Increased lootbox droprate.. right now?

[Roberto_the_First]

For what it is worth .. I found 2 lvl 70-75 lootboxes in isengard, looted from lvl 75 non-signature mobs. One box had some potions but the other contained a Worn Symbol of the Elder King and level 3 tome of Vitality.

Server: Imladris

/jealous

I found two this weekend (doubling my total 'found' count). One 60-69 on my 75 doing the warg and dead deeds in Mirkwood, and one on my 74 hunter in Gravenwood. I gave the 60 to a kinmate - don't remember what she got. My hunter got a matching set of blue and green potions - no symbol for me!

[giboosc]

I found 5 boxes this weekend, 3 keys. First opened box dropped worn symbol of elder king, rest dropped a garbage. 2 boxes left.

[Lilka]

I have never seen a box or a key. Are they as rare as stat tomes or something?

[NaughtyMistress]

I have never seen a box or a key. Are they as rare as stat tomes or something?

Most of us who are getting a bunch (I got 7 this weekend), are doing hardcore farming for them. You MAY see one doing dailies or tooling around, but to really do well, you need to pick a place and kill. A lot. Sometimes it's several thousand mobs before you get one.

[Neumi]

Most of us who are getting a bunch (I got 7 this weekend), are doing hardcore farming for them. You MAY see one doing dailies or tooling around, but to really do well, you need to pick a place and kill. A lot. Sometimes it's several thousand mobs before you get one.

Me and my partner had the whole Orthanc Couryard for ourselves (empty instance, we exited to empty our invenrtory in shifts) and ... nothing. We basically spent our day there.
ut I DID get a key the day before from a worm in Forochel.

[PurebloodWorg]

You can add .0001% Vitamin C to a candy bar and advertise it

"CONTAINS VITAMIN C"

Same thing with "We have increased your chance to win !!"

Notice they do not reveal any actual data/numbers

Shady Marketing 101

[Crell_1]

To answer the question, yes, the event is enabled right now! Good luck finding those lootboxes and keys!

As someone who's trying to collect some impartial data, I'd like notice when the event has been turned off. I'll seperate my data at that point again and after a while do some comparisons.

[Thuarval]

Well, from Friday to Sunday I did in about 1300-1400 mobs of all shapes, sizes, color and levels and nary a key or lootbox was to be found by me. If I hadn't been doing deeds with all of those kills and getting virtues, TPs and titles, not to mention 30 gold and other various goodies I'd feel pretty ripped off. Also, had I for one second really expected Turbine to increase the rate in any tangible amount, I'd feel disappointed. It was a good mental motivator to grind some deeds with the possible (and remote) bonus of a lootbox.

[W0lfg0d]

I was lucky this weekend - in ~5h farming mobs I got 2 keys and 3 boxes.

Got 2 Worn Symbols of Celebrimbor, some regen food and an agility thingy.

[peterbutt]

OK, I didn't check every hour over the weekend, but I did logon to my.lotro as well as check twitter about 7 or 8 times...the official announcement from quartermaster claimed special lotteries for keys over the weekend...there was not one single announcement of a flash lottery nor was there any regular lottery that I could see (or that anyone mentioned). What gives? Did the support staff announcing the lottery/special not speak to the support staff that runs the lotteries???

[Crell_1]

OK, I didn't check every hour over the weekend, but I did logon to my.lotro as well as check twitter about 7 or 8 times...the official announcement from quartermaster claimed special lotteries for keys over the weekend...there was not one single announcement of a flash lottery nor was there any regular lottery that I could see (or that anyone mentioned). What gives? Did the support staff announcing the lottery/special not speak to the support staff that runs the lotteries???

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...68#post6026168

They're not sure what happened.

[Celestrata]

I have farmed 8 lootboxes before this event at a rate of 1 ever 3 hrs. Since this week started I have farmed for 19hrs and only received 2 lootboxes no keys. Are you guys sure you turned it up?

Also Can you confirm that store bought keys and dropped keys are equal in all aspects, as in chance to get a WSoTEK

So, first of all, yes, I can confirm that the event was enabled and that the drop rate was properly turned up. However, at the end of the day, chance is simply that -- chance. Even with an increased drop rate, there's always the possibility that probability may not be on your side. I've had it happen to me enough.

And yes, the keys are equal in all aspects, regardless where they come from. A key is a key.

And thank you, everyone, for the feedback. It's much appreciated.

[mphunk]

After playing for a few hours on Friday night, and seeing that the drop rate increase was...a ghost-I logged off.

I have looted 4 failboxes that included items I could not use-rank gated (lvl 15 brand). I have spent 400TP on keys. As a customer I was so upset that I called in to the #1800 number to complain about the non usable loot. Which was a waste of time-all I got was a canned "I'll forward this to the devs" response.

Seeing all my creep friends transfer from Silverlode, and now this loot box drop fiasco (and FAILVENT 2012!)-makes me reconsider my next VIP payment very seriously.

You Devs know this issue! Fix it or you stand to lose alot of people, it's not like SWTOR isn't enticing enough.

[PurebloodWorg]

So, first of all, yes, I can confirm that the event was enabled and that the drop rate was properly turned up. However, at the end of the day, chance is simply that -- chance. Even with an increased drop rate, there's always the possibility that probability may not be on your side. I've had it happen to me enough.

And yes, the keys are equal in all aspects, regardless where they come from. A key is a key.

And thank you, everyone, for the feedback. It's much appreciated.

This is a fun alternative method to acquire rare or unique items....but when it is the ONLY method to acquire ALL 30 of the new Creep appearances (5 per class), the level of frustration and disappointment it creates among players is beyond description

We anticipated and hoped that the new appearances would be made available via Commendations in U6, but reports from Bullroarer beta testing confirm this is NOT the case. Mindless and endless grinding of NPCs in PVP Zone is the only way to unlock the new appearances (via Sigils).

Relaying this feedback to the Devs is much appreciated

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...69#post6027069

[Armitas]

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And thank you, everyone, for the feedback. It's much appreciated.

Thank you! You wouldn't believe how fast those key rumors got started.

[PurebloodWorg]

Can anyone confirm a Lootbox drop since Weekend Event was reset?

[CoopertheBudgie]

Interesting enough I completed the Dunland deeds on a character on my Lifer account (1000+ mobs or so) and not a single box or key dropped.

So jumped onto my lvl 73 champ on my F2P account and got a lvl 75 box within five minutes (about 20 kills). Opened it with a spare key out of a lvl 60 box bought off the AH gotten the previous week .

The lvl 75 box had the red skeleton horse (and some rubbish Will jewellery) so was happy with that. Gave up killing and went to do quests instead (no more drops).

I am convinced my Lifer account is cursed, or has a -roll tag on it or something, because I have the same bad luck doing /rolls or out mining sigils on it. Sticking to my 'lucky' F2P account in future.

[guguzza71]

I went into an area to get a midlevel legendary weapon for an alt. In 4 hours I got a top level lootbox, a key, countless task items which i kept and many legendary items.

What annoyed me most however was that I got zero of the legendary weapon I was after.

Still I cant complain because that lootbox and key turned out to be optimal in its appearance.

[Faithknight]

It seems to me that the drop rate is still so astonishingly low, that grinding doesn't actually make any difference.

You could grind all day (or for two days strait as I have) and see not a single one.

Or you could just roll up and get one on your first mob.

You just have to be that one lucky guy.

That really sucks.

I remain extremely displeased with the entire "lootboxes" concept.

[Kongas]

So, first of all, yes, I can confirm that the event was enabled and that the drop rate was properly turned up.

Define 'properly turned up' as a percentage chance per lootable body.

[VentoPT]

I remain extremely displeased with the entire "lootboxes" concept.

I remain extremely displeased with the entire "luck" system in this game.
Lootboxes, raid rolls, craft crits all seem to be against you and this is simply annoying, you cant fight it.

You run a raid every week looking to get a) luck that the item you been after pops up in loot and; b) luck on a roll at it. Normally and unless everybody else gives up on it you never roll enough week after week...Yes and you can only attempt your luck once a week.

Lootboxes, they start after you reached cap level and complete all deeds and quests in the end game areas Then you grind and you grind and you grind and you grind and you grind for 2 weeks. You never see a key drop. You get 3 lootboxes dropping in roughly 24h range and all you get is ... jewelery. Comes increased drop rate weekend and you get nothing (but you buy 2 lootboxes and keys and you again get ... (way overpriced ) useless BoA unique jewelery.

Its all about "luck" (random) so i went crafting last night. jewler making westfold hope tokens 2 sets ( 63 and 80) with a couple of hours a part and always on a 9% chance to crit. 1st set was lucky: got 3 crts on the last 10/12 crafts meanning the first 50 went straight way cleaned. Second set got 3/4 crits on the last 20, first 60 went no crit.

I cant make straight 50 rolls until a get a good one and like this instead of keep trying I am really more looking for to taking a break from game.

Yes its all random .. all about luck... all about nothing you can really do to change. Bad habits from me in the zx spectrum BASIC you could "reset" the rng from time to time if you wanted.


EDIT: lets not even go in to the luck with majors on your legendary items...

[Followthelight]

Most of us who are getting a bunch (I got 7 this weekend), are doing hardcore farming for them. You MAY see one doing dailies or tooling around, but to really do well, you need to pick a place and kill. A lot. Sometimes it's several thousand mobs before you get one.

1 mob a minute for almost 17 straight hours =1000 kills. Thats a hell of an event Turbine hosted for us. And you are a killer if you have killed several THOUSAND mobs this past weekend.

[Followthelight]

Thank you! You wouldn't believe how fast those key rumors got started.

Im on your server too and yes the must buy a store key if you want a 1st age rumor was annoying. Turbine got enough negative feedback for having store bought keys to begin with. Now just imagine if it was true that store bought keys guaranteed better loot. Ive seen Turbine do some really stupid things but I doubt they would do that.

[VentoPT]

1 mob a minute for almost 17 straight hours =1000 kills. Thats a hell of an event Turbine hosted for us. And you are a killer if you have killed several THOUSAND mobs this past weekend.

...assumptions...

If I am not mistaken the forges of isengard takes about 8 minutes to complete and you kill at least 12+7+20 (+- pale folk). give a couple of minutes for repair and bag empty and lets say you can kill 40 each 10 minutes. thats about 240kills an hour. If over the weekeend (roughly 60h) if you did 17h would have something like 4080 kills. i believe it can be classified as severall

I believe if you go to the bardavan mine your rate kill an hour can go even higher if nobody else is there.