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K O S T A S · Aug 31, 2009, 12:53 PM // 12:53

Hmm,as everyone has already said,doesn't really worth the farming...However,it's a great weekend event for people going for lucky/unlucky titles...
I ran 1,500 chests during the weekend,gained about 528k lucky points,and 145k unlucky points.

Shadowhaze · Aug 31, 2009, 02:02 PM // 14:02

I got one lockpick all the time I played this weekend. Oh I also got a key on Cantha noob island. Woopie. lol. I get more picks when I farm/do HM on normal weekends/days.

BrettM · Aug 31, 2009, 02:32 PM // 14:32

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Originally Posted by K O S T A S

I ran 1,500 chests during the weekend,gained about 528k lucky points,and 145k unlucky points.

*boggle* May I ask where you were running and how long it took? I ran chests out of Boreal for 12 straight hours yesterday and got maybe a bit north of 300. My ears are still ringing from the whooshy, buglely sounds of the running stances. My total for the weekend was around 150k lucky points, which was just enough to get me to rank 5.

Painbringer · Aug 31, 2009, 03:20 PM // 15:20

6 picks 5 hours

Reformed · Aug 31, 2009, 03:34 PM // 15:34

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Originally Posted by BrettM

*boggle* May I ask where you were running and how long it took? I ran chests out of Boreal for 12 straight hours yesterday and got maybe a bit north of 300. My ears are still ringing from the whooshy, buglely sounds of the running stances. My total for the weekend was around 150k lucky points, which was just enough to get me to rank 5.

I ran 1309 for ~479k lucky and ~114k unlucky over the course of around 30 hours this weekend. I recorded everything and I'm thinking that guys math is a little wonky. If you want a great spot come down to Port Sledge and run Witman's Folly. 2-3 minutes for 3 chests every time, Boreal can't even touch it. Besides, you know it's good if it attracts an unusual amount of bot attention...I'm looking at you monks who lock to the sign post and merch

daraaksii · Aug 31, 2009, 04:50 PM // 16:50

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Originally Posted by MisterB

I had 3 Obsidian keys drop in a solo FoW beach/spider run. I'm getting a key almost every run. I'm after Shards though, so I'm just opening the chests for free basically. The lag is quite bad.

Lockpicks have a low drop rate, even tripled. The doubled Lucky/Unlucky points are a better goal if you are at all interested in those titles.

Your avatar sir is pure win.

Pure. Win.

Lawrence Chang · Aug 31, 2009, 05:34 PM // 17:34

im getting around 2-5 picks an hour u just got bad luck

K O S T A S · Sep 01, 2009, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrettM

*boggle* May I ask where you were running and how long it took? I ran chests out of Boreal for 12 straight hours yesterday and got maybe a bit north of 300. My ears are still ringing from the whooshy, buglely sounds of the running stances. My total for the weekend was around 150k lucky points, which was just enough to get me to rank 5.

Gyala Hatchery,you can get 3-5 chests in 3mins

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Originally Posted by Reformed

I ran 1309 for ~479k lucky and ~114k unlucky over the course of around 30 hours this weekend. I recorded everything and I'm thinking that guys math is a little wonky. If you want a great spot come down to Port Sledge and run Witman's Folly. 2-3 minutes for 3 chests every time, Boreal can't even touch it. Besides, you know it's good if it attracts an unusual amount of bot attention...I'm looking at you monks who lock to the sign post and merch

Well,I dont see why my math is wonky...
1,501 chests
437 lockpicks broke
1,064 retained
with 68% retaintion rate,was getting 340 points every time a lockpick broke...Ran mostly in NM,but did about 30chests in HM as well...

Mr. Undisclosed · Sep 01, 2009, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Who thought it'd be a great idea to recreate this thread every time this event came around?

nanase ren · Sep 01, 2009, 03:38 AM // 03:38

I got less lockpick then anything i managed less then 1 an hour

garethporlest18 · Sep 01, 2009, 03:46 AM // 03:46

I got 2 from a vanquish...but I was too busy this weekend. I wanted to run a lot more than I did, so I could get my lucky and unlucky up. But I just didn't have time really. I ended up getting only 40k lucky points and 10k unlucky points. Not that great. I still have enough lockpicks left to get about 30k unlucky points (which would have been near 60k) and 50k or so lucky points, maybe more. Which could have been 100k or so.

I did have another 12 retain in a row though, that was fun. 29 chests opened with 7 lockpicks, my record, can't ever get below.

byteme! · Sep 01, 2009, 04:42 AM // 04:42

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Originally Posted by K O S T A S

Gyala Hatchery,you can get 3-5 chests in 3mins

Well,I dont see why my math is wonky...
1,501 chests
437 lockpicks broke
1,064 retained
with 68% retaintion rate,was getting 340 points every time a lockpick broke...Ran mostly in NM,but did about 30chests in HM as well...

I'm curious to know if you got anything worth while from the chests?

K O S T A S · Sep 01, 2009, 05:46 AM // 05:46

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Originally Posted by byteme!

I'm curious to know if you got anything worth while from the chests?

Not really,most of them went to the merchant

Mad King Corn · Sep 01, 2009, 06:37 AM // 06:37

It's laughable!

I did not get 1 lockpick or key, but then again I was not farming for them, but simply playing the game.
As others have said, the drop rate is so ridiculously low, that even tripled, there is not much of an increase. It's kind of sad really, I wish the drop rate was a bit better on these, even if they kept the current increase, don't seem like it would hurt the economy any.

Aussie Boy · Sep 01, 2009, 11:35 AM // 11:35

Funny now it's over and i'm farming for nic and I get 4 lockpicks in 2 runs
just getting the 10 Quetzal Crests needed. O.o

imnotyourmother · Sep 01, 2009, 01:16 PM // 13:16

WOW I for one had a BLAST.

I took a Different route than the rest of you. I took my gold and BOUGHT lockpicks. Why in the world would you try and farm Lockpicks when you get DOUBLE the Un/Lucky points?

I think that you guys are nuts. So what you get 3X more chance is just junk. You would need to kill 50 Snow Wurms outside of Boreal Station for 1 lockpick in Hard mode. That's 5 runs for 1 pick at 3 minutes a run! So that is 15 minutes = 1 pick.

OR...

You can do what I did. I bought myself 380 Lockpicks and ran to Killroy's Boxing!

I got a chest a run 99% of the time (1% of the time the stupid chest was in the wall and I could not get to it) and got myself 414 Unlucky points for Breaking the pick and 500 Points for Keeping the pick! .

I managed to get over 200,000 Lucky and almost 60,000 Unlucky!!!

WHAT A RUSH. Had I been able to play for 6 more hours I would have gotten Lvl 6 of Unlucky!

I do believe this was the way the Lucky weekend was to be approached. I sure hope that they consider doing this again sometime in the near future.

Kalendraf · Sep 01, 2009, 01:56 PM // 13:56

12 hours, 4 lock picks.

Coney · Sep 01, 2009, 08:53 PM // 20:53

8 lockpicks (no addl picks dropped Sunday, over ~1 hour farming):
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...9&postcount=27

86 chests opened (37 picks broken):
24,500 lucky points
9,436 unlucky points

wilebill · Sep 01, 2009, 09:44 PM // 21:44

I got 15 lockpicks or so, just messing around, bit of raptor farming, bit of feather farming, rest fell in hardmode while I was questing and grinding for points in Asura lands. Weekend like this is just a small bonus for what you are doing already.

fenix · Sep 02, 2009, 12:15 AM // 00:15

Much like I post in every one of these threads;

3 x 0 = 0.