Promethium Keys On Sale! Plus, Lockbox Drop Rates Increased!

SUPER GREAT!!!

YES RAPTOR TECH BACK IS GONNA DROP FAST NOW.

Damn you chillcat always beat me to the good news. Shame on you.

Mepps can we see if we can make this a once a month thing. It would be nice. A weekend once a month were increased prom boxes drop.

This would be nice if it could happen more frequently! I can't wait to get off work and play!

do we need to get one before the drop rate increases like last time?

Hate to be "that" guy but I wish boxes drop more frequently for subs.

lockboxes....ok

at a bare minimum. since mid july when the lockbox change was announced i've gotten at a BARE MINIMUM of 164 lockboxes and still have not recieved the style i've been looking for for over a year.

for 82 days at 2 lockboxes a day thats 164.

This is not including the (estimated) 20 lockboxes i saved to open on revamp day.

This does not include when the drop rate from the lockboxes were increased the first time (so i may have gotten 4 instead of 2 a day for a period of time)

This does not include the days that i have gotten 3 lockboxes instead of the base of 2.

my advice to anyone that's not legendary is don't buy the keys save your time, resources, and effort until they are able to come out with a viable method of obtaining cross-faction styles.

(side note for anyone that's going to say "well you get other items other than just a style" if you're going to buy this key for items like repair bots,etc.., then buy them in bulk from the market place and don't spend resources a slim fraction of a chance and end up spending money on something you don't want at all.)

I'm going to try to put this in a nice way so this isn't ignored, but this "lockbox sale event" is not the right way to go about doing this. From a logical standpoint, you should be getting at least 3 lockboxes a day with the increased drop rate. Given the event is 13 days, that's 40+ lockboxes. 40+ lockboxes given the sale is $25+ on random styles for a f2p/premium member. Better option would be going legendary by far, but if those people aren't legendary already, what incentive makes them pay $15 for a random style? They won't pay $15 for unlimited money/dlc's but they'll pay $15 for a chance at a purple aura? If you wanted to find a way to make money from lockboxes/lockbox keys PERMANENTLY, here's my idea: change the way lockboxes work. Given the current system of picking lockbox loot, you have the opportunity to do something beneficial to both parties. Make opening a lockbox with the "free opening from legendary" give a loot table with random styles like how it is. However, if you use a lockbox key, then you get to pick what style set your random styles come from (of course these picked from styles can be limited to not interfere with other game mechanics meant to increase play time). An example of this would be say instead of opening a lockbox and getting 2 different styles, I can use a lockbox key and say "hey i want 2 random styles from the punchline set." That way I spend money on something that I want, but given the fact it's still random, if I only want 1-2 styles, I'll still be buying several keys. I have a friend that wants vengeful surgeon stuff, android stuff, phantom zone etc. With everything he listed, under this idea, he would be spending $10+ on styles but at least he would get what he wanted and you guys managed to get money from a legendary person that normally wouldn't have spent money to begin given they have free openings. Imo, if you're going to make less than ideal offers to community (like say the batman head for $20) at least make sure we have something that we're happy with. (which I'm sure balkan was very happy to have his batman head xD ) This lockbox deal doesn't seam ideal or at least using the full potential of the system, but that's just my opinion.

Idk whats goin on over there at daybreak.. but these developers are listening more and more.. IM loving it! more money will be thrown your way daybreak guaranteed!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORKS! #dcuo2016

Agreed! Good move Daybreak.
Now if only the styles were tradable on the broker...

It would be nice if the lockbox styles attuned to players specific style list. Not much benefit to players like myself that have all the styles in their respective faction when the same hero styles keep dropping, but anyways, yay for an increased chance.

All im waitin for is:
1) Different outfits with different loadouts for legends. Makes it more versatile, strategic and refreshing.
2) More faces, skins,body types, stances, hairstyles for men.. ESPECIALLY longer hair and HIGHER/TALLER hair
3)Iconic outfit styles, including emblems. The whole set for $10 and under.
4)More reward and sales during weekends instead of weekdays, that last till reset day or a solid week at least lol. Double marks boosters(including PVE or pvp) or weekends that drop double the marks. Similiar to the leveling up booster.
5)Increase health for pvp gear for each cr tier by 12,000. 4000 toughness each cr tier. Example; 96 pvp cr 12,000 raw health. 100 pvp cr 60k health. So on and so forth. A lot of the minor problems solved.
6)PVP BOUNTY missions.. REFER HERE https://forums.daybreakgames.com/dc...-how-pvp-will-make-dcuo-money-pvp2016.260794/
7) MORE OPEN WORLD PVE missions and PVE bounties. Not talking about Solo outside missions. I want to be outside again with a purpose, i miss the old days. Queuing up and LFG is tedious. Wouldnt it be cool if there were raids outside from start to finish?
8) Put those OG auras on marketplace already lol. Ive been playing for like 3-4 years. newcomers will never be able to get them. Either people can take a chance with the random box or buy the OG's at high Marketplace price. for like 50cash.
9) Make DOTS alot stronger like it always shouldve been vs Burst. DOts over time should be OP. Burst should be OP with low health ads or bosses. Thats balance.
10) More tradeable epic styles. and 1 omni GOLD drop per 3 months. Omni gear stats still have better stats with content epic gear. Why not make the OMNI have faceless Cr. or have the same CR as your current chest legs and weapon average.

Most of these are easy money in the bank for DC. lets see what happens in the near future.. Keep in mind most of these suggestions are easily capitalized on the marketplace. Ive been playin for a long while.. ill always continue to support as long as i can. Ive enjoyed every moment good or bad with this game. Thank you daybreak!!

That move would be the death of Booster Boxes, as I know several people (not me) who will spend $100+ dollars for the CHANCE of getting one of the 'special' auras....why do that when you can just stroll to the marketplace and buy one. Besides, if you are willing to spend $50 cash on an OG aura, you can already do that. There are lots of reputable sellers who will sell special auras for in game cash, and we all know you can turn real cash into in-game cash several ways.

Reinheld

I'll pass. Dropping lockboxes is easier than dropping pennies on pixelated keys.

The sale price for Lockbox keys is a lot more reasonable than the usual $2.00 or $2.50 each. I picked up several keys today. Thank you!

Maybe But those $50 OG auras wouldnt be tradeable.. The reg $10 booster bundles would be.. Wouldnt be the death.. MAJORITY of the people wouldnt spend 50 straight out of pocket for an aura.. lol But the main point i was trying to come across is pretty much making them accessible for the new players.. Which also supports the game and brings in consistent cash flow for DCUO. Thats the BIG picture.

Awesome.

Just got mine yesterday from 1st boss Outer Caverns