Guild Wars 2

I had a quick look round and didn’t see a topic on this, but I might have missed it.

I want to know what the drop rates are like before I make up my mind completely but at first glance the Kite Fortunes seem to be a vast improvement over previous RNG boxes, which is great since this is one aspect many people have been complaining about during every event since Halloween.

For those people who liked it (both of them) there’s the old system – buy boxes from the Gem Store and open them for a rare chance at a ticket.

But this time around they’ve also made some important improvements. Like the Dragon Coffers the boxes drop from enemies throughout the world (no idea on the drop rate yet) so you might (depending on drop rate, time spent farming and luck) be able to get a ticket without having to spend any gems. At the very least you can wait until near the end of the event to see how many you can get for free before you start paying.

But most importantly (since it’s what a lot of people asked for many times) if you don’t get a ticket you will get Fortune Scraps, which can be saved up and traded for the ticket items. So there is effectively a cap on how many boxes you’ll need to buy before you get your ticket.

I don’t know that it will be enough to convince me to buy the boxes. I do like the Aspect back pieces but even with 5 characters I feel like I’ve got more back items than I know what to do with now, and I don’t like the helms. But even if I don’t want these skins I’m very happy with the changes to the RNG box system (and tempted to buy some for that reason alone) because I feel like it’s a big step in the right direction and hopefully if they’re going to keep pushing these boxes this is the system they’ll stick with.

I just went through 100% completion of Dreadnought Cliffs dry on a Kite Fortune drop.

Either I’m seriously unlucky or the drop rate is too high.

I agree, the fact that people who really want to CAN grind for these now is a huge step in the right direction. Bravo. This also stops people from opening a potentially infinite amount of boxes without a single skin.

Critwrench.8432:

I agree, the fact that people who really want to CAN grind for these now is a huge step in the right direction. Bravo. This also stops people from opening a potentially infinite amount of boxes without a single skin.

This is the really important change IMO. It’s the thing that always put me off trying the boxes before.

I don’t actually mind RNG on it’s own, even with a very small chance of success (I never did get my mini polar bear in GW1 but I don’t regret trying) but the idea of throwing a potentially infinite amount of real money into it and not getting what you wanted is too much risk for too little reward. Especially when the rewards are account bound so if you get something you didn’t want you’re stuck with it and you have no ‘back-up’ plan of buying what you did want.

Now at least you can see that the absolute worst case scenario is that you’d need to buy X boxes (I think the minimum drop is 1 fortune scrap, so in this case X = 250) and decide if that’s something you’re willing to do.

A lot of people might still decide it’s too expensive, but at least it’s an informed decision instead of throwing your money into the wind and hoping to get lucky.

I was pretty ecstatic about the 250 = 1 guaranteed skin

Agreed. I HATE RNG boxes in games, and I feel that the Dragon Bash did a great thing in the right direction towards achieving a great balance of luck / money / etc etc chances of getting a ticket.

However, as good as that system was, you could still be severely unlucky and buy 1000s upon 1000s of boxes and not get anything. This time, you buy, buy, buy, farm, farm, farm, you will EVENTUALLY get what you want – regardless if you get lucky or not.

I like that. Keep up the great work ArenaNet, you’re learning – and taking customer feedback is very important and you seem to be doing it right. <3