Look at this image.
Now compare that to this list:
Penta-Heart Pendant
Elite Bomb Focus Module
Elite Boom Module
Elite Handgun Focus Module
Elite Quick Draw Module
Elite Quick Strike Module
Elite Slash Module
Elite Sword Focus Module
Elite Trueshot Module
I don't know about you but... I see other trinkets other than what is listed above.
Yeah I was expecting new trinkets. But silly me. Recycle is a synonym for new in this game.
What I was hoping for:
+Movement Speed
+Shield Health
-Dash/Shield Bash Cooldown
+Mineral Carrying Capacity
Ands that is just 5 minutes of brainstorming. Imagine if I were a game development team with years to think!
The Dangerous Hound Coat had Spikes on the Hand Braces, but the In-Game model doesn't.
"+Movement Speed
+Shield Health
-Dash/Shield Bash Cooldown"
Yes, yes, yes. These would have been fantastic. I would 100% have been behind a promotion where players were able to purchase these highly desired stats a month prior to their F2P arrival in the next Tier 3 boss strata.
I'd also lose to see shield health stat added onto some of the older "defender" sets.
"Yeah I was expecting new trinkets. But silly me. Recycle is a synonym for new in this game."
My god, that is so true...
Well, I wasn't expecting something NEW, I was expecting the 5* trinkets from Brinks to be a part of of the promotion. After all, the Heart Trinkets and Elite Module Trinkets don't look like bracelets.
This is already arguably the lamest promo yet (not to mention worst for your money). That would put it over the deep end.
80% of active 5* vanguards have plenty of 5* orbs to spare. With mod-cals being around 5k cr each, the price to craft a 5* trinket of your choice is about 600-700 CE including materials/cost of crafting.
Along with a trinket slot, the max-value for this box is 850 CE.
Not to mention that my way you get to choose what trinket you want.
Unless you don't have any 5* orbs (and if you don't have any 5* orbs, then what's the point of getting another trinket slot/trinket since you don't play that much), this promo is a rip-off.
@Grimranger: Exactly. That's ANOTHER reason I was expecting the "harder to get" trinkets that Brinks sells. Even though I doubt they are popular.
You forget to fact in the 400 CE needed to craft the 4* trinket into your math, and grossly undervalued the cost of a 5* trinket and slot upgrade. This prize boss has an actual value of about 1350 CE, which is only 50 less then through boxes cost.
Regarding your other points:
1. Not everyone who plays this game is a vanguard swimming in mats and orbs. Some of us are still trying to get to that point.
2. You do know that we can trade the trinkets from these boxes, right? If you get one you don't need you can always trade it.
On an unrelated note, I'm glad this box doesn't have brink trinkets in it. I'm kinda sick of boxes having pathetically low odds of getting good stuff from them, anxious having a promo with nothing but good stuff is a great change.
We're having too many promotions for me to keep my CE count at a nice amount. However I will keep buying at least one box from every promotion because I plan to open a rainbow of prize boxes in the future, no matter how worthless it's contents are.
I did add the Elite orb cost into the equation. Where the heck did I get 700 CE from?
Yeah, you can trade the trinkets. Guess what? Very few people are going to want to trade their Elite Slash Mod for your Elite Quick Draw Mod.
And if you're not swimming in 5* orbs?
Buy a 5* trinket from a player who is.
I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you a 5* trinket of your choice for something around 900-1000 E.
I sure will. Ask me. You want a trinket? Sure.
Then buy a trinket slot for 150 E. Look at that. Boom. You saved 300 E, just like that.
WTS Elite trinkets (950 E each).
I'd like to see your counter-argument, besides people being stupid and just wanting a box for the sake of opening it.
I'm not talking about the Spikes on the back. Look on the Promo Pic. The Ranger in the front has Spikes on his Armband. In game, the Spikes aren't shown.
4* trinket: 400 CE.
5* trinket: 800 CE.
Trinket slot upgrade: 150 CE
Mod calibrator: 11k
Net cost: 1350 CE plus 22k.
Cost of box: 1400 CE.
Mathematically, the box is a better deal.
Yeah, you can trade the trinkets. Guess what? Very few people are going to want to trade their Elite Slash Mod for your Elite Quick Draw Mod.
I was actually able to trade an elite boom module for an elite quick draw when I opened a box.
I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you a 5* trinket of your choice for something around 900-1000 E.
Really? I doubt many people will be willing to sell a 5* for 200 CE less than it's worth., because that's literally the opposite of how economics works.
OOO's art team always had a nasty habit of showing unobtainable, rare, or removed things.
Under the "Media" section, check out the screenshots and count how many Darkfang Shields you see.
And then there's this promotional image under "About", called "Take up Arms", where the previously unobtainable Black Kat Hat is displayed. This promotional image has been around for a significant amount of time before the Kataclysm even happened.
And, notice something strange in the Combat Update trailer? Yes, that's right, the OLD Radiant Sun Shards make its appearance, despite being long retconned as the horrible bomb we know now.
More recently, the Dangerous Prize Promotion featured Recon Rangers sporting spiked cuffs, but were not featured in the actual costume pieces.
As for prices of the boxes? Well... Rip off or not, the splash art is pretty neat.
The hand spike clips with some armors so maybe that was why it was excluded from the promo
@Whimsicality
For gods sake, we're talking about art team here. That mean artists. Artist is not bound by what is there or isn't.
Maybe artist just wanted to flesh out the promo picture. Maybe it just "works" with those trinkets not included in promo. What about some artistic licence?
Never have I implied that they aren't allowed to have artistic creativity. I was merely stating that this habit is nothing new, going as far back to the beginning.
Those are the only trinkets worth a damn. Adding other trinkets to the boxes would make the boxes worth less.
@Zeddy: Actually, if they had the 5* trinkets that Brinks sells, I would have considered buying a box or two myself. I don't consider them worthless and getting 100 tokens for just one has been a pain for me. Then again I don't actually do many runs...
See, I have far more Eternal Orbs then I need. So I don't need to add the 800 E in.
You don't get it. Eternal orbs should be worth 266 E. But there are a ton of these in the game right now. So many, in fact, that many people won't use a lot of their eternal orbs. So they're actually worth a lot less. Many people have told me that they'd rather get Elite orbs then Eternals, so to a large amount of players (myself included) think they're worth less then 133E.
They're worth little to me since I'll never use all of them. Sure, I'll use some, but I'll get 3+ during the time it takes me to craft a 5* item.
So, if you want me to sell you a trinket for 1000 CE, I'll sure as heck do it! The cost for me and many other end-game players is more like 600-700E.
Also, I have a ton of excess Krogmo Coins, so to me it's more like 500-600E.
But, seriously..I could use some CE. You want any other trinkets? :P
Eternals are worth far less to me then to you, apparently.
1KCE per trink.
@Hollows
You really want a Purrfect Katnip Pouch? Or a Saintly Silver Amulet?
o.O
@Grimranger: Well, not those specifically. What I want is to own two Royal Jelly Bands, two Dread Skelly Charms (I own one already), and two Radiant Crystal Pins (I already own one of these also). Basically two of each of the damage types.
Isn't there a Normal damage-reducing trinket that was never publicly released?
Do you collect them or do you actually use them ever? The defence ones are blatantly worthless compared to the heart trinkets even against their intended damage type, and I don't even see a point in the status resist ones after you could just use sprite perks for wisp immunity.
No offense to anyone since I too am a bit p.o'd about this '' promo '' and the latest update.
This makes me happy because I could have use for pretty much any of these trinkets, but some folks value certain trinkets way above others (i.e. the people who play that one PvP game I never play...I think it's called Lagdown?)
So, I can buy a few trinkets in the AH for considerably less than I would've gotten them for otherwise! And I get a whole week to save up the funds to do it!
@Zeddy: Oh I use them alright. Of the two I DO have, they aren't collecting dust, I promise.
;)
"Many people have told me that they'd rather get Elite orbs then Eternals, so to a large amount of players (myself included) think they're worth less then 133E."
Oh, no question, I would love to get elite orbs in place of eternals most of the time. If elite:eternal was like, 2:1 in FSC, that would be fantastic.
Ok, I see your point. Like I said, I just got T3 clearance, so I don't have the huge stockpile of orbs that other players do. Boxes are probably a much better deal for non-vanguard players then vanguards.
You're right, boxes are a lot better for newer players who don't have the orbs stockpiled.
Believe me, soon, you'll have a lot too (assuming you do a lot of stratum 5-6).
Still, this argument has given me an idea of actually attempting to sell 5* trinkets for 1KE each, so thanks for that =D
Isn't there a Normal damage-reducing trinket that was never publicly released?
Yeah there's a heap of them. Plus there's currently no Stun resist trinket...
If a box gave me a set of Sleep Resist trinkets, I'd be too busy laughing my rear off to be angry.
I noticed that discrepancy as well.