Some people are lucky with drops; a guild mate got 75 the first week; I got 13. Today, three dragon events, 15 dragons, no coffers. Given the current poor drop rate (for at least some of us if not many), the quest should be adjusted to seven per week.
I easily completed my weekly, and gave excess coffers to my guild mates who were still struggling with getting it sorted. The reason why they are so expensive on the AH is because some people have figured it out, and some haven't. Some things I've learned about Dragon Hoard Coffers:
1. The best way to get them is by doing Heroic Encounters and Dragons in WoD (basically any encounter on the circular stone areas).
2. If you're in a group, other people can loot the coffers UNLESS you have your loot set to Round Robin (this keeps others from ninjaing your coffers, we've tested it extensively).
The drop rate initially seems pretty horrible (until you learn the tricks), and yeah it's not easy to complete within five minutes like a lot of other weekys... but it's totally dooable. Do the Dragon races at a quarter till the hour. At 5 after the hour, do the Heroic Encounters. At 25 after the hour, do another round of Encounters.
Rinse, repeat as you have the time or inclination.
So far the only HEs i have seen to drop coffers upon completion are the dragons, and then only by being antisocial and going directly for the Red rather than running with the zerg. Beyond that the only coffers i have seen have been random drops within the 10 min cooldown.
So far the only HEs i have seen to drop coffers upon completion are the dragons, and then only by being antisocial and going directly for the Red rather than running with the zerg. Beyond that the only coffers i have seen have been random drops within the 10 min cooldown.
You get 1 or 2 gtd. coffers if you get great succes on dragons, a normal encounter completed can also Award them just at a much lower rate. If i need coffers and there is a zerg train at the White dragon, i normaly just start at green(thats the second one i think) kill that go to zerg train to Black, skip the blue and go straight to red, that is 2 great succes gtd and coffers in the bank:)
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ironzerg79Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,942Arc User
So far the only HEs i have seen to drop coffers upon completion are the dragons, and then only by being antisocial and going directly for the Red rather than running with the zerg. Beyond that the only coffers i have seen have been random drops within the 10 min cooldown.
I've gotten coffers from all the HEs, big, medium and small.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to run the dragon events multiple times... 25 dragons, not a single coffer. This morning, 5 dragons, not a single coffer. They either need to change the drop rate or the quest to make it doable once a week for those of us whose dice is very poor.
Why are coffers such a problem?
Their drop rate is fixed and so can be planned: just log in every 15 min to get 1 and go on playing with other characters or doing other stuff.
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urlord283Member, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 1,084Arc User
edited November 2014
I don't see the problem... I found 17 last night in 1.5 hours.
They were drops in the small HEs and standard combet.
I am sure I could have found more but I needed to do other things.
Its not that I think the drop rate is low, but you do have to spend a lot of time doing HE's/dragon slaying or running around killing random stuff to find them. I gave up running alts a long time ago when I realized it was unrealistic given the amount of time I can put into the game. They are out there though, or you can always buy some from the auction house. You think 25 for a week is bad, I heard you are going to need 100 for 1 linu's favour and you need 15 of those to pick your off-hand lol.. maybe just level your alts one at a time instead of all at once.
Personally I think the drop rate is too low considering one needs 25 of them per week. At best, I'm getting 1 to 2 per day. By the end of one week, I have anywhere from 5 to 10... maybe 13 if I got really lucky on rolls. I've been doing the dragon HE events as often as time permits, and most of the time... ZERO coffers from any of the dragons. They really need to change the quest from 25 per week to 5 OR dramatically increase the drop rate.
This game was actually enjoyable (less the pvp matching system which is still broken) in mod 4 compared to mod 5. mod 5 is just a grind fest.
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sokolnichiyMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 187Arc User
edited December 2014
K, Lads i decided to share my portion of sucess gathering coffers.
I do have 10 characters on account and 5 of em are ready to bust WoD for coffers. ICD of a coffer drop from a group of mobs is 8 minutes for a character from the drop of the first coffer and till another one drops again.
That's why it's convenient for me to grind em. and so i get 25 coffers in an hour on 5 characters total with 5 coffers per character respectively.
If u have one character or two it's harder but never the less u can get 2 coffers every 10 minutes wich is 12 coffers per hour of grind.
Having more time gives you more coffers if not making you bored like hell grinding em.
Good luck with getting those and remember, ICD on coffer is 8 minutes!
I've seen 8, 10 and 15 minutes suggested as the ICD. For me it feels like about 10 mins but it's hard to measure as there is no guarantee that it will drop immediately the ICD is done. Some days it seems I have to kill 10 or 12 mobs before getting the first one, other days it is immediate. And, of course, it is not officially confirmed that there is an ICD at all so there is no guarantee it will be consistent for everyone in all circumstances, or even the same from day to day. Having said that, I am now in the habit of killing until I get one then doing other stuff like HEs for at least 10 mins. I think I've collected about 110 since the launch of Mod 5 and more than half have come from the crazy dragonzerg donkey derby.
its about 10 to 15 mins if i'm not wrong, i manage about 10 to 15 a day
This is completely off....I get a coffer every 2 to 3 mins, sometimes I get 2 back to back. I have sold about 200 of them, and given 50 to an alt, and I was gone all last week. I have been out there trying to farm with my Dragon's Hoard enchants.
Other people can pick them up, so you have to be alert, if someone comes up while you are killing mobs to "help" you, they are really trying to get the coffers.
This is completely off....I get a coffer every 2 to 3 mins, sometimes I get 2 back to back. I have sold about 200 of them, and given 50 to an alt, and I was gone all last week. I have been out there trying to farm with my Dragon's Hoard enchants.
Are you by chance a CW or an SW? Just curious if more DPS = more coffers.
Are you by chance a CW or an SW? Just curious if more DPS = more coffers.
I am a cw (that is pvp specced--so nto as high DPS as an AOE specced PVE CW) But that said I can kill a group of mobs really fast.
when coffers drop ANYONE can pick them up. They are not like our other drops where only we can pick them up, also if you are grouped, there are no rolls for them. So you need to go to a low populated instance so no one can swipe your coffers--or be super alert when they do drop.
This is completely off....I get a coffer every 2 to 3 mins, sometimes I get 2 back to back. I have sold about 200 of them, and given 50 to an alt, and I was gone all last week. I have been out there trying to farm with my Dragon's Hoard enchants.
Other people can pick them up, so you have to be alert, if someone comes up while you are killing mobs to "help" you, they are really trying to get the coffers.
please stop disseminating false or exaggerated information on coffers
you do not get a coffer every 2 to 3 minutes, in fact, nowhere close to that
i play a control wizard, and through about 50 hours of farming during which i kept track of average kills per minute vs drops of dragon hoard coffers, my results were a consistent 7 coffers per hour at a kill rate of 36 mobs per minute in the cult prison area of Well of Dragons, which in my experience has the fastest mob respawn rate and highest kills per minute capacity for my class and build.
i have never once in 50+ hours gotten coffers back to back from anything but heroic encounter rewards, with thousands of kills to my credit. So either the game has decided to favor you over everyone else, or you're drastically overestimating your results.
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hexanna22Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 204Bounty Hunter
please stop disseminating false or exaggerated information on coffers
you do not get a coffer every 2 to 3 minutes, in fact, nowhere close to that
i play a control wizard, and through about 50 hours of farming during which i kept track of average kills per minute vs drops of dragon hoard coffers, my results were a consistent 7 coffers per hour at a kill rate of 36 mobs per minute in the cult prison area of Well of Dragons, which in my experience has the fastest mob respawn rate and highest kills per minute capacity for my class and build.
i have never once in 50+ hours gotten coffers back to back from anything but heroic encounter rewards, with thousands of kills to my credit. So either the game has decided to favor you over everyone else, or you're drastically overestimating your results.
Maybe, my drop rate is higher because I also wear Dragon Hoard enchants? And I am also farming hoard drops, so maybe pulling mobs in a different way? If it makes you feel any better, I have only pulled ONE belt in all the HEs and Dragons I have done, and my Hoard drop rate sucks even tho I have 12%
it has nothing to do with hoard enchants, i'm at 8% and i have a very consistent 8 minute ICD on drops, farmed another 4 hours tonight with no difference in drop rates. it makes no difference how you pull mobs either.
bottom line is, your drop rate is not higher, though i'm not sure why you're trying to perpetuate your claims when every other person on this thread who has actually done some data collection seems to come to the same conclusion, that there is a definite cooldown on the drop of dragon hoard coffers................except you. which makes no sense
its far more likely that you're just making false claims for the sake of....well who knows why
but on to something more constructive
has anyone heard any announcements or hints on whether or not the drop rate on this is going to remain fixed, or be raised slightly in the future? the rumor mill has been churning in game, but i haven't heard anything definitive
it has nothing to do with hoard enchants, i'm at 8% and i have a very consistent 8 minute ICD on drops, farmed another 4 hours tonight with no difference in drop rates. it makes no difference how you pull mobs either.
bottom line is, your drop rate is not higher, though i'm not sure why you're trying to perpetuate your claims when every other person on this thread who has actually done some data collection seems to come to the same conclusion, that there is a definite cooldown on the drop of dragon hoard coffers................except you. which makes no sense
its far more likely that you're just making false claims for the sake of....well who knows why
but on to something more constructive
has anyone heard any announcements or hints on whether or not the drop rate on this is going to remain fixed, or be raised slightly in the future? the rumor mill has been churning in game, but i haven't heard anything definitive
May not be definitive, but as a source of research, I heard that they stated the drop rate would get a bump in one of the livestreams. Didnt hear first hand, just another rumor to research if anyones interested.
May not be definitive, but as a source of research, I heard that they stated the drop rate would get a bump in one of the livestreams. Didnt hear first hand, just another rumor to research if anyones interested.
I believe it was on last Friday's Neverwinter Adventure Hour where Akro mentioned the devs had heard about this thread and they are changing things. Well 2 things, the rate is being adjusted to drop more frequently and the number needed for the weekly is being lowered. How much? No idea. We will have to wait and see unless it is patched and on test right now.
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zebularMember, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 15,270Community Moderator
edited December 2014
Dragon Hoard Coffers have indeed been adjusted! We'll see this in a future patch on live if everything tests out okay. Right now, this is how it is in Preview:
Reclaiming the Hoard: The drop rate for the coffers has increased as well as the total amount required to complete the quest has been reduced to 14 from 25.
Safe travels,
Archmage Zebular of Mystryl PWE Community Moderator
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Nope, ran all the dailies again, 2 minor HEs and 1 medium, got 1 more coffer... I'm at 10 coffers now -.-
1. The best way to get them is by doing Heroic Encounters and Dragons in WoD (basically any encounter on the circular stone areas).
2. If you're in a group, other people can loot the coffers UNLESS you have your loot set to Round Robin (this keeps others from ninjaing your coffers, we've tested it extensively).
The drop rate initially seems pretty horrible (until you learn the tricks), and yeah it's not easy to complete within five minutes like a lot of other weekys... but it's totally dooable. Do the Dragon races at a quarter till the hour. At 5 after the hour, do the Heroic Encounters. At 25 after the hour, do another round of Encounters.
Rinse, repeat as you have the time or inclination.
You get 1 or 2 gtd. coffers if you get great succes on dragons, a normal encounter completed can also Award them just at a much lower rate. If i need coffers and there is a zerg train at the White dragon, i normaly just start at green(thats the second one i think) kill that go to zerg train to Black, skip the blue and go straight to red, that is 2 great succes gtd and coffers in the bank:)
I've gotten coffers from all the HEs, big, medium and small.
Again, here's the mini-farming guide.
Their drop rate is fixed and so can be planned: just log in every 15 min to get 1 and go on playing with other characters or doing other stuff.
They were drops in the small HEs and standard combet.
I am sure I could have found more but I needed to do other things.
Urlord
This game was actually enjoyable (less the pvp matching system which is still broken) in mod 4 compared to mod 5. mod 5 is just a grind fest.
I do have 10 characters on account and 5 of em are ready to bust WoD for coffers. ICD of a coffer drop from a group of mobs is 8 minutes for a character from the drop of the first coffer and till another one drops again.
That's why it's convenient for me to grind em. and so i get 25 coffers in an hour on 5 characters total with 5 coffers per character respectively.
If u have one character or two it's harder but never the less u can get 2 coffers every 10 minutes wich is 12 coffers per hour of grind.
Having more time gives you more coffers if not making you bored like hell grinding em.
Good luck with getting those and remember, ICD on coffer is 8 minutes!
Is it really 8m? It was said before that the ICD is 15m.
Can smb confirm?
This is completely off....I get a coffer every 2 to 3 mins, sometimes I get 2 back to back. I have sold about 200 of them, and given 50 to an alt, and I was gone all last week. I have been out there trying to farm with my Dragon's Hoard enchants.
Other people can pick them up, so you have to be alert, if someone comes up while you are killing mobs to "help" you, they are really trying to get the coffers.
Are you by chance a CW or an SW? Just curious if more DPS = more coffers.
Yeah. No.
15 mins is too much for ICD, pretty sure I just got two within 15.
I am a cw (that is pvp specced--so nto as high DPS as an AOE specced PVE CW) But that said I can kill a group of mobs really fast.
when coffers drop ANYONE can pick them up. They are not like our other drops where only we can pick them up, also if you are grouped, there are no rolls for them. So you need to go to a low populated instance so no one can swipe your coffers--or be super alert when they do drop.
please stop disseminating false or exaggerated information on coffers
you do not get a coffer every 2 to 3 minutes, in fact, nowhere close to that
i play a control wizard, and through about 50 hours of farming during which i kept track of average kills per minute vs drops of dragon hoard coffers, my results were a consistent 7 coffers per hour at a kill rate of 36 mobs per minute in the cult prison area of Well of Dragons, which in my experience has the fastest mob respawn rate and highest kills per minute capacity for my class and build.
i have never once in 50+ hours gotten coffers back to back from anything but heroic encounter rewards, with thousands of kills to my credit. So either the game has decided to favor you over everyone else, or you're drastically overestimating your results.
Maybe, my drop rate is higher because I also wear Dragon Hoard enchants? And I am also farming hoard drops, so maybe pulling mobs in a different way? If it makes you feel any better, I have only pulled ONE belt in all the HEs and Dragons I have done, and my Hoard drop rate sucks even tho I have 12%
bottom line is, your drop rate is not higher, though i'm not sure why you're trying to perpetuate your claims when every other person on this thread who has actually done some data collection seems to come to the same conclusion, that there is a definite cooldown on the drop of dragon hoard coffers................except you. which makes no sense
its far more likely that you're just making false claims for the sake of....well who knows why
but on to something more constructive
has anyone heard any announcements or hints on whether or not the drop rate on this is going to remain fixed, or be raised slightly in the future? the rumor mill has been churning in game, but i haven't heard anything definitive
Well I got my laugh for the day.
No offense poster, just funny.
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May not be definitive, but as a source of research, I heard that they stated the drop rate would get a bump in one of the livestreams. Didnt hear first hand, just another rumor to research if anyones interested.
In my case, I feel good if I get one every 30 minutes... the drop rate is not consistent for everyone.
I believe it was on last Friday's Neverwinter Adventure Hour where Akro mentioned the devs had heard about this thread and they are changing things. Well 2 things, the rate is being adjusted to drop more frequently and the number needed for the weekly is being lowered. How much? No idea. We will have to wait and see unless it is patched and on test right now.
- Reclaiming the Hoard: The drop rate for the coffers has increased as well as the total amount required to complete the quest has been reduced to 14 from 25.
Safe travels,Archmage Zebular of Mystryl
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