Lucky Aura?

Derrick the Nomad

Derrick the Nomad

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

The Gear Trick

E/R

Dear Arena Net,

The Lucky Aura?

Could you please tells us what it does? No one has figured it out -we give up so please just tell us.

Moonstalker

Moonstalker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

Club Of A Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

Mo/

What Lucky Aura? O.o

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

chest drop rate

Trader of Secrets

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

there is no evidence of that or increase rate of anything.

btw Lucky Aura is from using lunar fortune, a random effect that doesnt have a clear description if i does anything

Chairman Meow Meow

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2011

:(

Me/W

I think it does nothing. That is the thing with lucky-dips, not all the prizes are good. So there is small chance the fortunes will drop a Celestial mini (valuable), and a moderate chance of receiving the Lucky Aura (worthless)!

Moonstalker

Moonstalker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

Club Of A Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

Mo/

So in theory, if I...
Switch districts
Use the Lucky Aura
Have leechers out of range

then I should have like.. super awesome drops, right?

Derrick the Nomad

Derrick the Nomad

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

The Gear Trick

E/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonstalker View Post
So in theory, if I...
Switch districts
Use the Lucky Aura
Have leechers out of range

then I should have like.. super awesome drops, right?
There is no evidence to support this idea.

Essence Snow

Essence Snow

Unbridled Enthusiasm!

Join Date: Nov 2009

EST

DPR

yay for +1 p-cons........rest is all ooo-weee---ooo--weee--ooo...doesn't matter...gahh have to edit....chance of mini aid to price of fortunes tremendously.....they are very much a +1 attri p-con, this years...(i know same as always drop rate) appears to have much higher than normal chance via talking to ppl ....anywho...don't get scammed fortunes are worth more than u think

Saru The Boss

Saru The Boss

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

Texas

We Gat Dis [HRUU]

A/

Gives you triple chest drops, double ecto/shard drops in UW/FoW, and makes you over 9,000 tines more likely to get a double scroll drop from the UW/FoW chest.

the Puppeteer

the Puppeteer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2007

it makes forum trolls troll more

Saru The Boss

Saru The Boss

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

Texas

We Gat Dis [HRUU]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by the Puppeteer View Post
it makes forum trolls troll more
all too true.

I'd love to know what it does, if it does anything. I very seriously doubt it serves any purpose though.

Axel Zinfandel

Axel Zinfandel

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Northeastern Ohio

LaZy

P/W

It activates the Perfect Gem.

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Axel Zinfandel View Post
It activates the Perfect Gem.
We already have a secret cow level.

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

Oh Lucky Aura
What blessing do you bring us?
ANet say "nothing."

Fay Vert

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

R/

Each time you get it, GW2 release date gets moved forward.

Kunder

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2010

The Lucky Aura is Anet giving you nothing and still finding a way to make you happy about it.

HigherMinion

HigherMinion

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2008

East Anglia, UK

Order of [Thay]

N/

You ungrateful sods. Is a permanent shiny ring around your character not good enough?!

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

I think it's just like the infamous Empty Chest.

In every dungeon I've ever designed, I always put a heavily protected Empty Chest.
All kinds of traps, monsters, terrain hazards and locks must be dealt with before opening the chest, and when you open it, there's nothing!

That always drives nut the players, and they end up searching the whole room, and tearing everything in there piece by piece, wasting their time and energy with it.

They are wired to think that if there's a path or any difficulty to it, there must be a reason for its existence. But there's none!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt View Post
Oh Lucky Aura
What blessing do you bring us?
ANet say "nothing."
えいご はいく! Yay!

Captain Bulldozer

Captain Bulldozer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

Servants of the Dragon Flames [SODF]

I too would like to know what it does specifically. However, I have a hunch the revealing that info to us would require anet to tell us much more about the drop/rarity coding than they want to. We don't know exactly how HM/high level foes affects drop rates either, other than in a very vague "you get better stuff on average" kind of way. My guess is that the lucky aura probably does something like modify the drop spreadsheet in a very minor way, possibly equivalent to the effect of raising foes by X levels for the purposes of drops. Just a guess though.

Melkorium

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

I operate under the theory it increases my chances of getting a Celestial when I open fortunes.
I have absolutely no justification for this belief

Ghull Ka

Ghull Ka

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Seattle, WA

Grenths Helpdesk

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Derrick the Nomad View Post
Dear Arena Net,

The Lucky Aura?

Could you please tells us what it does? No one has figured it out -we give up so please just tell us.
Judging by this post, it would seem that the Lucky Aura is working 100% as intended.

jazilla

jazilla

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Guernsey Milking Coalition[MiLk]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt View Post
Oh Lucky Aura
What blessing do you bring us?
ANet say "nothing."
^I see what you did
Can mods please close this thread now?
Your post wins Guru

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

I could tell you what it does, but that would spoil the surprise.

epervier

epervier

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2009

Jersey

Oath of Fire [Oath]

E/

Lucky auras thaw frozen ectos.

LordDragon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2010

Dragons Den

E/

the Lucky Aura does the exact same thing your fortune cookie, horoscope, palm reading, etc, does.

And your lucky numbers today are 7,17,22,91 and ∞

syronj

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

One of the fortunes raises your stats temporarily, though, from what I saw yesterday. Is it the Blessing one?

AngelWJedi

AngelWJedi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2008

orlando,florida

Society of Souls [Argh]

Rt/E

its their to make you look cool while you say weird stuff. xD