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i can also confirm that my warrior and derwish opened the treasure chests for the 3rd time! but one gave me a purple item -.-

Third time open for me too. However, 2 Gold spears, 1 Sapphire, 1 Diamond, the rest purple.

Ah well; beggars can't be choosers I guess.

ok im really confused about which chests open. The one in mirror on my assassin did not open. Im checking the one by the balthasaur boss atm.

Edit:Arkjok, Jahai and Lyss did not contain items for my assassin.Checking necro atm. so for none for lyss for him.

I still can't open any of the chests on any of my characters other than my monk. Why don't we have an official word on what's going on?

Tested all availble chests on all 10 of my characters, and the only one that can re-open them is my Elonian Ele. Unfortunately he's only has access to the first 4 chests =(

Monk and ranger can't, warrior can. All of them opened them on the same day last time.

Yeah uh some explanation would be nice Anet.

My Elonian ranger can open the early ones - Mehtani and Issnur Isles, but not the one in Jahai Bluffs? Haven't tried any others yet.

My ele is coming up blanks.

Being able to have a few characters run those chest again would balance out the cash I'll be spending on nine rings this weekend. But I guess I'm not one of the lucky few.

Don't know why some people aren't getting anything, but my Tyrian ele and warrior and my Canthan ranger have opened all chests and gotten stuff. Mostly golds some gems and a small amount of purples.

Well, my mesmer is only 30 days old so I'm thinking it won't be reopening anything right now.

Maybe the dervish can...

I could care less about seeing gold or purple BTW, I'd love to finally see a gem drop. 15 months of play and I have yet to see a gem or a green of anything fall to me and that mesmer just NEEDS a set of vabbian armor. (Mutter)

My dervish, monk, and mesmer can't open them. Perhaps they are limited to, say 2-3 characters per account.

Everything that follows is my latest theory:

The free chests were introduced originally to be unlocked once every 30 days but they decided somewhere after the first reset that they should nerf it which brings us to the current system.

1.Every 30 days each character will have a random chance of either all 12 free chests opening or all not opening. For people that are able to open some today on a character but not all did not get this unlock but simply didnt open all the chests before. So if you have 10 characters you could every thirty days be able to reopen the 12 chests on 0-10 characters.

2. Chest Drops were altered. It is based on each individual character. The first 24 free chests opened, regardless of location or reduncancy of a specific chest being opened will have the traditional drop rate of a guaranteed gold or gem + the traditional random cash of around 500g in Istan up to about 3k in ROT. After that particular character has opened 24 free chests the character will have a new nerfed drop rate which will be: [Traditional Gold Amount - (0 to 50%)] + (a gold, purple or gem)

Additional notes: My 3 characters that couldnt open still cant

To be continued...


I find the new system to be an excellent balance between too much impact on the economy and taking the fun out of the chests. Each month it will be fun to test which characters can open the chests. A great outcome, thank you anet.

Are the chests on a 30 day timer per character? This seems like the most likely ^^

13? where is 13th chest?

btw: My tyrian monk opened all 12 chests for 3rd time (got two purples and less gold in higher areas ) but tyrian necro couldnt open chest on starting island so I stoped my check for him. Now i'm doing run on my tyrian warrior - chests work for him.

Edit: Warrior finished, now mesmer - chests are working again.

I would consider this 30 day theory, if all my characters who had opened the chest 30 days ago..if they were able to open them. My first character I opened with I couldn't open with, my last character I opened with I could open with.

Does that make sense?

The January reset didnt depend on the time when the chests were opened for the first time, it was just a plain reset of all chests for all characters. Also the quality of drops the 2nd time was exactly the same (for me and people i know)
Now it's completely different. None of my characters can open for the 3rd time yet, even the one who did a full run immediately after the first reset. So maybe it's a random bug that somehow affected only some characters or even just some chests?
An official explanation would be greatly appreciated.

I tried with two more of my characters this morning, my Cathan Warrior and my Elonian Paragon (yes, i do actually play a paragon) and run to the same chests/treasures as i did with my ranger (see previous post).
This time, i got nothing with either of them, always got 'chest is empty' or 'you find nothing'.
The only difference with these two characters to my ranger is that neither of them have completed NF, so i dont know if this makes a difference.

Completing Nightfall has nothing to do with it. My Rangers chests should have reset first if there was a 30 day timer. But my monks reset first and my Rangers haven't reset at all. Both have finished Nightfall.

I'm opening chests for the 3rd time.

I tried to open all chests/treasure/do not touch on 2 of my chars. Ele and Necro.
Nothing on both of them.
Seems as a random effect, I agree, official explanation from Gaile Gray would be much appreciated.