Hunt for the Vibrant Pain

VP needs a nerf. As do other cards/items like SPR and WWs. Many good ideas about the topic: http://forums.cardhunter.com/threads/balance-balance-suggestion-list-january-2014.4967/

But this thread is about my hunt for the glorious legendary all-powerful hated yet feared Vibrant Pain.
Luck has got no memory. It doesn't ask whether you've been playing for 3 weeks, for 4 months or since beta, your chances of getting it from a chest are the same. I'll save you from the math but if a VP = 1 000 000 points then the following chests/events give that many points towards it:

regular brown chest: .................................................... 17
regular golden chest: .................................................... 27
lvl 17 brown chest (when farming lvl 17 adventures): 42
final chest from a lvl 17 adventure: ........................... 226
regular epic chest: ....................................................... 269
loot fairy enchanted final lvl 15 chest: ......................... 52
loot fairy enchanted final lvl 16 chest: ....................... 168
loot fairy enchanted final lvl 17 chest: ....................... 861
loot fairy enchanted final lvl 18 chest: ..................... 1176
one week of Randimar's: ......................................... 6705

The numbers are rounded... and can be a little off too. But they are the closest I have and will have to do.
I should probably get my first VP before hitting 1 000 000 points because there I should have on average 1 VP but it's possible to get more than 1 too (I may dream ).
Anyway I'll be updating this post with my current score regularly, starting today, 4th June 2014. Wish me luck!
All bets on how many points will I have before I get it are also welcome

Progress: 121 747/1 000 000

 

Dude.

 

I'm curious what your weekly average will be (I'd estimate 10,000 is reasonable for an active player).

 

if you can beat just the 4 lvl 17 adventures 5 times a week that would get you (20*154 for 3080) + (42*3 per adventure *4 adventures for 504) , + a free 6705 for Randimars is 10289. So yeah what he said. 100 weeks of that, and you have a good chance at one.

edited my math

 

861 is for a loot fairy level 17 chest, a normal final chest is a rating of 154 which would give you 20*154=3080, though you can add in 42 for each brown chest you get in level 17 adventures too.

 

Do you have a value for Mauve Manticore brown and final chests (assuming max level characters)?

 

Any blessings I can bestow, you have!

 

MM... I'm not sure what drops does it have, it had something to do with renown I think? Maybe it has the drops of lvl 18 adventures since our renown is 18. And when replaying it, it only has guaranteed uncommon in the end, right?
If so, then 57p regular chest and 209p final chest for MM and lvl 18 adventures.
I have included the club slot too for all chests that have it.

 

I have started two days ago collecting datas of the final chests of MM. I'll publish the results (probably in the fastest way to get gold thread) when I'll have enough entries.

So far 20 different lvl 18 Legendaries for me, never saw a VP. I also have never been able to drop a Lochaber but found one in Randimar once.

 

If you're going to dream, why not dream big?



Or just do what I did and bribe Radimar and beat the Dungeon of the Swamp King 1HP challenge.

 

Ah, I'm not openly confessing having tried to bribe Mr. Randimar

 

VP isn't the thing that need the nerf -- it is NS. VP is more reliable but you're giving up 2 gold tokens for it. PaladinGP did fine with 4 Lochabers for the longest time...

NS should simply be Step 3 instead of Step 4. The ability to completely circle a target and go from front facing to back facing is insane.

 

Yesterday I did a Lair of the Yellow Dragon run, and got a Legendary drop. Was hoping for a VP but got my 2nd The Lunginator instead

 

Yeah, every time I saw a drop when doing the level 17 missions I was like "OMG VP?!"

I'm up to 3 Lunginators now... more than any other Legendary I own (except for Wym's Lavastaff which I also own 3 of)...

 

No weapon has got more than 3 Vicious Thrusts.
No weapon has got more than 3 Dancing Cuts.
But 6 NS? Sure why not. :S

And when facing your opp in the open, you only need 3 steps to move behind him. And Paladin did extremely well for many reasons. One of them was that people didn't have more NS than him back then. Now almost everyone has a VP or two.

 

Agree. It's not only NS that needs a nerf, Vibrant Pain shouldn't exist. And yes, Paladin did so well in part because he had 4 lochabers when even lochabers were rare. Now most of the 1500 and above players have their VP/VPs, I mean, it's rare not to have it nowadays. I feel a weirdo

 

Are we really derailing yet another thread?

 

True let's keep this thread to it's original discussion.

It's been a week already, does the OP have a VP yet or not?

Sheesh, quit dragging your heels already...

 

1% of 1M done and nothing so far.
I actually had to farm Kobolds to get 50 gold to enter a league last evening. The shimmering result:

 

About 4% of 1M done and still no sight of a VP.
From reports from this thread: http://forums.cardhunter.com/threads/final-chests-in-sp-adventures.6060/ I was able to estimate the score for final lvl 17 chest a lot better, its score rose to over 200 now. So yeah... should try to farm these lvl 17s every day