If you’re like me, and you’re not yet at the level where nearly every lootbox is 4 duplicates, then chances are you aren’t going to be farming credits fast enough to be able to buy more than 1 legendary by the end of this event.
But here’s the thing, the lootbox system reduces the likelihood of items when you already have them, but it doesn’t eliminate them entirely. If you have more than 3,000 credits, then I recommend buying cheap items everytime you reach 3025+ credits.
Even if the chances are hardly altered, it’s better than leaving it entirely up to chance and still only having enough for one legendary at the end of the event
Buying up cheap items doesn’t increase your odds of getting better items.
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i keep getting brigitte sprays and voicelines pls help
Yeah it does actually. The system doesn’t eliminate the possibility of duplicates, but it reduces them when you already have them. Less chances for 1 item automatically means higher chances for another. it’s simple logic
I’ve recently reached silver frame and I’m getting tons of voicelines/icons/etc trash from old events 
I’m jealous tbh. At least you’re getting credits
That’s not how it works.
If you buy all the white items in the game, you’re still going to get white items. The system stops you from getting duplicate items for as long as possible, but eventually you’re still going to get duplicates. It stops you from getting a duplicate legendary skin, but doesn’t make it any more or less likely that you’ll get a legendary. It just means that when you do get a legendary, it isn’t going to be a duplicate unless you already have most of them.
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it doesnt. this guy thought the same thing and he decided to test it, and it doesnt. youtube /watch?v=piWUW4rqaU8
also, I have nearly every single common and rare item, so I should be opening loot boxes with only purples and golds, right? but that doesn’t happen
yeah that’s going to happen right after a character comes out, for about ~50 lootboxes in my experience until I stop getting items for that character in every single loot box. Just keep getting more lootboxes and the bagutte stuff goes away ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
Do you two not understand how chance works?
I literally didn’t say you’d stop getting duplicates. I said the system tries NOT to give you duplicates but still does.
If the system is ACTIVELY pushing out duplicates as much as it can, then by default everything that is NOT a duplicate becomes more likely simply because it’s not being pushed away by the system
This isn’t simple chance though.
What this suggests is that when you have all the items of a tier, say white, you’re going to get more items of a blue tier. This is false.
Yes, if you have most of all white items, you’re more likely to get white items that you don’t have. But having most of all the white items isn’t going to make it more likely that you’ll have blue items, it just means you’re more likely to get white items that you don’t have.
The tier of an item is rolled separately from what item it will be. The lootbox rolls what tier of item, common, rare, epic, or legendary will appear and then rolls which item of that tier it will be, making sure to avoid duplicates if all possible.
The only thing you can do is buy up all regular legendaries, so the game will most likely give you event legendaries only.
But if you don’t waste money on regular skins, you will be able to buy more event legendaries quite probably.
Oh i get it now. well, regardless. this increases my rate of dupe credits.
I wish I was at a stage of duplicates, I only have 650 credits and I am going to be absolutely pissed off livid if I don’t get the Orisa skin, Orisa dance, Roadhog dance and Reinhardt dance and if I am really blessed, Orisa puppy emote. Need about 3750 credits for this event stuff alone but I ain’t seeing that happen.
good luck man. here’s hoping we all get what we want
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Thanks, lets hope so, good luck to everyone.