Plats Waste Of Money?

So I Decided To Buy 50$ Worth In Plats(600) Today Sadly for The FIrst Time. I Spent All my gold on locks and opened all... Sad To Say I Only Got A Bunch Of Needless Armour that sells for about 1k. Started the openeing with 15k and got 280k from getting 2k cold in it. If I Sell All The Cheap armour I Might Get 350k max. And I Thought Transfering Plats to gold was a waste of money :( . If I Traded the money I Would've gotted 600k instead of 350k max... This Made Me Feel So Butthurt and Im So Discouraged from Buying Plats Ever Again. I Told My Guildies and Some of them said they've spent up to 300$ in plats, Opened all In Locks and Got Absolutely Nothing Good. And This Was in x2 Weekend So I Wonder How Hard It Is To Get Rarae Items During The Normal Season. Is It Just Me Or Are Plats A Big Money Drainer If You Dont Spend Thousands...???

You shoulda been here when locks were 15k each. Uou actually lost gold too from opening them

Welcome to Arcane Legends

Opening locked crates is a gamble, and like all gambles, the house usually wins... I open the odd one here and there but most people get junk all or most of the time. Only open crates if you understand it's a gamble and that you will likely get nothing :)

In saying that, plat itself is not a waste of time. These plat purchasable pet crates (except the last one) have been a good money spinner (15plat each selling for around up to 50k), or as many do you can buy ankhs or respec kits and sell them in the auction house. Or, wait for an event and buy energy to sell, or wait til a mythic pet is available in egg form (like Abaddon recently) and stock up and sell them.. lots of ways to convert plat into gold!

I hammered away at a few free offers and managed to open my first ever 4 locks.....for 2ks and a trash legendary
The lesson here is i have never been lucky and i know i never will be, so i don't take the chance at all ;)

One person 2 lock open he loot arcane shard stupid sts luck giving useless the items

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yesterday my friend opened 20 locks and he got samuel in his 10th lock and maridos in his 20th lock...he is a twink so try opening locks at low levels

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Originally Posted by Litheus

yesterday my friend opened 20 locks and he got samuel in his 10th lock and maridos in his 20th lock...he is a twink so try opening locks at low levels

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Maybe this works.. it says best gear for ur lvl, most arcane items (eggs,shard etc) are lv1 so try making lv1 toon

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it is all luck one lvl15 guildie got a sam egg on 3lock where a lvl16 guildie opened over 100locks and got no arcane and 5ethyl eggs wkwk

When I have plats and need gold I buy 10x 50% xp kits and sell them they go fast and sell for a decent amount

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Originally Posted by Dragoonclaws

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You can make a lot of gold with plat but opening locked with it is one of the worst ways to do it. Selling kits/vanities/pets that are plat purchased are the best.

What you did was take your whole paycheck and spend it in a casino. You may win big but most likely you will leave broke.

Its pure gambling depend on your luck, you should know this from beginning

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Originally Posted by Thejulien

So I Decided To Buy 50$ Worth In Plats(600) Today Sadly for The FIrst Time. I Spent All my gold on locks and opened all... Sad To Say I Only Got A Bunch Of Needless Armour that sells for about 1k. Started the openeing with 15k and got 280k from getting 2k cold in it. If I Sell All The Cheap armour I Might Get 350k max. And I Thought Transfering Plats to gold was a waste of money :( . If I Traded the money I Would've gotted 600k instead of 350k max... This Made Me Feel So Butthurt and Im So Discouraged from Buying Plats Ever Again. I Told My Guildies and Some of them said they've spent up to 300$ in plats, Opened all In Locks and Got Absolutely Nothing Good. And This Was in x2 Weekend So I Wonder How Hard It Is To Get Rarae Items During The Normal Season. Is It Just Me Or Are Plats A Big Money Drainer If You Dont Spend Thousands...???

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hmmm i will try again withlvl 1 toon

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Originally Posted by Thejulien

hmmm i will try again withlvl 1 toon

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I wouldnt if i were you. Locks are always a big disapointment. Only reason you should spend real money is if you are rich in real life and money isnt an issue

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Originally Posted by Litheus

yesterday my friend opened 20 locks and he got samuel in his 10th lock and maridos in his 20th lock...he is a twink so try opening locks at low levels

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Chances at mythics or arcanes are equal for all lvls. Opening at low lvls will make 0 difference

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Originally Posted by Wutzgood

You can make a lot of gold with plat but opening locked with it is one of the worst ways to do it. Selling kits/vanities/pets that are plat purchased are the best.

What you did was take your whole paycheck and spend it in a casino. You may win big but most likely you will leave broke.

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I wasted $200 on plat during a plat sale for 0 mythics. Somebody i know opened 15k plat worth of locks for a like 3 mythics. Lesson learned, locks are a scam. Spend your plat on guaranteed returns; ie, mythic eggs, luck kits, egg crates, ankhs, etc.. Since i started doin that ive been much happier because no dissapointment and I know how much gold Ill get in advance.

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Originally Posted by Thejulien

So I Decided To Buy 50$ Worth In Plats(600) Today Sadly for The FIrst Time. I Spent All my gold on locks and opened all... Sad To Say I Only Got A Bunch Of Needless Armour that sells for about 1k. Started the openeing with 15k and got 280k from getting 2k cold in it. If I Sell All The Cheap armour I Might Get 350k max. And I Thought Transfering Plats to gold was a waste of money :( . If I Traded the money I Would've gotted 600k instead of 350k max... This Made Me Feel So Butthurt and Im So Discouraged from Buying Plats Ever Again. I Told My Guildies and Some of them said they've spent up to 300$ in plats, Opened all In Locks and Got Absolutely Nothing Good. And This Was in x2 Weekend So I Wonder How Hard It Is To Get Rarae Items During The Normal Season. Is It Just Me Or Are Plats A Big Money Drainer If You Dont Spend Thousands...???

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Yes they are a huge money drainer. Save your money or do what i mentioned above

i find that with platinum .. you can't buy good premium stuff in the store which is quite nab.. most good item are luck base and drops on crates

I would say they are complete waste of platinum, opened a quite a few myself this weekend..

However they're also ppl who are able to loot fossils/arcane shards/arcane eggs by popping just a few and make more money than u probably will in an year. Just kinda makes u lose all faith in this game. I've played pl for 2 years and now arcane legends yet i still feel sts has an extremely broken loot/randomizing system.

it kinda depicts ur luck in a way that it will remain stagnant forever, if u are unlucky u will remain unlucky. Sad to say even though i have a alot of experience with sts i was still tempted to throw away my plat at locks. I will not make this mistake again.

They do need to sort the loot system out from the locks because at the moment it is ridiculous. I think they should actually scrap that 2k loot out of the locked because spending real money on plats and pop 25 locks in a row only getting 2k 2k 2k and then open next one and get some ugly frog 2k 2k then your next 10 its back to the the three 2k's again its messed up system, its basically daylight robbery

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True opening Locks & being Ultra Lucky enough nowadays to get an arcane item is the quickest way to make the Millions of gold needed in Arcane Legends to gear your toon with the strongest items/pets. It is a gamble and it is understood about arcane rarity etc;

BUT, one major issue is the amount of money ppl spend to purchase platinum & receive ZERO for it. Example players spends $300 of real money to buy platinum in hopes of getting high end item. Now we all know its a random drop rate but it seems the Drop Rate has been altered just like when the drop rate of Essences (At one time you would get 6-8 essence drops for 1 person in brackeridge zone just fighting to 1st boss) was altered and the Drop rate of Lock Chest (At one time 2 or sometimes more locked chest would drop for 1person fighting to Brackeridge boss) until it was altered by sts to be alot less frequent. I remember when using Lep amulet / get a Luck elixir from Shazbot & you would get a atleast 1 locked chest out of every 5 runs in Brackenridge or 2 - 3 out of evry 5 runs in Mines. But those days have gone due to drop reduction, where it can take on average about 15 - 20 brackenridge runs to see 2 or 3 Locked Chest drop in total for ppl on the map not just for one person like it used to be.

Just a question but when was the last time any of you had paid a significant amount of money, spent that money and not received anything? That's like walking into an electronics store hoping to get a new Laptop.. handing the salesman your $500 etc; and then just walking out of the store empty handed.

The real problem is, because drop rates in locks are secret none of the player base can TRULY tell if its Actually Double Odds. It honestly seems like the normal lowered drop rates from the locks. The only reason you may see more arcane/mythic in Auction is because ppl are opening WAY more locks than they would normally. I get it StS makes their money, but its a Two Way Street... kinda bummed out on seeing SO MANY negative Locks post after ppl have spent SO much of their hard earned money.

I think the random drop is appropriate, but the % rate needs to be increased like yesterday. It's no way multiple ppl should invest Hundreds to even Thousands of dollars and keep walking away empty handed. In the Stock Market an investment of your money in that way is called a BAD INVESTMENT.

Hope this honest post & its truthful concern... isnt deleted by mods etc as many seem to be :( Just expressing a real issue FAR TOO MANY AL players have far to often.

My guildie got 1 singe in locked in this week

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Originally Posted by griokadib

My guildie got 1 singe in locked in this week

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Not to say you NEVER get an arcane from locked and yes they're post here & there like yours stating I or a friend got an arcane item opening 5 locks or so or even i opened 1000 locks. Arcane/Mythic items are supposed to drop from locked crates "thats the only way to get many of the arcane/mythic items in the game" So yes, no1 is debating that u CAN get one.. ppl are frustrated about the HUGE discprepancy with the Percentage % drop rate. One Post topic asked "How much money/Plat does it take before Good Item" - you can read the OP's concern buying a large amount of Plat & the percentage of drops he recieved- and imo that's the kind of post topic that shouldn't be happening.

Grats to your friend but the point being made is a different one.

I had a lep, elixer and egg ring PROC going for me when I opened crates this weekend. I still got mostly nothing but money and cheap pinks. I did manage to get one orange (underpowered) item for my rogue, but that's about it, nothing red, 8^(. I actually ended up with better luck with the gold eggs, got another ring after maybe 20 eggs.

It really does bite to get 6k when you spent actual cash to open something, especially when that 15 plat could have been told into 30,000 gold instead.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixPrime

I had a lep, elixer and egg ring PROC going for me when I opened crates this weekend. I still got mostly nothing but money and cheap pinks. I did manage to get one orange (underpowered) item for my rogue, but that's about it, nothing red, 8^(. I actually ended up with better luck with the gold eggs, got another ring after maybe 20 eggs.

It really does bite to get 6k when you spent actual cash to open something, especially when that 15 plat could have been told into 30,000 gold instead.

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I hope the lep, elixir, and egg ring made you feel lucky because there is no possibility of a re-roll when you open locked crates. :(

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Originally Posted by PhoenixPrime

I had a lep, elixer and egg ring PROC going for me when I opened crates this weekend. I still got mostly nothing but money and cheap pinks. I did manage to get one orange (underpowered) item for my rogue, but that's about it, nothing red, 8^(. I actually ended up with better luck with the gold eggs, got another ring after maybe 20 eggs.

It really does bite to get 6k when you spent actual cash to open something, especially when that 15 plat could have been told into 30,000 gold instead.

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Agreed that the lock loot is ridiculous but you do know that lepre/elixir dont have effect on popping locks right?

Edward and merch_master...

I missed the memo about re-rolls not applying to crates... That explains a lot.

I thought I had read all the important player guides, but clearly I missed one.

So the re-rolls only work on monsters then? Not chests, crates and other items?

BTW, Thanks for the clarification.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixPrime

Edward and merch_master...

I missed the memo about re-rolls not applying to crates... That explains a lot.

I thought I had read all the important player guides, but clearly I missed one.

So the re-rolls only work on monsters then? Not chests, crates and other items?

BTW, Thanks for the clarification.

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the reroll works when you loot an item,as in loot in while you are running a map.
Opening of crates doesn't come under that.
Atleast you know now ;)....good luck popping them

Naaah its not just u.. its happened to many plats buyers.. Including me :(

Totally agreed with ur comments.. These are our voices..
to sts please do something about it

I went on a lock opening binge once and got a bunch of ethyls. Everytime I saw a crate number go up my heart jumped. Then I see legendary Ethyl and I want to go back to sleep forever :(

Jayyyyyy! I just had to respond in this post because Jay replied and I see that awesome siggy. hehe.

to the OP, don't pop locks. You're competing against people who farm platinum. Basically they cheat to get a boat load of platinum and they use their plat they didn't spend real money on to open locks. You have no chance of ever making as much gold or looting as many items as the people who cheat and I'd hate to see you waste more of your hard earned money that you could spend much more wisely on real world items or console games!

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Originally Posted by Pandamoni

Jayyyyyy! I just had to respond in this post because Jay replied and I see that awesome siggy. hehe.

to the OP, don't pop locks. You're competing against people who farm platinum. Basically they cheat to get a boat load of platinum and they use their plat they didn't spend real money on to open locks. You have no chance of ever making as much gold or looting as many items as the people who cheat and I'd hate to see you waste more of your hard earned money that you could spend much more wisely on real world items or console games!

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Pandaaaa! Please tell me you're coming back :'(

Spending plat at the right time and selling at the right time is key and much better than popping locks for example I was selling jester sets for 90-100k each and bought a lot of them for 25 plat and made a lot from event pet crates by selling them for 50-60k.

I learnt the hard way from locks and won't ever open them again

I was actually told by an STS support person that because this is based on odds (gambling) it is possible to literally possible to open 1000's of locked crates and get nothing. It is all based on luck and averages. You spend enough or get really lucky you will get something.