Monster Shoulder 5key box armor type determined by currently wearing?

benzenexz

For the new dungeons of Scions of Ithelia, I bought 6 of the 5 key boxes. (Urgalarg is not offering the 1 key random, fix it!) opened up, all light and medium pieces, then again and again, for something around 16 boxes all light and medium pieces.

I was staring at my inventory list, wondering, thinking, asking, why would it be that? If they're to be dropped with uniform probability, the chance of not getting any heavy piece is (1/3)^16~2.3E-8.

THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!!

Then I looked at the thing I'm wearing, light and medium monster set, which correspond perfectly to the types that I'm getting.

I've heard of something like PvP head-and-shoulder sets drops depending on wearing type, so I just guess it has become the same here as well.

So I unequiped those. for the next 2 boxes, I got 1 heavy. I put it on, then the next box, the last heavy one.


I don't know if it is intentionally to drop that way, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT, either make it completely random, or just curate it (I'd for sure prefer the latter). This "pseudo-random" or "half-random" or "half-curate" or "pretending-to-satisfy-the-need-of-the-buyer" is just bad bad bad.

If there is indeed such a functionality behind those, and if you don't make it clearly known to all, just remove it completely.

CoronHR

ah, hmm. i wonder if you're onto something here. i'm doing some more undaunted later (today's is schiviner hall, hoping to get a motif). i'm missing the blind pauldron from bedlam veil. i'll equip a heavy one before i open the coffer, i'll let you know what happens

CoronHR

note: i did drop the heavy shoulder of oathsworn pit, and i wasn't wearing a heavy shoulder. so, i'm a bit sceptical but i'll give it a try anyway

EF321

It's random.

Kite42

If you open 16 boxes and each has a 2/3 probability of not being a heavy piece, then the probability of getting 16 non-heavy pieces in a row is (2/3)^16. Your maths is off.

That's about 1 in 660. Not all that unlikely really.

benzenexz

Kite42 wrote: »

If you open 16 boxes and each has a 2/3 probability of not being a heavy piece, then the probability of getting 16 non-heavy pieces in a row is (2/3)^16. Your maths is off.

That's about 1 in 660. Not all that unlikely really.

lol, my stupid mistake, but then again by the factor of 2*16, after dropping 4 or 5 zeros the chance is still too small. I can't even tell if I was just unlucky or too lucky.

CoronHR

i opened a coffer today while wearing a pauldron and i got an arm cops. the journey continues. the long and boring journey continues

DrNukenstein

I love medium, and I always get medium last from the boxes.

Very much not curated. Took like 45 keys to get my shoulder pad this week... but it was so worth it.

allochthons

The shoulder coffers are working as intended. Just tested it, swapping out my worn weight, and that did not affect the coffer drops.

However, the monster heads do seem to match what I was wearing, and for my group as well.

Hapexamendios

No, it has no effect. I was wearing all heavy armor and spent 30 keys. I got both light, both medium and a two of one heavy.

kojou

At this point I think they should make it curated, or divide the DLC vendor into 2 vendors. Its kinda silly how many sets you can get with the one type of box.

SoraJP

kojou wrote: »

At this point I think they should make it curated, or divide the DLC vendor into 2 vendors. Its kinda silly how many sets you can get with the one type of box.

There's so many possible drops in the coffers now, it really should be split.

They should just split the dlc pledges too, since Urgulag has way too many to cycle between compared to the other two. That won't happen though since it will mess with achievements and such.

What they can do is add an assistant to Urgulag, like they did with the event vendors and Master writ vendors. Just give the assistant all the old dlc dungeon pack coffers and create a new 1 key coffer for them, and Urgulag's coffer will now have a more fair pool to draw from.