flashburn

That's why I said I wasn't talking about the required level. This would be an internal item level. Pretty much all the loot based games have this, Blizzard actually exposes this level in WoW, and I believe Diablo 3 now as well for level 80 loot. They exposed it because once you hit max in WoW (and Diablo) purples were no longer equal ilevel's for a given required level, because of raiding (WoW) and Inferno (Diablo). Their other option would of been to use new colors.

Basically it works like this (all hypothetical numbers of course):
Required Level 50
Item Level 200
Stats: 50 DPS (+50 ilvl)
really slow reload (-10 ilvl)
uber crit (+50 ilvl)
double ammo usage (-20 ilvl)
etc...

That way they can very easily generate random yet balanced loot.

Anyway, I've spent entirely too much time on the subject of loot, .

pinata242

It's not often I get out-nerded. Congratulations!

flashburn

I tried!

MoviePage

This is what I've always heard as well, but I don't know for sure.

foxdvd

it does not take a "trailblazer" to figure out that if a weapon from a loot is scaled to your level, but not guaranteed to be orange or better...and that you get purple loot at a much greater level in the game as you level up...that holding on to your keys was really not necessary..

That being said, the best item I still have is from that chest...a shotgun that has 50 range, does 3000 dmg...and has 12 shots...

pinata242

Neither of these are self-evident.

Here are the facts:
1) There's a chest that requires special keys
2) Special keys are limited, by design

That's all I know. Because I don't read things prior to release, especially as the release date approaches, for any game. And I didn't read any of the notices after getting the special keys because, well, I wanted to play!

Where is it written that chests and, in particular, the golden key chest max out at purple level items?

flashburn

Right here?

pinata242

All I see is an emoticon! I guess there's some post I either missed or skipped. I'll further assume that it actually referenced facts and not in the format that's been used in this current discussion.

flashburn

I'm just saying, we've been using the keys, and always getting purples. No one in this thread has reported otherwise.

pinata242

Okay. I do admit to skipping entire blocks of conversations, so I could have easily missed it.

Not getting an orange isn't a guarantee, is all I'm saying. I think the assumption that the large majority of us have had about holding on to the ONE key we got for pre-ordering and the ONE key we got for signing up for SHiFT for later levels was extremely sound.

It's only recently that we learned they aren't as rare as originally thought, so why wait?

Beyond that, everything was speculation. There's no way to know that the chest gives worse loot than bosses at later levels so it's better to use them early, especially when we all got golden guns for pre-ordering as well.

flashburn

Yep, there totally could be like a 0.01% chance of getting an orange or something like that. We definitely don't have enough data.

The only reason I didn't plan on holding on to them was in the first one, I was pretty much decked out in all purples by around level 30 anyway, so I wasn't likely to get an amazing upgrade then. That's also pretty much the case now, although I still have a blue Shotgun, but it's pretty long in the tooth. Any other upgrades would just be a few levels higher than my current gear.

flashburn

BTW, @DuvalMagic will be posting codes again between 10PM-11PM EST time.

dsa_shea

If there are any new Shift codes would someone kindly share them here? Thanks!

Deftones

i am around tonight, so i'll try to post it.

pinata242

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MoviePage

I'm sitting here watching his Twitter feed and his number of followers is going up with each click of refresh. These codes will be gone within 2 or 3 minutes, I'd bet.

pinata242

I've got my redemption screen up and have mobile notifications on. It'll come right to my phone via sms and away I go!

Deftones

Codes are live:

PS3: 5TCB3-SRX59-CS3K3-9TWTJ-T5BC6

PC: 5JKJ3-6TWKR-FJTBT-J3JJJ-FXXJT

Xbox360: 5TCB3-SRX93-BR6J6-5XTTJ-T5BXJ

MoviePage

Xbox code posted and gone within a minute.

flashburn

Same with the PC code. Lame.

starman9000

Yeah, I failed. Had it called up but entered the first set into the last set of 5 first. Not sure if that delay enough was what killed it.

Deftones

holy fuck. already gone.

Deftones

i blame the stupid media for this. this was a nice secret until several sites started blabbing the info. fuckers.

pinata242

Damn that was fast! My first attempt failed because I timed out I guess leaving it up for 25 minutes on the redemption screen doesn't work. By the time I got it entered again, it was too late.

Hopefully some of you did!

Deftones

So does that Michael guy who gives out rare item stop showing up? Haven't seen him in ages