This is my first time posting in the gwent forum so I apologize because the system prevents me from creating a new thread until I've reached 10 post. Sorry, this is going to be a longer post and I hope the moderators will move this to its own thread soon.
Potential Bug/Unusual Keg Drop Behavior
Platform: Android
First off, I've played gwent for quite a while. Since beta Gwent in fact, when there were still silver cards, 3 rows etc. I'm also a ccg player myself so I know that opening packs is random and you don't always get what you want. However, something statistically unlikely occurred while I was opening my new "Way of the Witcher" kegs today.
I purchased the bundle with the 25 premium kegs for the new expansion and additionally used ore to unlock 80 more regular kegs. As I said, I've played gwent a while and quite often so its my usual thing to save ore for expansion releases like this. After going through all 105 kegs I only opened 2 legendary cards. This was unusual in itself. I know nothing is guaranteed but I've never gotten such a low legendary count opening this many kegs. What makes this stranger is the 2 I did get where both a lucky roll on my guaranteed rare on the first 4 cards. Neither of these cards were unlocked as my 5th card pick. I also noticed my epic count was a little lower than usual. Another odd thing, this one to my benefit, is I was getting a lot of common and rare premiums in the regular kegs.
This really felt off. So I opened 80 kegs of the "Ultimate" variety to see if I experienced the same apparent drop rate. I got 5 legendary 5th picks and 2 lucky first 4 legendaries and a ton of epics. This was just after I opened the 105 kegs of the new set. I find this keg drop behavior very out of the ordinary. I have never experienced such a low drop rate before.
Now before people start posting "its a random system, stop crying" I want to see if other people have experienced a similar change to their drop rates. I'm not an idiot and understand that luck can screw you over but this seemed so far away from my normal mass keg opening experiences. Without knowing the drop odds it is hard to know how unusual this truly is. I also just want to bring it to CDPR and the Gwent team in case there was a real bug or a change to the drop rates for the new set. Did I just get unlucky? Probably. But if this is a wider spread issue, I want it brought to the attention of the developer because this could be an especially bad experience to new and newer players who may not have the ore and scraps to easily obtain the cards they want.
tl;dr Legendary drop rate seemed especially low for new set kegs. I probably just got very bad luck but I want to see if others noticed a similar pattern. No legendaries in 5th pick, low epic count, unusually high premium rate.
Potential Bug/Unusual Keg Drop Behavior
Platform: Android
First off, I've played gwent for quite a while. Since beta Gwent in fact, when there were still silver cards, 3 rows etc. I'm also a ccg player myself so I know that opening packs is random and you don't always get what you want. However, something statistically unlikely occurred while I was opening my new "Way of the Witcher" kegs today.
I purchased the bundle with the 25 premium kegs for the new expansion and additionally used ore to unlock 80 more regular kegs. As I said, I've played gwent a while and quite often so its my usual thing to save ore for expansion releases like this. After going through all 105 kegs I only opened 2 legendary cards. This was unusual in itself. I know nothing is guaranteed but I've never gotten such a low legendary count opening this many kegs. What makes this stranger is the 2 I did get where both a lucky roll on my guaranteed rare on the first 4 cards. Neither of these cards were unlocked as my 5th card pick. I also noticed my epic count was a little lower than usual. Another odd thing, this one to my benefit, is I was getting a lot of common and rare premiums in the regular kegs.
This really felt off. So I opened 80 kegs of the "Ultimate" variety to see if I experienced the same apparent drop rate. I got 5 legendary 5th picks and 2 lucky first 4 legendaries and a ton of epics. This was just after I opened the 105 kegs of the new set. I find this keg drop behavior very out of the ordinary. I have never experienced such a low drop rate before.
Now before people start posting "its a random system, stop crying" I want to see if other people have experienced a similar change to their drop rates. I'm not an idiot and understand that luck can screw you over but this seemed so far away from my normal mass keg opening experiences. Without knowing the drop odds it is hard to know how unusual this truly is. I also just want to bring it to CDPR and the Gwent team in case there was a real bug or a change to the drop rates for the new set. Did I just get unlucky? Probably. But if this is a wider spread issue, I want it brought to the attention of the developer because this could be an especially bad experience to new and newer players who may not have the ore and scraps to easily obtain the cards they want.
tl;dr Legendary drop rate seemed especially low for new set kegs. I probably just got very bad luck but I want to see if others noticed a similar pattern. No legendaries in 5th pick, low epic count, unusually high premium rate.