Vahrane
Novice
So, I started a lockpicker/trap remover a couple days ago to try and open a couple paragon boxes I had as well as to start working on a few low end treasure maps. After a few days of off and on macro sessions I have GM'd both picking and remove trap. Along the way I managed to open the lesser paragon chest (it had junk inside). The lesser box required 80 skill in each to have a 1% chance of success. So I figured at master (90) I could tackle the regular paragon chest. Wrong! So, I got my skills to 100. Meanwhile, I was checking forum posts about this, and learned that I needed a better set of tools to help my chances. So I hit 100, noticed the box finally says 1% success chance (huzzah!), and went to get a set of better tools. I ended up getting some gold tools which brought that 1% chance up to 1%!!! This leads me to believe that a Greater Chest potentially requires 120/120?!
Am I missing something here? How fricken hard are these cursed boxes to open? Do I need GM skills AND Valorite or better tools or something?!? I get that you can get skills to 120 here, but it seems a little silly that a normal paragon chest is this hard to open (especially considering I'd read somewhere that they were made easier to crack!). Basically, it took less effort to kill the paragon creature that dropped the box then it is taking to open the box itself. I've seen a number of posts wherein other players are offering their services to open these chests for people (kudos to all those guys btw), but, personally, I would prefer to be able to open at least lesser and normal paragon boxes myself. Any advice would be appreciated as I'd prefer not to shell out more gold for Valorite tools if that will still end up leaving me at a 1% success chance. Thanks in advance.
P.S. I fully understand it sounds like I'm whining/complaining here, however, I do really enjoy the shard, going so far as to recommend it to friends and mentioning it in YouTube posts on videos where forlorn mmo gamers are looking for something to play. Still, I can't help but feel a little frustrated about these damnable boxes. The lack of any concrete info about the requirements being the most irritating factor.
Am I missing something here? How fricken hard are these cursed boxes to open? Do I need GM skills AND Valorite or better tools or something?!? I get that you can get skills to 120 here, but it seems a little silly that a normal paragon chest is this hard to open (especially considering I'd read somewhere that they were made easier to crack!). Basically, it took less effort to kill the paragon creature that dropped the box then it is taking to open the box itself. I've seen a number of posts wherein other players are offering their services to open these chests for people (kudos to all those guys btw), but, personally, I would prefer to be able to open at least lesser and normal paragon boxes myself. Any advice would be appreciated as I'd prefer not to shell out more gold for Valorite tools if that will still end up leaving me at a 1% success chance. Thanks in advance.
P.S. I fully understand it sounds like I'm whining/complaining here, however, I do really enjoy the shard, going so far as to recommend it to friends and mentioning it in YouTube posts on videos where forlorn mmo gamers are looking for something to play. Still, I can't help but feel a little frustrated about these damnable boxes. The lack of any concrete info about the requirements being the most irritating factor.
