The Mystery of Dread Thicket Large Chest

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peachii wrote:

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Nayen wrote:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55006

By the Patch notes its guaranteed to be one

Those patch notes are from October and no longer accurate for the chests. Chests are not guaranteed any longer.

Yes they did mention this quite some time ago for general dungeons, how ever, i do not recall any mention in any notes, about the change to the thicket, which was always a gaurantee right up until OB release.

It was stealthed in, with no mention i believe. Same as things like Deaths Harp. Just stealthed, no word. Maybe there was, but i dont recall seeing it, and i usually do.

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JoannaDark wrote:

Yes they did mention this quite some time ago for general dungeons, how ever, i do not recall any mention in any notes, about the change to the thicket, which was always a gaurantee right up until OB release.

It was stealthed in, with no mention i believe. Same as things like Deaths Harp. Just stealthed, no word. Maybe there was, but i dont recall seeing it, and i usually do.

I'm almost positive they had mentioned that chests were no longer guaranteed in any zone, and that Crematorium and Dread Thicket would have increased changes of chest spawning compared to any others.

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Elynole wrote:

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JoannaDark wrote:

Yes they did mention this quite some time ago for general dungeons, how ever, i do not recall any mention in any notes, about the change to the thicket, which was always a gaurantee right up until OB release.

It was stealthed in, with no mention i believe. Same as things like Deaths Harp. Just stealthed, no word. Maybe there was, but i dont recall seeing it, and i usually do.

I'm almost positive they had mentioned that chests were no longer guaranteed in any zone, and that Crematorium and Dread Thicket would have increased changes of chest spawning compared to any others.

If you can dig up some evidence , i will gladly eat the words, but atm, im going with my impression of it wasnt stated. I read those things like a hawk, but i may have missed it.

This is strictly about dread thicket, im well aware of the general changes to chests randomly appearing elsewhere.

Keep in mind these changes , were in effect in CB, patched in before OB hit. With OB, came the thicket nerf. Literally the night before, i was farming it consistently as always, the day of 1.0 i noticed it instantly.

The devs did comment on it. Too lazy to dig it up but they said the loot that would have been in the chests now drops on the bosses. They also said that most dungeons have a chance of spawning a large chest, but that Catacombs and Dread Thicket have a greatly increased chance compared to other dungeons.

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JoannaDark wrote:

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Elynole wrote:

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JoannaDark wrote:

Yes they did mention this quite some time ago for general dungeons, how ever, i do not recall any mention in any notes, about the change to the thicket, which was always a gaurantee right up until OB release.

It was stealthed in, with no mention i believe. Same as things like Deaths Harp. Just stealthed, no word. Maybe there was, but i dont recall seeing it, and i usually do.

I'm almost positive they had mentioned that chests were no longer guaranteed in any zone, and that Crematorium and Dread Thicket would have increased changes of chest spawning compared to any others.

If you can dig up some evidence , i will gladly eat the words, but atm, im going with my impression of it wasnt stated. I read those things like a hawk, but i may have missed it.

I just replied w/the same information before seeing Elynole's post. The chances we both mistakenly thought the devs said *exactly* the same thing is pretty low ;). Just do a search and I guarantee you'll find it.

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JoannaDark wrote:

If you can dig up some evidence , i will gladly eat the words, but atm, im going with my impression of it wasnt stated. I read those things like a hawk, but i may have missed it.

This is strictly about dread thicket, im well aware of the general changes to chests randomly appearing elsewhere.

Keep in mind these changes , were in effect in CB, patched in before OB hit. With OB, came the thicket nerf. Literally the night before, i was farming it consistently as always, the day of 1.0 i noticed it instantly.

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Joel_GGG wrote:

There are no guaranteed large chests, but the Dread Thicket has a much higher chance. Also The Catacombs.

When the changes were made to areas being random for chest spawns, wouldn't this of meant Dread Thicket as well?

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Elynole wrote:

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JoannaDark wrote:

If you can dig up some evidence , i will gladly eat the words, but atm, im going with my impression of it wasnt stated. I read those things like a hawk, but i may have missed it.

This is strictly about dread thicket, im well aware of the general changes to chests randomly appearing elsewhere.

Keep in mind these changes , were in effect in CB, patched in before OB hit. With OB, came the thicket nerf. Literally the night before, i was farming it consistently as always, the day of 1.0 i noticed it instantly.

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Joel_GGG wrote:

There are no guaranteed large chests, but the Dread Thicket has a much higher chance. Also The Catacombs.

When the changes were made to areas being random for chest spawns, wouldn't this of meant Dread Thicket as well?

No , not at all, thats what im saying... this wasnt how it happened. Those changes were in effect before CB ended, except that the thicket, was Always there still , right up until the day of OB. Its fact man , i farmed it right up until that day.

The way the patches and notes played out is very decieving. I mean, whatever , it is what it is , but it was not clearly done, it was kinda half assed stealthed.

I actually have two friends that did same run as me , and all of us confirm it as so, that night literally, fully in effect, nerfed with 1.0 Sure mentions were made after the fact, but not directly in relation to how it all went down.

Again, its similiar to the Deaths Harp bow, nowhere did i see them state they had reworked it, yet i find it, and discover its now lvl 32 req. They destroyed the usefulness of that bow with that req. The bow really isnt good at all, except it was OP for the lvl 15, now its barely usefull at lvl 32.

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JoannaDark wrote:

No , not at all, thats what im saying... this wasnt how it happened. Those changes were in effect before CB ended, except that the thicket, was Always there still , right up until the day of OB. Its fact man , i farmed it right up until that day.

The way the patches and notes played out is very decieving. I mean, whatever , it is what it is , but it was not clearly done, it was kinda half assed stealthed.

Hmm, I suppose that's possible. I don't remember the patching of that in detail, it happened around the time when they changed the bosses and chest spawns for all the other farming areas is what I thought - I could be wrong though.

Yeah, they removed the 100% chance of a large chest in dread thicket and mentioned it a bit later iirc. I wouldn't call it a "stealth nerf" they probably saw that it was farmed too much/giving too much loot, so removed the 100% for open beta. Which is good.

They also told they'd rework a lot of uniques and buff most of them for OB. Not stealthy at all.