(edited by neon.4863)
Consortium Chests for gems = waste of money.
Thanks for the heads up.
I won’t buy them because I don’t gamble when I don’t know the odds.
So I’ll farm / save for whatever I want to get.
That seems like the smartest choice – even at the exchange rate I mentioned above it seems more profitable to just farm/save up and get things off the TP or try to get them as drops.
I mostly got chests because I had nothing else to spend the gems on, and I wouldn’t be feeling like it was wasted money if not for the fact I could’ve gotten up to 5 times the number of chests I actually got by using the TP instead of the gem store. I knew the odds were low and I figured I’d just get myself some event-related items with my gems, but I’d obviously have gone for the TP option to get more out of my gems if I’d figured this out sooner. I feel like I got more out of my 200 leftover gems (by doing this experiment and posting it here) than the 1800 I spent on 10 chests.
Safe to say I’ll probably be farming for money (and gems) for a while to make up for the waste here.
you mean do what ppl should have done during the halloween event?!?!? YOU DONT SAY
still will be ppl complaining how they spent xxx amount of gems and didn’t get what they wanted handed to them
~Caedas~
you mean do what ppl should have done during the halloween event?!?!? YOU DONT SAY
still will be ppl complaining how they spent xxx amount of gems and didn’t get what they wanted handed to them
The point of this topic is to warn that using the forge and the TP gets you more chests than using gems does, all you need to do is spend your gems in currency exchange instead. Farming and buying straight up are still options that are more likely to be profitable, but if people want to gamble, they are getting ripped off by buying chests instead of forging them, is my point.
Technically, if no one bought any chests from the Gem Store there wouldn’t be any shoulderpads to use in order to make them in the Mystic Forge. At least not until the new zone pops up, since I think I remember reading that the items will have a chance of dropping as well (unless they were talking about different items, which could be the case).
Though not everyone visits the forum so there’s no chance that everyone will stop, so its not a real worry, just pointing it out.
It’s true, yes – and technically more people becoming aware of this is a good thing for people who paid gems for chests, because it would mean fewer people would buy chests > people would quickly burn through the supply of mats, making their price rise > eventually gems would become more advantageous than the TP to obtain chests.
I did notice a small increase in the price of mats – skins are going for 20-30s each now – but it’s still much more advantageous to use the TP than buy chests directly. Unsure what drop rates will do to prices, but presumably the non-skin mats will drop in price (unsure if skins will drop, sounds unlikely).
Chests are a waste of money period considering for less than the cost of 2 chests you can buy any of the rare skins right now heh.
Wait for market to stablise, unless you want to speculate XD
Chests are a waste of money period considering for less than the cost of 2 chests you can buy any of the rare skins right now heh.
Technically there are still the mini pets, so there’s still a reason to make chests if you really feel like gambling. Still not worth it with the odds, but yeah.
I know devs don’t control TP prices, so I’m not exactly blaming anyone – but as it is, paying customers are being ripped off by buying chests and would use their money better by exchanging gems for gold and forging chests instead. This situation may inadvertently have created an “exploit” for getting chests for fewer gems than originally intended.
Thanks for your post.
To be honest, I almost never buy gems, especially with real money, considering the price of stuff being sold there. For example, right now, a black lion’s salvage kit cost somewhere along 3.5g. For 25 charges. And for every other conversion you try to make, the price seems completely ridiculous.
Things being as they are, I’m not gonna spend any penny on the shop.
Problem solved. I bought all the skins up to the gem price. Thanks though, go about 20 chests for cheaper then the gem store!
No problem! I just noticed as per another post by Skye Marin there is an even cheaper recipe for chests – 1 light+1 medium+1 heavy of the same type of skin (shoulder or breather) + 1 karka shell – which is further adding insult to injury – it means the more expensive recipe is still 5 times cheaper than the gem store.
And yeah, I don’t plan on spending any more on the gem shop. I already got the character slots I wanted, the bank tabs and the digital upgrade, so there’s nothing else there that I want for the time being that is worth the price.