Curse

lacasner · Apr 22, 2007, 12:38 PM // 12:38

Ok, I've opened about 50-70 lockpick chests today/yesterday, in various places. I just wanted to know if anyone noticed any strange things about drops. My first 40 or so chests were fine, gold to purple ratio was very high just like everyone elses. Then, out of my next 20 chests, i get 15 PURPLES

. Anyone elses purple ratio gone back to the old crummy normal mode one, or I am just the king of bad luck?

thebluedart · Apr 22, 2007, 01:29 PM // 13:29

I've opened about 15 chests in hard mode with lock picks, 12 purples. I am not best pleased.

=HT=E5Destroyer · Apr 22, 2007, 01:40 PM // 13:40

yeah mine went same way.lol

drupal · Apr 22, 2007, 01:42 PM // 13:42

Same here, my teammates get just gold drops and I always have the grapes =)

A guildie dropped a Brute Sword r9 15^50 -_-

lacasner · Apr 22, 2007, 01:50 PM // 13:50

Well, I'm just saying, its extremely odd that yesterday all of my drops are gold, or like 80% of them, and today 80-90% purp. Or req.13 mesmer staves. I mean, I'm usually not like this because im rank 4 treasure hunter, and often I've had bad, terrible streaks, but this puzzles me.

Arabian_Night · Apr 22, 2007, 02:38 PM // 14:38

If such an update existed, it might have been the new build that GW had me download at about 12:10 on friday night (EST). It went unnanounced on the GW website, and still there is no text up for it. It seems that anet realized how much the gold/purp rate was going to make for chest runners, and decided to nerf that too.

Shadow Signal · Apr 22, 2007, 02:46 PM // 14:46

So far, the only bad thing about the locked chests for me is that A) I break every lockpick I use and B) that I got a monk and a warrior tome. Other than that, I've gotten all golds. Of course, I've only opened like 10...

Ravengar Silvertree · Apr 22, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Some more stats:
Out of about 30 chests I've had 6 purples so far.

Eldin · Apr 22, 2007, 07:43 PM // 19:43

My purple to gold ratio is about 1:6 about now. No major complaints here.

My-way Ftw · Apr 22, 2007, 07:52 PM // 19:52

Ive also noticed that after running 40ish locked chests, i started to get purples after around 30. Might Anet have slipped in some sort of 'Anti-chestrun code'?

Alien Bobster · Apr 22, 2007, 08:44 PM // 20:44

It's true. I've been running alot at Port Sledge, first 100 chests was about 85 golds 15 purples and then i ran another 50, 37 purples

Elnai · Apr 22, 2007, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Its called....................RANDOM. honestly, ever since i've started chest running, there's been "gold streaks" and "purple streaks". 73 purples consecutively was my best record so far. Sometimes it seems to suck but its possible for chests to have a 99% chance of being a gold drop and you getting 50 purples.

ArKaiN · Apr 22, 2007, 11:15 PM // 23:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elnai

Its called....................RANDOM. honestly, ever since i've started chest running, there's been "gold streaks" and "purple streaks". 73 purples consecutively was my best record so far. Sometimes it seems to suck but its possible for chests to have a 99% chance of being a gold drop and you getting 50 purples.

Dont be crazy.
I find it I get all golds if I chest run while doing the hokey pokey.
Also If I do the chest runs while there's a full moon standing on a pool of pig's blood, I get all grapes, so like, don't do it.

kumarshah · Apr 22, 2007, 11:30 PM // 23:30

I stopped CR in hard mode since I can't use the W/A build for what its worth and the W/Mo build is well, just doesn't seem to work for me.

But in the few chests I did run - around 20-30 (lots of fying and retrying), all grapes. Wish I could run more.

Arabian_Night · Apr 23, 2007, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Quote:

Dont be crazy.
I find it I get all golds if I chest run while doing the hokey pokey.
Also If I do the chest runs while there's a full moon standing on a pool of pig's blood, I get all grapes, so like, don't do it.

As much as I'd like to think you are right to say that we're reading too much into this and its random, it would be just like anet to slip in some coding that makes the locked chests drop fewer golds over time. Because theyre all about "anti-grinding", which is why the new title requires you to grind through every area on the map.

Mister O · Apr 23, 2007, 06:37 AM // 06:37

opened 20+ chests, mostly gold
however i manage to retain the lockpick most the time when i got purple

Nekretaal · Apr 23, 2007, 05:17 PM // 17:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacasner

Ok, I've opened about 50-70 lockpick chests today/yesterday, in various places. I just wanted to know if anyone noticed any strange things about drops. My first 40 or so chests were fine, gold to purple ratio was very high just like everyone elses. Then, out of my next 20 chests, i get 15 PURPLES

. Anyone elses purple ratio gone back to the old crummy normal mode one, or I am just the king of bad luck?

There's code.

After you have been logged into guild wars for too much time, your drops and % chance to get usable items from chests go to crap. It's not related to chest-running, its related to being online for too long.

Fix this by quitting out of guild wars, and doing something else for a while.

Marth Reynolds · Apr 23, 2007, 07:59 PM // 19:59

i keep getting lousier drops from the Hard mode chests, first had a decent gold rate but still a lot of non max mods. on my first 10 tries i broke 3 lockpicks, after that 8 broke in a row

Just tried today again, and even got 1 rare jade sword dropped from the Locked chest near the monk boss in Mount Qinkai.

My guildy laughted at me after seeing the stats -_- req 13 and no inherent mod, couldn't beworse really.
I'n the mean time i'l just wait with opening these chests again...

lacasner · Apr 23, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05

Quote:

There's code.

I thought that Anet took the code out or somethign like that.

Nekretaal · Apr 23, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacasner

I thought that Anet took the code out or somethign like that.

Anet took away the penalty for abusing instancing. That was not the only farm code affecting loot.