86103-play-on-the-ptr-get-boomboxes

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Boom boxes go BOOM!
 
We need your help on the PTR Cupcakes! Now you all know that good help don’t come cheap, so we’re willing to pay you for your services! 
 
For any quests completed in Blighthaven and Northern Wastes while the PTR is active, you can earn yourself some boom boxes. 
 
The details are tricky, so pay attention - 
You will receive a boom box for every quest for the first five quests
After those five quests, you’ll receive one boom box every fifth quest completed
This a total maximum earning of 14 boom boxes!
All boom boxes can be earned from the time that the PTR was made public, on June 19th, until we patch the content that you’ve been testing, to the live servers.
 
So whaddaya say? All boom boxes earned will be added to accounts on the LIVE servers approximately one week or so after we go live with the tested content.	
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			Is there a way to get level 50 gear on the PTR?	
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Is there a way to get level 50 gear on the PTR?
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			It's already going to take me 3 months to open the boxes I have. =\	
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			I would, but the items and stuff in the Boom Boxes are absolute shit.	
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meh..... those boomboxes are only going to give me more transmat transponders and rune fragments, I know it.
 
i will probably still test out some stuff when I get the time just because I like too, doesn't mean you can bribe me with boomboxes though  :P	
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Need to have a basic mount vendor available for those that didn't preorder as well as directions to Northern Wastes, because it's not shown on the map. Just BlightHaven.
 
Would be nice to have the taxi's unlocked too to get there quickly.
 
Oh and toss in a few hundred Prestige to buy the PvP amps as well, some are used in PVE
 
I only ask this as the boomboxes typically drop nothing but uselss shit. so there needs to be some incentive to try this stuff out and not play live.
 
Thanks	
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			How do we earn boom boxes if we don't currently have a level 50?	
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How do we earn boom boxes if we don't currently have a level 50?
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Boomboxes for me so far have been kind of meh.  I don't think that they will be able to offset the spoilers I'd get from testing.  I'm really hooked into the lore/story right now.  Not sure I want to know it ahead of everyone, but thanks for the offer.  
 
I'm actually a little more interested in making a bunch of 50's of the different classes that I haven't tried out and see how they play in eldergame.	
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Well, there is an NPC that levels teleports you to your home city, then a vendor that gives you 10p and gear , amps etc.
 
THEN you get to HOOF it to Blighthaven, no clue where the other place is.
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Well, there is an NPC that levels teleports you to your home city, then a vendor that gives you 10p and gear , amps etc.
 
THEN you get to HOOF it to Blighthaven, no clue where the other place is.
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Boom boxes go BOOM!
 
We need your help on the PTR Cupcakes! Now you all know that good help don’t come cheap, so we’re willing to pay you for your services! 
 
For any quests completed in Blighthaven and Northern Wastes while the PTR is active, you can earn yourself some boom boxes. 
 
The details are tricky, so pay attention - 
You will receive a boom box for every quest for the first five quests
After those five quests, you’ll receive one boom box every fifth quest completed
This a total maximum earning of 14 boom boxes!
All boom boxes can be earned from the time that the PTR was made public, on June 19th, until we patch the content that you’ve been testing, to the live servers.
 
So whaddaya say? All boom boxes earned will be added to accounts on the LIVE servers approximately one week or so after we go live with the tested content.
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			Well, you have my attention.	
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You can only boost to 50 if you have a 50 on normal servers.  So I believe Boom Boxes can only be earned by those with level 50's already, was this really intended Carbine?  Its a bit unfair in my opinion.
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In my opinion... on PTR everybody should get same chances.
 
If carbine wants to test a lvl50 area, everybody should receive a free lvl 50 boost + gear
If they want to test lvl 20 instances, they should wipe all character and give them a new lvl20 boost + gear so try the instance.
 
Thats why its called PTR -> testing different situations, this includes regular character wipes, level boosts and 
If they want to test new tutorial zones, they can just wipe all character and let us play
 
There is no need to seperate players in two group already-lvl-50/not-lvl-50, that makes no real sense in testing, especially when rewards come into play, that would just cause more whining
Also level to 10 to get the lvl-boost is stupid	
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I'm sure glad I can test the content out and participate in this event, I'd love to!
 
Wait. No, I can't because I'm leveling multiple characters.
 
Woops.	
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			I'm probably just missing it, but is there any test realm forum where we can post feedback ?	
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Also level to 10 to get the lvl-boost is stupid
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			You mean I can get more flask of renown, flask of experience, and flask of reputation!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!	
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Spent $ on game + 1month sub, first day you could to play beta test... Did it every day! Hassled all my gamer buddys for weeks.
 
Guess what? Buddys who didn't even try beta till very end... Got double the boombox's of me!
 
As for bug testing/fixing... Oh my... do I really have the empathy to see what this 1.1k+ bugfix actually didn't fix?
 
Will a boom box reward inspire me to go test yet more quests.... that I'm prob going to have to go do daily anyway?
 
 
Well, let me tell you something. If tomorrows boom box has a boom box for my mount, or a rare mount. Then, yes! (Sneak one in there, and I'll be happy again!)
 
Truthfully tho, the thing I needed least in this game, was MORE quests. Get rid of the BOTs! Fix what's already IN the game so it's playable! Ohhh and if there's SOOO few oceanic players were not worth a oceanic server (excluding in name to keep us away from the rest of ya's of corse) why dose the game get ~2,000% more laggy at our peak time. If it's the 'quiet time'/best time to patch?!! (Fix routing if that's acutally the prob, or give us a cupcakeing server where the games playable)	
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			Remove the one time use 'teleport to housing/bind point' items from boom boxes and you have yourself a deal.	
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			That's not much of an incentive. I don't need anymore dye. 	
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It would be if it worked like that but it doesn't. you get the boost at level 1. speak to an NPC on the arkship to be teleported to your capital and then speak to the NPC right in front of you to be boosted to 50 and get 10 plat. buy cheap gear and all your amps from the holocrypt vendor. easy peasy
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I may help out testing on the PTR because I do care about the health of the game. As to the Boom-boxes being the reason, they really are extremely underwhelming... certainly made them seem epic but there is still epic about them... cupcake.
 
Mal	
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You mean I can get more flask of renown, flask of experience, and flask of reputation!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
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			So those that rushed through the content, not caring about it, to get to 50 get rewarded to test new content they'll probably just rush through?  Then those that enjoyed the content perhaps leveling multiple characters and tried to do all the quests but not 50 yet aren't able to participate even though they'll be the ones enjoying the new content the most?  This seems backwards.	
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			I'll have to look into this. My guild has this thing every night called "The nightly Boombox disappointment" where we open our boomboxes and compare what 10 minute buff potion or crafting mat we got. This would be a way of making the tradition last longer.  	
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So because I have taken it slow, played a few different chars and not hurried to level a char to 50 I don't get the chance at boom boxs?  Dang....
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So to sum it all up...
 
You duped us once with idea of boom boxes. I really don't think anyone is going to fall for the same trick twice. 
Offering boom boxes won't actually get anyone on the ptr that wouldn't of already chosen to play it. 	
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			I have 91 left, no ty.  Let me open the ones I have more often and I'll do it.  All I'm getting is Pink Fury Dye anyways.	
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I would, but the items and stuff in the Boom Boxes are absolute shit.
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			Rush through content and ignore everything to get to 50 quickly, get rewarded with new content and rewards while those noobs still getting to 50 are left out to dry.  Great, fair system you have there.	
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Rush through content and ignore everything to get to 50 quickly, get rewarded with new content and rewards while those noobs still getting to 50 are left out to dry.  Great, fair system you have there.
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Boom boxes go BOOM!
 
We need your help on the PTR Cupcakes! Now you all know that good help don’t come cheap, so we’re willing to pay you for your services! 
 
For any quests completed in Blighthaven and Northern Wastes while the PTR is active, you can earn yourself some boom boxes. 
 
The details are tricky, so pay attention - 
You will receive a boom box for every quest for the first five quests
After those five quests, you’ll receive one boom box every fifth quest completed
This a total maximum earning of 14 boom boxes!
All boom boxes can be earned from the time that the PTR was made public, on June 19th, until we patch the content that you’ve been testing, to the live servers.
 
So whaddaya say? All boom boxes earned will be added to accounts on the LIVE servers approximately one week or so after we go live with the tested content.
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			Maybe if the boom boxes weren't complete ass or if I could make a level 50 character regardless of Live realm status I'd actually give enough shits to play on the PTR.	
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If you did any research before complaining, you would of learned there is a NPC in the PTR that grants you lvl 50.
 
So yeah they do have a Fair System...
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If you did any research, you'd have learned that you're required to have a 50 on live before a certain date to use that NPC.
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			So what you're saying is we can't get more boom boxes unless we've already gotten to level 50 on the live servers?  I love helping people test out their games and find problems, but unfortunately I'm also studying for medical school so I can't really go balls deep and level as much as I would like to.  Plus I enjoy trying out other classes.  Y u do dis to me? :((	
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			Haha, the crappy rewards from the boomboxes are biting them in the ass now. You tricked me into beta testing your game once for boomboxes, but I know they're worthless now.	
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There just isn't enough time in the day to try to achieve what i want to in the live server, AND test quests on the PTR. I think most people would rather aoe farm for like 1 plat, and everthing else in the spare time they have when not doing dungeons/adventures/raids, rated pvp, or crafting. 
 
Even if you gave credd for extensive testing of the new area, it only takes a few days of casual farming to get anyway + you get the extras, so it's going to be hard to get people to want to do this. Maybe if you gave unique rewards (exclusive housing items, costumes, etc.) you might get some one with 16 hours a day to play around in there.
 
I did make a couple of 50's on the PTR to see how other classes play at 50 so there's that, but no real reason to stick around more than an hour or two once you've explored most of the zone.	
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I would, but the items and stuff in the Boom Boxes are absolute shit.
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			Yes please!	
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The items aren't bad, you just have awful RNG.
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Honestly I would have been on the ptr before they even offered the boom boxes except for one thing- since I did not get to level 50 before the 12th I would have to level another level 50.
With a 50 engineer, a 29 spellslinger, and a fresh stalker I think I'll have enough leveling to do. I do understand the need to make sure players don't use the test realm to experiment with what it is like to have a 50 though.
Well, back to grabbing C.R.E.D.D. and leveling, see you all on ptr drop 2!
 
(Would have been 50 in time, just too busy filling bug reports about geometry with missing faces and gaps left by textures not quite fitting, all of it in spots that most would not find without taking a moment to be fair.)	
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Honestly I would have been on the ptr before they even offered the boom boxes except for one thing- since I did not get to level 50 before the 12th I would have to level another level 50.
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			To be fair, I have gotten a few Elder gems, a few pieces of Raidin' costume, and the Luminous Equivar Mount, so I'm not *terribly* upset about the Boom Boxes.  I do, however, wish they felt a little more rewarding.  Getting food, greater element things, or dyes I already have does take some of the fun out of it.	
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To be fair, I have gotten a few Elder gems, a few pieces of Raidin' costume, and the Luminous Equivar Mount, so I'm not *terribly* upset about the Boom Boxes.  I do, however, wish they felt a little more rewarding.  Getting food, greater element things, or dyes I already have does take some of the fun out of it.
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Honestly I would have been on the ptr before they even offered the boom boxes except for one thing- since I did not get to level 50 before the 12th I would have to level another level 50.
With a 50 engineer, a 29 spellslinger, and a fresh stalker I think I'll have enough leveling to do. I do understand the need to make sure players don't use the test realm to experiment with what it is like to have a 50 though.
Well, back to grabbing C.R.E.D.D. and leveling, see you all on ptr drop 2!
 
(Would have been 50 in time, just too busy filling bug reports about geometry with missing faces and gaps left by textures not quite fitting, all of it in spots that most would not find without taking a moment to be fair.)
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To be fair, I have gotten a few Elder gems, a few pieces of Raidin' costume, and the Luminous Equivar Mount, so I'm not *terribly* upset about the Boom Boxes.  I do, however, wish they felt a little more rewarding.  Getting food, greater element things, or dyes I already have does take some of the fun out of it.
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			I got a few dyes that sell for 5+ plat... I also sold the raiden hat for a plat as well...Such awful items. :P	
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			They may want to edit the post to say that non-level 50's aren't welcome so that the majority of players don't try and get their hopes up.  If you want to test and get rewards you must have a level 50 because .... <crickets chirping>.	
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			How many quests is there to complete as exile on the PTR. I've done every quest in the new zone and counted to 38 quests in total which doesnt count up to all available BoomBoxes.	
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to be fair the boom boxes are about what I expected and they are not completely terrible, they have some neat stuff and I have got a nice dye, some cool decor items and most of the raidin costume set. they would be much less of an incentive,  or at least an incentive for a much shorter time if everybody got the really awesome stuff like the mount all the time and after opening just a few boxes. I like opening my daily boom box, its not always a disappointment
 
getting those one time use teleports for places that already have a permanent teleport on a 20 min cool down though... /fliptable	
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Boom Boxes are a let down.... 10min potions ? Teleport items ? Vendor trash and common furninshings ?
 
The fun items are on the initial post originally, but it didn't mention there is crap-ton of vendor junk in there too.
 
It's hard enough trying to enjoy Lv50 now (gee, griding Elder gems on Crimson and failure Adv/Dun groups) without playing the Strain Ultra drop twice; That I would like to keep special.	
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I know, I know.. The new patch *just* hit the live servers, but I was wondering when we're going to be receiving these extra boomboxes?
 
I played both zones twice, on each faction for a total of about 90 quests (just to be on the safe side!)	
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			:( wish we had another week, didn't find out about this until a few days ago. Didn't think "early july" for the strain was July 1st D:	
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			Any update on when we get our boomboxes?	
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I know, I know.. The new patch *just* hit the live servers, but I was wondering when we're going to be receiving these extra boomboxes?
 
I played both zones twice, on each faction for a total of about 90 quests (just to be on the safe side!)
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Boxes should be on your live accounts now next time you log in.
 
Thanks again for testing!
 
~Windward	
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			Regarding the Boom Boxes, will this apply now for every PTR or only for specific ones?	
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			i played on the ptr did my dailies and all the blight haven quest still havent recieved my boomboxes on my account whats going on	
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