Riot seems to have twerked the numbers behind hextech chests to give more champ shards than skin

Dehitay·Nov 4, 2016·1 votes·281 views

I remember back when hextech chests first came out, I was getting skin shards the majority of the time and it was awesome. But out of my last 8 hextech chests, I seem to have gotten 7 champ shards and 1 skin shard. Considering the rate I was getting skin shards at, this seems highly unlikely unless Riot went back and changed the probabilities. Has anybody else been getting far more champ shards compared to when hextech chests first came out? This is annoying the crap out of me.

2 Comments

Great MutaNov 4, 20161 votes

The chests are just a con to get you to spend money. You'd have sell something like 6-10 shards just to afford some of the better skins.

DehitayNov 4, 20161 votes

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The chests are just a con to get you to spend money. You'd have sell something like 6-10 shards just to afford some of the better skins.

I have over 2300 orange essence from back when skin shards were actually a popular drop from chests. I've even activated a few good skins using hextech crafting. The problem is I'm not really getting skin shards anymore. And I sure as hell don't need champ shards when I have over 60,000 IP to use for champion mastery crafting.

The problem is skin shard drops are very rare compared to how frequently they used to drop from hextech chests