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Tyrannical Lockbox is Awesome

angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
edited August 2014 in General Discussion (PC)
I have way too much Zen Points sitting around and nothing to buy in the Zen Market (I did the cash deal on all the newest stuff offered) - so I figured what the hell - bought five ten-packs of keys and 50 lockboxes off the AH at a an average os 80AD each. My reasoning? I don't have quite enough T-Bars to get anything decent so why not top those off?

I know better than to hope for a Mount or Companion, so my hopes weren't really that high. However, the stuff I *did* get is awesome - I kept everything, except auctioning off about half the Professions Special packs I got and in hindsight I should have kept them, too.

T Bar "jackpot" possibility is back, so I was able to add a lot of those. What's more special to me is all the other stuff. I got a few Dragon Eggs in the Professions Special pack (why I wish I'd kept the others, but they sold to fast!) Also a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>-ton of rank six and seven enchantments - some for Companions and Some for gear and a LOT of awesome refining stuff, including Blue Stability Stones and Lesser Marks of Stability, Union Stone and Resonance Stone (blues), A greater Mark of Potency and nine (regular) Marks of Potency and whatnot.

I'm not a min-maxer and haven't done a lot of refining so I'm not really sure if I should keep these or sell them. 36 Tomes of Companion Experience, which I think I'll keep. Best part is of those packs I did sell, I now have enough Astral Diamonds to just buy a Drake Mount (for me Dragonborn Warlock LOL) - but dunno if I really want one or not (6.2 Million AD is still a bit steep, but if any drop to 5.5 or less I'll snag it).

Until now my favorite was the Nightmare Lockbox, but I really like this one.

So I'm curious: which lockbox is your favorite and why?
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  • mystagoguemystagogue Member Posts: 322 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Rusted Iron is still my favorite. I liked the mount, companion and Leadership Special Pack - all around goodness.

    This new one is nice too, though.
  • jorifice1jorifice1 Member Posts: 1,042 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    The Black Ice one (forget the name, exactly). My luck on that one (and that one ALONE) was just amazing. Usually I get less stuff of less value from one Lockbox than I would have gotten from a decent Profession Node in a LvL 60 area. The Black Ice Pack? Purple Augment, Purple Enchants, it seemed I got an Epic reward every third Box. I kept the best stuff and sold the rest at a huge profit (which I proceeded to loose in its entirety with the next box (had the Tensers' Disk), which never gave me anything better than a handful of green enchants and one single Tradebar Jackpot. I'm not joking. Over 100 Keys. Just gone.
    'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
  • vader6139vader6139 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Hate how they nerfed the epic drop rate on these. Used to be if you spend $100 or so you would expect 2-3 epics at least. Spent more than that on last pack and didn't get a single epic thing.

    No more lockboxes for me!:mad:
  • saini50990saini50990 Member Posts: 309 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    well good for u , but i wasnt as lucky as that , opened 110 boxes and all i got was useless stuff.
    my favorite is frozen lockbox , thats the only 1 from which i got artifact and companion by opening just 60 boxes .
  • somebobsomebob Member Posts: 1,887 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    vader6139 wrote: »
    Hate how they nerfed the epic drop rate on these. Used to be if you spend $100 or so you would expect 2-3 epics at least. Spent more than that on last pack and didn't get a single epic thing.

    No more lockboxes for me!:mad:

    The 'epic drop' (the top reward) is 0.5% chance. All of Cryptic's games use this for the most part.

    Which means you'll get 1 out of 200 lockboxes open on average.
  • msrebel1972msrebel1972 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Yea, I opened twenty and didn't get anything special. I'm now sitting on 30 companion training boosters.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • grogthemagnifgrogthemagnif Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,651 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Well, you could always use them on the "New" Apprentice Healer Companion (Common and only 2gp each)
    msrebel1972 wrote: »
    Yea, I opened twenty and didn't get anything special. I'm now sitting on 30 companion training boosters.
  • ysil6969ysil6969 Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    somebob wrote: »
    The 'epic drop' (the top reward) is 0.5% chance. All of Cryptic's games use this for the most part.

    Which means you'll get 1 out of 200 lockboxes open on average.

    Except it's more akin to rolling a d 200. So there's a chance that you could open 400 of them and never roll that 1 of 200. **** rng.

    I find with the dragon scales, this box upsets me. I can USUALLY turn the lockboxes into either a break even, or profit with enchants and artificer packs. But with this one, if you get scales, you just lost 65000 AD. Its bind to character trade bars all over again.
  • vteasyvteasy Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    ysil6969 wrote: »
    Except it's more akin to rolling a d 200. So there's a chance that you could open 400 of them and never roll that 1 of 200. **** rng.

    I find with the dragon scales, this box upsets me. I can USUALLY turn the lockboxes into either a break even, or profit with enchants and artificer packs. But with this one, if you get scales, you just lost 65000 AD. Its bind to character trade bars all over again.

    those are the best ones, buy blue dragon enchant and sell it on Ah. you are welcome
  • hooli78hooli78 Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    ysil6969 wrote: »
    Except it's more akin to rolling a d 200. So there's a chance that you could open 400 of them and never roll that 1 of 200. **** rng.

    I find with the dragon scales, this box upsets me. I can USUALLY turn the lockboxes into either a break even, or profit with enchants and artificer packs. But with this one, if you get scales, you just lost 65000 AD. Its bind to character trade bars all over again.

    Check the AH price on Pseudodragon. You are likely making more than before, and that is with the Pseudodragon at a relatively low current price. I believe I bought mine for 4.2 million.
  • rashylewizzrashylewizz Member Posts: 4,265 Bounty Hunter
    edited August 2014
    I think the current lockbox is really really good, I would still take the rusted one due to the leadership pack giving you the best return
  • zshikarazshikara Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    So far the only lockbox that I've gotten something awesome from is the rusted iron one. I got me Driki, the Rust Monster. I use him everywhere.
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  • shadowmax4373shadowmax4373 Member Posts: 0
    edited August 2014
    My friend got the mount from it but it took him 7 tries to get it. He was about to quit and save his keys but he just kept going and got it :D im jelly of him now :[
  • angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    vteasy wrote: »
    those are the best ones, buy blue dragon enchant and sell it on Ah. you are welcome

    Wait... so the Scales Vendor items are all BoE? I didn't mention it but I got a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>-tonne of Scales currency also. But I never really thought about spending them.

    Things that make you go 'Hrrmmmmm".
  • hooli78hooli78 Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    angrysprite wrote: »
    Wait... so the Scales Vendor items are all BoE? I didn't mention it but I got a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>-tonne of Scales currency also. But I never really thought about spending them.

    Things that make you go 'Hrrmmmmm".

    Someone doesn't like stacks and stacks of money. Pseudodragon, and Red Dragon Ioun stone should be sellable on the AH due to their BoE status.
  • calvin1tagcalvin1tag Member Posts: 322 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I really don't like the new lock box at all so far I've spent a bit and unlike the other lock boxes I'm not even remotely close to "breaking even" on the 'investment' (and yes I know it's a zero sum game aka gambling but with the previous Lock boxes I could flip the contents and get more keys then I can with the new one for sure). Rusted still the best then Nightmare IMO
  • reshomiiiireshomiiii Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 25
    edited August 2014
    hooli78 wrote: »
    Someone doesn't like stacks and stacks of money. Pseudodragon, and Red Dragon Ioun stone should be sellable on the AH due to their BoE status.

    DO NOT BUY THESE TO SELL! they are bugged atm and bind when they get into your bags support will NOT unbind them for you

    Edit* the ioun stone at least idk about the companion
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