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Thank you for loot changes on detecting hidden chests

FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 113
edited December 16 in General Discussions
See screenshot, i previously did tests on Vesper prior to patching and the loot was pretty abysmal to say the least. Now its pretty decent. I probably shouldnt post this as everyone will be getting their thieves out. Running 2.5k luck but very very squishy stealth tamer

I can post skills if needed but setup is very very tight and need to carry around extra items to boost certain stats at certain times

But thats a pretty decent haul for one town invasion, 2 Totems from one invasion!!

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  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 650
    Damn, thx for sharing.. i'll have to try to thief now.. u doing more artifact than I do on the paladin without even considering all the rest ^^
    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?
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  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 113
    edited December 16
    only really works in Vesper...rest of the cities pretty tough to get more than 10 artis, go over the bridge in the far NE corner and just do a loop from the start of the bridge down se, around past the bottom of the 2 house between the animal pen in the bottom left corner and repeat...occasionally go in the houses too. Thats it. I now have 5 totems, 4 from Vesper, 1 from Skara (1 failed in Skara),

    My pet tends to get around 25% of the artis
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 650
    noted, the tailor shop outside the city east of the bank.

    Thanks again.
    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?
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  • ChumboWumboChumboWumbo Posts: 22
    May be anecdotal, but I have also noticed that Felucca chests have less "junk" chests (smoke bombs, gem sack, ect). I tend to pop deco arty/grave chests far more often there than Tram.
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  • WhitewolfWhitewolf Posts: 231
    well arent you lucky, last 2 days i have open 500+ chest and not one single totem
  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 113
    Whitewolf said:
    well arent you lucky, last 2 days i have open 500+ chest and not one single totem
    how much luck on your character?
  • LarisaLarisa Posts: 1,214
    Problem with that is...my luck is around 415, I do my chests mostly in Fel for the Fel luck bonus.  I have gotten 2 totems. I bumped my luck up and hit a luck statue just to see the difference? Haven't seen a single totem since.

    Luck is a fickle mistress ;)

  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 113
    Larisa said:
    Problem with that is...my luck is around 415, I do my chests mostly in Fel for the Fel luck bonus.  I have gotten 2 totems. I bumped my luck up and hit a luck statue just to see the difference? Haven't seen a single totem since.

    Luck is a fickle mistress ;)
    i would say good luck...but that wont help :-) 

    if you are doing it with only around 2k luck max i think 2 Totems is a pretty decent result
  • Victim_Of_SiegeVictim_Of_Siege Posts: 2,153
    Larisa said:
    Problem with that is...my luck is around 415, I do my chests mostly in Fel for the Fel luck bonus.  I have gotten 2 totems. I bumped my luck up and hit a luck statue just to see the difference? Haven't seen a single totem since.

    Luck is a fickle mistress ;)
    There's another word for luck, and Fickle aint it.
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  • WhitewolfWhitewolf Posts: 231
    Whitewolf said:
    well arent you lucky, last 2 days i have open 500+ chest and not one single totem
    how much luck on your character?
    well luck has nothing to do with it, but i know some of you are obsessed with it.
     a chance of a greater number of properties on said loot, and a chance that those properties will be of greater intensity. It should be noted, however, that this is only a chance of more and better loot, and that Luck has no direct affect on what specific items will spawn and what specific properties will spawn on those items.
    but to answer your question, i use my t-mapper and has 2830 luck
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 650
    Considering u can buy luck potion from cash shop for more artifacts.. i'd assume luck plays a major role on that RNG.. but RNG is still RNG without law of diminushing return (or the opposite)
    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?
    -UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 113
    Whitewolf said:
    Whitewolf said:
    well arent you lucky, last 2 days i have open 500+ chest and not one single totem
    how much luck on your character?
    well luck has nothing to do with it, but i know some of you are obsessed with it.
     a chance of a greater number of properties on said loot, and a chance that those properties will be of greater intensity. It should be noted, however, that this is only a chance of more and better loot, and that Luck has no direct affect on what specific items will spawn and what specific properties will spawn on those items.
    but to answer your question, i use my t-mapper and has 2830 luck
    yea i think you are right, i tested with 3k+ luck and then spoke to some other chest hunters and they were running much less luck and still had found totems

    Would be nice if they just told us though, so we dont have to speculate, just a simple YES or NO would be nice
  • RhelRhel Posts: 77
    Fenriswolf said:
    See screenshot, i previously did tests on Vesper prior to patching and the loot was pretty abysmal to say the least. Now its pretty decent. I probably shouldnt post this as everyone will be getting their thieves out. Running 2.5k luck but very very squishy stealth tamer

    I can post skills if needed but setup is very very tight and need to carry around extra items to boost certain stats at certain times

    But thats a pretty decent haul for one town invasion, 2 Totems from one invasion!!
    I've not tried my thief since last week, but I'd gotten similar (minus totems) with minimal luck.

    In one vesper run I've pulled ~7 tombstones and ~12 ingots, with another dozen or so random decos all with minimal luck. 

    Unless I missed a dev stating luck affects the chests in the event, I'll remain unconvinced it does.
  • LilyGraceLilyGrace Posts: 991
    KroDuK said:
    Considering u can buy luck potion from cash shop for more artifacts.. i'd assume luck plays a major role on that RNG.. but RNG is still RNG without law of diminushing return (or the opposite)
    The description for Potions of Fortune reads: ..."provides a 50% bonus to all treasures of reward points".

    If I'm understanding correctly how they work, they aren't 'luck potions' per se (even though we call them that). They put the thumb on the scale for points earned for ToT kills, resulting in more drops. They don't raise your luck the way you raise luck for mining niter deposits, or a chance of better loot in TC's, etc. And I guess we're depending on the luck statue (and whatever luck we can cram onto our suits) to give us better chances with RNG when killing mobs. 

    At the end of the day, knowing this difference doesn't help us to know definitively if our luck suits or hitting the statue helps when it comes to this event's spawn chests.  Do they work like treasure chests? I've worn my luck suit the whole time so I can't compare to what wearing a suit without luck would bring or not bring. I can say I don't notice any difference in what I find in spawn chests during my luck hour after hitting the statue.

    It's annoying to not get an answer. I keep wondering why there's such stubbornness involved in not clarifying. What lessons are we supposed to be learning by not knowing for sure? Is the mystery and intrigue supposed to be enjoyable here?  :D Cuz it ain't! This isn't a quest or fun puzzle to solve in an ongoing story.
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