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davadude

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In Topic: On Lottery (RNG) Boxes

16 May 2013 - 09:12 PM

View PostLycrus, on 16 May 2013 - 08:09 PM, said:

It confuses me, too...

i played now for 2 days and participated in the karka events on the island. with magic find buff. about 3 hours per day. no crate.
not from chests, not from champions, not from the many veterans i killed. T.T

I'm going to start analyzing .dat files when I get home tomorrow from all my obligations.  This is just annoying now, I want to see the variables causing this/drop rate.

In Topic: Q&A with Jonathan Sharp and Jon Peters

16 May 2013 - 08:07 PM

View Postaspi, on 19 April 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

Jon and Jon, I miss Hexes :(

You want to hope with me that perhaps the new conditions they were talking about are hexes?

In Topic: On Lottery (RNG) Boxes

16 May 2013 - 08:03 PM

View PostJohny Bravo, on 16 May 2013 - 07:02 PM, said:

I have done the instigator at least 20 times and have not received a crate from him nor the chest.  I have been averaging about 2-3 an hour farming karka or skelk outside of the instigators. Which champs are you talking about (outside of the Karka you already mentioned)

That's exactly what confuses me.  Myself, my guildies, my friends, they're all getting crates at a normal rate, commonly with 1-2 per hour, with one of my guildies getting 13 per hour.  

Other champions that have the potential to drop them are the rebel leaders or upriser instigators within the camp uncertainty events.

In Topic: On Lottery (RNG) Boxes

16 May 2013 - 06:49 PM

View PostEl Duderino, on 16 May 2013 - 05:41 PM, said:

See, this would make it much better, if what you say is true. I haven't been in game, so I don't know, but there are lots of conflicting reports about this. Although, I think they should make the skins trade-able as well, and it would be perfect.

The problem is that you can get a magic find bonus by representing one of the groups attempting to... take over Southsun (it's still confusing).  One of them gives a 50% coin increase, one gives a 60% EXP increase, and one gives a 200% magic find increase.  The people with magic find increase state that all champions drop at least one (I've had cases of 3 dropping from the molten Karka, boss event), and chests drop them like hot cakes.

As for the skins, cannot disagree with that.  Until they are used (or if they are won through character rewards), they should be tradeable.

In Topic: On Lottery (RNG) Boxes

16 May 2013 - 05:33 PM

View PostDarkGanni, on 16 May 2013 - 03:00 PM, said:

Halloween: Weapon Skins
Christmas: Minipets
Black Lion Chests: Fused Weapons
Few Days ago: Southsun Supply Crate (Weapons and Minipets)

All the above have been RNG all the way, now tell me where are they so "willing".

Halloween and BLC chests:  Agreed, Arenanet messed up big time.
BLKeys: Can be earned from playing the game, but you need 85% magic find (which is impossible without buffs), and they still drop rarely.  Needs to be increased to what it was at launch (I'd get 1 key for 2 hours of playing... that was okay, kept it rare, but not stupidly rare).
Christmas: You could create all the minipets with 7 infinarium runs (of which 5 runs would be "unique.")  If you wanted the combo minipet along with the others, you had to do 13 runs.  No RNG.
Southsun Supply Crates:  They drop like hot cakes.  Get the magic find bonus, kill any champion and you get one, and veteran mobs commonly dropped them.  Many, including myself, thought this was a bug, but after two subsequent updates, it still happens.  You can earn them by playing the game.

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