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    Current Apparel Cache Event Keys

    With only a few days left in the new apparel event and have completed all of the weekly assignment for keys, I'm still 5 keys short. All that's left are chances to get one in a field proficiency cache....my luck is horrible, so I don't get them often. Since theres only a few days left in the current apparel event and with all of the downtime in maintenance, would the devs be open to running this event an extra week? If not, can I still earn keys in field proficiency caches for a short time after the event ends? I thought I remembered doing that in the last one. If a mod could let me know for certain, it will determine how hard I grind the next few days and how much sleep I lose lol. Thanks
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    Originally Posted by Lionheart8272 Go to original post
    With only a few days left in the new apparel event and have completed all of the weekly assignment for keys, I'm still 5 keys short. All that's left are chances to get one in a field proficiency cache....my luck is horrible, so I don't get them often. Since theres only a few days left in the current apparel event and with all of the downtime in maintenance, would the devs be open to running this event an extra week? If not, can I still earn keys in field proficiency caches for a short time after the event ends? I thought I remembered doing that in the last one. If a mod could let me know for certain, it will determine how hard I grind the next few days and how much sleep I lose lol. Thanks
    Hey if you are doing that, I want the Black Tusk uniform, how am I going to get that? Should they bend the rules for me as well?
    Get grinding.....
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    That childish answer adds nothing at all. I'm mainly asking if these keys are available in proficiency caches after the event is "officially" over. In the last one I thought you could still earn keys for a short time after. Maybe I'm wrong. Was looking for clarification, not a snarky comment.
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    Originally Posted by Lionheart8272 Go to original post
    That childish answer adds nothing at all. I'm mainly asking if these keys are available in proficiency caches after the event is "officially" over. In the last one I thought you could still earn keys for a short time after. Maybe I'm wrong. Was looking for clarification, not a snarky comment.
    Yeah well I want the Black Tusk Uniform.
    Why would they change the rules just for you?
    Snarky, Childish?
    No, just pointing out I want the Black Tusk Uniform and there no way I can get that because the event is over, when it's over it's over.
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    Where did I say "change the rules just for me"? It would benefit everyone. And again, you didn't bother to read what I wrote about keys being available AFTER the event is over. Something like that happened in the last one but I don't remember what. I have the Black Tusk uniform and I have 3 extra keys from that even sitting in my inventory. I didn't get these until after the even was over. For the record I wish there was a way for people like you to get the Black Tusk set still, have it be a rare drop from bosses or something.
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    Drop rate of keys seems to be soft capped, based on number of keys obtained, resetting weekly. It's not RNG if you get one or not. You start out getting one every cache, then it slowly tapers off to one every other cache, and then to one every other other cache, etc. I'm not sure what the parameters for getting them from DZ caches are, though there does seem to be hard limit of how many you can get from there.

    If you're starting to see a drop off in keys, the only thing to do is just hard farm proficiency caches.
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    Originally Posted by Lionheart8272 Go to original post
    With only a few days left in the new apparel event and have completed all of the weekly assignment for keys, I'm still 5 keys short. All that's left are chances to get one in a field proficiency cache....my luck is horrible, so I don't get them often. Since theres only a few days left in the current apparel event and with all of the downtime in maintenance, would the devs be open to running this event an extra week? If not, can I still earn keys in field proficiency caches for a short time after the event ends? I thought I remembered doing that in the last one. If a mod could let me know for certain, it will determine how hard I grind the next few days and how much sleep I lose lol. Thanks
    I think you get the 1 event key for every 2 or 3 FPC's you get, or at least that's what it seemed like for me.
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    Thank you for the replies Solkard and DarkKnight. That makes sense about the keys being soft capped. Before the reset this week I went 5 caches without getting a key. Then I got 2 in a row this week.
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    Originally Posted by DarkKnight27us Go to original post
    I think you get the 1 event key for every 2 or 3 FPC's you get, or at least that's what it seemed like for me.
    Pretty sure it’s every third field proficiency.
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    I didn't even work the projects for the keys, just went with the Field Proficiency Cache. To me, that's the easier route and it seems I got a key about every other field proficiency cache.
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