Chests "Improvement"? Did you notice?
Lemmy
I have opened couple chests, all purples. Also today we were in UW and ALL that have opened (7/8 i believe) got purples too! This can be one big coincidence but... what's your opinion/experience about it?
twicky_kid
its been less than one day give it time.
Tactical-Dillusions
I gave them the benefit of the doubt and purchased some more keys although i had sworn not to.
All purples... I sold the remaining keys back to the merchant rather than lose even more to the chests.
Just my observations.
All purples... I sold the remaining keys back to the merchant rather than lose even more to the chests.
Just my observations.
Swehurn
Drops have improved for "most players"...guess I'm part of the supposed minority who's finding a whole boatload of crap today.
Amused Observer
More instances of purples, definitely. But then again, I haven't encountered a "purple" item with no bonus (i.e. a max damage weapon with low req and nothing else to justify the "purple"). And found some very nice goldies today.
Tailon
I've also gotten mostly purples today. AND they fixed the "random spawn position" of a chest that used to spawn right outside an outpost which I used to gamble on. Guess I'll have to find something other than keys to spend my money on from now on.
lord_shar
I don't bother buying keys anymore. If I find a key, I get to open a chest... otherwise I ignore them.
Kai Nui
Only buy the following keys:
Ring of Fire Keys, Shiver Peak Keys, Sorrow's Furnace Keys, and Underworld or Fissure of Woe Keys. All the rest should only be found by monsters and are a waste of money to buy imo.
Ring of Fire Keys, Shiver Peak Keys, Sorrow's Furnace Keys, and Underworld or Fissure of Woe Keys. All the rest should only be found by monsters and are a waste of money to buy imo.
EndobioticChaos
Even the shiverpeak keys are mostly a waste of money. Occasionally you get something worth more than the key but usually not often enough to ofset the difference, especially if you're going by what you'd pay for a key. One little secret tip that helps get better items is to wait... let someone else open the chest first, and approximately 10-12 seconds after the first person, open it yourself. This was passed on to me by someone else, and in my experience does seem to make a noticable difference.
Lasareth
Fissure keys are a waste of 1.5k. I opened a chest and got a non-max gold shadow bow with terrible mods, a friend of mine got... get this... a purple flame artifact.
Don't waste the money on it.
Don't waste the money on it.
Sagius Truthbarron
I've made about 90k in total off chests and probably spent a good 8k on keys; that isn't too bad but where's my swimming pool full of pudding? After making an elementalist against I only have 2k to my name 
Sagius Truthbarron
I've made about 90k in total off chests and probably spent a good 8k on keys; that isn't too bad but where's my swimming pool full of pudding? After making an elementalist against I only have 2k to my name
Haven't tried them recently
Haven't tried them recently
Valerius
i found a nice holy rod 10 min ago off a Miners Chest...
Holy Rod
11-22 ( req 8 Divine Favor )
+5 Energy ( while HP > 50% )
10% Faster Recharge ( 10% chance )
beauty
-- i really think it's all luck... cause yesterday i was getting all purples and today i've been getting all golds
Holy Rod
11-22 ( req 8 Divine Favor )
+5 Energy ( while HP > 50% )
10% Faster Recharge ( 10% chance )
beauty
-- i really think it's all luck... cause yesterday i was getting all purples and today i've been getting all golds
Savio
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Originally Posted by Valerius
i found a nice holy rod 10 min ago off a Miners Chest...
Holy Rod 11-22 ( req 8 Divine Favor ) +5 Energy ( while HP > 50% ) 10% Faster Recharge ( 10% chance ) beauty -- i really think it's all luck... cause yesterday i was getting all purples and today i've been getting all golds |
trelloskilos
I'm surprised at you lot.
You KNOW that keys/chest contents are a gold sink. You KNOW that it's a gamble. You KNOW that if the contents of chests generally contained items that were more valuable than the keys themselves, that every single person in the game would do nothing but chest runs until their coffers were full or they got bored....
....so how come there's so many threads effectively saying "I'm not buying keys anymore. I never get anything good out of the chests"?
You KNOW that keys/chest contents are a gold sink. You KNOW that it's a gamble. You KNOW that if the contents of chests generally contained items that were more valuable than the keys themselves, that every single person in the game would do nothing but chest runs until their coffers were full or they got bored....
....so how come there's so many threads effectively saying "I'm not buying keys anymore. I never get anything good out of the chests"?
Tactical-Dillusions
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Originally Posted by trelloskilos
....so how come there's so many threads effectively saying "I'm not buying keys anymore. I never get anything good out of the chests"?
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Nice rod valerius! That is probably the best GOLD rod i have ever heard of....you'd be pushing it to surpass that one.
Sagius Truthbarron
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Originally Posted by trelloskilos
I'm surprised at you lot.
You KNOW that keys/chest contents are a gold sink. You KNOW that it's a gamble. You KNOW that if the contents of chests generally contained items that were more valuable than the keys themselves, that every single person in the game would do nothing but chest runs until their coffers were full or they got bored.... ....so how come there's so many threads effectively saying "I'm not buying keys anymore. I never get anything good out of the chests"? |
stoned bob
after a few days when sf was released I opened a chest with no key needed and it gave me 3 purples even a armor with it, sure they sucked but nice gold worthy
Kaizume
Well, I've noticed a slight increase. Before the patch I had about a dry run of about 10-12 chests. After the patch, I've been on a rare streak for about 4-5 chests!
NekoZ
Rare Max Hale Staff of Defense. Guess which piece I salvaged?
Queto
Rare Max Defensive Staff of Enchanting (20%)
Guess what part I salvaged
Guess what part I salvaged
Frank The Tank
I don't like the part where it says 'most' people will seen an increase in rares. Does that mean they don't drop for people with a decent inventory of golds.
Not too impressed with the wording of that one, could mean anything.
Not too impressed with the wording of that one, could mean anything.
Sol Faithman
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Originally Posted by trelloskilos
I'm surprised at you lot.
You KNOW that keys/chest contents are a gold sink. You KNOW that it's a gamble. You KNOW that if the contents of chests generally contained items that were more valuable than the keys themselves, that every single person in the game would do nothing but chest runs until their coffers were full or they got bored.... ....so how come there's so many threads effectively saying "I'm not buying keys anymore. I never get anything good out of the chests"? |
) is much better than knowing you probably wouldn't get anything previously unless you were soloing - and the chests do give good drops as we talked about the other night.As for overall drops, me, Trell and another guildie were griffin soloing last night and we got a pile of gold drops between us - good ones as well - I got a nice max sword with 3/-1 vamp hilt and other bonuses plus a not max gold longbow which I salvaged a 5/-1 vamp string out of
...which makes up for the super abs I lost salvaging my old armor when I bought my 15k kit last night
And then I had to sit and watch the super abs price go up from 90k to 100k at the vendor 
Savio
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Originally Posted by stoned bob
after a few days when sf was released I opened a chest with no key needed and it gave me 3 purples
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Gustav Gloomp
i just farmed grenths and sorrows and got only one purple fellblade of fortitude+28, but the other 7 chests i opened had all gold bows
i also got a black dye drop and many blue weapons
i also got a black dye drop and many blue weapons
Cronos Khan
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Originally Posted by Gustav Gloomp
i just farmed grenths and sorrows and got only one purple fellblade of fortitude+28, but the other 7 chests i opened had all gold bows
i also got a black dye drop and many blue weapons |
unienaule
Yeah did 2 orozar runs and got a +15%(stance) gold composite.
Pandora's box
I agree with trelloskilos that its a gamble. And a gamble only worth the effort if you hope to find something that will make you stronger in PvP. Because that's the place where +1 of anything can make difference. For PvE its less important. And that's making the chest idea weird: Its a PvE feature that does not add much to PvE. Being a PvE player myself I stopped caring about finding stuff that adds 1 point to something long ago: Being covered by a party just makes this BS 
But for PvP it makes hell of a difference! So don's hesitate to spend your honestly farmed gold on chests lol.
But for PvP it makes hell of a difference! So don's hesitate to spend your honestly farmed gold on chests lol.
thejynxed
I just got the following from the last three chests I opened:
Defensive Bone Staff of Enchanting
Energy +10
Cold Damage 10-20 (req. 8 Death Magic)
Improves Casting speed using Fire Magic Skills (Chance: 18%)
Improves Skill Recharge (Chance: 9%)
Armor +5
Enchantments last 15% longer
Zealous War Axe of Enchanting
Slashing Damage 6-28 (req. 13 Axe Mastery)
Damage +19% (While Health is Below 50%)
Energy gain on hit: 1
Energy regeneration: -1
Enchantments last 19% longer
Zealous Summit Hammer of Hammer Mastery
Blunt Dmg: 19-35 (req. 11 Hammer Mastery)
Damage +16% (while Health is below %50)
Energy gain on hit:1
Energy regeneration -1
Hammer Mastery +1 (15% chance while using skills)
Not the best items in the world, but not bad either. All three items are gold, and the staff isn't a bad item for a Ne/El or an El/Ne.
Defensive Bone Staff of Enchanting
Energy +10
Cold Damage 10-20 (req. 8 Death Magic)
Improves Casting speed using Fire Magic Skills (Chance: 18%)
Improves Skill Recharge (Chance: 9%)
Armor +5
Enchantments last 15% longer
Zealous War Axe of Enchanting
Slashing Damage 6-28 (req. 13 Axe Mastery)
Damage +19% (While Health is Below 50%)
Energy gain on hit: 1
Energy regeneration: -1
Enchantments last 19% longer
Zealous Summit Hammer of Hammer Mastery
Blunt Dmg: 19-35 (req. 11 Hammer Mastery)
Damage +16% (while Health is below %50)
Energy gain on hit:1
Energy regeneration -1
Hammer Mastery +1 (15% chance while using skills)
Not the best items in the world, but not bad either. All three items are gold, and the staff isn't a bad item for a Ne/El or an El/Ne.
Alone)
Sometimes I wonder if people ever read the updates on the website.
Anyways, I'm not happy about the increase on the chests. Farming and trading isn't what it use to be.
*sigh*
Anyways, I'm not happy about the increase on the chests. Farming and trading isn't what it use to be.
*sigh*
LiQuId StEeL
When they said they would increase chest drops for some people, I wasn't worried. Then yesterday I opened 30 Shiver chests, and 5 miners. Not one gold drop. Not fun IMO
MarkyX
This is what I got from a chest. Mind you that this is a key that I used from a drop. I don't buy keys.
Vampiric Half Moon
15-28 piercing
Damage 13% (while health is above 50)
Life Stealing 5
Life Regeneration -1
If I get the vamp green bow, I'm selling this baby.
Vampiric Half Moon
15-28 piercing
Damage 13% (while health is above 50)
Life Stealing 5
Life Regeneration -1
If I get the vamp green bow, I'm selling this baby.
Kampfkeks
The UW chests got heavily hit by the nerfhammer. The other chests are still okay though. I haven't noticed much of a difference in drops from shiverpeak / miners chests. Just the UW chests started to give crap items. In several UW runs ever since that update (UW Runs = Cleaning all planes) there was a total of 4 gold items from the chests. In like 9 runs. So basically we had 8x9x5 chest openings (there are allways 5 chests in the UW... just spawning randomly and not counting the Reaper Chests) and got 4 gold items in TOTAL.
Before the update we got 137 Golditems distributed amongst the group in the same amount of runs. With the same team. And no, we haven't been farming the Underworld or any other place at all. Just the normal pace of playing and the occasional entrance into the underworld or fissure when europe holds favor.
So it dropped to 4/360 from 137/360. Anyone still feeling like crying around "lolooooll just luck, just luck no nerfing! lol noob!"? They have been nerfed badly. I'm not saying if i like or dislike the change. Just stating the obvious for those folks around that just plain love to raise the finger and pretend nothing has been nerfed.
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Just to mention it, in case some hypocrits come and pretend me being lying. Each UW Run roughly takes us 3-4 hours. Sometimes we are accessing it from the international district via Lornar. We are taking numbers of a lot more than loot. For example we also observe the common loot distribution. We have calculated the AL of almost every mob. We know their hitpoints, their skills, their strengthes and their weaknesses. Just wait for the guide to come :P
Before the update we got 137 Golditems distributed amongst the group in the same amount of runs. With the same team. And no, we haven't been farming the Underworld or any other place at all. Just the normal pace of playing and the occasional entrance into the underworld or fissure when europe holds favor.
So it dropped to 4/360 from 137/360. Anyone still feeling like crying around "lolooooll just luck, just luck no nerfing! lol noob!"? They have been nerfed badly. I'm not saying if i like or dislike the change. Just stating the obvious for those folks around that just plain love to raise the finger and pretend nothing has been nerfed.
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Just to mention it, in case some hypocrits come and pretend me being lying. Each UW Run roughly takes us 3-4 hours. Sometimes we are accessing it from the international district via Lornar. We are taking numbers of a lot more than loot. For example we also observe the common loot distribution. We have calculated the AL of almost every mob. We know their hitpoints, their skills, their strengthes and their weaknesses. Just wait for the guide to come :P
huh
Well the easiest place to test it out with my W/Mo was Crystal Desert.
Before the update, I got 4 golds out of 5 chests opened (the last 5 times).
After the update, I got 10 purples out of 10 chests opened.
All chests opened were done during griffon runs.
I don't care much about the chest thing, its just a fun gamble to open a chest and see if I get some rare (usually crap) weapon.
Before the update, I got 4 golds out of 5 chests opened (the last 5 times).
After the update, I got 10 purples out of 10 chests opened.
All chests opened were done during griffon runs.
I don't care much about the chest thing, its just a fun gamble to open a chest and see if I get some rare (usually crap) weapon.
rsx
I got a gold max chaos axe req 9 from an obsidian chest. Sold it in game for 100k and when the guy ID'd it it was 13% vs hexed foes.