Elona Chests
Ruby Lightheart
is it me or has anyone else noticed that 98% of the chests in Elona are not worth the gold it costs to buy the key? I am yet to get a gold item from an elona chest..only gold items i got were from monster drops. come to think of it...im getting better drops from monsters than chests
FelixCarter
Yes... This is true from my observations as well...
While I may not be aware of the chest issue, I have noticed that Elona yields more gold drops from beasts than Tyria and Cantha. I still wouldn't call it a glitch, though... Maybe the drop rates are just a tad different...?
While I may not be aware of the chest issue, I have noticed that Elona yields more gold drops from beasts than Tyria and Cantha. I still wouldn't call it a glitch, though... Maybe the drop rates are just a tad different...?
Ruby Lightheart
im gonna stop bothering with the chests till i get into the last 3 mission of the game. Seems like a waste to do it any sooner.
Clone
I think every chest I've opened thus far in Nightfall has been purple. I have got some very nice golds, a green, and a white dye (unfortunately after its price fell below black again) from fighting.
Viruzzz
it was never supposed to be worth it. look at the posts from back when they introduced chests. the only reason they were worth it for some time was the bug that cause the chest to always give out the same item
it was introduced as a money-sink. until people found that exploit. and now that the exploit is fixed. its back to being a money-sink
it was introduced as a money-sink. until people found that exploit. and now that the exploit is fixed. its back to being a money-sink
MDeshame
The chests are not random. They only drop purple even at endgame. The 1 in 150,000 opened chests (ask Gaile Grey) drops a gold.
All are high reqs. near max stats somewhat middle range in scription levels.
You will get better drops for killing than from chests, chests serve only to drain your coffers while you increase your "opened Chests" title.
All are high reqs. near max stats somewhat middle range in scription levels.
You will get better drops for killing than from chests, chests serve only to drain your coffers while you increase your "opened Chests" title.
Kyosuke
I spent all weekend doing chest runs and was about 1 for 4 or 5 on getting gold drops out of them. A good one that got me well worht the price in keys too 
spent about 30k in keys... made 100k in profit. works for me
spent about 30k in keys... made 100k in profit. works for me
Clone
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1 in 150,000 opened chests (ask Gaile Grey) drops a gold.
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That sounds way too low.
Thalion Galad
hi all
In the 1st week everything was good, good drops from mobs and chests, now is allways down hill...
in the 1st week i got 5 15^50 from purple items, now not even from a gold item...its sad, is like taking candys from peps...it seems that anet dont want peps happy... i cant understand all this... is stange.
Playing a warrior why i allways get wands and focus? (and crappy ones)
today i did some quests in the gates and openend 30 chests; only 3 golds all of them staffs whit high req and not perfect, and the rest purple...
and another thing i notice the chests are responding lagly to the opening ( they take some time to drop the item )
well some ppl dont get the items they want from drops and being this drops so rare the price go to so high, some ppl buy the online money to get the items, cause farming is not possible... like before...or is anet selling online money on ghost companys? i dont belive but i think about it...
sry about my gramm if you dont like it try write this in portuguese :P
In the 1st week everything was good, good drops from mobs and chests, now is allways down hill...
in the 1st week i got 5 15^50 from purple items, now not even from a gold item...its sad, is like taking candys from peps...it seems that anet dont want peps happy... i cant understand all this... is stange.
Playing a warrior why i allways get wands and focus? (and crappy ones)
today i did some quests in the gates and openend 30 chests; only 3 golds all of them staffs whit high req and not perfect, and the rest purple...
and another thing i notice the chests are responding lagly to the opening ( they take some time to drop the item )
well some ppl dont get the items they want from drops and being this drops so rare the price go to so high, some ppl buy the online money to get the items, cause farming is not possible... like before...or is anet selling online money on ghost companys? i dont belive but i think about it...
sry about my gramm if you dont like it try write this in portuguese :P
Maria The Princess
actually i got a gold from a elona chest, a gold armor that turned up to superior domination....
never got a rare skin, or anything decent
never got a rare skin, or anything decent
Sid Soggybottom
I've had quite a few nice gold drops from chests and tons of purples, but the purples were at least max damage and had an inscription so it's just as good as a gold drop when I add in an inscription of my choice. So I really don't see much of a problem unless you're really hung up about items having to be gold lettering.
The Hand Of Death
I have gotten about 10 golds out of 25 chests I have opened. In vabbi I got a gold armor that yielded a monk rune of sup healing, and then got two perfect gold staffs afterward. I don't see a problem with it.
mint
I've gotten 2-3 golds in a row on vabbian chests on occasion....havn't gotten anything under req 10 yet. And so many req 13's 
fatmouse
Unless you have a special fondness for purple blazing wing wands I would suggest against opening chests in nightfallen jahai.
Out of the 20 orso chests I opened here at least 10 were these. The only consolation is they drop with 14^50's which I can salvage.
Out of the 20 orso chests I opened here at least 10 were these. The only consolation is they drop with 14^50's which I can salvage.
Lem
I have got plenty of golds in vabbi, I don't know what you are talking about.
byteme!
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byteme!
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Unless you have a special fondness for purple blazing wing wands I would suggest against opening chests in nightfallen jahai.
Out of the 20 orso chests I opened here at least 10 were these. The only consolation is they drop with 14^50's which I can salvage. |
You're in no position to tell people to go elsewhere after ONLY using 20 keys. Nightfallen Jahai is a great place to chest run. Take it from people who have done it over and over. For the record, a chest runner recently auctioned off a req. 9 Elemental Sword for 100k + 105e. That's just from 1 drop! If that isn't good profit I don't know what is.
reverse_oreo
maybe they are bringing the "Rare" back into gold items. Gold items are way to common and should be RARE!! im glad for the less drops, makes the golds that do drop even better. stop crying please.
Seef II
If they wanted golds to be nice and rare, at least make them req 8 or 9... so far, my best chest item is a purple from Marga Coast.
Oh a GW forum
Funny that people open two chests and assume every chest is gonna have the same outcome as those...
I've been chest running in elona and the gold drop rate is about 50%. Of course if you just open the same kournan chest all day them come here and cry about it, then yea you'll be getting purps.
I've been chest running in elona and the gold drop rate is about 50%. Of course if you just open the same kournan chest all day them come here and cry about it, then yea you'll be getting purps.
Narutoscryed
got a req 9 15^50 ruby hammer off a chest..
been getting alota good rares.. one wand that had a 20 recharge mod... its worth it
been getting alota good rares.. one wand that had a 20 recharge mod... its worth it
death fuzzy
dont know about chest drops, but the first gold i found in NF.
Soul Spire.
20% global recharge,
insignia was a 20% soul reap cast
if i can find a staff mod with 20% death or insignia with 20% death, i would be well off
well, dont know about the skin, but i like it.
Soul Spire.
20% global recharge,
insignia was a 20% soul reap cast
if i can find a staff mod with 20% death or insignia with 20% death, i would be well off
well, dont know about the skin, but i like it.
Avarre
After opening about 50 Margonite chests, I've sold four of the drops for 150k in total. Easily covered the cost of keys
Vabbi keys have less of a benefit, but are much faster to run.
Vabbi keys have less of a benefit, but are much faster to run.
MegaMouse
I must be the lone dog here because I get purple and gold all the time from chests. I havent gotten a blue or anything else from chests yet. And all the weapons and items I have been getting are almost always max stats.
Mega Mouse
Mega Mouse
Mr Jazzy
My first ever chest I opened in Elona was from a key drop nearby. I opened the chest and lo and behold, a gold 9-41 ornate scythe with strength and honor mod 15^50 +5 defense.
life ish good.
life ish good.
Manic Smile
Strange I've already made 100k off of 50k in keys and I've not even sold half the golds I've found.
Sparks Dawnbringer
We been getting 2-3 golds a person in Vabbi if we open all the chests and open them in the same order. Usually 5 or 6 chests per area. It's a lot of money but if you get those titles up you get a better salvage rate. Now the drops from monsters have been few and far between, we have each gotten about 3 gold drops now in all of Elona.
Riken Chrono
@Megamouse, you cant get a blue item in a chest. I have been running in the desolation area and i got 1 fiery blade axe, 1 icy blade axe and a couple other golds, over 30 purps :/
Vinsanity
From how many chests I have opened, around 50, about 30% of the drops have been gold...very low drop rate imo compared to the recent campaigns.
Gonzo
I got a decent paragon shield from one the rest were purple (out of 30 opened chests)
Ruby Lightheart
Ok i added my numbers up and this is what I got..yeah i actually kept records of my chest drops in nightfall
Number of Keys Bought :213
Number of Golds from Chests: 2
Number of Purples from Chests :208 ( i must not have recorded 3 of them)
Number of Max dmg items (purple and gold) :47
Number of Runes: 32
Number of Chest items that ended up as vendor trash : 161
Number of Chest Items sold to players :3 (total value 72k)
Now my numbers are no where near perfect cause well..i know there were a few times i forgot to record what the outcome of the chest was. But still you can see that in my personal experience...the chests are just not worht my time anymore and given the extra cost of keeping your hero in good weaponry...I just cant afford to get vendor trash from chests.
Number of Keys Bought :213
Number of Golds from Chests: 2
Number of Purples from Chests :208 ( i must not have recorded 3 of them)
Number of Max dmg items (purple and gold) :47
Number of Runes: 32
Number of Chest items that ended up as vendor trash : 161
Number of Chest Items sold to players :3 (total value 72k)
Now my numbers are no where near perfect cause well..i know there were a few times i forgot to record what the outcome of the chest was. But still you can see that in my personal experience...the chests are just not worht my time anymore and given the extra cost of keeping your hero in good weaponry...I just cant afford to get vendor trash from chests.
strcpy
I was trying to get a green scythe in Vabbia and found a lot of chests to open during my run in that area. I needed a few weapons for my heroes (across several characters) so I purchased some keys.
Right now my Dervish pretty much has all of her heroes with max golds and quite a few inscriptions (I have not bothered to check if the skins are worth anything yet - I will before I customize them). The other characters have quite a few purples. not bad - lots cheaper than purchasing the same weapons from crafters and building them. The highest req of anything I found was 11, most were 9 and a few 10.
*shrug* if you expect to make it really rich by chest farming you will be disappointed. I found this much more true in Tyria and Cantha - my chest drops skill mostly go to the traders there. It's mostly a gold sink and was designed as so.
But then, that's the idea behind "random" anyway. Someone get horrid, someone gets great, in the end we all equal out.
Right now my Dervish pretty much has all of her heroes with max golds and quite a few inscriptions (I have not bothered to check if the skins are worth anything yet - I will before I customize them). The other characters have quite a few purples. not bad - lots cheaper than purchasing the same weapons from crafters and building them. The highest req of anything I found was 11, most were 9 and a few 10.
*shrug* if you expect to make it really rich by chest farming you will be disappointed. I found this much more true in Tyria and Cantha - my chest drops skill mostly go to the traders there. It's mostly a gold sink and was designed as so.
But then, that's the idea behind "random" anyway. Someone get horrid, someone gets great, in the end we all equal out.
Gli
When I played through Vabbi I opened every chest I ran into. I actually got more golds than purples, but practically all of them were req. 13. I did get a sweet load of good inscriptions off them though. The Desolation gave me a lot less golds, but more useful ones. The Realm of Torment has been a total loss so far though. Over 50 chests opened, and not a gold yet.
The Silver Star
On average not only in Elona i have felt the average of chests being Gold drop since the update rather than just be Gold or Purple per player.
garethporlest18
I've opened around 300 chests, got about 40-60 gold from them. Not sure a lot of purples, a lot of gold, really good inscriptions on them. I'm pretty lucky though, although when I get 5 purples from margonite chests it's annoying.
Morgoth the dark
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Originally Posted by MDeshame
The chests are not random. They only drop purple even at endgame. The 1 in 150,000 opened chests (ask Gaile Grey) drops a gold.
All are high reqs. near max stats somewhat middle range in scription levels. You will get better drops for killing than from chests, chests serve only to drain your coffers while you increase your "opened Chests" title. |
i opened 40 chestst wiht my dervish and i got about 30 gold from it. 3/4 of all chests for me were golden so dont talk bullshit ok?
The Silver Star
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Originally Posted by Morgoth the dark
dude what are you on? i wanna take that to...
i opened 40 chestst wiht my dervish and i got about 30 gold from it. 3/4 of all chests for me were golden so dont talk bullshit ok? |
Morgoth the dark
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Originally Posted by The Silver Star
Thats sounds like more bullshit than he said..
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we'll see who talk bullshit then....
just don open that crappy vabbi/istan / kournan chests...
open chest in desolation or ream of torment
The Silver Star
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Originally Posted by Morgoth the dark
wanna go out and try some?
we'll see who talk bullshit then.... just don open that crappy vabbi/istan / kournan chests... open chest in desolation or ream of torment |
2. Didnt say i wanted you to prove it.
3. Were talking about ALL Elona chests then you state dont open any of those chests? that make up the majority?
No i do not want to waste my time with a flaming wammo like yourself, your post will probably be removed, and hopefully will.
kthnxbye
Cebe
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1 chest in 150,000 sounds far too low to me...and then what would be the point in buying keys if you're pretty much not going to even have a vague chance in getting a gold? According to you the chance of me getting those 7 golds in a row is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000585. (i think that is (1/150000)^7...)
[Edit: before someone rips me to shreads for suggesting it might be possible to get more than 1 gold in a row...I have had PLENTY of purples...I'm only making my point. Just felt I should clear that up...]
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Originally Posted by The Silver Star
No i do not want to waste my time with a flaming wammo
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