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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #85

I like the bulk pack idea, and the wand.

Packs of 5 or 10 would be great, but they would have to be drawn from a closed chest or sack as well.

Jeff would need to hide any specially coloured backs that would be visible in clear plastic packing.

packaging like the tokens we get at checkin would be best.
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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #86

bpsymington wrote:

Harlax wrote:

jedibcg wrote:

Matthew Hayward wrote:

jedibcg wrote: I wonder where dragonorbs fall in the numbers.


My prediction: 0%

Has a Wish Ring ever been in the treasure box?


Jeff said a few would find there way into boxes.


IIRC there used to be 2 25k bars in the treasure mix. I saw one pulled on a Team Synergy run.

Maybe that will be the number of orbs.


I doubt there will be any orbs in the boxes.


Since Jeff said there would be some I expect some. Now that might mean 2 in all the treasure mix the entire con, but I don't know why people are doubting there will be any.
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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #87

jedibcg wrote:
Since Jeff said there would be some I expect some. Now that might mean 2 in all the treasure mix the entire con, but I don't know why people are doubting there will be any.


I'm sure it's just imperfect recall - I didn't remember Jeff said this till you mentioned it.

For the curious:

truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&catid=5&id=242386&limitstart=0#242480

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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #88

Thanks I had the post but stuck on my phone this holiday weekend so copy and paste don't work so well.
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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #89

Dave wrote:

Harlax wrote: Assuming that mix for 200 pulls and perfect distribution (two very large ifs) my pulls would be

50 uncommons
70 rares
70 Trophies
5 minor transmutes
2 URs
1 Relic
1 5K bar
1 10K bar

I would be a very happy camper with that outcome.

I could save 5 sets towards a 3 or 4c and still make 5 fleeces.

Then again, i probably used up my quota of luck for several years with my pulls at WYC.


I'm also looking at about 200 pulls and would be ecstatic if I can hit the aforementioned numbers. It would be my best Gen Con other than that one unusual year. Last year I pulled my first ever UR out of the Treasure Box with about 150 pulls. Still have yet to see a 5K or 10K bar.


Ditto. We have never pulled near as good as those percentages except of that one special year. Maybe this year with the setup it will be better.

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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #90

Donald Rients wrote:

Dave wrote:

Harlax wrote: Assuming that mix for 200 pulls and perfect distribution (two very large ifs) my pulls would be

50 uncommons
70 rares
70 Trophies
5 minor transmutes
2 URs
1 Relic
1 5K bar
1 10K bar

I would be a very happy camper with that outcome.

I could save 5 sets towards a 3 or 4c and still make 5 fleeces.

Then again, i probably used up my quota of luck for several years with my pulls at WYC.


I'm also looking at about 200 pulls and would be ecstatic if I can hit the aforementioned numbers. It would be my best Gen Con other than that one unusual year. Last year I pulled my first ever UR out of the Treasure Box with about 150 pulls. Still have yet to see a 5K or 10K bar.


Ditto. We have never pulled near as good as those percentages except of that one special year. Maybe this year with the setup it will be better.


The percentages for this year are substantially richer than other percentages which have been posted (albeit through unofficial channels).

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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #91

Well those are the numbers Jeff posted.

Could he have changed them? Sure.
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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #92

Matthew Hayward wrote:

Donald Rients wrote:

Dave wrote:

Harlax wrote: Assuming that mix for 200 pulls and perfect distribution (two very large ifs) my pulls would be

50 uncommons
70 rares
70 Trophies
5 minor transmutes
2 URs
1 Relic
1 5K bar
1 10K bar

I would be a very happy camper with that outcome.

I could save 5 sets towards a 3 or 4c and still make 5 fleeces.

Then again, i probably used up my quota of luck for several years with my pulls at WYC.


I'm also looking at about 200 pulls and would be ecstatic if I can hit the aforementioned numbers. It would be my best Gen Con other than that one unusual year. Last year I pulled my first ever UR out of the Treasure Box with about 150 pulls. Still have yet to see a 5K or 10K bar.


Ditto. We have never pulled near as good as those percentages except of that one special year. Maybe this year with the setup it will be better.


The percentages for this year are substantially richer than other percentages which have been posted (albeit through unofficial channels).


Other percentages from this year, or past years?

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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #93

Mike Steele wrote:

Matthew Hayward wrote:
The percentages for this year are substantially richer than other percentages which have been posted (albeit through unofficial channels).


Other percentages from this year, or past years?


This year's posted mix is substantially richer than the mix I have seen discussed in a prior year, which was posted by Dial/Eversuede from the year he helped run the mixer (or so I recall - my memory is hazy on this) as:

Uncommons 38%
Rares 38%
Monster Bits 23%
Special 1%

Special included a mix of UR, volunteer, transmuted, reserve, and one of each of the year's relics, a handful of 5,000 GP tokens, and two 25,000 GP tokens.

This was posted after GenCon 2014 I believe.

I can't find the original post in the forums.


Lots of player reporting on the mix from GenCon 2015 put the monster bit ratio substantially below the 35% posted for this year.

I don't know if there is enough data to estimate the "special" ratio in 2015 - but can say that it was much closer to 1% than 5% on my draws. Also I think Potion Distilled Healing counted as a "special" in 2015, which is sort of... meh (worth less than a monster bit to me).

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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #94

Here's the post of people's actual experience from last year and it really doesn't look like monster ingredients came close to 23%. I had a little over 18% last year and seemed to have done better than most. A lot of people were reporting results closer to 10%.

truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&catid=580&id=228521&limitstart=0

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Matthew Hayward wrote:

jedibcg wrote:
Since Jeff said there would be some I expect some. Now that might mean 2 in all the treasure mix the entire con, but I don't know why people are doubting there will be any.


I'm sure it's just imperfect recall - I didn't remember Jeff said this till you mentioned it.

For the curious:

truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&catid=5&id=242386&limitstart=0#242480


I didn't remember that.
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New Magnetic Wand for token draws? Cool! 7 years 8 months ago #96

bpsymington wrote:

Matthew Hayward wrote:

jedibcg wrote:
Since Jeff said there would be some I expect some. Now that might mean 2 in all the treasure mix the entire con, but I don't know why people are doubting there will be any.


I'm sure it's just imperfect recall - I didn't remember Jeff said this till you mentioned it.

For the curious:

truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&catid=5&id=242386&limitstart=0#242480


I didn't remember that.


Wizard's memory is getting foggy? :P

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