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I really really wanted the Black Wolf Pet and seeing some of my friends got one in the only SP they bought I figured it should be pretty easy to get. Nope!

I did get some stuff I can use but I have no use for

67 Self Rez's
175 Unslotters
Tons of Inspirations
75 XP boosters
47 Prest boosters
Lots of Windfalls

All of my toons are 50 so I have no need for most of those. I wanted Scrapper, Tank and brute ATO's but got mostly Master Mind, stalker and Corr drops. I did get a ton of reward merits so I figured I would use those to buy what I needed. You can only buy 1 ATO every 4 days so almost a month to get a whole set.

I know this is just bad luck on my part and I hope no one else has this kind of luck and gets what they wanted. ( I didn't )

They were fun to open but I don't think i'll be buying any more. I will just have to drool over my friends Black Wolf Pets.


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Don't forget you can sell the ATOs you have on the market and and buy the ones you want instead.

Also, windfalls increase drop rates, so your 50s should be able to make use of them.


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Too bad about your experience with Super Packs. Coincidentally, Gamespy reviewer only just wrote, "I've heard stories of people dropping more than a hundred bucks on boosters to get {a Black Wolf pet}." so it seems he wasn't exaggerating.


 

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You can buy 1 every 4 days, per character!

So don't claim all the reward merits on one character, and email yourself some influnece.


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Hmm...Interesting. I think you will buy more Supergamble Packs in the future.


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Don't forget you can sell the ATOs you have on the market and and buy the ones you want instead.
Can't they also just be traded normally?


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Can't they also just be traded normally?
Also, won't we be able to use converters eventually to create the ATO we want?


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I know this is just bad luck on my part and I hope no one else has this kind of luck and gets what they wanted. ( I didn't )

They were fun to open but I don't think i'll be buying any more. I will just have to drool over my friends Black Wolf Pets.
That's entirely too reasonable a statement. I demand more histrionics!

How far along on the reward tiers are you by the way? If you're T9 then once I22 goes live you would be able to get 5 packs for a token in the repeatable rewards section. You may want to save those for other things I suppose, but at least you could still occasionally try for the pet without specifically using more cash for it.


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How many reward merits did you end up with?


 

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I know this is just bad luck on my part and I hope no one else has this kind of luck and gets what they wanted. ( I didn't )
As per usual the RNG keeps hating me. After 9600pts spent on Super Packs, no Black Wolf Pet. Coincidentally a friend who was opening theirs next to me got the pet on the 3 pack.
Do I begrudge them? No. Do I hate the RNG just a little bit more? O h-e-double hockey sticks yeah!


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As per usual the RNG keeps hating me. After 9600pts spent on Super Packs, no Black Wolf Pet. Coincidentally a friend who was opening theirs next to me got the pet on the 3 pack.
Do I begrudge them? No. Do I hate the RNG just a little bit more? O h-e-double hockey sticks yeah!
I'm pretty much resigned to never getting the Black Wolf myself. I got it on the second pack over on the beta server which, of course, means it's just never going to happen with my luck.


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Hmm...Interesting. I think you will buy more Supergamble Packs in the future.
I have everything I want out of the Super Packs, I have 9 ATs outfitted with a complete set of ATOs (Thanks, Wentworths!)

However, I'll still buy these things just for the Merits, Windfalls, the long-lasting inspirations and XP Boosters for my non-50s.

Any Catalysts that happen to drop I'll save until I have 6 and convert an entire ATO set to its purple version all at once.

And the long-long lasting Inspirations (dual and team) are AMAZING against certain Elite Bosses in missions, and vs AVs as well. (Off hand, I'm thinking the First Ouroboros Incarnate mission. These are GREAT for use against Trapdoor and Hero 1 and the other EBs. Makes for a really easy complete of that arc!)

For 80 points these packs are an investment with an occasional awesome shiny - definitely NOT a gamble!


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Originally Posted by Duneman View Post
I did get some stuff I can use but I have no use for

67 Self Rez's
175 Unslotters
Tons of Inspirations
75 XP boosters
47 Prest boosters
Lots of Windfalls

If you let them clutter up your email and never use them, of course they'll never be useful! Start using them just to clear them out. If you're into the "upper level" Incarnate Trials, you can even use up those Self Rezes (MOM, I'm looking at you).

Actually, you should be able to use up all those rezes on MOM ...


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Bought 24 of the packs. I got the costume in 5 packs (3 pieces in the first pack), as well as the MM aura ATO which I could use. Didn`t get the pet, although I wasn`t really looking for it. Oodles of merits and other stuff I probably won`t claim. I`ll have to look at the inspirations though, since I use inspirations as fast as I get them.

With the remaining points from the $50 bucks I spent, I bought almost every costume bundle off the market since I had almost none of them. And got 4 of the 6 tier 9 costume rewards with the tokens I got.

I think if I ever get into the high level end-game stuff, the super pack rewards might be of more use, but since I just run around pushing buttons and watching the pretty colours, most of that stuff is lost on me.


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I have a black wolf pet. If only I could sell it to you in Wentworth's...!

Say, that sounds like the sort of idea that belongs in the Suggestions forum.


 

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I also got the 24 pack, but that was after I'd already bought I think maybe six packs individually already. Lots and lots of inspirations which I haven't used yet, and a lot of Merits, which I thought was cool! I did get lots of costume pieces, but I wasn't really paying attention to that. No wolf pet.

I got lots of ATOs, but I spent most of the weekend collecting complete ATO sets via the auction house. I was able to gain all six ATOs from the Kheldian, Mastermind and Stalker sets, but the rest have been a bit more expensive than the amount of inf I have on any one character (EDIT: For instance, I still have six outstanding bids of 20,000,000 each for the entire Brute set which have yet to fill; I haven't seen any individual Brute ATO go for less than 100,000,000 so far). I haven't spent any Merits yet to get any of these. I may do so with some of them.

Oh yeah, and this feels nothing like playing slots or the lottery. Just saying. It feels a lot more like buying a bunch of Magic boosters. Well, getting the ATOs from the auction house is more like buying individual cards at Star City Games, lol.


 

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How many reward merits did you end up with?
I will have to look tonight, I did spread them out over 3-4 toons but it was alot.


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If you let them clutter up your email and never use them, of course they'll never be useful! Start using them just to clear them out. If you're into the "upper level" Incarnate Trials, you can even use up those Self Rezes (MOM, I'm looking at you).

Actually, you should be able to use up all those rezes on MOM ...
lol

All of my toons are T4 everything, I hardly ever die on a MoM, you know thats prolly where my luck is and just not with the RNG.


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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit View Post
As per usual the RNG keeps hating me. After 9600pts spent on Super Packs, no Black Wolf Pet. Coincidentally a friend who was opening theirs next to me got the pet on the 3 pack.
Do I begrudge them? No. Do I hate the RNG just a little bit more? O h-e-double hockey sticks yeah!
This is about what I have spent also. And I also do not have the Black Wolf pet. I wish I could say I will stop buying them, but I will not. I like stuff.

Now, I think I may be set for reward merits for a while, and inf too. I have over 200 charges of x25 reward merits. The ATIOs have have sold have brought in well over 4 billion inf too.


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Originally Posted by Mallerick View Post
For 80 points these packs are an investment with an occasional awesome shiny - definitely NOT a gamble!
Yes yes and the sky is not blue its light blue I get it mate. IMHO, people should buy as many Supergamble Packs as they want and the only justification needed is they wanted too.


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This is about what I have spent also. And I also do not have the Black Wolf pet. wish I could say I will stop buying them, but I will not. I like stuff.
He he WAI!


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And bothers me none at all.
Heyas Zyphoid. I hope nobody is bothered by their purchase since it is all optional. There are some not so overly pleased with the Black Wolf drop rate, but hey that's the RNG Gods at work.


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Heyas Zyphoid. I hope nobody is bothered by their purchase since it is all optional. There are some not so overly pleased with the Black Wolf drop rate, but hey that's the RNG Gods at work.
I will openly admit that I have a deep hatred for the RNG. I once went for over a year w/o a purple drop, while my friends were getting more than one a mission. At this point I have opened around 200 super packs, and I am yet to get a black wolf, the up side is I am not dieing to get one either.

Really what I like are the merit cards, and the xp boost powers. The ATIO's are nice, but will be better when enhancement converters come in i22.


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I have a black wolf pet. If only I could sell it to you in Wentworth's...!

Say, that sounds like the sort of idea that belongs in the Suggestions forum.
Or buy it too with merits like the Vanguard Heavy in RWZ with vangard merits..... Have this wolf also be purchased with just normal reward merits



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