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Gimme your +15 horror stories!

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  • voidyvoidy ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    My berserker's axe +15'd in under ten tries. I was very happy. Evidently ... that act used up my good luck for the rest of the year, because my priest's starfall staff has taken so many tries that I've lost count. Over 80 by now. I don't even try anymore. It'll probably be stuck at +14 forever. And thanks to our developers who are so good at balancing healing classes, a +0 unmasterworked slaughter staff that some guy looted for free can heal for more than my +14 starfall weapon that's probably cost well over 400,000 gold to enchant. Great job devs! So glad that when you boosted starfall weapons this patch, you gave an extra attack modifier to my priest's staff while completely ignoring the healing output. Because if there's anything I want to do when I get on my priest, it's attack the boss with zenobia's vortex.

    Honestly if it weren't for the extra lines, I'd have dismantled the thing and sold the feedstock a long time ago.
  • AntmeyerxAntmeyerx ✭
    to make you all more then likely hate me it took 1.2k alk to go +12-15
  • TheGreyWolfTheGreyWolf ✭✭✭
    Antmeyerx wrote: »
    to make you all more then likely hate me it took 1.2k alk to go +12-15

    I hate you. :angry:

    Nah just kidding. Sometimes I have good luck on gear, too. Not usually, but every once in a blue moon. (praise be to Skywhale)
  • AntmeyerxAntmeyerx ✭
    TheGreyWolf wrote: »
    Antmeyerx wrote: »
    to make you all more then likely hate me it took 1.2k alk to go +12-15

    I hate you. :angry:

    Nah just kidding. Sometimes I have good luck on gear, too. Not usually, but every once in a blue moon. (praise be to Skywhale)

    yeah i have a feeling that i used my luck on that wep lol
  • ruckusruckus ✭
    edited July 2016
    Finally +13 SF gloves after 260+ tries yesterday,for some reason I've always had bad rng but especially w/ gloves.Got a few to 15-18% correction before when we had that using the old methods.
    Also took my SF chest 185+ tries to+13 but then went to +15 in 7* after.
  • VysseVysse ✭✭✭
    Hi guys. Just did my Brawler weapon today in 15 tries. Have fun!
  • TheGreyWolfTheGreyWolf ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Vysse wrote: »
    Hi guys. Just did my Brawler weapon today in 15 tries. Have fun!

    Oh so apparently brawlers even have advantage in RNG. :angry:

    Maybe you guys should get buffed even more with like an OP healing skill so that you can be tank, dps, and healer all at the same time.

    I'm sure that little circle icon thingy on your avatar had nothing to do with your sudden "magical RNG boost". NOTHING at all.



    :lol: Nah just kidding. :lol: Conspiracy theories are fun tho, aren't they? =)


    Oh hey, on a side note, while we're talking conspiracy theories... so um let's say I were to buy $100 worth of EMP... you think the GMs could like hook me up with a temporary RNG boost? For like enchanting and elite boxes and maybe something nice from Kyra's shack? You know, just a one time thing... shhh nobody has to know... just do me a P2W solid here... k? Since you're besties with the CMs and all... =)
  • BanimBanim ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    With my Generation axe and priest chest I didn't invest much. This was back in the day where failing took you back to +12. I stopped at +14 for both. I didn't have as much money and materials in the FoA patch so I just decided to not risk it. I spent a lot on plumes and such too so yeah.

    The next patch, my Lucid axe took 115 tries to +15. That was by far my worst, but the rest of my VMs haven't been bad. I didn't make anything for my Priest this patch, just stuck to Schisma + Generation chest.

    For the Forsaken Island patch, my Starfall axe was about 75ish tries. For my priest, Starfall chest was around 75 too.
    Later on, during this patch, I made Starfall gloves and boots and they took less than 50 each IIRC.

    My Imperator axe was incredibly lucky. 25 tries total for +15, I got all the rolls I wanted and 3% in less than 1k spellbind too.
    I made an Imperator staff yesterday and that took 50 or 60 (I think 60) so not too bad either.

    My Tera rewards is tier 5, that apparently gives an extra 1% enchant success. I dunno if it helps, but yeah.

    Not much of a nightmare here, just RNG being RNG. I consider my Lucid axe to have been very bad and subsequent VMs made up for it. That 115 tries is probably nothing compared to the bad luck some other people have had though.

    PS: I never bought EMP in my life, everything I got was always earned through in-game means.
  • TheGreyWolfTheGreyWolf ✭✭✭
    Banim wrote: »
    With my Generation axe and priest chest I didn't invest much. This was back in the day where failing took you back to +12. I stopped at +14 for both. I didn't have as much money and materials in the FoA patch so I just decided to not risk it. I spent a lot on plumes and such too so yeah.

    The next patch, my Lucid axe took 115 tries to +15. That was by far my worst, but the rest of my VMs haven't been bad. I didn't make anything for my Priest this patch, just stuck to Schisma + Generation chest.

    For the Forsaken Island patch, my Starfall axe was about 75ish tries. For my priest, Starfall chest was around 75 too.
    Later on, during this patch, I made Starfall gloves and boots and they took less than 50 each IIRC.

    My Imperator axe was incredibly lucky. 25 tries total for +15, I got all the rolls I wanted and 3% in less than 1k spellbind too.
    I made an Imperator staff yesterday and that took 50 or 60 (I think 60) so not too bad either.

    My Tera rewards is tier 5, that apparently gives an extra 1% enchant success. I dunno if it helps, but yeah.

    Not much of a nightmare here, just RNG being RNG. I consider my Lucid axe to have been very bad and subsequent VMs made up for it. That 115 tries is probably nothing compared to the bad luck some other people have had though.

    PS: I never bought EMP in my life, everything I got was always earned through in-game means.

    I absolutely believe you. Everybody always jumps to "P2W!" conclusion when people get +15, but the reality is that most people with +15 just grinded a lot. Nobody is "swiping" $500 USD to get one stupid BiS weapon. Or at least if anybody is, they're really stupid. That's way too much money to spend on a piece of gear; and besides, do you know how many costumes that could have bought??? O.o Costumes much more important than +15 anyway.
  • sanj66sanj66 ✭✭✭✭
    hmmm the worst would have to be my warrior's chest piece, took 150+ tries to go from +14 to 15 in all spent maybe like 250+ attempts on it, the chest piece alone took more attempts than the other 3 pieces combined, it was the most depressing run of rng for me next to my shadowvain ring that still does not have 4 crit and 4 power after 2500+ ses.....
  • HysphericalHyspherical ✭✭✭
    110-120 attempts is the norm for me. I had a friend who took about 190. Amazingly, they still play.
  • Concepcion30Concepcion30 ✭✭✭
    Hyspherical wrote: »
    I had a friend who took about 190. Amazingly, they still play.


    That is saying a lot right there. Awakening is enough to make many people quit the game. I took 80 tries to +15 one weapon, and believe there were a lot of days I had other stuff to do and just stopped playing after a bunch of fails for the whole day.

    The sad thing is that currently +12 slaughter is all you need to beat anything in the game at the moment. But the draw of having that pretty fiery weapon and seeing a lot of people actually succeed at it too makes you feel you should have it as well.

    Honestly it's a double edged sword to have this pretty thing in game that may be just out of your reach, and ultimately the final nail in your Tera gaming career coffin.
  • PolairePolaire ✭✭
    131 tries to +15 my armor..
    78 tries so far for my wep and it's +13 :(
  • ChiSauChiSau ✭✭
    Stopped counting at 100. Probably around 130 for SF scythes.
  • VysseVysse ✭✭✭
    TheGreyWolf wrote: »
    Vysse wrote: »
    Hi guys. Just did my Brawler weapon today in 15 tries. Have fun!

    Oh so apparently brawlers even have advantage in RNG. :angry:

    Maybe you guys should get buffed even more with like an OP healing skill so that you can be tank, dps, and healer all at the same time.

    I'm sure that little circle icon thingy on your avatar had nothing to do with your sudden "magical RNG boost". NOTHING at all.



    :lol: Nah just kidding. :lol: Conspiracy theories are fun tho, aren't they? =)


    Oh hey, on a side note, while we're talking conspiracy theories... so um let's say I were to buy $100 worth of EMP... you think the GMs could like hook me up with a temporary RNG boost? For like enchanting and elite boxes and maybe something nice from Kyra's shack? You know, just a one time thing... shhh nobody has to know... just do me a P2W solid here... k? Since you're besties with the CMs and all... =)

    Haha please....if that were true I would have gotten a Felicity from my Elite boxes by now....the truth is I do have a method that does seem to work but it was working long before I become a Player Council member....
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