Weekend Event Chest Running Builds Locations

Figure this is likely more of a thread to be found in the farming section of the boards, but since it is related specifically to the weekend event, would be nice to see one thread that people could refer to.

Please post some favorite chest run areas and builds.

Currently the most common chest run areas in the City are Raisu Palace and Nahpui Quarter

Raisu Palace requires Forbidden keys to open chests and groups are forming all the time. Forbidden chests do count towards the Treasure Hunter title

Nahpui Quarter uses canthan keys for the Canthan chests. These chests do not count toward the title, but are the only place to get Celestial weapons.

Luxon Side:
I have found that chests located in Maishang Hills, Gayla Hatchery Explorable and Mount Quinkai are relatively easy to run. Use luxon keys naturally. These chests do count toward your title.

Kurzik side:
Ferndale and Melandru's hope have some nice wide open spaces to be able to chest run. Kurzik keys are used and count towards the title. IMO, the kurzik side is a little tougher to run due to the strength of the enemies as well as numerous traps found in the forest. Condition removal is a must for a run in this area.

I think the Luxon side is easier for quick chest runs, but don't personally care for the luxon drops as much as the kurzik.

you're supposed to keep locations secret, now loads of purples are gonna drop outta those, you've ruined it for yourself! :O

lol - what a load of nonsense.

Thanks Cherno, I think your right about those locations, however I think FoW and UW is where I will be this weekend.

The weekend event only affects Canthan chests.

looking forward to some chest running, i've never really done it before so i will be looking through these forums for suggestions.
Thanks for the tips so far!

I have my chest-running path pretty well memorized, and it's in one of the harder areas, so...hopefully it doesn't get overrun anytime soon. Droprates from chests are increasingly purple anyway, everywhere.

As for getting some builds started, off the top of my head on my ranger:
Rangers are pretty easy with evasion.
Storm Chaser
Zojun's Haste and the Tyrian Counterpart
Whirrling Defense can help a lot.
Charge! So that you can maintain speed and evasion at the same time.


For all professions, one thing I found very effecting when trying to run in and grab a chest since I primarily use the keyboard and not mouse:
When you are within range of a chest, select it and press the space bar. You will run diretly to the chest and the message box will pop up asking if you want to open it. You can just press the space bar and it will default to the yes.

Slightly strafe while the item is dropping out, then use ";" and space to pick it up and get out.

So in regards to chests. If more people are opening chests, more purples will drop? Has this been proven? Basically, if this weekend is the double drop rate for rare/gold items in Cantha and MORE people will do chest runs...then it would just stay about the same as before or even worst. More people = More purples, but that is being off-set by double drop rate of Rares, which brings us back to where it was BEFORE the double drop rate. That can't be right..?

; is the command for pick up items near you or something? If it is, then thank you for the info!!

I do the same thing as you do, run in with spacebar but I also click yes with spacebar. Usually mashing the spacebar when I am in Raisu since they place chests where the mobs are, hehe.

Hmm, that's interesting. Is there any reason why they don't? Is this a bug or is this intended behavior?

Well i still think that after last chest nerf chest just arent worth of opening ( unles u get a key from a mob ). This keys r just another useless money sink ( ok i like forbidden chests and FoW chest .. but its usualy just crap u get with ton of purples.. )

yup its intended behavior.

Canthan keys only cost 450g, to count toward your title, they need to cost 600+g, aka be a high end chest.

so in cantha, luxon, kurz, forbidden, deep jade and stoneroot chests all count towards the title.

Personally though, to work towards your title, whitmans is the easyiest run by far,, and the drops arent to bad either/

Yeah i farm in gayla hatchery explorable you can find at least 5 chests in the south section evrry time u go in

Thank you for the correction. It should be space bar to say yes, not Enter.

Yes ; is the key to target nearest item or nearest drop that is assigned to you. It was an update a number of months back. When first implemented, it would target any drop nearest you, not just ones assigned to you, which kinda sucked. Somewhere that change was made and it makes it so much easier for us keyboard users.

It hasn't even started yet and already people formulating how to farm it to death. Come on Anet, how about more events which aren't about farming, or just rename it Farm Wars, let players get up to level 20 and necessary skills in a few hours and let them loose in specially designed farming areas. Oh wait...

oh i get it. when you kill stuff keys will fall 10x (or whatever) as before.

for those of you running Imperial Sanctum.

Loop = the small clift near the start to the right.
DE = Dead end.
Raisu = The way end of the map. It looks like the start of the misson for "Raisu Palace "
Assassin boss = should be the first boss you encounter
Dead chest or Monk boss = along the port. second boss you should encounter. **hard chest to get** only seen a few solo players live.
Kai = still glitch atm. he's the warrior boss and should be alone
Ranger = um the room up the stairs after the warrior and elementaly bosses. he's smack in the middle
necor and mess bosses = chest seem to spawn more at the necor boss then mess. mess would be on your right. (east side have to check again)

running w/a can make every chest but monk/dead chest

never run recall or a pet. everyone seems to hate you if you do.
above all BE READYbefore joining a chest run

I've already asked this in another thread but know one seemed to answer so I'm going to ask again...

How many keys should I bring for each chest run? Since its called a chest run, do I need to pay someone to go? (like you have to with normal runs)

Sorry if these are noobish questions, but I've never looked into chest running before now...

Unless your doing an FoW chest run, no you do not have to pay. I generally start off with 10 keys, however u can bring 5 and be fine. 3 is the lowest i would take.

Why do you have to pay for a FoW chest run, but not any others? That makes no sence...

Oh and another question, I would have to bring a running build, right? So it would probably be best to bring a W/R or something for running skills, right?

Yea, I think 5 is fine, since you take turns testing chests anyway, so that if the chest is purple, you don't have to waste a key on it.

P.S. Just an FYI, if the chest is gold for the first person who opens it, it'll be gold for everyone else.