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I don't know if my luck was bad or not but, after 25 gathering turns, I only found one Strange Chest.

My level is 39, and it's the lowest gathering level I have. If this is skewed in favor to those with lower gathering levels...

I got 3 total from all my turns.

EDIT: I should mention I'm Earth and have a couple extra too.

My scavenging is at 40 and I got four. Still doesn't seem like much.

30 turns and not one chest. I even used all 30 turns in my lowest area which is digging at level 30. Clearly this NotN is off to a bad start already.

I got three, but they disappeared

I got three chests with the 30 turns... which isn't that bad if you consider their rarity, and the fact it would equal 1 chest per 10 turns.

@yukitsukihana
It is not skewed in favour of anything - chest drops are like the festival chest drops (and the skins from jox box). It's an extra chance tacked onto a gathering turn irrespective of type and level.

@Vendrus
I was under the assumption that NotN chest drops were more akin to elemental currency drops, esp as some people have gotten 4 from gathering (that would be almost unheard of for fest skin chests).

There is also the issue that Gathering itself is broken, which is more noticeable at higher levels, and was only recently fixed for elemental currency. I was wondering if it was still broken for NotN chests.

@yukitsukihana
I was talking about the mechanism, not the drop rate. Plenty of people have 1, I know a few people with 4-5. 2-4 seems to be average.

I hadn't heard about currency being broken - do you have a link? Gathering afaik isn't broken, the way it works just isn't very popular.

@Vendrus
I don't have a link, but the Suggestions forum is rife with topics asking for a fix to Gathering (it's easier to get rare items at lower levels than higher levels, because the pool opens up more, yet rare item chance was not raised).

The fix to elemental currency was posted in a Words on the Wind (I'm fairly sure, at least), back when they were still dev updates, which I guess is a while ago to new players, but is still relatively recent to me. It was pretty obvious when those at higher levels were getting maybe 1 currency per day and low levels were getting like 20.