#Calm down the blowtorch spawn rate

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unreal aurora
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💡 What is motivating this suggestion?
I have too many blowtorches, every run the loot is blowtorches, i have too many blowtorches and not enough other gear to actually reach the vaults.
💡 What is your proposal?
decrease blowtorch spawn rate
💡 Exactly and specifically, what should be changed and how?
well the percentage chance of a blowtorch ending up in a container should be reduced by 30% to 70% ish maybe idk exactly i just dont want there to be so insanely many blowtorches

azure cave
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I would say NO

But only for the reason that it doesnt really matter or maybe actually helps.

1.Space loot
Now we have the crates and they great source of good materials / meds / or even end game gear. (how good they are ... are they too good ... would be another topic)
The vault is their alternative that is IN RAID.

  1. Point of interest
    -The chances are that if you find a blow torch and you need the possible gear that you might find there you will go there but also the other players would have the same idea ... which creates a place where players can gather and PVP instead of aimlessly roaming the maps or hitting their personal missions like a check list

  2. Inventory (zero to hero)
    -As your account grows and you progress through zero to hero it will be far more efficient for you to have the materials to craft a blow torch instead of the blow torch itself since for the space of 1 blow torch you can have materials for 3 of them (the slot value is higher)

unreal aurora
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@azure cave and i would argue i dont need 7 blow torches, when my raids since wipe has consistently given med more blowtorches than i could ever possible imagine using the balance is OFF, blowtorches are great, and you are correct in your arguments HOWEVER it doesnt defent the sheer quantity of blowtorches that has been thrown at me since patch, im not saying it should go back to the way it was before when blowtorches was super rare im just saying lower the spawn rates, because the amount of blowtorches there are now i dont want to go to vault after getting a blowtorch because my entire backpack is filled with blowtorches and they sell for 3k a piece, so getting 9 - 12k for not risking all my gear sounds good to me at that point, which makes the blowtorch redundant and also makes my gear unbalanced, i can buy a low end gun from shop, dont have vest, gotta buy a sack bag, and dont have enough crafting components for anything... but i got 5 blowtorches... meaning i dont have the gear necessary to be confident about approaching a vault even, as you said every other player wants to go to vault for that epic loot.

so we need balance then, which means less blowtorches, since ive experienced an extreme quantity of them

serene arrow
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Does it matter? It is already quite a large item, it's not like people are going to take 7 out with them in a raid. I do agree that spawn quite often however, I almost always find things I would prefer.

unreal aurora
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no i take 3 per trip then extract because i already filled my inventory with items worth 3k a pop no need to go any further, also no point in ever having a single blowtorch in inventory or craft once since the chances are we will find 2 in raid before going to vault if we ever intend to do so.

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thats how i have 7, they used to be rare and i didnt realise this had changed so significantly until i had 7, before that i just thought i had become super lucky, but no, theres just a shit ton of them now thats why i had 7, now i have none, becasue why keep something the game literally throws at you in large quantities.

azure cave
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Since you are keeping blow torches that means that you survive the raids ... that been said a blow torch can be used comfortably 3 times and if you practice it can be used up to 4
So i assume that for 4 raids you will be able to find at least 1 blow torch once again there for you chain the vault openings that you can perform every game anyway.

The slot value for $ per square is absolutely not worth for you to get them and sell them
in that case you waste 6 slots for 3k

Side example: Panzer armors used to be rare but now you can get them from vaults / stashes / supply crates / space crates / majors

unreal aurora
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@azure cave the point isnt wether or not the item is worth the slot the point is when i open a container and find 3 blowtorches its unbalanced, it coulda been 1 blowtorch 1 metal sheet and 1 synthetic scrap, but no its 3 blowtorches and while you are cool with the game just having blowtorches in a crazy amount all over the place i think its a bit wack if i have to go through x amount of containers to find something else than more blowtorches, that would be balancing. all i want is some balanced looting, even if i can just not take the blowtorches it means i must scour through x amount of containers more for just other loot than this item, its a bit weird having to suddenly avoid an item because its become too common.

sand kite
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Yeah I agree, it’s spawn rate isn’t actually all that impressive. Plus you usually have to spend a lock pick to get them out of crates or use another torch to get a torch

unreal aurora
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ive actually been finding most of my blowtorches in the new space salvage, but also in locked containers in raid yes, but still when there are blowtorches its also been rare in my case where there is only 1 blowtorch in that container