I have opened 375 EotN chests in the last 10 days or so, I used 125 lock picks, I have a 65% NM retention rate. So basically my millage is 3 chests per lock pick used. It all worked out perfectly. Usually if I fill up my back pack I get six or seven golds. I have ran several thousand chests across all campaigns and this is completely normal for NM I can safely confirm the ratio is one of three chest on average will be gold in NM.
The odd thing that I have noticed is not in the retention rate but in the chest contents. Yesterday on my last run my backpack contained 19 purples and one gold never have I seen such a lopsided run. Then today I made a run and instead of six or seven golds there was 12, which is another first. Now I have ran over 4900 chests and have never seen this type of variance in the loot. Something has indeed happened and it started yesterday.
Lockpicks in NM not functioning?
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