Radiant Apex Crown Season?

VDoom1

Hello everyone.


The Radiant Apex mounts are really cool, it is sometimes beyond belief how cool they are. They were really made to be...epic. First preview of them is like ...jaw on floor... :0 0.0...pretty much. Sadly their drop rate is less than 1% or just around 1%. With that in mind I had this thought. A crown season that came once or maybe twice a year, where the only reward is....Radiant Apex mounts!

However I do not wish to undermine the RA mounts. They are really cool and they shouldn't be to easy to obtain either. But as it is right now the way you get one is insane luck, or a looooooooooooot of crates.

So maybe it shouldn't only be the RA mounts in this, perhaps some other item which also has a low drop rate could be added. Like for example the Daedric statues and/or banners. This way we would have a higher than 1% chance of getting the radiant apex mounts. But so it's not a 100% guarantee some other items with low drop rates could also be added. This Radiant Apex season would only last for a very limited time, 7 days or maybe even 5 days.

I understand that from a revenue perspective ZoS probably gets a lot of cash from us hoping "this will be the on! I will get that Dragonscale Solar Horse this time!" So if we got some of the RA mounts or the RA mounts we wanted during this season their revenue might go down. Then again if all RA mounts were gathered into one season that lasted...say 7 days, their revenue would probably peak during that time. All of us going crazy finally having a higher chance to get some these amazing mounts.


This is just an idea I had. It would be nice if once or maybe twice a year the drop rate for Radiant Apex mounts was higher than 1%.
Yes or No to this, what do you think?

redspecter23

If the drop rate is higher, would they still be radiant apex tier at that point?

If you use the same mounts that have already been released, but just combine them in a crate and up the drop rates, I think that undermines the drops from the original source. If you make new mounts and increase the drop rate, they aren't radiant anymore, just apex like any other season.

Girl_Number8

Other

They should sell the mounts in the crown store rather then the loot crates and maybe give a small discount to ESO+ members.

The houses sell, so I am sure people will spend the money for these mounts.

Make Pacrooti an npc that runs tavern games for in-game gold, rather then pawning crates off to gullible travelers. This way, multiple players can join in the new games and activities, having more fun while making the taverns a better social point beyond a few quests and stealing.

NorthernNightmare

god I love the plague husk horse

i got lucky and got the cold flame wolf, Im content

it would be awesome to get them another way, but i doubt zenimax or Z$ ever will

Dithieon

I know there were some 'crown crate classics', or something to that effect, datamined. Maybe these classics will have a bunch of radiants? I got the frozen horse radiant from the melted-cheese crates,so I assume my rng is used up for the next century. lol

Universe

No

I have 4 of the Radiant Apex mounts and the drop rates were fine.
The drop rates should remain the same so the Radiant Apex mounts could still be very rare.

JKorr

Universe wrote: »

I have 4 of the Radiant Apex mounts and the drop rates were fine.
The drop rates should remain the same so the Radiant Apex mounts could still be very rare.

Then you were blessed by the rng gremlins. There are a few threads around from people who spent an incredible amount of money for crowns and got no radiant apex at all.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/374682/the-tale-of-1000-crates-and-the-missing-plague-husk-horse/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/365819/im-disappointed-zos-rare-mounts/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/450434/video-60-crates-not-enough-how-many-for-radiant

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/401650/opening-90-crates-to-try-for-radiant-apex/p1

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n1kdrywYmgjx290QwGJj9TT1Y8z4GfEMhvQ8kQnKL5g/edit#gid=0

JWKe

No

Just keep buying crates.

tim99

there is a page where you can see the drop rates of all you installed the addon:

https://crowncrates.com/

btw the addon really works good, so the more take part, the better the results, but i think there are already very accuate

VDoom1

Yes

tim99 wrote: »

there is a page where you can see the drop rates of all you installed the addon:

https://crowncrates.com/

btw the addon really works good, so the more take part, the better the results, but i think there are already very accuate

I got that one, very handy. Also the more that use it the more accurate the determined drop rate will be.

Universe wrote: »

I have 4 of the Radiant Apex mounts and the drop rates were fine.
The drop rates should remain the same so the Radiant Apex mounts could still be very rare.

You have no idea how lucky you are. People can open 150+ crates and not get a single mount. You got FOUR radiant apex....you are favored and blessed by RNG.

Girl_Number8

Other

Universe wrote: »

I have 4 of the Radiant Apex mounts and the drop rates were fine.
The drop rates should remain the same so the Radiant Apex mounts could still be very rare.

The drop rates are far from fine. Zos should just sell them in the crown store and put poor Pacrooti to better use. It is a cosmetic, so there should be no issue.

CMDR_Un1k0rn

No

This will be an unpopular opinion, and yes, you're about to see the sociopath who sees people as nothing more than tools in me here:

As far as I'm concerned, if people are silly enough to put out potentially hundreds, if not thousands of pounds to ZOS to try and get their hands on something that is functionally identical to what we all get for free simply by playing the game, well...

Just means I get to keep using a product I enjoy. Cheers whales. Keep that business running.

Does this make me a knob? Eh', don't really care. I just want to play a game, and online games need money to run.

Aptonoth

No

Nah they are too flashy and lore breaking. I don't like them at all. If I could I would actually remove them, but they got to make money if they can. I wish I could disable the particle effects for them as they are super distracting and don't fit the world.

bharathitman

They cannot and will not put Radiant Apex mounts in the crown store. If they put it then they would have to price it around 50,000 crowns (that is how much on average a person will spend to get a Radiant Apex if their RNG is decent).
The amount of bad press this will garner is insane, imagine headlines like - 'Zenimax online studios sells a cosmetic mount for 300$, where do we draw the line?' etc etc ..,

IzzyStardust

Yes

I have 2 radiant apex - ebon senche (love!) and one of the murkmire ones - the dark coloured one (meh). I don’t open that many crates and for sure the senche came from a free one.