There has been a movement in the last few months that the Clan Boss rewards have been nerfed. Like all of you we treasure our Clan Boss chests as they are our main sources of shards and books. So, after hearing this, we here at HH gaming started to collect data to see if the rewards had in fact been nerfed. We started collecting data mined information and static shots of the game and we even got our clan involved sending screenshots of their rewards for both Nightmare and Ultra-Nightmare top chests rewards over a period of a month. That is a lot of data.

We can categorically confirm that there has been no nerf to the rewards in Clan Boss chests. The only thing that has changed is the chance to get 6-star legendary artifacts and this does not affect your chances of getting shards or books.

I think the main problem is that people do not know how the rewards are chosen for the chests. So, lets break it down and understand it.

Understanding how Clan Boss chests work

There are six groups of rewards that can be chosen,

1. Artifact
2. Shards
3. Books
4. Brews
5. Gems
6. Potions

For arguments sake I will use the transcendent chest as an example as it’s the top chest you can get from Ultra-Nightmare.

In the transcendent chest you get a pick of five of the groups. Sometimes this is a little confusing when they pop up due to the brews being separated by affinity but it is still five of the six groups.

If we put this into practice

When you open your chest, the game relies on RNG to pick your first group and so on and so on.

For example:

RNG picks group 6 first, next up group 3 is picked, then 4 and then 5. Now we only have one more group that can be chosen – 1 or 2 and this time around you get group 2.

So, your chest will look like this artifact, book, gems, brews, and potions.

In conclusion, you will always get a book or a shard in the top chest for Clan Boss and if you are lucky, you will get both. However, don’t forget its all about RNG, for the unlucky few you may go a few weeks only getting ancient shards and/or epic books. Its all about RNG.

For an in-depth deep dive into this subject watch HellHades video below as he goes into the actual math behind the data I mentioned at the start of the article.