Curse

MisterB · Dec 15, 2007, 12:45 AM // 00:45

Cashed in my reward points from the Xunlai Tournament House for 20 keys.
5 Creme Brulee
3 Tonics(yuletide, transmogrifier, beetle)
1 Lockpick
7 Rare weapons(Stygian Reaver, Ungula Axe, Sai, Hooked Daggers, Gladius, Bramble Longbow, Reinforced Defender-Motivation Req.)
2 regular tomes(Me, E)
2 Flasks of Firewater

The Stygian Reaver was req. 9, inscribable. Furious and Brawn over Brains, but I'll probably mod it otherwise.

No screenshot. Believe it or not, I don't mind either way.

DarkNecrid · Dec 15, 2007, 01:30 AM // 01:30

i dont get you guys

it is not that hard to hit Print Screen.

seriously.

Cammy · Dec 15, 2007, 03:26 AM // 03:26

So apparently good stuff does drop.

Dante the Warlord · Dec 15, 2007, 03:57 AM // 03:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slash Wave

got bored, bought 1 key for 3.8k got an elite para tome, anyone want it?

Ill take it off your hands!

Pleikki · Dec 15, 2007, 01:16 PM // 13:16

10 Chest opened did get 1 Gold offhand
5 Crene brulee 3 Flasks of firewater and 1 lockpick..

cthulhu reborn · Dec 15, 2007, 03:04 PM // 15:04

I just had a lockpick drop from the Zaishen chest....and that I really don't get. That they can drop as freebies from hidden treasure ok, but to open a high end chest only to get a key for another chest....that's just lame to me. I used it and got a normal ele tome...grand.

Slabby · Dec 15, 2007, 03:10 PM // 15:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ensign

They know how often the HoH chest can be opened in a given day; it's pretty easy actually since it's on a static 12 minute cycle. Max of 960 opens a day (minus heroes and NOP), one mini Ghostly every 3 weeks is ~1:20,000 odds.

I'm told they did some pretty thorough calculations on just how many reward points and how much faction is earned in a day, and based the rarity of the ultra Zaishen chest drop on that. Considering that faction is also spent on unlocks and reward points on PvP gear, it could be quite some time before we find out what the rare drop from the Zaishen Chest is, if they wanted to give it a comparable rarity to the mini Ghostly.

Why does everyone thinks EVERY drop is known to the Guru Community. A lot of competent players I've met never heard of Guru. There could be a handful of Ghostly minipets out there without us knowing it.

I once bought a Crystalline back in the goold old days for 10k, the poor guy didn't know its rarity... Things like this can happen to the ultra rare drop we are all waiting for.

Shakti · Dec 15, 2007, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slabby

Why does everyone thinks EVERY drop is known to the Guru Community. A lot of competent players I've met never heard of Guru. There could be a handful of Ghostly minipets out there without us knowing it.

I once bought a Crystalline back in the goold old days for 10k, the poor guy didn't know its rarity... Things like this can happen to the ultra rare drop we are all waiting for.

What Ensign was talking about wasn't anything about the Guru community. Anet put the Ghostly in the chest 3 weeks before it came out. The "they" in his post referred to Anet, not guru. "They" can calculate how many times hoh gets opened, in fact any of us can it's timed. I remember Gaile's post about how they were waiting till it appeared.

About Ghostly minis running around unknown....possible if they are unused or on inactive accounts, and how likely that an innactive has a ghostly? Possible, yes. Likely, no. Have you been around a ghostly? I have, it's nuts. Whole district goes insane "OMG this guy has a ghostly!!1! Where? holy crap can I see?/??" They can hardly sneak around unless they never put them out, and then why have em?

Micromaster · Dec 15, 2007, 06:57 PM // 18:57

Used 9 Keys

1 Mammoth Axe (Req 11, crappy mods)
1 Ele Tome
1 Warrior Tome
4 Creme Brulees
2 Flasks of Firewater

Crap!

Zefiro · Dec 15, 2007, 07:54 PM // 19:54

lots of keys
1 lockpick
creme bules,flasks,monk and derv tomes
azure shortbow with crap mods
platinum wand channeling crap mods
and...woah a good thing?

that is all

Starsky-sama · Dec 15, 2007, 08:46 PM // 20:46

just started doing z chests.

+consumables.
+silver boar scepter
+Adamantine Falchion (I didnt check how outdated wiki is but it says this only drops from treasure chest things?, not really important I guess)

(other golds Ive forgotten. probably not worth mentioning that's why. lol)
(Ill start to keep track of things I get from now on)

/g'day.

Tyla · Dec 15, 2007, 10:03 PM // 22:03

all ive had so far:creme bulees, 1 firewater and bad golds with bad mods...

The Arching Healer · Dec 15, 2007, 10:28 PM // 22:28

I Think I Wasted 14 keys on that chest (used 15). I got 1 stygian reaver req 10 out of it. Sold for 100k+20e Q_Q ..... No proof the drop ,

sickle of carnage · Dec 15, 2007, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Arching Healer

I Think I Wasted 14 keys on that chest (used 15). I got 1 stygian reaver req 10 out of it. Sold for 100k+20e Q_Q ..... No proof the drop ,

Your one of the lucky ones. 50 keys, not a single r9, not a single rare gold.

Kiragi Yagami · Dec 15, 2007, 10:37 PM // 22:37

about a week ago, i decided to buy a key for 4k to see what all the commotion was, and got a normal mesmer tome -.-

to people out there, if youre like me and dont PvP often enough to get a good stash of keys, heres my suggestion: unless youre rolling in riches, sell the keys. they usually go for about 4-5k in great temple of balthazar, which, IMHO, is better than taking a huge risk and wasting something worth that much on some random consumable or a tome.