I give up with Lockboxes. Any suggestions to help here?

[Sethvirfireborn]

I did restart the story so I might try buying from where the progress is. I have tried buying from wherever I am checking the shops, to buying specifically from the one location. Only thing I noticed was that Shondu's I got HEAPS of shotguns, actually mainly just shotguns. And Overpass I got mainly just rocket launchers

[Sanguinesun]

So the last orange I got was 2000+ ego ago, since then nothing but hundreds of greens, blues and the rare occasional purple. I have tried just tier 4, nothing. Heaps of tier 3, nothing. Stuck to buying from one spot, same as before, though I did start to notice that depending on which place I was buying from I tended to get more of one type of weapon.

I am assuming there is no trick to this. Since yesterday afternoon 30+ tier 3 lockboxes and 10 tier 4. Two purples and the rest blue/green.

Here's what you do:

1. Unless you've all weapon skills max'd out, stop worrying about lock boxes. Seriously. You can do just as well with in general with whites with some gen pop mods in them.

2. Use the keycodes for boxes when you max up but otherwise save your ark salvage. Period. Why?

A- Because if you add mod slots to weapons later when you get something you want to mod, it gets pricey in higher ego levels(until they change that).

B- Because if they ever come out with the DLC, those new weapons should be in the mix in the lock boxes giving you chances for getting higher grade versions of them without having to weapon drop grind. So save your ark salvage for that. Keycodes themselves have a hard cap but salvage does not.

3. Stop worry about lock boxes.

I did restart the story so I might try buying from where the progress is. I have tried buying from wherever I am checking the shops, to buying specifically from the one location. Only thing I noticed was that Shondu's I got HEAPS of shotguns, actually mainly just shotguns. And Overpass I got mainly just rocket launchers

Since -nothing- has been made transparent about drops percents or more on things, its all just speculation and a waste. I've gotten a mix and random in lock boxes from any point. Some have also said buying boxes after a server reset/maint gets you better chances but not really.

Just dont worry on lock boxes. Truly its just a misdirection that stresses some personality types over others.

[WarHoundZero]

eh locc boxes aren't that bad. I got a couple of em in spurts but god do I wish we could get purps off of bosses.

[Nexos_Arc]

every bonus loot weekend I convert all my ark salvage to keys and buy lv3 lockboxes.
normally its around 500k ark salvage, which nets me 1 orange from lock boxes.

today I converted +600k and got 1 orange shield. happy, bc I was only missing an orange shield for the orange in each slot" achievement.

[Colif]

My last 2 T4 boxes have had an orange item, last one gave me:

FRC SAW: Assassin synergy
Nano Electric
-30 accuracy
1.10 fire rate
15% self revive on revive other player

Previous box gave me a semi useless Sawed off. Not all legendary items are worth it.

[Sanguinesun]

My last 2 T4 boxes have had an orange item, last one gave me:

FRC SAW: Assassin synergy
Nano Electric
-30 accuracy
1.10 fire rate
15% self revive on revive other player

Previous box gave me a semi useless Sawed off. Not all legendary items are worth it.

That's actually not that great really. I've seen green SAWs with better stats. People really need to start understanding that the color has no importance if the stats are crap on it.

[SpiritumLiberum]

So the last orange I got was 2000+ ego ago, since then nothing but hundreds of greens, blues and the rare occasional purple. I have tried just tier 4, nothing. Heaps of tier 3, nothing. Stuck to buying from one spot, same as before, though I did start to notice that depending on which place I was buying from I tended to get more of one type of weapon.

I am assuming there is no trick to this. Since yesterday afternoon 30+ tier 3 lockboxes and 10 tier 4. Two purples and the rest blue/green.

Farmed some arkslavage up lastnight with the Bonus weekend + Self Loot Boost. Bought 3 t4 Boxes, did not get one purple, although the blues and greens had decent perks, but nothing special. Farmed some more bought 4 t3 lockboxes, got 1 purple (crap) and the rest was greens.

[Colif]

That's actually not that great really. I've seen green SAWs with better stats. People really need to start understanding that the color has no importance if the stats are crap on it.

You are right but I hadn't had a legendary in 2k ego levels so its better than what I had received until now. I intend to keep it, like all my oranges, as I might get lmg to 20 and then max it to see what its extra bonus is.

I know contents of boxes are meant to be random and they mostly are, but its pretty obvious the chances of you getting an orange of a weapon type you prefer are less likely than you getting one of a skill you have no points in at all, or is your lowest. I currently get heaps of pistols as its my lowest score (and the vendors and drops in game are also almost always a weapon type i don't use (You could say that with the range of weapons in game, that is likely to happen but I have several skills high enough now that weapons I can't use well is a very small number) so they use same weight).. for a long time it ws rocket launchers but I am levelling them up now to make game offer me something new...

[Nilxain]

So the last orange I got was 2000+ ego ago, since then nothing but hundreds of greens, blues and the rare occasional purple. I have tried just tier 4, nothing. Heaps of tier 3, nothing. Stuck to buying from one spot, same as before, though I did start to notice that depending on which place I was buying from I tended to get more of one type of weapon.

I am assuming there is no trick to this. Since yesterday afternoon 30+ tier 3 lockboxes and 10 tier 4. Two purples and the rest blue/green.

Damn man I'm sorry, I think I'm getting all your oranges :-( I've opened 14 T4 boxes so far and have gotten 6 oranges (42% drop rate per box, and a 10% drop rate per item - small test sample I know). I feel very lucky considering what I've read of peoples experiences with this system. I wrote a break down of the data and how to make your choice on my clan's forums and one of the things I suggest is: which ever box you pick sick with it. I suggest this because psychologically you set a rhythm for your expectations and changing back and forth can make you feel like nothing is working and you'll never get anything.

[Nilxain]

I know contents of boxes are meant to be random and they mostly are, but its pretty obvious the chances of you getting an orange of a weapon type you prefer are less likely than you getting one of a skill you have no points in at all, or is your lowest. I currently get heaps of pistols as its my lowest score...

This made me think of something: Since there is no AH (and won't be for a while) I would be cool if they made the drop rate a function of your weapon skill level or number of kills with - so that you are more likely to get a weapon that you use.