crate duplicates question

bridgetrose · April 2021

Say I bought 4 crates and ended up with three duplicates, do the gems you get for the duplicates amount to what it would cost you to buy that item were you to buy it?

redlink1979 · April 2021

No, items cost more gems than the duplicates give you.

bridgetrose · April 2021

redlink1979 wrote: »

No, items cost more gems than the duplicates give you.

Thanks. That's kind of what I figured but it sort of sucks.

bluebird · April 2021

bridgetrose wrote: »

redlink1979 wrote: »

No, items cost more gems than the duplicates give you.

Thanks. That's kind of what I figured but it sort of sucks.

Yupp. It really does.

It's even worse that we get tons of trash collectibles that we can't even extract for gems. Back in the day, Crates used to drop whole Motif Books, which would go in your inventory and you could extract them for gems. Then, starting with the Psijic Scam Crates, they added Motif Pages individually, diluting the already crappy drop rates - but at least you were able to extract them for gems and at least the Pyandonean motif had an ingame source too (after much initial outcry).

But now, we get individual Style Pages that go directly into your collections rather than into your inventory (and therefore can't be extracted for gems if you don't want them), and which also only come from Crates and have no ingame way of getting them, and they are added to the drops armor piece by piece, resulting in a diluted pool of trash that nobody wants to draw. So I think even ZOS can't argue against the fact that the Crates became more exploitative and less playerfriendly over time. Shame, really.

Danikat · April 2021

If I remember correctly a duplicate item gives you 1/3 the gems it costs to buy it, but it's been a while since I've opened any crates (since whenever they last did free ones) so I may be remembering it it wrong.