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Best lockbox to open?

shagnastieshagnastie Member Posts: 29 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hey guys,

Ive found myself with like 20 keys
and im just wondering what the best boxes to open would be ?

Cheers in advance.

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    I think the Xindi-Terrestrial did contain the Kemocite Laced Weaponry Tactical Bridge Officer ability.
    The Tal'Shiar lockbox contains the Plasmaonic Leech, also always popular on the Exchange and useful to have.

    The Xindi-Terrestrial also offers a Tier 6 ship, while the Tal'Shiar lockbox only has a Tier 5 ship.
    But remember: The chances of getting one of the highly sought after item isn't really better than getting the ship. It's in the end still a gamble ,and the chances are so low to begin with that even doubling your chance to get something precious doesn't mean anything.

    Just selling the keys on the exchange might make more sense.
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  • kamiyama317kamiyama317 Member Posts: 1,295 Arc User
    I would say Xindi-Terrestrial. Not only do you have a chance to get the T6 Xindi Insectoid escort, you also have a chance to get the Kemocite-Laced Weaponry training manual. It's like two grand prizes in one box.

    The secondary prizes are the Malon Battlecruiser (meh) and the plasmatic biomatter weapons. Plasmatic biomatter has a chance to deal a 1km AOE and slow down ships by 50% for 10 seconds.

    Also right now they have a last-chance lockbox event where you should be able to get all the lockboxes for a small amount of dilithium from the dilithium store. I would suggest stocking up on this box. It seems to be the most popular.
  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    Lets say youre after Kemo 1 (about 150 mil on the exchange)
    that's a good 40-45 dollars worth of keys.
    On this item, its getting to the point you may as well open the lockboxes yourself.
    you figure with 45 $ worth of zen, you'd be able to open 40ish boxes.
    So for this particular box, its really getting to the point where you may as well gamble for yourself, honestly.
    Buying Kemo 1 off the exchange at this point is becoming more and more questionable.

    But, then again, you could get kemo2 or kemo3 while opening and no kemo 1.
    Usually its a no brainer, to just buy the item from the exchange, but at this point with the inflation on Kemo1.
    It's really not so cut and dry.




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  • shagnastieshagnastie Member Posts: 29 Arc User
    Thanks for the info guys ill open some Xindi boxes then,
    Much apreceated :)
  • seriousdaveseriousdave Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    I think the Xindi-Terrestrial did contain the Kemocite Laced Weaponry Tactical Bridge Officer ability.
    The Tal'Shiar lockbox contains the Plasmaonic Leech, also always popular on the Exchange and useful to have.

    The Xindi-Terrestrial also offers a Tier 6 ship, while the Tal'Shiar lockbox only has a Tier 5 ship.
    But remember: The chances of getting one of the highly sought after item isn't really better than getting the ship. It's in the end still a gamble ,and the chances are so low to begin with that even doubling your chance to get something precious doesn't mean anything.

    Just selling the keys on the exchange might make more sense.

    This.

    While the box event is tempting to blow through your keys it's probably better to sell them each and stock up on sought after boxes like the ones with kemo & leech.

    About a month ago the exchange went crazy for a couple days and people bought the terrestial boxes for 150-200k EACH. Sold about 120 of those babies mayself. ;)
  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    50-60% of all lockboxes have DOff packs as the primary bonus, another 25% have some minor equipment/trait unlock. Ships are well below 0.5%, so plan accordingly... :|
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,659 Arc User
    Sell the keys, use the 70-80 million EC to buy something you want.
  • shagnastieshagnastie Member Posts: 29 Arc User
    Dident get any ships haha,
    Easy come easy go :P
  • bernatkbernatk Member Posts: 1,089 Bug Hunter
    TBH every lockbox worth it. Everything is crazy expensive on the exchange. But yeah, you need to actually win something from the lockbox to sell....
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  • mayito2009mayito2009 Member Posts: 643 Arc User
    After all the crying that "certain" people have been doing about the Kemocite, a big nerf is on the scope for it.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,281 Arc User
    XINDI...you get the kemocyte buffs at the very least if not a SHIP dino1-1.gif​​
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,659 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    storules wrote: »
    XINDI...you get the kemocyte buffs at the very least if not a SHIP dino1-1.gif​​

    If by "get" you mean "have a slight chance of getting if you open 50+ lock boxes."

    Edit: But my thanks to all the people who bought my stacks of the lock boxes on the exchange!

  • bunansabunansa Member Posts: 928 Arc User
    shagnastie wrote: »
    Dident get any ships haha,
    Easy come easy go :P

    was going to say wait for the new lockbox for your chance to be one of the first sellers for something that will be a fraction of the cost a week later.
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  • annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,693 Arc User
    If you have a jhdc then the dominion box is what you want for the bug
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    No JHAS OR JHSS comes with that Lockbox. The JHHEC is the ship prize in that one. The Bugs only from Special Promotions on C-Store 'Premium' Duty Officer Packs.
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