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Wipe VoD Slasher Offline Posts: 1917 Joined: Mar 26^th, 2012 Gender:	Loot gems working properly ? Feb 9^th, 2014 at 11:44am	Print Post
	Is it just me ( aka no statistics or anything ) but I constantly get ml 26 -27 shit from EE Wheloon, Tracker, Break in Ice with 2 gem going. Or are Wondrous ml 28 ( +11 ) in separate or bonus table ? My lower level friend keep pulling better loot than me, no gem or anything. In general it almost seems I get worse shit with a loot gem despite higher reroll costs ( that would indicate higher chest level ). Or maybe it's all in my head.


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Dullknife Merkinspotter Offline Posts: 826 Joined: Nov 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #1 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 12:25pm	Print Post
	Loot gems are a crapshoot, in my experience. Only ever use them to free up inv space.


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NOTpopejubal Epic Poster Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 4096 Location: Let go or get dragged. Joined: Apr 17^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 12:39pm	Print Post
	I don't know where I've gotten my loot gems from in the past (honestly, I have genuinely no idea - they just show up sometimes), but I would only bother using them on +Loot weekends. That's why I still have them lying around.


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notajedi Stormreaver Piker Offline What idiot puts personal information here? Gunga Posts: 528 Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 1:13pm	Print Post
	I agree with Pope. If I know I am not going to run a quest again, I don't get the end reward. Such as, you know a holiday weekend is coming up in a couple of weeks. Don't cash your end reward. When a loot weekend happens, I also consume a gem, and the end reward loot is noticeable better. Personally, I have always thought loot gems never worked and just the fact of the loot weekend makes them seem better.


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Athanor Waterworks Kobold Offline Carpe Diem! Posts: 112 Location: Xixon Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 2:26pm	Print Post
	notajedi wrote on Feb 9^th, 2014 at 1:13pm: I agree with Pope. If I know I am not going to run a quest again, I don't get the end reward.� Such as, you know a holiday weekend is coming up in a couple of weeks.� Don't cash your end reward. When a loot weekend happens, I also consume a gem, and the end reward loot is noticeable better.� Personally, I have always thought loot gems never worked and just the fact of the loot weekend makes them seem better. Yes, that's a nice "tactic". One strange thing that happen to me, I have some low level quest rewards pending for my future TR (space problem) and with the coming of Risia I wrote one end reward with a nice low level weapon, so go there to claim it and found that the entire list had changed, don't know if it's because I used a LR or the past two updates change that, but I go through all that rewards pending to be sure, yes, all rewards were new.

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dfour Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 4 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2013	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #5 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 3:29pm	Print Post
	There is a post on the official forums about loot caps. You can look at your plat/gold to determine the chest level that you received. At least at high level loot caps at level+5 or 30 without a jewel of fortune or 31 with a jewel of fortune. So you need to be level 26+ with a jewel of fortune to get level 31 loot.


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NOTpopejubal Epic Poster Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 4096 Location: Let go or get dragged. Joined: Apr 17^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #6 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 3:48pm	Print Post
	Athanor wrote on Feb 9^th, 2014 at 2:26pm: Yes, that's a nice "tactic". One strange thing that happen to me, I have some low level quest rewards pending for my future TR (space problem) and with the coming of Risia I wrote one end reward with a nice low level weapon, so go there to claim it and found that the entire list had changed, don't know if it's because I used a LR or the past two updates change that, but I go through all that rewards pending to be sure, yes, all rewards were new. When they restart the servers, the loot lists change. That can be useful when you are sitting on your 20th completion and don't like anything that's on the list. I'll freely admit that I don't know how restart-y the "restart" has to be, so don't count on it after every patch or update. I tend to just say fuck it and pick some crap instead of waiting, but lists absolutely can change.


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cdr Horoluth Raider Offline sleetstormer Posts: 2813 Joined: Dec 29^th, 2011	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #7 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 4:33pm	Print Post
	+21 loot (+11 on a single affix) is in the random loot table, but only seemingly at an extremely low %. Hard to say what chests would be good for it or whether gems help much without someone dumping the tables. +20 loot is so extremely common because of the static drops in chain rewards. If there weren't the static +20 drops in Wheloon/Storm Horns chain reward, +20 would be pretty rare. dfour wrote on Feb 9^th, 2014 at 3:29pm: There is a post on the official forums about loot caps. You can look at your plat/gold to determine the chest level that you received. At least at high level loot caps at level+5 or 30 without a jewel of fortune or 31 with a jewel of fortune. So you need to be level 26+ with a jewel of fortune to get level 31 loot. That was prior to the tables getting FOSed with U19. All bets are off now until the tables get dumped again.
	« Last Edit: Feb 9^th, 2014 at 4:37pm by cdr »

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Wipe VoD Slasher Offline Posts: 1917 Joined: Mar 26^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #8 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 6:23pm	Print Post
	Yeah, Jewels worked before ( like many I famed EH Highroad chests with jewel or during bonus loot, or adq or chains of course� for 4 - 5 upgrades ). At lvl 28, with 2 gem, in EEs it seems all wonky. Or maybe those +11 stat items are in special table. My friend at lvl 26 and no gem pulled 11 wis wizardry goggles in EE Mirror beholder chest . Then later 11 wis accuracy neck from EE Break in Ice. And I can be 28 with 2 gem and keep pulling 26 - 27 shit� Bah, who knows. And thanks for the info.
	« Last Edit: Feb 9^th, 2014 at 6:30pm by Wipe »

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Sim-Sala-Bim Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Wha...? Posts: 5356 Joined: Nov 2^nd, 2013 Gender:	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #9 - Feb 10^th, 2014 at 2:04am	Print Post
	NOTpopejubal wrote on Feb 9^th, 2014 at 12:39pm: I don't know where I've gotten my loot gems from in the past (honestly, I have genuinely no idea - they just show up sometimes), but I would only bother using them on +Loot weekends.� That's why I still have them lying around. You can get them from the daily dice rolls and also from the achievements in the monster manuals where you have to click on the accomplished achievement to get the corresponding award (some of which are jewels of fortune) transferred to you.


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eighnuss Epic Poster Offline ด้้้้้ ͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩ ͩͩͩͩͩͩ Posts: 3532 Location: ด้้้้้็็็็็้้้้้็็็็็ ͩͩͩͩͩͩͩ Joined: Jan 30^th, 2013	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #10 - Feb 11^th, 2014 at 11:58am	Print Post
	I believe there are other factors involved in loot rolls that are not documented or proven to exist, which have an unexpected interaction along side chest buffing or loot boosts.

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dfour Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 4 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2013	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #11 - Feb 11^th, 2014 at 1:20pm	Print Post
	cdr wrote on Feb 9^th, 2014 at 4:33pm: +21 loot (+11 on a single affix) is in the random loot table, but only seemingly at an extremely low %. Hard to say what chests would be good for it or whether gems help much without someone dumping the tables. +20 loot is so extremely common because of the static drops in chain rewards. If there weren't the static +20 drops in Wheloon/Storm Horns chain reward, +20 would be pretty rare. That was prior to the tables getting FOSed with U19. All bets are off now until the tables get dumped again. No those numbers were as of the introduction of the level 28 quest. That is why I ditched chest blessing. Watch your gold/plat amounts and compare different level characters with and without a chest blessed.


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Skrilla Puppy Farmer Offline Posts: 1362 Joined: Dec 12^th, 2013	Re: Loot gems working properly ? Reply #12 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 4:28am	Print Post
	Those things rob me.. fuck using them..


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