Talk:Shadowforged Armor/@comment-24.23.239.59-20170204233329/@comment-27862737-20170424042422

The chance for getting a new armor from a chest (like SF) is extremely low, so even on a step chest when you have 25% better chance, it's still not much improved. I don't know the actual change percentages, but I would think it's well below 1% normally - like you said, probably 0.1 to 0.2 or so, maybe as high as 0.5%.

It's not misleading, though, contrary to popular belief; if 25% better chance based on 0.2%, for instance, that would be 5%, so a 1 in 20 chance in getting the best result. Still unlikely at best, but better than less than 1%. Even if the initial chance is 0.5%, that's 12.5%, so 1 in 8 chance.. so better, but still unlikely.

This is the reason most everyone I've talked to says to not bother with chests at all - even the "cheap" ones (2 to 5 gems each draw). If you were to save the gems you spent on the chests, you could go on a top run and get the SF in the rewards, in addition to the rewards you get in the milestones (crafting materials to craft one of the strongest ones).