Curse

Commander Ryker · May 16, 2007, 02:36 PM // 14:36

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Originally Posted by Zinger314

And to think there couldn't be a more pointless event than Double Skill Capping?

I'd be fine with double Lucky points...except that each rank requires atleast 50 thousand freaking points...you need 50000 points just to get to Rank 1!

That's 100 Lockpick saves. For a person with low lockpicking, that's 1000 chests just to get the minimal benefit. I don't think it's possible to open that many chests in a weekend.

If ArenaNet really wanted to do a good weekend, double the lockpick retention rate!

QFT It's just a litte more pointless the the "double drop" events. Give me a "hench get no drops" and I'd be all over that.

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Originally Posted by Buce

Hey guys. Have anyone tried using lockpicks on lower end chest in normal mode? According to Guildwiki, those chests has inherent higher probability to keep lockpick intact. If it's true, maybe I'll be lockpicking all those Istani chest...maybe worthwhile. And this weekend may not be so dumb after all.

So, you would take a 1200 gold lock pick to open an 80g chest? Just for a title? That would make the weekend even more dumb.

Star Alfur · May 16, 2007, 03:35 PM // 15:35

Considering that I run a large amount of lockpicks for my title, I'm looking forward to this.

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Originally Posted by Spazzer

Really? I see about 50 to 50.

It's time for me to tally numbers for real.

I tallied my drop rate on my first 1,000 HM lockpicks ran - my gold-to-purple ratio was 7 to 3.

Ouchie · May 16, 2007, 04:35 PM // 16:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zinger314

And to think there couldn't be a more pointless event than Double Skill Capping?

I'd be fine with double Lucky points...except that each rank requires atleast 50 thousand freaking points...you need 50000 points just to get to Rank 1!

That's 100 Lockpick saves. For a person with low lockpicking, that's 1000 chests just to get the minimal benefit. I don't think it's possible to open that many chests in a weekend.

If ArenaNet really wanted to do a good weekend, double the lockpick retention rate!

Well, if you do NM in low level areas your chance for retaining a lock pick goes up substantially. You should be retain way more than loosing in these areas - granted the rewards are not as good from the chest - but from someone looking to up their lucky title this would be the fastest.

If you are looking to increase treasure hunter - your chance to retain is still higher in NM high end areas - not as fast but you are working on two titles at same time.

If you are looking to work on Vanquishing/Guardian and Lucky and Treasure hunter then your chances go down it costs more takes longer but effectively you work on 4 titles at the same time (wisdom from gold drops) . The extra lucky points won't effect you very much in this case - but you are getting a small bonus to do what you were anyways.

Diddy bow · May 16, 2007, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Cant wait for this, ill proberly be doing a mix of canthan chests in normal mode

And for all the people who dont like it... why do you care??

Sir Skullcrasher · May 16, 2007, 05:17 PM // 17:17

Imagine if A-Net will give out a skeleton key kinda of like the one you got in Oblivion.

savage vapor 33 · May 16, 2007, 05:21 PM // 17:21

I just feel bad for the players that don't have a single title tier in lucky, or treasure hunter, and expect to open a chest, even in NM, and it will break almost everytime for the first 100 times until they can get atleast one tier in treasure hunter. Once they get that, they will have a 3% chance of retaining the lockpick........

I dunno, I got treasure hunter and lucky titles, but for the people who don't, your gonna be wasting a lot of money this weekend, and I feel bad for you.

tyche7 · May 16, 2007, 08:30 PM // 20:30

Yay! another weekend for the rich!! *sarcasm alert*