April 2022 Version Update

Terribly lucky. Or fortunately cursed.

Today, on Nickeny's AMAN Luck

So.... Any clue where the new Arc Shield comes from yet? I was expecting to see it on login campaign but nada...

Ambuscade probably

Thought that as well but it was a staff iirc...
(time to double check)

Edit: Troll gun. (I was trolled)

Trump Gun is the weapon in ambuscade, not the shield :s
Edit: nvm, someone beat me to it

Sort of outside the topic but I just realized that if I open only 5 chests then there is an 84% chance that I would at least get a mimic before grabbing the centre chest.

Everyone keeps posting these awesome pools. Don't worry, you can still get horseshit pools from a full clear.

Tourmaline wtf

It was a very heavy "noise" run. I got a single thud and the loud thud rainbow box.

Worth Dropping Loricate +1 for the new Sandy neck? -1DT but 10 VIT and 30 Defense (+3 regen too for the best nation!) seems like it to me?

Loricate has 55~60DEF

Guess ppl can skip Shinryu now, just buy from here

So far I used 20+ Mars orbs. 7 loud thuds, 13+ mimics, 0 recharges on orbs. I always tried to go for loud thud (got mimic on 8th chest 3 times... soooo close ;_;)

0 Crepuscular, 0 Sroda.

It's not that easy to get something good really. There is hundreds of people like me. Keep in minds most people posting here, post good drops only.

I also used 50 sp gobbie keys and got only trash items.

That and demonstrating subpar photoshop skills. But you're right. That and using their dozen+ dollar mules so they'll do it 100 times to the average person's <10.

"Just buy from here" what's hard to get about that? Yes it's probably from those with a billion characters. Which is not at all uncommon these days. Still just p much killed Shinryu BC, lowered necessity to do omen for cards, lessened shard market. Increased Malignance gear and lowered necessity to do Lilith. Just dumb from my point of view, they just keep doing things to take away from the only content really, without adding much to replace it. Grind was part of MMO but i guess it helps Gil value.

Yay I was right. But the *** made me look bad doing it a day late :/

This was a concern I had too. I chuckled when I saw a LS member got malignance chapeau yesterday on a dollar mule when some have tried hundreds of times in the actual BC on their main with no drop. I know... RNG is RNG but you can't say the former out loud and agree it's right by any measure.

Yes, grind is part of an MMO and I'm fine with grinds. I agree with some people that overly excessive grinds do get very mundane and alternate paths are good... just don't make the alternate so appealing that we forget the original.

Pelt is like 380k each so your drop is better than mine lol. I've had worse drops with a rainbow.

Not even a paragon bst card??

Yeah you can definitely get screwed on some drops lol.
4 chest + Loud and only 1 drop lol

I will guess there will be like 1 Crepuscular Knife or Cloak per 500 orbs maybe. It will sell for hundred of millions first, which is far over its real value. You will basically need to pay for it's rarity. So normal person who wants it for slight improvements and wants to pay for it lets say 50M will need to wait months probably until gilbuyers will stop buying it and price will drop. Buying from AMAN is 100% not an alternative way to get those items now for people who still have much better things to buy and was farming Shinryu. I will personally still farm Shinryu, because there is no way I will pay 200M for Knife or Cloak. Basically those items are too rare for what they offer and are not worth the price tag inflated by that rarity, if you need them to use them, not just for show off.

Stockpile Spent!

So my plan was to pop up to 3 chests. If I saw the "Belligerent Bang" message I kept going, if not I opened the Terminal Coffer.

Mars (40)
14 Mimics
3 Loud Thuds     
2 loaded rainbow chests on Enter (Loud Thud)     
21 orbs didn't give the "Belligerent Bang" message 

Loud Thud drops were: Voidhand: DRK, Voidfoot: SAM, Footshard:DNC, Cypress Log, and a Tenkomaru (Pulse)

Venus (16)
4 Mimics
4 Loud Thuds     
0 loaded rainbow chests on Enter (Loud Thud)     
8 orbs didn't give the "Belligerent Bang" message 

Loud Thud drops were: Cypress Log, Bewitched Pumps, Vexed Gages, and a Volte Cap

Other observations were that the "Thud" drops seem to be better overall then they used to be. It was a bonus to get one of those more expensive Dynamis shards. For Mars Orbs the Terminal Coffer was almost always just a "Noise" for me when I opened it. Once it was a "Thud", so based on the small sample I did here I would say on a Mars Orb it would be a pretty low chance for the Terminal Coffer to be a "Loud Thud". For Venus Orbs the Terminal Coffer was always a "Thud" when I opened it. 

I did get the 5M gil once, it was from a Mars Orb and that character was in a party and was the only character that entered the BCNM. Also on that run I received zero "Thuds" when opening chests. 

Out of the 56 used orbs traded to Greyson I never got a new orb returned to me. Orange/Apple juice was the most common item returned followed by SP Keys, and Copper Vouchers.

I did 2 orbs last night, both LTs were pulse weapons where I opened 8/10 chests and the game gave me free rainbow boxes. I actually like this method a lot more than the previous iteration, where you can get 8-9 Noises and get nothing but junk. At least the game is rewarding you for being lucky with your guesses (even though you can get junk still)

aman trove entrance on asura

People need to remember that if your Loud Thud orb drops something Rare that you already have, it won't appear in the treasure pool.

This is why (if you have them) you send things like Epam Ring/Orpheus Sash to yourself before you go for an AMAN trove session, so you can sell them if they drop again. Same goes for other Rare/Ex you'd like multiples of, say, if you wanted to gear your mules in Malignance/Regal etc. This is what happened to Elidyr in the above screen. His pool had rare equipment he already possessed.

Edit: This applies to those who do solo AMAN trove sessions.

If in a party, and one person has an item and the other doesn’t, won’t the item drop? (Seriously asking*)

My understanding was that so long as someone in the party does not have the item will drop.

It will drop so long as someone in the group doesn't have the item.

For example, if you take three people in and they all have Regal Gauntlets, it won't appear in the pool because everyone has it.

Now, if two people had Gauntlets, it would appear because one person does not have it and is free to lot it.

It doesn't just happen here, it happens in other battlefields too. There's some content where duplicates will drop (like voidwatch), but in most cases they won't. There was a screenshot earlier showing someone get two Shishio's. That's because they didn't have it, but because no one was available to lot the second, it showed the drop on screen, but it was automatically lost because they obtained the first a split second before.

I was there as well actually, but I just passed that ***into oblivion where it belonged.

edit: More accurately. He had QM on, first dropped to him, I passed on it, then he zoned back to lower jeuno and the second was lost to the shadow realm