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Hidden chests: trying to figure things out

LeBaitonLeBaiton Posts: 76
in General Discussions
Hey! Can I do a quick headcount to see if more people suffer from the following?

Tonight I've tried to find some hidden chests in Terathan Keep. I did find some, started at the entrance and then slowly moved to the area west, with the swampy center in it. 

Looking back I maybe found a total of around 30 chests? Somewhere around that number anyway. I would have kept a better total if I knew how the results would add up. I was there for about one and a half hour, and then I spend 30 mins being resskilled at the entrance, because I can't manage that bloody rope ladder for the life of me.

So I just wanted to put in some numbers. In total I found 1 chest with a deco egg. And 1 chest with 1 Umbrascale bracelet. All the other chests had the bandage/invis potions/smoke bomb/gem bag/lockpicks combo.

Didn't matter if the hidden chests where crates, wooden chests, metal chests. They mostly ended up with that combo except for two chests.

Now to say I'm underwhelmed would be an understatement. Same thing happened to me last night. Almost all hidden chests contained that bandage/invis potions/smoke bomb/gem bag/lockpicks combo. I hardly get anything else. Is this really working as intended?

I did get lucky on day one with an effigy. And on day one of the update it seemed the mix of chests with maps, eggs and that item-combo (that I am starting to despise) was a lot better. But now it's just starting to look weird.

Stats: I run with 2276 luck. I haven't altered that. Yet. I might test if that influences anything? 

Anyone else would like to run and share numbers with me to see if this is a bug?

Cheers!
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  • WhitewolfWhitewolf Posts: 270
    i wear a 2980 luck suit ive opened 100's of chests and ive got nothing, i get artifact drops once in awhile but rest is just bags of gems and bandages..etc no rares no mature eggs, ive pretty much proven luck has nothing to do with it, people i know of who has gotten eggs and rares, either have no luck gear or very low luck, the other night someone with 150 luck got a mature egg.
  • LeBaitonLeBaiton Posts: 76
    Whitewolf said:
    i wear a 2980 luck suit ive opened 100's of chests and ive got nothing, i get artifact drops once in awhile but rest is just bags of gems and bandages..etc no rares no mature eggs, ive pretty much proven luck has nothing to do with it, people i know of who has gotten eggs and rares, either have no luck gear or very low luck, the other night someone with 150 luck got a mature egg.

    Hmm, I don't know. I spend another 2 hours in a dungeon, but this time I used 2145 luck and now the RNG was giving me chests with eggs (7 pieces), 4 dragon nest maps and chests with sometimes 3 Umbrascale pieces in it, totalling 24 event-armor from chests.

    It's a pretty big difference compared to the other 2 hours and the hours I spend the day before, just by lowering my luck a bit.
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 1,273
    This is the thing with pure RNG.. higher luck will increase your odds, not your luck.. if it make sense  ;)
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.

    It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.

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  • TimStTimSt Posts: 1,959
    edited October 18
    I am wearing 1565 luck and I am getting a ton of drops and numerous eggs from the hidden chests.  The RNG loves me so far.  I did the Terathan Keep this afternoon and got 36 drops in less than an hour of play.
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