Tell me how UNlucky you are

Demodude - Dreamweaver
Demodude - Dreamweaver Posts: 397 Arc User
edited September 2014 in General Discussion
So we recently had a thread (http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1716371) sharing how wonderfully lucky we are. Well its time to commiserate together in the opposite. When were you very unlucky?

Recent instances of extreme unluckiness for me include:
2 straight times defending earth with every single mob being increased life (which made me post on the forums asking if WS was changed because I didn't even think that was even remotely likely, especially twice in a row)

And how for some reason, every physical weapon I make a roll (except my dags) end up with all +mag, and my mag weapons end up with +str roll after roll after roll b:cry


So when are some times you got really unlucky? b:surrender
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  • Aubree - Dreamweaver
    Aubree - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,868 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Last round of s card packs of 20 boxes = all b cards.
  • DEMHEALSMAN - Dreamweaver
    DEMHEALSMAN - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,396 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Triple magic add on daggers b:sweat
    Soon™
    Well, maybe later, semi-retired.
  • Neferhotep - Lost City
    Neferhotep - Lost City Posts: 276 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Spend around 400+ Mil on perfect chests, best thing i got was an immaculate citrine shard ....

    Joining NW for the first time since months again just to get perma-spawn killed by r9rr + 12 people of a certain faction. While our side was made of like 3 people below 100.

    And of course everytime i wanna refine something. I once managed to refine my mystics (bad) weapon to 7. I can refine her armor with tons of ref aids and mirages to max 5. On my sin i dont even try anymore .... I have HORRIBLE luck in refining b:cry

    Oh, and everytime i buy some clothes for my seeker i get pink. Every.Time.
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  • Vedovis - Lost City
    Vedovis - Lost City Posts: 942 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I am horrendously unlucky at refining. 11k+ mirages to try +5 my weapon a few years back. Ouch.. on the other hand, a friend of mine +7'd my recast necklace in 3/4 tries. Lucky :(
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  • Clergywoman - Raging Tide
    Clergywoman - Raging Tide Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    making several hundred genies to get one 81+ LP
    opening way over 10.000 dragon fire pack with no +12
    engraving robe to get evasion 4 times in row (on cleric)
    refining r9 weapon to +12, shortly before r9r becomes actually farmable
    list could go on. i don't even dream of opening pax.

    and as signature says:
    21 r9recast re-rolls for meh adds (gave up, now i regret it ofc)
    over 10.000 mirages to refine r9recast ring (not getting even +7)
    gear and genies: mypers.pw/1.8/#145766

    pan gu loves cash shoppers as much as he loathes pure farmers. that's why he cursed me with the lowest luck-index possible. my weapon needed 21 recasts for those meh adds, and the r9 ring refine ate over 10k mirages before i capitulated and orbed it from 0 to +11. you won this time pan gu! b:sad
  • SerenityCNB - Dreamweaver
    SerenityCNB - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,225 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Orbed my Sandy World from +0 to +7...because virtually all attempts failed.

    Originally had a G15 Glaive. It failed to drop in WS, but the Sandy World did. Every time it dropped, a squadmate took it. (Usually a sin.) The G16 Glaive finally dropped a year later...so I G16'ed that old glaive...so now I'm walking around with 2 G16 bound weapons. (Until I finally get an account stone.)

    Stats on my magic sword before I rerolled it were Str, dex, str. (Or str, dex, crit +1%) I don't remember which of the two now. I just know that it's the exact opposite of what a mage needs.

    Screen froze while I was soloing water...yeah. That's fun.

    Had plenty of unlucky things happen, and plenty of lucky things. I gave up on being super endgame, or epically geared in this game...so yeah. I settle for moderate stats, A cards, moderate refines, moderate shards, gear that's good enough, etc. I see no point in me trying to endgame it hard as I once aspired to do. So yeah. I'm just drifting along, and as long as the luck isn't too bad. I don't care too much anymore.

    Oh. But there is one special ****** that deserves an honorable mention. The elder at sanctuary screwed up my +6 sandy weapon with tishas and tienkangs. He failed it hard, and dropped it from +6 to +0. Even using tishas and tienkangs, he used over 40 of them, and could NOT even get it back to +1. It is at that point that I orbed that weapon from +0 onwards. Because the elder of sanctuary is a failure.
    "Male Player using female toon. Please don't flirt with me."

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  • sondok
    sondok Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    This was lucky for other people and not me. One day I decided that I was truly done with pwi after not logging on for a year. So I logged on, bought some teles and gave items away in world chat. I gave away 11 chrono pages..4 medals of glory, 10k+ mirages, 4 gst's and some other things.
    Then a day later my friends asked me to come back. Although I don't really mind..I'm not going to spend time farming my r9 bow..it was just bad timing and I like to hoard things lol. I like to have things in my bank that I'm not using lol.
    lvl 101 ea from Lost City.
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  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    edited September 2014
    In over 5 years of playing, I think the only thing I've ever gotten from the many packs I've opened that wasn't tokens, was one spirit charm. I used to do 50 or so when they went on sale, not anymore.

    Can't seem to refine for **** since I passed level 80 either. Even on lower level gear.
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  • Verenor - Morai
    Verenor - Morai Posts: 699 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Refinement.

    It's the biggest PITA in this game for me. I have to use the orbs from DC packs to even reach +3 (+1/+2 orbs) while other factionmates are effortlessly refining their items to +8 without orbs. Needless to say I've orbed everything except for +3 and +4.

    I'd add C-A packs from FSP to it as well but as I've lost count of howmany I opened and how big the C-streak was. It was around a full war avatar bag full + a half of C's in a row before finally getting another A. Ended up with plenty of maxed C's to make room and saved up for the elusive free S card.
  • ajejisj
    ajejisj Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    i have been waiting for 2 weeks to get a fws squad, and when i finally get to make one, the moment we start it, i got dc'ed, and keep getting dc for over 15 mins every 30 seconds.

    i almost cried :'(

    when my net finally gets on, i found another squad, everything was fine till we start the fws, and inmediatly i get dc again.

    i guess the universe is trying to tell me i need to stop playing pwi :X
  • Burnificator - Archosaur
    Burnificator - Archosaur Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    opening way over 10.000 dragon fire pack with no +12

    http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/22173

    The chance of getting the orb is 1/10000.

    This does NOT mean that opening 10k packs will give you one.

    The chance not to get the orb is 9999/10 000 or 0.9999.

    Rolled 10 000 times that amounts to about 36.8% chance of still not getting it after 10 000 packs.

    Opening 20 000 instead would still have a good 13.5% chance of not getting the orb.

    You will need to open 92 098 packs to make the chance NOT to get the orb 0.01% (the same as the chance of getting it off a single pack).

    All hail the Mighty Chinese Random Number God!
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  • Clergywoman - Raging Tide
    Clergywoman - Raging Tide Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    in the context, that some people have gotten a +12 orb (or even several +12orbs) with less than 1000 pax makes my 10000 particularly unlucky. i am aware of the math but i am also aware of my luck; even with 100000 pax i wouldn't see a +12orb. b:surrender

    also, i am unlucky coz qqing about being unlucky spawns a math lecture instead of a pitty+12 in mailbox. b:chuckle
    gear and genies: mypers.pw/1.8/#145766

    pan gu loves cash shoppers as much as he loathes pure farmers. that's why he cursed me with the lowest luck-index possible. my weapon needed 21 recasts for those meh adds, and the r9 ring refine ate over 10k mirages before i capitulated and orbed it from 0 to +11. you won this time pan gu! b:sad
  • laiwaisan
    laiwaisan Posts: 1,123 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    over 2000 dollars in packs and still no scroll of tome and im not kidding wish there was just straight up option to buy f stupid packs should be two ways to get something earn it or cash shop it no lottery **** i use to spend 200 dollars on packs a month because hypers were great in ff but since the patch i think i spend so far 20 bucks or was it 40? it was for war avatar chest a thats it.

    i did get a few gems mostly best of luck and charms and 1 cube of fate stamp oh and stay away from packs that dont give that txt on your main screen that says your opening a pack because they dont give anything but best of luck

    also after you win 3 things put in bank your wining log off relog back on

    also if you get duplicates stop on packs it will dup useless stuff like faction signets and so on log off relog back on repeat
  • Desdi - Sanctuary
    Desdi - Sanctuary Posts: 8,680 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    There are quite a number of times I was really unlucky...I'll probably remember more later and post again but here's two things I remember:


    - I got my G16 Nirvana Glaive a week before the Sirens of War expansion. Nobody anticipated how cheap Uncannies/Raptures would be (considering our NW forges are different from China's). I had farmed some but I had also bought a lot of the Raptures because I really wanted my weapon. If only I had waited a little.


    - My refining luck has been good so far but there was one time when I had gathered/saved up about 5k event gold from promos, DQ point system etc. to attempt +9s on my gear. Once I felt ready I decided to try refining my +8 R9rr leggings to +9. I failed spectacularly, wasted 4k event gold and many many mirages. I wasn't even able to get back to +6 at least, let alone getting my +8 back. Needless to say I literally ragequit the game that day.



    On another note, I've opened a number of packs and never got anything beyond a couple of spirit charms and regular tokens. I've opened Dragonfire packs too but the best I've gotten is a few 5*s.
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  • Joe - Morai
    Joe - Morai Posts: 1,299 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    2 Things I like to mention:

    R8r Boots:

    120-ish rerolls while mats have been extremely expensive (pre NW).

    Another 800-ish rerolls after NW has been released. I regret that I used the forge to keep the previous stats. Thing is I got my -int + 6 dex + 9 magic after like the 170-ish roll. Too bad that my client decided to just bug report before I could hit the "keep the new stats"-button.

    Guess what? Stats have been the way they have been before and I never saw int on the boots again. I easily spent like 2b coins on the boots alone for nothing.

    Luckily tho, I got double int on my r8r chest on 2nd try xDDD So I decided to roll full r9rr and just switch to the chest and int robe for apsing stuff. Turned out to be way more OP then using 2 r8r parts.

    The second worst thing that happened was kind amy own fault. I tried to refine my G16 helmet to +10 w/o orbs like I did with my r9 boots and my g16 robe. I got the helmet to +9 over 70 times and wasted a total of 40k mirage and 4500 Event Golds on the helmet alone. Ya, only to just use 2 10* Orbs at +8 cuz I eventually gave up.

    If you would calc the event gold to plat charms...then hell...I could've bought a already +12, josd helmet for less then I have wasted. But oh well, thats just refine xD My boots only took 120 mirages and 20 event golds and have been +10...so.

    EDIT: One thing that recently happened that is more of a troll from the game then it has been bad luck.

    I only lack the Chigo A-Card from the EU set now for around 3 months. Together with the A-Packs with drake and all I openened ~5 A-Packs each day. No chigo (tho I got all other cards first reborn alrdy and the longe card 2nd, so it wasn't for nothing).

    The fun thing is...my sin reached astral sky 5 and got the 3 a-packs u gain from it...and guess what. My sin got 2 freaking Chigos outta the 3 boxes. Ya, the game trolled me alot during those 6 years already...but I never got trolled that bad. Ya Not like I wasted like 4b coins in possible C-Pack-Sales alrdy on those friggin A-Packs...but oh well, who needs full +12 anyways. Still counting the days to finally get my Chigo QQ wish me luck xD
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  • Thilina - Archosaur
    Thilina - Archosaur Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    38 consecutive 3-2 runs in a 2x, without getting a single gold mat. b:shocked I stopped counting after that.
  • Poopinpanto - Heavens Tear
    Poopinpanto - Heavens Tear Posts: 274 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Lastnight i was in cube and finished a cof so i had to wait the 30 min to fix my next cog then about 5 min later im ported back to room 1.... I forgot i had a bomb on me lol
  • Colum - Raging Tide
    Colum - Raging Tide Posts: 1,696 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I have had good refining luck, but also very bad one. Over 4k mirages to +7 my T3 helmet... didnt even bother to count tishas/tienkangs used.

    I never tend to get gold drops or such when in random squads in TT etc

    Once I did Cube, got to Very Bored, proceeded to Life Diverged, Again and got sent back to Very Bored thanks to the death mark, then BACK to life diverged, back to very bored, life diverged, very bored, life diverged... b:chuckle

    I rolled 2x 19 dex and 19 str roll on my cleric's wand

    Semibad pack luck
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  • meranya
    meranya Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Pretty much like everyone else, horrible refining luck. Can't get anything beyond +3... no matter what Elder I visit. They all hate us!

    Disconnects happening at quite important moments in my gaming life, I suspect my internet is being hijacked by goblins.

    ... Unhappily and unluckily missed out on many things due to several ragequits and character deletes in the past. Now I know better.

    5 TT runs done in the past one after the other in which nothing but chi stones dropped, which still left me with a sour dislike for running that instance solo.

    'Glitching' at inappropriate times with very weird voodoo. Most recently, making my PV token magically disappear. b:surrender

    No matter what I do, when running Cube my fox gets dropped in Dragon Gate EX, the bane of her fluff. Still researching a way to escape that place's unyielding 'love'. Work in progress.

    Not even going to rant too much on the packs I buy giving only regular Tokens... Gambling isn't for everybody, definitely. >_>
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  • Azura - Lost City
    Azura - Lost City Posts: 2,281 Arc User
    edited September 2014
  • buttercandy
    buttercandy Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I didn't match a single number on my lottery ticket b:angry
  • BungaSakura - Raging Tide
    BungaSakura - Raging Tide Posts: 902 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    spending 500 gold for war avatar pack and only got 1 s card
  • LuckingFoco - Raging Tide
    LuckingFoco - Raging Tide Posts: 712 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    spending 500 gold for war avatar pack and only got 1 s card

    Ouch!
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  • OFate - Heavens Tear
    OFate - Heavens Tear Posts: 497 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Bought about 200 zen of anniversary packs and got all tokens and 1 HP charm. << Yes the most recently anniversary pack.
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  • laiwaisan
    laiwaisan Posts: 1,123 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    yeah was realy surprise how much ani packs suck
  • Kywe - Harshlands
    Kywe - Harshlands Posts: 234 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Using wrong stone to try +11 refine on weapon should be enough to be unlucky :x Used Tienkang stone instead of Tisha and bang refine went to 0. Thanks PWI for at least giving back +9 refinement <3
  • Faerii - Dreamweaver
    Faerii - Dreamweaver Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    +11ing my g15 daggers with tisha, then trying for +12.... Let's just say i don't use those at all anymore. :3
  • aquale
    aquale Posts: 74 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    - I need TT99 gold mats for tt99 AA gears :(
    - I need Culti99 Master of Harmony (Sot)

    I've always been unlucky with getting squad by wc:ing. Forming squad is even worse. Going into TT with strangers is always trust issue.
    Sometimes I wonder if I just can't express myself properly and people will just ignore me since I use english as foreign language. But there is always someone who is worse in english than me.

    - My refining luck just sucks. I need orbs and tienkangs/tishas.
    - Before Nien beast was in boutique, there was fire red pack. Nope nope :(
    b:surrender
  • Samaranight - Sanctuary
    Samaranight - Sanctuary Posts: 144 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I must have opened 700 packs trying to get Terra's Embrace, and never getting it.

    I ended up with something better, and even rarer than Terra's Embrace: Eldritch. She's also sexier, even if she is basically a dark butterfly. b:laugh