What happened to venture crate drops?

A while back my retainers were bringing back a venture crate for every 5 to 10 quick explorations. For the last few weeks I have not seen a single venture crate show up. Is there some hanky panky going on with the game here?

I had stopped getting them on my old server. I pay for the extra retainers.

Moved to a brand new server and they started coming back again, not many but at least I see them now!

I get quite a few, maybe one each 4 or 5 rounds.

Bom Bokos have dropped off almost completely recently.

I've gotten about 6 this past week across my various characters. RNG strikes again. There are weeks I see none and other weeks it's like they're falling from the sky.

Mine brought back x2 Jet Black dyes this week so I know I won't be getting anything good for a bit!

I generally get like 5 a week
probably way more if just did quick ventures every hour
wish my retainers stop giving my Ktsis gear its like HOW are you getting there.

I got one this morning but I only have one retainer doing them.

the other three are doing 18h ones for minions. Of which I haven't seen since I got my chewy... after selling four cars.

Hope they add pure white and black dyes elsewhere, pain in the ass to get and rarely get them from retainers anymore...

They want you to buy the dyes with real money. Thats why they're dropping far less now

I've got a full compliment of retainers and get anywhere between 0 and 5 a week depending on how often I send them out. There was a brief period where I was getting at least one a day then went through a dry spell, then back to infrequent, but regular, returns. After doing a mass opening a couple months ago I'm up to 32 and waiting to open them all right before 7.0 drops. It'd be cool to have a sample size large enough to get a fairly accurate idea of drop rates for each dye. Plus, opening a bunch of boxes at once gets the adrenaline and dopamine going.

It's just rng, quick Ventures are the go to if you want the highest chance to get them plus the gear that you get from them pays for the ventures lol.
2 days ago i've gotten 3 Venture Coffers from 1 set of quick ventures but i pay for all retainers aswell.
Hope you get lucky in the future!

I'm not so sure it's just RNG. RNG would account for drops occurring once every 5-10 ventures or so. It would not account for this sort of drop rate, which was consistent for MONTHS, to suddenly drop to ZERO and stay that way going on for a month now. It would be interesting to compile drop rates for various characters across different servers and see if there is a trend. I wonder if it is possible for drop rates to be tuned according to supply for a given server.

mine drop often enough, seems to go in phases, and thankfully, less Alphas than there used to be and only 1 bom boku this week...

so I would day, havent noticed a huge difference in getting the crates (I could do with less metallic orange though)

Yeah atm as i need all of them for the patch to sort around gear from my usually not used retainers im on 10 and sent them all the time, but its like 1/100 now or even less... and IF i get one its usually a green or red dye lol

They used to bring so much nice stuff but lately its mostly trash... remember when they brought us tons of housing walls? lol

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Originally Posted by Hanayumi

Hope they add pure white and black dyes elsewhere, pain in the ass to get and rarely get them from retainers anymore...

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Mogstation.

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Originally Posted by Imora

Mogstation.

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Yep. I usually sell what dyes I get in game and buy Jet Blacks and Pure Whites from the Mogstation. To me, it's worth spending a few dollars every now and then while making almost a mil per dye drop in game.

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Originally Posted by Eraden

I'm not so sure it's just RNG. RNG would account for drops occurring once every 5-10 ventures or so. It would not account for this sort of drop rate, which was consistent for MONTHS, to suddenly drop to ZERO and stay that way going on for a month now. It would be interesting to compile drop rates for various characters across different servers and see if there is a trend. I wonder if it is possible for drop rates to be tuned according to supply for a given server.

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Unless you've switched out/removed gear on your retainers so their item level has dropped recently, it really is just RNG. Otherwise we'd all be seeing the same problem. RNG seeds in this game can be terrible at times.

If you did swap out gear, make sure your DoL aren't below 530 and DoM/DoW below 545. Those seemed to be the points where I started getting coffers to drop this expansion, though the correct ilvl could be slightly lower.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Unless you've switched out/removed gear on your retainers so their item level has dropped recently, it really is just RNG. Otherwise we'd all be seeing the same problem. RNG seeds in this game can be terrible at times.

If you did swap out gear, make sure your DoL aren't below 530 and DoM/DoW below 545. Those seemed to be the points where I started getting coffers to drop this expansion, though the correct ilvl could be slightly lower.

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My retainers have pactmaker's gear. They are all mid 580s. RNG can't account for this kind of change. It can account for variations of 1-10 ventures per crate drop over long periods but not a sudden switch to ZERO for a whole month.

They disappeared! :O

I have just two retainers and when I frequently send them out I get one every 1-2 weeks.

My wife sends both of hers out very frequently and she has literally never gotten one. Which is bizarre as they can do their max level field quests.

Not sure if the RNG gods are just unkind or if it's more rare or if something like ilvl affects the RNG.

I run 3 of my retainers on quick ex. all the time. I have been getting 3-7 per week last few months. I didnt get crates tho until they were level 90.

One week my retainer brought me back 7-9 coffers. Another week they only brought me 1.

Not sure what else other than RNG trying to be funny at times & ends up not working in our favor.

Maybe they’ve been ninja nerfing it for real, but there are very little ways to know this for sure. /shrug

I got 8 of them over the last few days. Seems to work just fine.

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Originally Posted by ElenaRedoran

I got 8 of them over the last few days. Seems to work just fine.

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For a second I thought you were an El'Doran too.

I get one around once a week on eight retainers, so they do exist but rare. On a good note, I'm no longer getting Stuffed Alphas or Stuffed Bom Bokos every other venture.

I get them maybe 5 - 7 times a week, more or less.

I guess OP need to have less...crate expectations...









...............I'll just be over here eating my hamburger...

I never knew they even existed

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Originally Posted by BinaryIdiot

I have just two retainers and when I frequently send them out I get one every 1-2 weeks.

My wife sends both of hers out very frequently and she has literally never gotten one. Which is bizarre as they can do their max level field quests.

Not sure if the RNG gods are just unkind or if it's more rare or if something like ilvl affects the RNG.

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I don't know about ilvl affecting the RNG rate but it does affect when the player will start getting them. All my retainers that had been getting them regularly at the end of Shadowbringers stopped getting them until I had them outfitted in level 89-90 gear. I've got a low level alt (72) that has all gathering classes at max level (GC provisioning missions OP for XP). She gets the coffers on her DoL retainers wearing the 560 gear (no melding). Her DoW retainers don't get them at all but then they're only level 72.

In my experience gear doesn't matter. I have an alt that has only a level 1 mainhand equipped to their retainers and they started getting venture coffers when the retainer reached 90. That seems to be the only stipulation.

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Originally Posted by Hyperia

I get one around once a week on eight retainers, so they do exist but rare. On a good note, I'm no longer getting Stuffed Alphas or Stuffed Bom Bokos every other venture.

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So its not my imagination huh? It was unbearable and the reason i stopped having 5-6 subbed back then lol

Seen often. I even got double coffers not long ago.