I like the change that all goblin types can be found in bounties now as well (especially soon in the season, that Blood shard/gold/crafting mats/gem and so on goblins are really a great bonus), however, this means there are less "normal" goblins.
Since I didn't visit the vault in S3 I wanted to know if there is a chance that the other type of goblins can spawn the Vault portal or not?
BTW, I got all legendary gem types from greater rifts, but the Boon of the Hoarder didn't drop there, if anyone wanted to mention that possibility.
"Once you've obtained the Boon of the Hoarder for the first time by killing Greed, you can then obtain additional copies by killing Greater Rift Guardians. As with other Legendary Gems, it will only drop from Greater Rift Guardians if you don't already have it equipped on your current character or stored in your stash."
I guess the only goblin that can't spawn the vault is the rainbow one. And possibly the blue one. That split up. Kinda get like 8 goblins per one sire.
O, that's great, so any kind of goblin can open the Vault, cool!
No. Rainbow Goblins cannot spawn the vault. They are the only type of goblin that cannot do this, and the Vault cannot spawn in a rift.
And another thing to note, if you kill a rainbow goblin and it opens a whymsdale portal then all the other types of goblins can't open a vault portal.
You can't have 2 portals in the same game, be it 2x whymsdale or 2x vault.
So beware if you are farming vault portals don't kill rainbow goblins.
But it seems you can have Rainbow and Vault portal in the same game, so if you kill Rainbow goblin it shouldn't lower your chances to get access to the Vault:
O, that's great, so any kind of goblin can open the Vault, cool!
No. Rainbow Goblins cannot spawn the vault. They are the only type of goblin that cannot do this, and the Vault cannot spawn in a rift.
And another thing to note, if you kill a rainbow goblin and it opens a whymsdale portal then all the other types of goblins can't open a vault portal.
You can't have 2 portals in the same game, be it 2x whymsdale or 2x vault.
So beware if you are farming vault portals don't kill rainbow goblins.
But it seems you can have Rainbow and Vault portal in the same game, so if you kill Rainbow goblin it shouldn't lower your chances to get access to the Vault:
The actual mechanism is that you can't open a portal in a portal world. That picture is pretty good evidence that a whimsy portal doesn't lock you out of a vault in a game (also a vault shouldn't lock you out of a vault either, but that's a lot of RNG to work through to confirm)
They have some kind of fix in game incase a portal is opened and you miss it somehow, then the boon gem starts dropping from GRifts.
Last season myself and many of the players I played with received boon from GRs before we ever found a vault.
And that happened to me yesterday, i was doin a lvl 1 grift ported to town when the boss spawned, did some bounties and there was the vault all the sudden.
So no time to go in cuz it was time to slay the grift boss, giess what dropped... boon of the hoarder.
After that jumped into the vault en got me some gold but i was like... REALLY!?!?
I know that feeling. I experienced the same thing last night. I was doing some Grifts, and the timer was way behind for me to upgrade the keystone only one level so I decided to run some bounties. I killed a goblin and BAM, I get the vault. I ran back since my time was almost done in the Grift and to my surprise, I also get Boon of the Hoarder from the Rift Boss.
So it seems to me that it is possible that you can loot the Gem on S3 aswell
I like the change that all goblin types can be found in bounties now as well (especially soon in the season, that Blood shard/gold/crafting mats/gem and so on goblins are really a great bonus), however, this means there are less "normal" goblins.
Since I didn't visit the vault in S3 I wanted to know if there is a chance that the other type of goblins can spawn the Vault portal or not?
BTW, I got all legendary gem types from greater rifts, but the Boon of the Hoarder didn't drop there, if anyone wanted to mention that possibility.
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Boon of the hoarder only drops in the vault.
They have some kind of fix in game incase a portal is opened and you miss it somehow, then the boon gem starts dropping from GRifts.
Last season myself and many of the players I played with received boon from GRs before we ever found a vault.
Yes, but they changed it this season.
All goblins can spawn the Vault. Got 2 vaults so far
1 time from Blood Shard Goblin
1 time from Gem Goblin
O, that's great, so any kind of goblin can open the Vault, cool!
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"Once you've obtained the Boon of the Hoarder for the first time by killing Greed, you can then obtain additional copies by killing Greater Rift Guardians. As with other Legendary Gems, it will only drop from Greater Rift Guardians if you don't already have it equipped on your current character or stored in your stash."
No. Rainbow Goblins cannot spawn the vault. They are the only type of goblin that cannot do this, and the Vault cannot spawn in a rift.
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I guess the only goblin that can't spawn the vault is the rainbow one. And possibly the blue one. That split up. Kinda get like 8 goblins per one sire.
8 shots for the vault would be a little overkill
LoL, BurningRope, I guess we have clarified that at the US D3 forums.
And sorry for misinterpreting your post there the first time.
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But it seems you can have Rainbow and Vault portal in the same game, so if you kill Rainbow goblin it shouldn't lower your chances to get access to the Vault:
http://www.diablowiki.net/File:Goblin-portal-double.jpg
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The actual mechanism is that you can't open a portal in a portal world. That picture is pretty good evidence that a whimsy portal doesn't lock you out of a vault in a game (also a vault shouldn't lock you out of a vault either, but that's a lot of RNG to work through to confirm)
Meh
I know that feeling. I experienced the same thing last night. I was doing some Grifts, and the timer was way behind for me to upgrade the keystone only one level so I decided to run some bounties. I killed a goblin and BAM, I get the vault. I ran back since my time was almost done in the Grift and to my surprise, I also get Boon of the Hoarder from the Rift Boss.
So it seems to me that it is possible that you can loot the Gem on S3 aswell
Yes? Its from a US forum blue in this thread http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16284268627#10