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Posted by: Black Wolf.7348

Black Wolf.7348

I have opened about 1700 regular coffers and got a total of 4 tickets.
some farmed myself and others just bought of the trading post.

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Posted by: One Prarie Outpost.4860

One Prarie Outpost.4860

673 coffers opened resulted in ZERO tickets. However, I do have quite a supply of soulbound fireworks… Soulbound? Really?!

On a side note – thanks for making the food purchase with the candy “click-move mouse-click-move mouse-click-move mouse” carpal tunnel disaster.

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Posted by: LotharFreund.7456

LotharFreund.7456

250 regular coffers, 1 ticket, 7 Holographic Risen Knights.

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Posted by: Entropy.4732

Entropy.4732

I totally agree that the drop chance for these tickets is WAY too low. I’ve opened thousands of coffers. Nadda. No wings, no tickets. Maybe there should be some way that your chances increase based on how many you’ve opened. I’ve only seen 1 person on my server with a jade weapon skin. Seen a bunch with the halo wings. So clearly the wing drop is higher than the weapons.

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Posted by: khani.4786

khani.4786

My stats:
I opened about 600 and got one ticket.

After I got my ticket I’ve been giving all of my regular coffers to my husband, and our guild has donated some too.

He’s at ~3100 regular coffers opened. nearly 30 holo dragon knights, enough taffy to kill Abbadon, potions and food. and Not.One.Single.Weapon.Ticket.

We will be continuing to battle the evil RNG Dragon tomorrow. Wish us luck.

And he opened another 500 this morning. No ticket. He’s disgusted with this and has downloaded RIFT.

50 more opened today, still no ticket. I have almost a full stack for him to open after I get home from work, but those will probably be more nothing.

It wouldn’t be so darn frustrating if the tickets were tradeable. He is seriously considering uninstalling the game and that makes me sad.

This is a game, it should be fun and have rewarding drops. The gameplay is fun, we love the free to play and the content but there is no reward. The dungeon rewards suck, loot droprates suck, and these RNG boxes are a nightmare and full of crap.

I wanted a Scelerite weapon ticket so bad that I spent way too much of my real money on trying to get a ticket from chests as I barely got any as drops during the event despite spending nearly all day there roaming, killing mobs, doing events, farming specific mobs. Everything there was to do on the island, I did it….I even repeated the Karka Queen event multiple times for no reward in hopes for drops from the adds. Over the entire course of the event I had maybe 10-15 chests drop. And then on top of it the chance to get a ticket was so bloody rare that every time I opened a chest I was bitterly disappointed. So at the end, I had no hope left and on the last day I bought another 20 chests from the market, hoping to get a weapon ticket….and nothing.

So here comes Dragon Bash. Hey look, they coffers drop regularly from everything!! And we can even trade the coffers! Surely there has to be a better chance to get a ticket this time. Then we find out “Oh yeah those paid coffers we were telling you about that you were thinking would have a good chance at a ticket, yeah we were just yanking your chain. We’re going to change the wording on that after we release the event.” “And about those regular coffers that drop by rare we mean that it’s more likely you’ll get a date with Logan Thackery”

To quote my husband "This is crapping on all of us who’ve bought gems to support them. And crapping on all of us who bought the game. And basically saying “you’ve been behind us the whole time. so why don’t we pull our pants down, so you can see our a**?”"

Total to date:
~4000 regular coffers: ~30 risen knight minis, untold amounts of taffy, a bunch of fireworks to delete, and some “fun” potions to give away.

0 Jade weapon tickets.

Why does ANET hate us?
Why can’t we all have a semi-decent chance at getting a weapon skin? (Even if it’s through trade)
Yes, some things should be challenging and hard to obtain….but these are decorative skins, not a legendary (that shouldn’t be able to be sold, IMO).
Something is wrong and ANET doesn’t care.

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Posted by: Geotherma.2395

Geotherma.2395

My stats:
I opened about 600 and got one ticket.

After I got my ticket I’ve been giving all of my regular coffers to my husband, and our guild has donated some too.

He’s at ~3100 regular coffers opened. nearly 30 holo dragon knights, enough taffy to kill Abbadon, potions and food. and Not.One.Single.Weapon.Ticket.

We will be continuing to battle the evil RNG Dragon tomorrow. Wish us luck.

And he opened another 500 this morning. No ticket. He’s disgusted with this and has downloaded RIFT.

Oh god don’t go to rift…

I’ve been beta testing the new FF reborn and it’s waaaaay better. I might be going there on full release, I was quite impressed, especially given my reservations about the last pile of kitten they released. I think it may be pay to play though At least rift will be free.

Running out of things to do in GW2, but it’ll be there for the casual player, and for when I need my fix hah. I’m over the rng aspect of skins, which are the only reason I (personally) play.

Ditto Game is amazinggggg lol Bought the CE for 70 bucks(X 2). I’ll still be playing GW2 of course, but after seeing what they have done… and the graphics.. All the other MMO’s better seriously think on how they want to keep people playing lol. GW2 is still a great game but it is about to see (like all older mmo’s) what everyone else is bringing to the table. And RNG chests like these is a sole gamebreaker for some people. I have enough money to play the lottery game, but some people don’t, and I understand their frustration. All I can say is it seems like they are headed in a “better” direction allowing them to drop in game as well. Seems like they are close to a compromise.

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Posted by: Draknar.5748

Draknar.5748

You know its a Living Story update when these threads keep popping up. Yes, the RNG is terrible. You need thousands of coffers to have a decent shot at getting a ticket.

Coffers can be purchased on TP if you are getting desperate.

On the plus side, now you have as much candy as you could ever want!

I won’t stop because I can’t stop.

It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….

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Posted by: erik.7084

erik.7084

I opened 160 regular coffers and got 1 ticket and 2 minis.

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Posted by: Sardonia.8196

Sardonia.8196

5 tickets so far. 2 off 100 rich coffers, 3 off around 1500 normal coffers. 1 wing drop from a normal mob yesterday.

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Posted by: r z.7261

r z.7261

Opened 2000 dragon coffers, got 1 skin.

This game is amazing but its the RNG that really destroys it for me. I’ll be on to the next game once it’s released.

For once I would love to find a game that I can play for years and enjoy it — like the old games. Played DAoC/Lineage/Lineage2 for several years but here lately in the past… 5 years, I jump from game to game like a kitten frog.

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Posted by: Sardonia.8196

Sardonia.8196

Opened 2000 dragon coffers, got 1 skin.

This game is amazing but its the RNG that really destroys it for me. I’ll be on to the next game once it’s released.

For once I would love to find a game that I can play for years and enjoy it — like the old games. Played DAoC/Lineage/Lineage2 for several years but here lately in the past… 5 years, I jump from game to game like a kitten frog.

I believe this is going to be the trend for most of the future games as well. Free or buy to play is becoming the norm. And if a game starts up ast pay to play, it does not seem to last very long. Cash shops are a great revenue maker for games because people spend more in the cash shops, than they do for a monthly sub.

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Posted by: r z.7261

r z.7261

Opened 2000 dragon coffers, got 1 skin.

This game is amazing but its the RNG that really destroys it for me. I’ll be on to the next game once it’s released.

For once I would love to find a game that I can play for years and enjoy it — like the old games. Played DAoC/Lineage/Lineage2 for several years but here lately in the past… 5 years, I jump from game to game like a kitten frog.

I believe this is going to be the trend for most of the future games as well. Free or buy to play is becoming the norm. And if a game starts up ast pay to play, it does not seem to last very long. Cash shops are a great revenue maker for games because people spend more in the cash shops, than they do for a monthly sub.

I sadly agree.

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Posted by: neodome.7401

neodome.7401

I dont believe this will be a normal for most MMO’s as the random “grind” is the worst ive seen in any game. I’m far from the highest people have opened but im sitting at around 760 crates opened and no ticket.
This morning I put my foot down and said no more. I play video games to go towards a goal. Even if getting a weapon ticket meant a month long quest or something in depth I know I have a chance at it and can keep working toward that goal.

I will not keep farming just to play a random casino game

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Posted by: Zanshin.5379

Zanshin.5379

Opened 2000 dragon coffers, got 1 skin.

This game is amazing but its the RNG that really destroys it for me. I’ll be on to the next game once it’s released.

For once I would love to find a game that I can play for years and enjoy it — like the old games. Played DAoC/Lineage/Lineage2 for several years but here lately in the past… 5 years, I jump from game to game like a kitten frog.

I believe this is going to be the trend for most of the future games as well. Free or buy to play is becoming the norm. And if a game starts up ast pay to play, it does not seem to last very long. Cash shops are a great revenue maker for games because people spend more in the cash shops, than they do for a monthly sub.

Cash shop doesn’t mean RNG. A lot of MMOs just have skins that you can buy directly.

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Posted by: r z.7261

r z.7261

Opened 2000 dragon coffers, got 1 skin.

This game is amazing but its the RNG that really destroys it for me. I’ll be on to the next game once it’s released.

For once I would love to find a game that I can play for years and enjoy it — like the old games. Played DAoC/Lineage/Lineage2 for several years but here lately in the past… 5 years, I jump from game to game like a kitten frog.

I believe this is going to be the trend for most of the future games as well. Free or buy to play is becoming the norm. And if a game starts up ast pay to play, it does not seem to last very long. Cash shops are a great revenue maker for games because people spend more in the cash shops, than they do for a monthly sub.

Cash shop doesn’t mean RNG. A lot of MMOs just have skins that you can buy directly.

I’m not worried about other MMO’s. I like GW2, I want to play GW2. There’s no denying the RNG in Guild Wars 2 is absurd.

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Posted by: Evon Skyfyre.9673

Evon Skyfyre.9673

I’ve opened about 14g worth of coffers, plus drops in the wild. No tickets. Then I hear people in La swear they have gotten multiple tickets from 50 or less. What gives? Is it true they made them so hard to get in hopes of people spending real cash to get them? Why not just put them on the BLTC?

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Posted by: Uther Deathhand.1570

Uther Deathhand.1570

What gives? RNG that’s what gives or doesn’t in your case.

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Posted by: Evon Skyfyre.9673

Evon Skyfyre.9673

RNG? You mean Random Number generator? Sorry not up on the terminology. I am so tired of some programmers saying they have a fool proof random number routine. Random is a concept, once you write some code to emulate IT IS NOT RANDOM! All the code can do is occasionally produce a different result. Experts have tried to hammer this home for a very long time and gaming companies seem to think they know better, than the people that created the programming languages.

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Posted by: Shanna.4762

Shanna.4762

yeah, im tired of this RNG…..So many people get absolutely nothing.

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Posted by: Zoia.3678

Zoia.3678

I’ve opened around 2000 regular coffers now. 15 minis and no tickets.
I really like a lot about GW2, but going back to Rift is more and more tempting each patch. The only reason I quit that game, was because GW2 came out and I only have time for one MMO.
A couple of more patches like this, with all those nice, new skins hidden behind insane RNG, and I may take a long break.

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Posted by: Liavain Axon.1972

Liavain Axon.1972

RNG? You mean Random Number generator? Sorry not up on the terminology. I am so tired of some programmers saying they have a fool proof random number routine. Random is a concept, once you write some code to emulate IT IS NOT RANDOM! All the code can do is occasionally produce a different result. Experts have tried to hammer this home for a very long time and gaming companies seem to think they know better, than the people that created the programming languages.

This, a thousand times this!
RNG in games is a myth. An algorithm programmed to emulate randomness. It is not true randomness.

Games should never rely on faulty programmed “Random” algorithms when it comes to real life money. This is not a gambling game. They don’t have a license to gamble electronically so they shouldn’t be doing online Lotto’s or Raffles like this.

Make the darned tickets buyable via gems, via candy, etc. Otherwise you’re just victimizing people who are obsessed with gambling or collecting.

XOXO
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Posted by: anzenketh.3759

anzenketh.3759

RNG? You mean Random Number generator? Sorry not up on the terminology. I am so tired of some programmers saying they have a fool proof random number routine. Random is a concept, once you write some code to emulate IT IS NOT RANDOM! All the code can do is occasionally produce a different result. Experts have tried to hammer this home for a very long time and gaming companies seem to think they know better, than the people that created the programming languages.

This, a thousand times this!
RNG in games is a myth. An algorithm programmed to emulate randomness. It is not true randomness.

Games should never rely on faulty programmed “Random” algorithms when it comes to real life money. This is not a gambling game. They don’t have a license to gamble electronically so they shouldn’t be doing online Lotto’s or Raffles like this.

Make the darned tickets buyable via gems, via candy, etc. Otherwise you’re just victimizing people who are obsessed with gambling or collecting.

And this is why it does not rely on a random algorithm. It relies on probability with a semi-random number generator. It is just the probability is really low.

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Posted by: Electro.4173

Electro.4173

Man, I can’t decide if I should stop reading these topics or not.

On the one hand there’s people that get multiple tickets in a few hundred coffers that might give me some hope of actually getting a decent number of them (I would like around 5 tickets because I really like the skins, though 2 or 3 would “satisfy” me).

On the other hand, then there’s the people that open thousands of coffers without a single ticket, and then I remember I have crappy luck and that’ll probably be me and it despresses me.

My numbers are thoroughly unimpressive compared to most, but… I’ve opened around 130 coffers with no tickets or wings, 2 minis, and a whole lotta candy / fireworks. Got another 150 coffers in my inventory that I haven’t opened yet. Don’t know how people are getting thousands of these things in a few days, it took me over 2 hours to get the 150 stack I have now.

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Posted by: ramuza.9807

ramuza.9807

1000+ and nothing… i am left, sry

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Posted by: Evon Skyfyre.9673

Evon Skyfyre.9673

I have a feeling the people that got several from a low number of coffers did so early on in the event. I doubt it happens now, since I have a feeling Anet has “adjusted things” since then.

One thing for sure is I will not be spending ANY real money in game anymore. I used to buy stuff here and there because I felt like GW2 deserves something above and beyond the price of the game. But now.. nope..

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Posted by: DeShadowWolf.6854

DeShadowWolf.6854

Don’t know how people are getting thousands of these things in a few days, it took me over 2 hours to get the 150 stack I have now.

People buy them on the trading post for ~3s.

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Posted by: khani.4786

khani.4786

4100 coffers later, the husband finally got a ticket.

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Posted by: Wallace MacBix.2089

Wallace MacBix.2089

Don’t know how people are getting thousands of these things in a few days, it took me over 2 hours to get the 150 stack I have now.

People buy them on the trading post for ~3s.

Others can somehow grind out 200+ an hour, don’t ask me how.

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Posted by: Wor Machien.9657

Wor Machien.9657

opened over ~3500 coffers

first ticket was around 100th-200th opened without buying from TP
second was around 2000th opened from a TP stack
third came around 3000th one from a TP stack

wish i could have some of that gold back though…

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Posted by: Keegen.2548

Keegen.2548

I have a feeling the people that got several from a low number of coffers did so early on in the event. I doubt it happens now, since I have a feeling Anet has “adjusted things” since then.

I think this is most likely true. My son opened two stacks on the second day of the event and got two tickets. I opened 500 today and got nothing.

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Posted by: darkar necrosphere.1328

darkar necrosphere.1328

6k+ normal coffers and 10 rich opened, 4k worth of zhaitaffy 17 holo knights, a stack of fireworks that are soul bound, a good fistful of geric food items, and 0 tickets. I dont blame anet for this as much as i do myself, but dam im really hating this game now a days.

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Posted by: Hexxen.7216

Hexxen.7216

25 Rich got 1 ticket
~1,500 normal got 1 ticket.

Said earlier in this post that most MMO’s will go to this kind of buy for upgrades and not monthly because monthly don’t last long. That is just so long. FFXI is still going strong and with XIV around the corner the anticipation is killing me. WoW is still pretty strong as well. ACTUALLY, if you look at those two companies their devs don’t screw them over and when a bug happens it is fixed in a week and not half a year and they don’t usually break anything every update. SO, I disagree. lol

Plus at least in FFXI there is 24/7 GMs that constantly monitor and respond in game to reports and glitches and troubles you may have. Unlike Anet who just do emails.

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Posted by: knives.6345

knives.6345

If you can farm tokens for skins, like in dungeons, it would be much more rewarding. You know you worked for it. It’s much more fun than get a lucky drop. Playing GW2 feels like making no progress at all at a certain point. You can’t farm for something, you just need luck. That’s why people farm gold, not the stuff they want. Just to buy the stuff they want. That’s not fun.

Because RNG is the only thing that balances out people with tons of time to play and people that get almost no time to play. Thanks to RNG – both have equal chances – take note of the word “chances” – to get the item.

Why do you need to balance aesthetics? Do you need to balance achievement points too? I’d understand if it’s about equipment points, but it’s just skins. By this logic, they should remove the dungeon tokens and laurel merchants.

Because aesthetics is the only “threadmill” here?

Other MMO has a gear threadmill – they play to get BiS gears, here, we play to get best skins.

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Posted by: Pixelpumpkin.4608

Pixelpumpkin.4608

RNG? You mean Random Number generator? Sorry not up on the terminology. I am so tired of some programmers saying they have a fool proof random number routine. Random is a concept, once you write some code to emulate IT IS NOT RANDOM! All the code can do is occasionally produce a different result. Experts have tried to hammer this home for a very long time and gaming companies seem to think they know better, than the people that created the programming languages.

This, a thousand times this!
RNG in games is a myth. An algorithm programmed to emulate randomness. It is not true randomness.

Poppykitten.

What is does “true randomness” mean, then?

  • When I cast dice, the outcome is determined by the dice’ starting position, my throw, the texture and tilt of whatever they land on, their own weight, wind speed… a human would not be able to determine the outcome faster than the throw happens in reality, and that’s why we use the term “random” for it.
    Humans cannot predict the outcome of a throw of dice. —> random

And computed randomness?

  • Even if you go the absolute easiest route and all your RNG does is use the last digit(s) of the time of day (say, how many milliseconds are we into the current second, according to the server’s quartz clock) a human still wouldn’t be able to determine the outcome, ever, so the outcome is equally “random”.
    Humans cannot predict which number the RNG will generate. —> random

They’re equally unpredictable. For all intents and purposes, the RNG is random enough.

From wikipedia:

Randomness means different things in various fields. Commonly, it means lack of pattern or predictability in events.

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Posted by: Daeriuss.9731

Daeriuss.9731

30 rich coffers
1000+ coffers

…and no even one ticket, i know how it work, we spend money on gems and support Anet, but why Anet dont support people who support Anet, its really hard give one kitten ticket for people who spend money in gem store?
I get nothing also in southsun, im stupid you say, i should learn my lesson, maybe… but its only kitten way to get this skins in game, so i tried.

now i learn it

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Posted by: Anfauglith.6715

Anfauglith.6715

First i wish to thank all the People which bought the coffers i sold. I needed the Money for Sunny =)

Question: Could it be, that it is important how many mf you had when you looted the coffer before you opened it?

I ask this cause i noticed something.. When i farm coffers (to sell :P) and bags i usually have around 200 MF on me on my main. When i then opened the bags with my main i had more often good loot aka T6 mats and Lodestones etc. The bags from my alts with 0-20 mf i always transfered to my main and opened em there. The loot was always bad. Could it be, that it is important who looted the bag/coffer from a corpse with how many MF? Aka it is saved on each bag how high the mf was so when you open coffers you bought and the guy who looted em had no mf that you get only kitten?

My English is not the best but i hope you understood what i wanted to say.

anyone who can kill me is overpowered. Nerf all except me!

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Posted by: Woljnir.7810

Woljnir.7810

Come on now people. We know by now the RNG (or whatever you want to call it since some people appear to have disproved it’s RNG) in this game is balls. People have opened a billion crates over all these living story events and gotten nothing but Dolyak poop.

Point is, why are people still getting so upset by it? On paper, is it preposterously ridiculous the odds people are facing? Absolutely. Is it anything new? Absolutely NOT. Why Anet does what it does with these crates may never be solved or fixed, but buying up 2000 crates and getting nothing then complaining is like someone who spent $200 on lottery tickets and didn’t win the jackpot. These crates are the lottery and you folks aren’t winning. We know by now the low rates are terrible, so buying up 100g in crates and getting nothing really only leaves yourselves to blame.

I’m done with these crates. I’ve opened about 150 just from drops and refuse to buy any with any kind of currency. I’ve gone to selling them and am making quite the profit alone. They’re adding up to several gold a day just in crates, in addition to regular earnings through dungeons etc.

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Posted by: Septemptus.7164

Septemptus.7164

Tickets should be in gem store (not gamble you will get one, but buy the ticket…) and you should be able to gamble outside of gem store.
Making them tradable in TP – that would also worked.
The best solution would be doing both of those things instead of making ppl hate ANet for RNG like in every 3rd post I read…

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

This is off the wiki. It’s self reporting so accuracy is debatable. However for this set of data points, the drop rate is 0.05%

0.05% !!!

18 tickets out of 38,927 regular coffers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon_Coffer/drop_rate

Read it and weep.

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Posted by: Alice.8317

Alice.8317

The tickets are supposed to be rare, i gives a feel of achievement when getting one. I haven’t got one yet myself but i don’t think they should sell them on the TP, people were complaining about that last time. The drop rate is fine, just because you haven’t got one doesn’t mean it isn’t fair. There is still a few weeks ’til the event ends there is plenty of time to get one.

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Posted by: Gabby.3205

Gabby.3205

I believe it is a good system, since the normal coffers drop all the time and from everything, so you get a lot of chances to drop the ticket.
Maybe they should let we buy tickets with Jorbreakers, too. That would make a lot of people happy and would put all these Zhaitaffies that I can’t even hold to a good use.

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Posted by: Pixelpumpkin.4608

Pixelpumpkin.4608

I think the actual number may be a little higher (I’ll still weep…) based on people being more likely to add their numbers to the wiki page if they don’t haven’t gotten weapon tickets immediately (or ever) – so the random player (there are a few on here) that got a ticket out of their first few hundred coffers and thought it wasn’t a big deal don’t factor in.

Alas, … still weeping.

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Posted by: Miragee.3604

Miragee.3604

If you can farm tokens for skins, like in dungeons, it would be much more rewarding. You know you worked for it. It’s much more fun than get a lucky drop. Playing GW2 feels like making no progress at all at a certain point. You can’t farm for something, you just need luck. That’s why people farm gold, not the stuff they want. Just to buy the stuff they want. That’s not fun.

Because RNG is the only thing that balances out people with tons of time to play and people that get almost no time to play. Thanks to RNG – both have equal chances – take note of the word “chances” – to get the item.

Why do you need to balance aesthetics? Do you need to balance achievement points too? I’d understand if it’s about equipment points, but it’s just skins. By this logic, they should remove the dungeon tokens and laurel merchants.

Because aesthetics is the only “threadmill” here?

Other MMO has a gear threadmill – they play to get BiS gears, here, we play to get best skins.

Skins should be the reward for either high skill (for mmo standards) or high amount of effort. That is the system gw1 was running. GW2 stretched that but it should basically be the same. But the way they seem to go now is more and more RNG+Cash Shop for skins.

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

lordkrall.7241

Skins should be the reward for either high skill (for mmo standards) or high amount of effort. That is the system gw1 was running. GW2 stretched that but it should basically be the same. But the way they seem to go now is more and more RNG+Cash Shop for skins.

Ah yes, doing the same dungeon 10000000000 times hoping to get that special weapon skin had soooo much to do with high skill or high amount of effort

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Posted by: Dedlaw.9130

Dedlaw.9130

Opened about 400 Coffers.
A ton of candy.
Bunch of fireworks
Few food thingys
1 mini.

Sold 500 coffers,
Made about 15G.

Option #2 was the winner IMO

Dedlaw – Fresh 80 Zerker Warrior
DODGE!!! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvS6zMThiZU

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Posted by: ZudetGambeous.9573

ZudetGambeous.9573

I totally agree that the drop chance for these tickets is WAY too low. I’ve opened thousands of coffers. Nadda. No wings, no tickets. Maybe there should be some way that your chances increase based on how many you’ve opened. I’ve only seen 1 person on my server with a jade weapon skin. Seen a bunch with the halo wings. So clearly the wing drop is higher than the weapons.

wings don’t drop from the chests. You can buy them with candy or get them as random drops in the world.

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Posted by: Sardonia.8196

Sardonia.8196

I believe it is a good system, since the normal coffers drop all the time and from everything, so you get a lot of chances to drop the ticket.
Maybe they should let we buy tickets with Jorbreakers, too. That would make a lot of people happy and would put all these Zhaitaffies that I can’t even hold to a good use.

I agree. I preferr this system over just locking the tickets in the chest being only purchasable through the cash shop. I am able to collect about 100 chests per day just leveling my warrior up. So far I have been able to collect 3 tickets from the regular coffers. Probably close to 2000 opened so far. I also got 2 tickets from rich coffers but that cost me quite a bit for those 2 with nothing out of the first 75 and then the 2 came in the last 25. But again that was my choice to buy them to begin with

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Posted by: OMNIBUS.2913

OMNIBUS.2913

27 rich coffers and 1000+ regular and no tickets. Ill never touch an rng box again. Im also really dissapointed that the 2 weaps i really want (fractal greatsword and dragon staff) are both rng. If im not gunna get the things i want cuz of bad luk and not being able to EARN rewards. I’ll have to quit this game =/

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Posted by: beastahead.9732

beastahead.9732

Wanted to test it out.
So I opened 800 coffers ~ 22g .
I got around 1500 Zhataffi ;
10-20 of all types of Candy ;
~ 100 Fireworks;
10 Risen Knight Minis:
Used the Mystic Toilet and got
– green Wind Ryder ~ 40s;
– rare White Moa ~4g on TP;
4-5 of all kind of potions( which are really lame, for such a low drop rate);
1 Ticket in the last 20 Coffers I got left.

That is the first and the last time I`m doing anything like that. At least I got a ticket, and not like you guys.

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Posted by: RapidSausage.4620

RapidSausage.4620

opened about 400 dragon coffers so far.
Zhaitaffy everytime, 4 holo minis, foods and fireworks, ZERO tickets.

i guess ANet really wants us to buy those rich coffers.