Too many torches!

[sand orbit]

You must of buffed the torch spawn rate. I'm finding up to 3 a raid! This last few days have been insane. There's no point grinding the zero to hero for the torch recipe, as there's many in each raid ATM.

[final crescent]

They didn't change anything, that's just the loot table RNG doing its thing. 🙂

[hazy torrent]

I believe the last change they made was a slight nerf to their spawn rate. We'd have to dig it up to double check

[final crescent]

Getting more than 1 torch in a match is a good problem to have. 😄

I'm quite sure it's just RNG doing what it does. Sometimes you find 2 or 3 torches, sometimes you get zero.

I just took a peek at the loot table info on the compendium and the wiki, considering how many places they can spawn and their percentage chance to spawn it's not a surprise that sometimes people find more than 1 or 2 in a match. Speaking from experience I have busted open plenty of vaults using a blowtorch I found in the current match and found another blowtorch inside the vault.

[faint yew]

Pure luck

[sand orbit]

Not pure luck if it happens often, hence the post. As someone who plays all day every day, I suggest making the torches a bit rarer, so finding 2 or 3 in a raid is actually a buzz, rather than a common occurrence 👍

[final crescent]

Perhaps if I explain the system you'll understand why we keep telling you that it's luck.

There are 7 types of containers that can spawn a blowtorch in a match. These are: Stash, metal trunk, industrial container, industrial toolbox, toolbox, space salvage (if it's industrial), and the vault trunk.

Each container you can loot in a match has a loot table and each item, or null item (null item = no item spawns for that loot roll) has a weight score on the table. This weighted score results in a percentage chance for items to spawn in that container. Each container can spawn up to a set number of items. Most of the weighted loot tables have "null" entries so each loot roll may result in nothing. This is why sometimes you find empty containers right at the start of a match.

The percentages per roll for a blowtorch to show up in each of these containers are as follows based on the Wiki data:

0.64% secret stash, 2 item rolls.

0.97% metal trunk, 1 item roll.

2.73% for the Industrial container, 6 rolls.

2.73% for the Industrial Toolbox, 2 rolls.

2.73% space salvage if it's industrial, 6 rolls.

1.32% vault trunk, 2 rolls.

2.14% Toolbox, 1 roll.

If you find more than 1 or 2 blowtorches in a match it's because you got lucky on the loot rolls for the containers you have been opening. The percentages of them showing up are pretty low and you can hit a dry spell where you just don't seem to find them.

[sand orbit]

My point was that they are too common . It was something me and my team observed. This pretty much makes the point of grinding to unlock the torch recipe pointless, to some degree. It was something for the devs to consider. Have a nice day

[faint yew]

You must be trolling, I had three blowtorches in one raid only once in a thousand hours, and that was because I brought one with me, got one from another marauder and found one more in the vault

[sand orbit]

Are you a dev? Noyou are not, so why are commenting, I don't know...

[faint yew]

Do I have to be a some kind of deity to say that your experience is just a coincidence or what