Am I dumb for thinking there's nothing left to do in the krypt after a certain point? Should I be respawning treasure chests, or just keep giving 100k coins as tribute for skins like I've been doing? I don't want to awake a chest that just gives me BS.
I just did the Krypt this past week after doing towers exclusively for the first month. I read up a bunch on reddit threads about what to so and these are my findings, which was pretty much consistent with expectations going in, although I can't guarantee any of this 100%. I did this on two systems w/ similar results.
Opened all the heart, flame chests and chests in the throne room as they are all fixed with good stuff.
Regular, invisible, and soul chests seem to have their own pools of skins and gear.
1st run:
- Opened everything in the Krypt including all regular, soul, and invisible chests. There was gear, skins, britalities, intros/victories, etc in everything. Restocked everything after.
2nd run:
- Regular chests are pretty much worthless, but it can't hurt to open a few on the second run in case you didn't open the full number of them the first time. You should see junk popping up real quick.
- Opened all of the soul chests and invisible chests as you will still be getting gear and skins from these. The souls started to drop good stuff less often, maybe about 2/3 through, but just more slowly.
Restocked everything after.
After that:
Soul chests and invisible chests still give gear and maybe skins, but the drop rate starts to get much, much slower. It may look like they are dry, but there may still be some gear yet to drop. NRS seems to slow the drop rate down in the various pools so that when you are maybe 2/3 of the way through collection, it gets really, really slow. This is apparently to drag the end game out.
Shrine: 100k fairly consistently drops skins and 75k drops gear, but as above, drops start to slow to a glacial pace. So if an item you know is in this pool doesn't drop early on, it could be a long, long time and multiple millions of wasted coins.
Kronika vaults: random, but seem to have their own pool.
It's really frustrating the way they seem to nerf the drop rates the more stuff you get. It can really screw you out of getting a certain piece you want in a reasonable amount of time. They did the same thing in Injustce with shaders, so it's not surprising here.
They really need to expand the in-game store at this point. They survived the initial wave of criticism so there's no need to artifically limit the number of items to spend time crystals on. People know where stuff is generally found and that they can eventually get it, it's just NRS artificially dragging it out for people. Just let people buy anything like w/ shaders in Inj2. They want people to use these things, right? No one cares about D'vorah wings, jut put up the various masks.