Official Discussion Thread for "Next Crown Crate Season: The Elder Scrolls Online's Wild Hunt"

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 2017

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Next Crown Crate Season: The Elder Scrolls Online's Wild Hunt. Beginning today, the new ESO Crown Crate season has begun. It's time to embrace nature with the fresh spoils of ESO's Wild Hunt!

You can also find the full list of collectibles that you have a chance of obtaining in this latest season in this forum post.

Recremen · March 2017

Oh boy I sure do love the opportunity to gamble away my money on things that ought to be directly purchasable!

Lexxypwns · March 2017

Recremen wrote: »

Oh boy I sure do love the opportunity to gamble away my money on things that ought to be directly purchasable!

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Dominoid · March 2017

Nice change by ZOS here. Notice there are no hardly any race-specific piercings, hair styles, tattoos, etc in these crates. Thanks for listening.

Edit: There are some superior ones still.

Threemoons · March 2017

Srsly? Can you at least make the drop rates and gem exchange rates not suck? Also I wonder how much housing crapola is going to be jammed in there to unbalance the gem exchange....ditto for all the hats and crap from the last set of boxes.....

starzsuicide · March 2017

Oh wow, look at the Whiners, little known fact.. Crown Crates are random loot drops with a chance to win some seriously cool stuff. Don't wanna risk the gamble? THEN DONT BUY THEM.

Funny when people cry about optional things.

And complaints about how you should just be able to buy them outright, that would ruin the point of the gamble and therefore lessen rarity of those who do enjoy the crates. If you don't like it, don't participate.

Now back on topic, I am excited for a chance to win some wild hunt themed items! Bosmer Master Race

driosketch · March 2017

starzsuicide wrote: »

And complaints about how you should just be able to buy them outright, that would ruin the point of the gamble and therefore lessen rarity of those who do enjoy the crates.

I'd be okay with that.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · March 2017

Spring is in the air

You're going to be eating those words at PAX next weekend you know.

Toorlokviing · March 2017

im actually pleased to see that most of the datamined items from homestead are not in these crates...the rest of you should be happy. i will still buy crown crates cuz well i cant help myself

but be looking out for that black sabre cat and evil version of the elk hitting the crown store seperately just dont expect them to be cheap peeps. if the last elk was any indicator.

spectre303 · March 2017

So why did they make the change with the bonus 5th cards? I thought they used to be a guaranteed apex reward. I got the bonus 5th card twice, but instead of apex mount i got an animation and a tattoo.

Pandorii · March 2017

Dominoid wrote: »

Nice change by ZOS here. Notice there are no hardly any race-specific piercings, hair styles, tattoos, etc in these crates. Thanks for listening.

Edit: There are some superior ones still.

I'm actually quite disappointed that there were SOME. ZOS stated there wouldn't be, and they went back on that.

TastesAllColors · March 2017

What is the release date?

driosketch · March 2017

spectre303 wrote: »

So why did they make the change with the bonus 5th cards? They used to be a guaranteed apex reward. I got the bonus 5th card twice, but instead of apex mount i got an animation and a tattoo.

They were never guaranteed apex. They appear to have a higher quality rate, as the fellows in the drop rate research thread found out. This results in some reporting bias, but your fifth card should have been at least a purple.

spectre303 · March 2017

driosketch wrote: »

spectre303 wrote: »

So why did they make the change with the bonus 5th cards? They used to be a guaranteed apex reward. I got the bonus 5th card twice, but instead of apex mount i got an animation and a tattoo.

They were never guaranteed apex. They appear to have a higher quality rate, as the fellows in the drop rate research thread found out. This results in some reporting bias, but your fifth card should have been at least a purple.

guess i was just really lucky last season then.

GLP323b14_ESO · March 2017

Will the Storm Atronach crates return at some point? Or are they 'retired' permanently? If so, will the items that dropped be available by other means?

I'm hoping that by 'season' you mean seasons which periodically repeat at some point.

Balibe · March 2017

GLP323b14_ESO wrote: »

Will the Storm Atronach crates return at some point? Or are they 'retired' permanently? If so, will the items that dropped be available by other means?

I'm hoping that by 'season' you mean seasons which periodically repeat at some point.

Below is the official post, not sure if you saw it. They said it was retiring, no mention of a return. typically it means it will not be back but who knows with ZOS. They will probably not tell us either way .....

Storm Atronach Crown Crates Retiring Soon

merryblues · March 2017

driosketch wrote: »

spectre303 wrote: »

So why did they make the change with the bonus 5th cards? They used to be a guaranteed apex reward. I got the bonus 5th card twice, but instead of apex mount i got an animation and a tattoo.

They were never guaranteed apex. They appear to have a higher quality rate, as the fellows in the drop rate research thread found out. This results in some reporting bias, but your fifth card should have been at least a purple.

The wife and I did okay on the Storm crates, just enough reward that we were waiting for the next season. But the Wild Hunt crates were a pretty big disappointment. We bought 30 crates each, and not one quality item, and definitely no apex : the best was an experience scroll, how sad indeed. Only 2 5th cards per 15, and they all sucked. She said she never felt so ripped off before, a total slap in the face. We want to support the game, but this was just a total gouge. I got the same stupid dog pet 7 times. Looks like they managed to take an okay thing and get super greedy with it, and now our faith has been destroyed.

Tyrion87 · March 2017

merryblues wrote: »

driosketch wrote: »

spectre303 wrote: »

So why did they make the change with the bonus 5th cards? They used to be a guaranteed apex reward. I got the bonus 5th card twice, but instead of apex mount i got an animation and a tattoo.

They were never guaranteed apex. They appear to have a higher quality rate, as the fellows in the drop rate research thread found out. This results in some reporting bias, but your fifth card should have been at least a purple.

The wife and I did okay on the Storm crates, just enough reward that we were waiting for the next season. But the Wild Hunt crates were a pretty big disappointment. We bought 30 crates each, and not one quality item, and definitely no apex : the best was an experience scroll, how sad indeed. Only 2 5th cards per 15, and they all sucked. She said she never felt so ripped off before, a total slap in the face. We want to support the game, but this was just a total gouge. I got the same stupid dog pet 7 times. Looks like they managed to take an okay thing and get super greedy with it, and now our faith has been destroyed.

I tested wild hunt crates too and the drop rate of better items is significantly and noticeably lower. And I don't mean only the apex items. I bought 15 crates and there wasn't even any legendary tier item! I didn't get so many consumables while opening the previous storm atro crates. Something's wrong here... I think that ZOS is cheating us. When storm atro mounts came out, many people were riding them on the first day while now you can't even see people riding the wild hunt ones.

albatrossj5 · March 2017

they are fun but a little expensive to go all in for top prize

genericroleplayer92 · March 2017

Opened around 30 crates myself, really gunning for at the very least that Horse, looks downright baller~ However, the card pack feel of the crates honestly feel very minimal. I'm not opening a pack of hearthstone Cards here, I'm opening a crate to get various things, there ought to be a depth feel to this. Anyone know how long the crates will be themed in the Wild Hunt?

Another thing I'd like is maybe allow the crates to be obtainable either random in game encounter or extremely low drop somewhere? I think that'd be cool~

Churga_Hral · March 2017

I bought a couple crates a few days ago (with ESO+ crown pieces) and got lucky: 30 triple-restoration potions, which did come in handy as my main quickslot item. I also got a costume I like, and some poison I'll have to try sometime (not on myself). There were also a couple of dud items that I have no use for, but those are the breaks.