frost mimic, all of which were earned and I at least knew what I had to do to get them.

zebular · April 2014

. . . In my opinion, the companions (and anything that drops in CTAs really) should always be on the CTA vendors in addition to them dropping/being in the chest. This would allow us to buy them with our CTA merits and have clear goals to play towards instead of relying on RNG and often getting left feeling slighted. I loathe RNG systems and prefer clear reward systems.

obsiddia · April 2014

I spent a huge amount of time on them and didn't get the companion in one or two, so far.
This one I got around the 12th time. But I have gone over 150 with nothing.

I've learned to save enough AD to buy a companion, and play til my fingers
fall off for the mounts (shadow wolf).

The set-up for the April Fool's dungeons was a good one, though. If you win
one, you can sell it. Otherwise you use the dungeon's credits to buy a
bind on pick-up version. Seems fair to me.

Of course we'd be adding even more currency than exists in the real world!

Oh. I've held onto the dye packs and sold them later for decent AD.
The enchantments I mostly throw into growing other types.

jorifice1 · April 2014

The thing about the CtA Enchants is that they actually provide a larger total amount of Stat Points than conventional Enchants. My advice? Hold on to them and see what they are going for in a month or two, especially Rank 7 and up. Could be worth your while to upgrade them for sale.

dagorm · April 2014

OK, I'll throw in my two cents worth. It has been my experience, on those highly infrequent occasions on which I have gotten a companion in the CTA chest, it has ALWAYS (and I mean "without exception") been AFTER SCORING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF DAMAGE POINTS in the battles. I know it is claimed that they are rewarded on an RNG system, but I have come to suspect that it is one that is heavily "weighted" by the amount of damage done. Just saying.

valwryn · April 2014

I can say that doing the most damage is not the answer to getting a pet from the CTA chest. Some of my toons get the pet in 1-5 tries while others can take up to 100. The ones that can get the highest damage are not among the lucky ones. :mad:

This is a total random thingie!!!

ironzerg79 · April 2014

dagorm wrote: »

OK, I'll throw in my two cents worth. It has been my experience, on those highly infrequent occasions on which I have gotten a companion in the CTA chest, it has ALWAYS (and I mean "without exception") been AFTER SCORING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF DAMAGE POINTS in the battles. I know it is claimed that they are rewarded on an RNG system, but I have come to suspect that it is one that is heavily "weighted" by the amount of damage done. Just saying.

It's not. I regularly finish top in damage in all the CTA events since they've started, typically running with all guild groups and haven't seen any correlation between who has and hasn't gotten a pet out of the chest at the end.

ordensmarschall · April 2014

I have gotten a companion to drop once since the beginning of the CTA events. I have placed 1st in all of the categories multiple times and have not received the after doing so. I truly dislike the RNG, I have failed multiple refining attempts at 85% on a single rune, skill nodes regularly fail on successive attempts, Starmetal gauntlets have only gotten me rank 4 enchantments. So all in all I the feel the OP's pain. However I will continue to soldier on, because even the crappy stuff eventually accumulates value after the 300th run.

frishter · April 2014

obsiddia wrote: »

I've learned to save enough AD to buy a companion, and play til my fingers
fall off for the mounts (shadow wolf).

And there was me thinking that the shadow wolf was a high drop rate because I got 3 or 4 within 20-30-40 runs or something. Though after that it took a while farming any more. I guess it's just the rng being rubbish in this game and streaky, either very bad luck, or very good luck.

dagorm wrote: »

OK, I'll throw in my two cents worth. It has been my experience, on those highly infrequent occasions on which I have gotten a companion in the CTA chest, it has ALWAYS (and I mean "without exception") been AFTER SCORING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF DAMAGE POINTS in the battles. I know it is claimed that they are rewarded on an RNG system, but I have come to suspect that it is one that is heavily "weighted" by the amount of damage done. Just saying.

I doubt it. It's probably just you trying to find a reason behind it (as people do) even if there isn't anything behind it.

sockmunkey · April 2014

Boy, do I often wish score was a factor. My main is a CW, scoring high is not really a problem, even despite the class. Ive been on runs, in both this CTA and past ones where I managed to get top score in damage dealt, damage taken, most kills, AND most healed. And this from a player of questionable skill and ability.

Random is random, i've yet to find the proper sacrifice to appease the Cryptic gods. But I know for certain, it isnt pure damage.

loboguild · April 2014

zebular wrote: »

. . . In my opinion, the companions (and anything that drops in CTAs really) should always be on the CTA vendors in addition to them dropping/being in the chest. This would allow us to buy them with our CTA merits and have clear goals to play towards instead of relying on RNG and often getting left feeling slighted. I loathe RNG systems and prefer clear reward systems.

I absolutely agree.

seitredici · April 2014

sockmunkey wrote: »

Boy, do I often wish score was a factor. My main is a CW, scoring high is not really a problem, even despite the class. Ive been on runs, in both this CTA and past ones where I managed to get top score in damage dealt, damage taken, most kills, AND most healed. And this from a player of questionable skill and ability.

Random is random, i've yet to find the proper sacrifice to appease the Cryptic gods. But I know for certain, it isnt pure damage.

Same here! I'm also a CW, and I've often gotten the top score in both damage & kills. Doesn't make any difference to what drops.

On a side note, I absolutely agree with what zebular posted. I REALLY wish they would just let us buy the companions from the vendor. I wouldn't mind doing that at all, because at least I'd have a chance. As it stands, I have zero chance. Like I said before, I literally get the same junk every single time. Here's a screencap I took earlier:

It never varies. I literally could've taken that exact same screencap hundreds of times. :mad:

Something needs to change. I really have no interest at all in continuing to do these events, when I never get anything from them besides trash. I try SO HARD, and just...nothing. Ever.

frznvimes · April 2014

zebular wrote: »

. . . In my opinion, the companions (and anything that drops in CTAs really) should always be on the CTA vendors in addition to them dropping/being in the chest. This would allow us to buy them with our CTA merits and have clear goals to play towards instead of relying on RNG and often getting left feeling slighted. I loathe RNG systems and prefer clear reward systems.

Indeed, I really liked how that worked in Respen's game.

rashylewizz · April 2014

From the looks of the amount of Sprites on protector's enclave and even more in the auction house, I'd say this boils down to an RNG issue.

Sorry OP, guess other people just have more luck than you

bioshrike · April 2014

I think Respen's game got it spot-on - offer BoP versions of the companion in the store, and offer a very rare chance at getting a BoE version form the chest at the end.

celticgamer0 · April 2014

zebular wrote: »

. . . In my opinion, the companions (and anything that drops in CTAs really) should always be on the CTA vendors in addition to them dropping/being in the chest. This would allow us to buy them with our CTA merits and have clear goals to play towards instead of relying on RNG and often getting left feeling slighted. I loathe RNG systems and prefer clear reward systems.

Same here! I have been at this CTA since it first opened and still nothing but a sh... a lot of dyes and rank 3s... I got one rank 5, but I want the companion! All my toons have over 500 medallions and their respective augment (that should tell you how much I have been at it) and still no companion drop

~PLEASE make the companion purchasable! I would like to have it for at least one toon in my collection. *gets on knees and begs*

wimpazoid · April 2014

My bad luck today was not being able to get rewarded for doing the CTA, it bugged as I just got started, and no matter how many times i played it, I can neither collect my reward nor leave the map. Missed out on Skirmish hour because of that, now that's bad luck, doing it for no rewards.

godhric · April 2014

Yea.. kinda HAMSTER drop i'd say. Sometimes you get 3 in 25ish rounds... sometimes other you get none for doing it @ 6 hours a day .. Best thing is to just make the companion purchasable using the medallion instead of the dye.. Which was like 100% drop anyway, no one would buy that.

irked01 · April 2014

lets see 67 times total between 2 toons and 1 pet (which happened on the 15th attempt with my DC) yet after that 30 matches nothing with dc and 21 matches with my cw nothing. lol

kattefjaes · April 2014

dagorm wrote: »

OK, I'll throw in my two cents worth. It has been my experience, on those highly infrequent occasions on which I have gotten a companion in the CTA chest, it has ALWAYS (and I mean "without exception") been AFTER SCORING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF DAMAGE POINTS in the battles. I know it is claimed that they are rewarded on an RNG system, but I have come to suspect that it is one that is heavily "weighted" by the amount of damage done. Just saying.

You're confusing correlation with causation, courtesy of the uncanny pattern matching skills of the human brain. It's a Markov chain that you're investing with meaning. Sadly, it doesn't work like this.

I'll second the sentiment that being able to buy the rewards with tokens if you don't get them as a drop is a very good way to arrange things. Respen's was an excellent event both in terms of fun and a clear path to your choice of reward.

kiralyn · April 2014

godhric wrote: »

Yea.. kinda HAMSTER drop i'd say. Sometimes you get 3 in 25ish rounds... sometimes other you get none for doing it @ 6 hours a day .. Best thing is to just make the companion purchasable using the medallion instead of the dye.. Which was like 100% drop anyway, no one would buy that.

...I actually buy the dyes.

(I don't run the CTAs, so I don't get the 100% drop; I gathered some medals from Sword Coast and used that for dye. /shrug)

akromatik · April 2014

seitredici wrote: »

I'm going to write this because I'm genuinely kind of upset and frustrated right now.

Honestly, I don't understand why I never, EVER get the companions from the CTA events. EVER. I've done hundreds of runs on multiple characters through multiple CTAs, and I literally just get the same garbage rank 3 enchants and dye packs every single time. Companions DO NOT drop for me. TONS of other players get multiples and I get none. At all. Ever.

I want to know if it's possible that something is bugged for me. It's really kind of astounding that my "luck" would truly be that bad. Am I being punished for something? Do I not spend enough real money on Zen? Why is it always me who never gets anything, despite running the events hundreds of times and truly WANTING just one companion for my characters?

Hey all!

The Flame Sprite companion is a very rare and random drop. In fact, the Flame Sprite still eludes one such as me! That doesn't mean I'm givin' up though!

Never give up, never surrender! To arms, my fellow adventurers!

jonkoca · April 2014

Yeah, know how you feel, literally every other cta, or event, I've had the companion drop within the first hour, or coin, pocket pet or whatever, but this time I've had no luck at all, had to buy one for my cw.

The rng hates me. All praise the rng.

It's not highest paingiver either, I've been getting that every other run.

skalt112 · April 2014

I got a sprite about my 5th try, but in the last two events i got none for over 60 or so tries each. Folks may not like it, but it is fair for everyone.

micky1p00 · April 2014

akromatik wrote: »

Hey all!

The Flame Sprite companion is a very rare and random drop. In fact, the Flame Sprite still eludes one such as me! That doesn't mean I'm givin' up though!

Never give up, never surrender! To arms, my fellow adventurers!

This CTA would have been playable if not those cut-scenes!

ixotl · April 2014

I second the notion the companion should be a purchasable item. If you're going to grind you might as well know you WILL BE rewarded at the end rather than this catch-as-catch-can approach in this CTA.

xelliz · April 2014

They should have kept the setup from Respen. Being able to buy a bound companion after 20 runs or so is infinitely better than having some people getting 5 sprites the 1st day alone, while others never get a single one.

And yes, there is one of the luckiest people in game from Legit channel who I am pretty sure had 5 sprites on the 1st day. Hell, I think she got 12 pets from the CTA before Respens.

...How can my "luck" be THAT bad?

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