Yeah yeah, I know it has been said before, but it is still no less frustrating. WHAT is the rate for silver/jeweled chests as rewards for completing free play in events? I'm 10 resets in and 10 silver chests up, and this is a recurring pattern with every event.

they should really think about giving out pity jeweled chests if you go through a boss area X amount of times without getting one.

Yeah it's uncanny how it's usually the one gear slot you really, really want that you just can't seem to get... :o

Andreas, I mentioned this a while ago in a different thread, but I've had the idea of having the drop rate of silver/jeweled event chests be linked to the progression through the chapter before a reset. Ergo, your chance of getting a jeweled chest would be higher if you reached area 500 compared to if you reached area 250. I mean, that's how idols work, so why not event chests?

Well, yes, the higher you get the higher your bonus in idol gain is. However, this was implemented with a T3 Talent and I would say that more powerful players benefiting from it rather than beginner players is easier to sell to the community than for event chests.

I'm not even writing about its implementation without being exploitable. I think every player should have the same chance regardless whether it's the first event he/she ever played, or the 100th. If you spend 2,500 event currency and make it through the free play, you have the same chance. The benefit you have if you are more powerful are the event objectives and the tiers themselves.

As written for the pity-timer. From my perspective, weighing in your level gain wouldn't lead to solving this case. Players would argue the weighting is too low or the numbers are wrong. I.e. if your chance to get a Jeweled Event Chest is at 90% if you have reached lvl 700 during FP, players who get up to 900 would argue it's too easy, while players who only get up to 600 are arguing it's too difficult. I'm not even touching the fact that even with 90% probability you could fail twice in a row...

Long Story short: Randomness, with or without weighting, is cruel. Especially in combination with our very human nature to see patterns and explanations everywhere.

[edit]@ Snow: Nah, I did a mistake back then. I finished up the gear mission and then realized I got the recipe just half an hour earlier. But I think Erika mentioned what would happen if it was the other way around: If you get an epic through crafting while you are running the last gear mission, it should disenchant the piece of gear giving you crafting material. Never tried it, though since Billy was the last T1 eventer to get epic gear ... and yeah, the cufflinks of course had to wait until the very end -.-' :)

Need remember free play objective always have chance get silver chests on every try. But we can buy jeweled chest from shop for 11250 points with 100% results. This is personal choose: risk or safe.