Karma is not a useless currency, the people who state this obviously have not explored all the options available to them. I easily go thru 1.5 million in 2 – 3 weeks time and, turn that into profit, without spending any of it on Orrian boxes at all.
Opened roughly around 175 normal coffers, and got 2 tickets, 7 mini’s and a metric ton of fireworks, along with some food and a bunch of Zhaitaffy. The system works, and is fine as is, just gotta hope you get lucky.
Just out of curiosity, if you one of the people who have opened 2000 to 3000 coffers and not gotten a ticket, would you still say the system works and is fine as is?
I’m not saying the current RNG system works fine or not, either way I knew going into what I like to call " The Willy Wonka syndrome " was gonna be more then likely against me. If I didn’t get a ticket I would be bummed out sure. I wouldn’t be cussing out the system that is in place, we all know how loot drops in this game has been an issue since November.
However it was my choice to make to spend 120 gold on 5345 coffers. Now if Anet had these skins for a straight up gem purchase of 600 – 800 gems, plus this system I think it would have been better for the community.
Ok so I did another bunch of regular coffers on my mf toon. Like I said in my earlier post I don’t think there was any effect but it is the toon I used. So this time mf was at 153%.
3000 coffers I netted 3 tickets, 25 minis, 24 stacks of candy, various food, potions, and a couple stacks of fireworks.
So between my total cost of both times it averaged out to be 21 gold per ticket. Just adding my findings to the list. The first 2 tickets came within the first 750 coffers and the last one I was around the 2200 mark on open coffers.
I opened 2345 regular dragon coffers and got 3 tickets, 21 minis, 19 stacks of candy, various food and potions. The first 2 tickets came within the first 600 or so the last around 800 after that. Bought the chests off the tp for 2s 48c/ea on average. I do not know if mf helped, I’m sure it had no effect however I did use my mf toon and got him up to 208%.
I just opened 2345 regular dragon chests that I bought off the tp. I decided to use my mf toon got it up to 208%. Probably didn’t make a difference but I got 3 tickets out of it and 21 minis. 19 stacks of candy and the random food and potions. Two of the tickest came in before the first 600 the last I got around another 800 in. This was from in game currency I’ve made from crafting not using the O’L credit card.
Finished Tequatl and heading back to the lab when suddenly BOOM!
I got caught in one of theses scenarios myself, wp in to do tequatel and was dead along with 8 other players before i knew what hit me. A champion krait and a vetern was right on top of the wp. However I do welcome the scaling of monsters in the open world, I also belive if this is going to be a growing trend then instead of nerfing healing at every opportunity. Anet should look at giving our healing power abit of a boost.
I run a ranger in exotic cleric gear and have no problem killing most monsters and champs I meet in open world. However I have noticed as of the last couple of pathces monsters are getting stronger and thier conditions are lasting longer.
Yeah I submitted a bug report on it. I couldn’t find a post in the forums about it. So it seems to be a common issue. I never noticed it before untill now since i don’t run anything less then a ori harvesting tool on my 80’s. Thanks for the replies guys.
You know I was prior to the gathering, However I belive I was out by then It was a node farther down the road from the combat spot. It is good to know the chance for a ruined fiber is incresed while being in combat. I did not know that.
This has happened to me twice now. I used a orichalcum harvesting tool on a passiflora node and recived ruined fibre. Is this a known bug or an oddity. Anyone else experiance this as well.
This happened in a pug my son was running sometime last week my kid plays a necro. From what he told me is after they wiped the warrior and ranger started playing the blame game on the guardian and ele, how they caused the wipe due to them not healing the group. So my kid started asking the warrior and ranger how much toughness they had and also pointed out that there were heals flying around. So the two cused the rest out and raged quit.
I myself play a guardian and have not experianced that. However i’m kinda getting sick of the types of people I take the time to rez only for them to walk right by me if i’m downed even if the fight is over. So I too am now in that mode if I have to walk so do you, I say screw’em.
RE: paying for BL kits. I was lucky enough to have received 6 BL kits from my BL chests with keys I got from map completions. So for me those were free. However when they are gone I will be using the mystic salvage kit. So far I have only tried to get an ecto using the mystic kit once and was lucky enough to get 1 ecto.
I run the exact same setup in my gathering that Fedari mentioned. The only thing that I personaly would like to see is the tools account bound. I have received gathering tools from BL boxes I had to toss, because I couldn’t give them to my alts that could use them for thier appropriate level.
Since I am leveling all crafting and have 1 at 400 1 at 386 the rest is ranged from 200+ to 300. I definatly say no it is not really worth it due to the absurd low drop rates of fine crafting mats needed. However for myself it is another part of the game I enjoy, even that can be frustrating at times but I like being self sufficent.
