The Darkness Mystery Box

I'd wish by now it wouldn't be possible to get 3 pairs of seraph gloves and 2 pairs of seraph boots when you can only use 1 at a time. These boxes are usually tainted with excessive and wasteful dupes that leave a sour taste in the mouth. It's not like I expect every piece in a set after blowing a few hundred points, its just I could do without the unusable dupes which are actually giving you nothing in return for your real money.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Last edited by p0t on Jun 7, 2016, 11:52:22 PM
You need to go into this gambling scenario with the mindset that you're only GIVING support dollars to GGG without any expectation of return. Just as any level headed person does when cramming $$$ into a casino slot machine.

If you do that, then no matter the outcome, you've done the right thing by supplying the employees of GGG with a paycheck. AND you've made certain that more gambling box promotions will come your way.

The cycle continues.

Thank you for your support.
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You need to go into this gambling scenario with the mindset that you're only GIVING support dollars to GGG without any expectation of return. Just as any level headed person does when cramming $$$ into a casino slot machine.

If you do that, then no matter the outcome, you've done the right thing by supplying the employees of GGG with a paycheck. AND you've made certain that more gambling box promotions will come your way.

The cycle continues.

Thank you for your support.


The only reason I'm buying boxes is to be able to complain about them as a participant, not a boycotter (and more or less to know which potential outcome I am talking about...)

I want to show good will to spend, not only criticise.
Last edited by Schiriki on Jun 8, 2016, 1:02:57 AM


RIP $300 no wings
One more pull and it'll be wings. I have a good feeling about it.
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ziplet wrote:
RIP $300 no wings


I'm with you, bro.
$450 worth of boxes, roughly 5250 points I think.
Got literally everything at least twice, including body armors, no wings.

Extremely disappointed.
Carry on my waypoint son, there'll be peace when maps are done.
Lay your portal gem to rest, don't you die no more.

'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony this league.
Try to make maps meet, you're a slave to the meta, then you leave.
The dupes in your post are soul crushing. I was going to buy more boxes but I think I am done. I don't think I can ever buy them again if they are going to do this. The more I read about people complaining the more deplete my faith in GGG gets.
OMFG - what are the odds of getting 8/8 small boxes?
3rd time I fall for this, learning the hard way.

Could it be that I only had 1x1 spots free in my MTX tabs?
I never actually got new MTX tabs using these boxes, only when buying a complete set of some sort.
(got 5 pretty full tabs - but no 2x2 tiles in my MTX tabs available for the larger boxes.. anyone knows if this causes me to get only 1x1's?)
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guidom1980 wrote:
OMFG - what are the odds of getting 8/8 small boxes?
3rd time I fall for this, learning the hard way.

Could it be that I only had 1x1 spots free in my MTX tabs?
I never actually got new MTX tabs using these boxes, only when buying a complete set of some sort.
(got 5 pretty full tabs - but no 2x2 tiles in my MTX tabs available for the larger boxes.. anyone knows if this causes me to get only 1x1's?)


Well, it forced open a new mtx tab should you be lucky enough to get a big box. Happened to me while I blew through my points hoping to get the exclusive items.

What I need now is a sort button for all my duplicates
On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a Question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered
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ainuayan wrote:
Just another opinion:

I'm pretty unhappy with the new box-meta in Path of Exile. I used to contribute to the community as much as I could, but introducing this gamble to win model and supporting PoE are different things. People usually buy a product they like and both parts are happy, in this case, all you get are a bunch of useless repeated things that you will never use.

The sad (or nice) part is: I'm in love with the new MTXs. I would gladly buy them if they were available now. I understand that by making us wait GGG will probably earn more money out of this, but it feels totally unfair.

As a suggestion, I would either implement new boxes with mostly new content, players would still buy them (even more, in my opinion), or simply release the boxes and the new MTXs at the same time, just don't discount them for 6 months or whatever time you want. Then the player will be forced to make a decision: gamble to get the MTXs cheap or buy what he needs for an established price.


On a few of these points, nothing about MTX is ever pay to win. You might consider getting what you want from gambling a win, but it does not affect game content, just how you dress up your character.

Also, the Solaris and Darkness boxes do introduce about 50% new content, and the prior content is a mixed bag of high cost/low cost MTX. If you have a majority of the prior MTX, it might not be a worthwhile gamble. I didn't have a majority of what was available in the Solaris box and I got lucky with very few repeat items in 15-25 boxes. I'll be able to complete my armor sets and get the key items I wanted in July. I was lucky, but that's the truth about gambling. Maybe I won't be so lucky when I do the same for the Darkness box when I upgrade my supporter pack.

Speaking of which, this is a free to play game supported by people who want to dress up their characters with MTX. Gambling is a very sneaky but effective way of doing exactly what they need to and it wouldn't work if people didn't enjoy it and stick around. Nothing major is exclusive to these packs. People are just impatient.

Lastly, we can all agree being able to organize the MTX stash and do something with the duplicate items is an absolute necessity.


"a free to play game supported by people who want to dress up their characters with MTX." you say?,

Well isent it just wonderfull that those players who keep the game alive then now have to pay insane amount's of money to unlock set's or special items like Wing's, nothing better then escape your everyday problems by chill in a game and throw away 10% of your monthly paycheck to realise you still failed to achieve the 5 items of 31 you only cared for?, i mean are they trying to be nice to us or straight up torturing us?, never have i feelt so ashamed of my own actions.

Lets be honest majority wants most likely just a few items from these box and they would of bought them specific if we could.

Sad to see games chose to go bad due to greed this is nothing less it ruins the whole immersion of the game with these mtx boxes,

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