Guild Wars 2

Me and a few of my fellow guildies are always eager to get collectibles. So, we bought like many of you guys some CC-chests and hoped the best for our beloved mini’s.

I bought 10 cc-chests. So, hoping for the best i opened these chests and out of these chests, which costed 250 gems each, i’d expect a proper drop rate since 250 gems equals either 3/4 gold or €3+ (since you get 800 gems for €10,-)! Well the opposite is true. I got practically 7 light/heavy shoulder-skins and some light/heavy aqua-breathers (i have a medium armored main..) and tons of crafting material (which i could farm myself..).

Oh, and considering my guildies. I’ve asked them and out of 100+ chests (5 people) one minipet dropped and literally tonnes of the same worthless items and a few (5) skins which were also inapplicable for their characters.

My question in all of this is: ‘Arenanet, how is it possible that 30-40 gold or €30,- equals nothing but rubbish inapplicable items.’

Yes, i’m aware of the random drops in chests but let’s be honest. It’s not a game of roulette in a casino, it’s an event drop in a ‘fun-game’.

MUSH

I had 5 gold when the chests were announced. I used that 5 gold to buy gems, which I used to buy two chests. I got a total of 21 passion flowers, some karka shells, and two heavy aquifiers which sold for 21s each.

I knew it was a “game of roulette” by the fact that the loot drops were a random, and low, chance. I took the risk with gold that I was willing to spend, even though it put me to zero gold.

Don’t put in anything you’re not willing to lose. If you’re not willing to lose real money, don’t spend it. If I didn’t have a wife, and a son, and school, I’d probably have dropped $20 on the Halloween chests and another $20 on consortium chests, because it still would have been cheaper than a night at the casino, and I would have had something to show for it.

The golden rule of the casino is the same as it is with gems for lotto chests: don’t spend more than you’re willing to lose. Don’t expect a big win, expect to lose your money, it becomes much more fun then. If that means you only buy one chest, then only buy one.

Agree, but i pointed out that the drop rate of the Chests is rubbish.. getting a minipet is like finding a needle in a haystack

If there is something which drops from a gem store chest that can be bought off the TP – buy it off the TP. The terrible drop rate is one of the reasons exotic minis are valuable AND one of the reason people buy chests (hoping to get lucky).

This is unfortunately the direction Anet is going to take with their cashshop. Gambling is an extremely profitable business for the operator after all. I gave up on getting the minipets when they revealed this. I could buy them from the tp with my savings but considering the future ones i might as well cut my losses. My only regret is that i bought the halloween ones. Its all good at the end i guess since i have less things to buy from the BLTC from now now.