Curse

Killsod · Jan 03, 2010, 02:38 AM // 02:38

Hey guys,

I've managed to collect enough lockpicks to get my treasure hunter title the NM low cost method way. Just wondering if anyone know the Gold to Grape drop rates since I want to try and figure out the approximate progress i'll make on my Wisdom title. Thanks.

STATS UPDATE:

First 100 chests
23 Golds to 77 Grapes

Next 100 chests
30 Golds to 70 Grapes

Unknown Duli · Jan 03, 2010, 04:15 AM // 04:15

will be interested to see the other responses...

when I ran the last 1400 chests for my title out there I did it almost all in HM for this reason-- while in HM there was almost always 1-2 chests within speed running range (avg 1-1 1/2 minutes) yet when I did in nm there were quite a few runs where there were no chests at all within the "speed area". I would be surprised if anyone actually took the time to catalogue/chart the drop rate in nm though.... lets see

rrthorne · Jan 03, 2010, 05:22 AM // 05:22

you should get around 35 golds per hundred chests, just finished my title that way. no tomes tho

ranger o mine · Jan 03, 2010, 08:41 AM // 08:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by rrthorne

you should get around 35 golds per hundred chests, just finished my title that way. no tomes tho

you won't get tomes from NM-chests i guesse

Tenebrae · Jan 03, 2010, 09:12 AM // 09:12

1/3 gold items drop rate in NM chests is pretty accurate.

xron · Jan 03, 2010, 09:19 AM // 09:19

I'm nearly finished with TH from nm boreal, overall my gold drop rate is lower... probably 25-30%

Killsod · Jan 03, 2010, 07:21 PM // 19:21

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like i'm gonna be stuck buying UnID'd golds for a while haha. Thank you for the replies ^^.

Zodiak · Jan 06, 2010, 07:10 PM // 19:10

You could always run through the second Boxing quest. There is also usually about 1 or 2 chests in there if you just keep running and hold down your Alt key.

_Nihilist_ · Jan 06, 2010, 08:36 PM // 20:36

There is always 1 chest in Kilroy Stonekin's Punchout Extravaganza / Fronis Irontoe's Lair.

I never ran Boreal in NM: the chance @ getting Elite Tomes is too good to pass up, regardless of the higher chance to break Picks. At least, it is to me.

Of course, now that Wisdom and TH are account-wide Titles, if you need more Golds just farm Raptors. Boring, but getting 5 golds in <1 minute is worth it. Of course, you aren't going to get 5 golds each run, but with the capability of running it 60 times/hour (every time I use the /age command after killing all the Raptor Nestlings I get the message "You have been in this map for 0 minutes.") it doesn't matter. You'll still get a ton of Golds to ID if you don't get them from Chest-running.

Puddin Cheeks · Jan 06, 2010, 10:27 PM // 22:27

It would still end up being cheaper buying the rest of your unid, than it would cost you breaking off all of those picks in HM. I think you could browse through the stats on wiki to get a more exact value on it.

superraptors · Jan 07, 2010, 12:39 AM // 00:39

id rather run hm tbh, u get more golds which is beneficial to your wisdom and tomes about every 10-20 chests is good, not to mention ud break even from selling the tomes back, merchfood / mods

and also you wiki doesnt calculate mods/tomes etc

xxx wraith xxx · Jan 07, 2010, 10:58 AM // 10:58

i ran in HM also...with 46 lockpicks i managed to get around 30 golds, 2 elite tomes (monk and ranger) and 2 or 3 tomes. The thing with tomes is, if you use them for yourself they are 1k (max skill cost) but if you sell them they are somewhere between 200-1000g.

So imo its a bit hard to say if its any good to run HM.

Total cost: 69k on lockpicks (merch price)
Total Profit: 35k, 2k unlucky 1k lucky and 30 wisdom pts

dr love · Jan 08, 2010, 04:58 AM // 04:58

NM from my experience seems about 1 gold to 4-5 purps

Killsod · Jan 10, 2010, 03:22 AM // 03:22

Didn't notice my thread was still alive haha.

I have tried using picks in HM and without a doubt, it's possible to break even with better mods and (Elite) tombs, but unfortunately i'm probably going to be stuck with NM.

Unfortunately, because my online time is really restricted (max about 350 chests a week). With the title taking more than 6 months at that rate, I can't really afford making time to wait/barter in Spamadam.

Update: I placed a stat on my first post in case anyone else was looking to do TH from Boreal Station NM chests.