144664-suggestion-for-holiday-expeditions

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So I'm LOVING the new Shade's Eve event and am so excited that we finally have holidays in Wildstar! One of the things that I was looking forward to, since it was teased in one of the videos, was the Shade's Eve mount flairs (that hat!). I was sad to find out that these are ONLY available as a random drop from the event expedition, but I started the arduous task of trying to grind for them anyway. At this point, I've got enough Shade Silver to pretty much buy anything off of the vendor I could want, and have received mostly consumables from the instance reward, which has caused me to curse RNGesus to no end.
 
I'm not sure why these items were left off of the vendor, since it seems to me that if people are willing to spend the time to gather up as much of the holiday currency as they can to get "all the things" they should have access to all the things, but I do have a couple of suggestions for reducing the RNG frustration that use devices that are already in the game.
 
Option 1: Holiday Expedition Thermometers
So, we've seen the new "thermometer" system on the Contract board, and now in Challenges, how about a thermometer system for the expeditions. As you complete runs, your thermometer fills up and once full it gives you an additional bag with a chance at some of the higher end rewards (mount flairs, hoverboard & flairs, etc.)
 
Option 2: Lockboxes
We have lockboxes in Dungeons, why not have them in holiday expeditions, or even expeditions in general? This gives players who really want a particular item another shot at getting those items.	
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			Noooooo no lockboxes. No. No no no.	
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			I don't dislike the idea of lockboxes... but it does give me PTSD flashbacks of TF2. I must have dozens of crates sitting around. 	
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