The Chestrunners Thread

Sounds interesting - let us know what you find if you happen to try it.

Witman's Folly as usual for me ... I'll be finishing the title this weekend. ^_^

I'm gonig to run Whitman's Folley aswell, but only if i can find someone that will sell me some keys, lol.

I use this for just about anywhere , even for HM it can work almost everywhere, the only places that caused me trouble were naphi quarter and certian evlovald forest areas which i can do on my ranger i suppose

Just use escape+fengied for tight spots and your practicly invinsible and sahdow form accually makes you invincible . Dash is the key skill as its the only one which can make mods break aggro in hm. Dyanas touch is for healing Deaths charge is used to get close to a chest quickly while saving shadow forms duration and shroud acts likes an emergincy defence and extra enhcnatment for touch.

[skill]Shadow Form[/skill] [skill]Dash[/skill] [skill]Dark Escape[/skill] [skill]Feigned Neutrality[/skill] [skill]Dwayna's Touch[/skill] [skill]Featherfoot Grace[/skill][skill]Shroud of Distress[/skill][skill]Death's Charge[/skill]

well here are the places ive made it work in hm
-Haiju lagoon
-Gayla Hatcery , Avoid those pesky sins
-Silent surf , not great though be carful of aggro
-Melandrus hope, Head south to the area with the dredge then take the long route round pat the ranger boss and finally to the asssassin boss, avoid the mesmers.
-Raisu palace, pretty hard but possible with good use of dash.
-Pongmei valley, just watch out for the island guardians mob, make it the last chest.
-Boras seabead, pretty simple, just dont expect to get back from the luxon area alive
-Maishang hills, really easy plenty of unguarded chests
-Reaven heart gloom, just really use shadow form for this
-The desolation, although you use the worm for the majority this is geat for the places you cant take it.
-Its also possible to do vabbi kourna and most of tyria, its just a bit of a waste

Theres better but i just love this builds versitilty and easy usage, and its peetty good if you want to cr without a warrior :P.

Here's my Monk running build...works in a variety of places in NM and HM:

[skill]Spell breaker[/skill][skill]Protective Spirit[/skill][skill]Shield of Absorption[/skill][skill]Mystic Regeneration[/skill][skill]Enchanted Haste[/skill][skill]Harrier's Haste[/skill][skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill]

Can't remember the exact attribs but it's something like:

12+3+1 Divine
~9 Protection
8 or 9 Earth (depending on NM or HM to combat weakness)
8 or 9 Wind

Again not sure if the attribs add up or not i'm purely guessing (and my templates are all on my home computer).

Cast PS, Mystic, SB, then SoA and Aggro. When SoA is down Mystic should keep you alive.

Lastly I run this with ~400hp and a 20% enchant weapon and 20/20 Divine OH.

P.S. If enchantment removal, lifestealing, and interrupts are not a problem this bar easily adapts to a 55HP build with the appropriate armor switch.

*looks under Dodge* Has anyone seen Natural Stride? Think i left it here somewhere.

yep same thats the place to be !

hi, could someone point me in the direction of a W/A Chest Running Build for FoW?

I do alot as W/Mo very successfully, but i fancy a change

thanks

Why Witman's Folly? Is that the best place with most chests?
I always run at the Poisoned Outcrops..

GREAT! keep up the good work! Still if i shall link to your build at first page, please write 1-2 specific places the build is good at running...

yea I was wondering with laurson why whitman's? And are you talking hm or nm?

I run Witman's for its speed, which I believe to be unmatched. 3 chests = 2:45 - 3:00 ish minutes on average.

And it's mind numbingly easy, even in HM.

As for drops, the skins are usually garbage, aside from rarely seeing a Fellblade.

In preparation for this weekends chest running, I have decided to try and compile all of the chest running areas I know and the loot you can get.

Ice Floe
My absolute favorite here. You get lots of tomes, armors, and best of all, Mursaat gear. Shadow Form/VoS/Spellbreaker runners mainly, or else you get owned.

Desolation
Many areas here you can run, most commonly poisoned outcrops, or outside the bone palace. Elemental swords, Dead swords, Sephis Axes, Tomes. Outside the bone palace it may be ok to use a charge/sprint tank, escape rangers etc.

Xaquang Skyway
This area is ok if your looking for specific things. Tomes, Cerenellated swords, Koi scepters, Celestial items, cockatrice staves. Nothing too special unless your looking for the celestial. Most decent running builds may work here.

Gyala Hatchery
Honestly I've never run here, but I've heard it mentioned. I assume you get lots of jade weapons. Tomes, Jade Swords, Jade hammers, Iridicent aegisi? Give it a try, i know there are some assassin monsters there.

Hells Precipice
This is a unique run. You run the final mission of Prophecies. Fairly easy run, just watch out for the fire imps on the way there. Spellbreaker monks should work, shadow form runners, Vow of silence. Escape/Charge/Sprint builds do not work well unless you have a really good spawn. Tomes, Sephis Axes, Magmas Shields. Fellblades?

Vabbi
Generally speaking, with Mirror of Lyss being probably the most popular Vabbi run. Its extremely easy, you net Tomes, Jeweled items, Icy/Fiery Blade axes. Not any extremely desirable skins by any means, but an easy quick chest run, with decent drops.

Domain of Anguish
I'm not much of a DoA person, so I rarely go down there, Ive never chest run the area but I assume the following. Elemental swords, Tomes, Sephis Axes, Igneous Blades, Ancient Scythes. I think the best for down there is some type of Spellbreaker/VoS/ShadowForm runner as usual.

Arborstone
Fairly easy run, lots of bleeding and some kd from the wardens, but pretty much any build able to run with ease here. Gothic(kurzick) weapons exist here. Amber items, gothic axes, gothic swords, as well as the usual tomes.

Melandrus Hope
Ah the famous/infamous area for FFF on the kurzick side. Here, mainly same drops as arborstone, gothic items, etc, pretty easy run with a team, lots of hexes and conditions, most normal charge/sprint/escape builds cannot run solo, but have to run with a team.

Witman's Folly
This area can be ran in hardmode by any decent runner build. Its a cinch, and you net an average of 4-6 chests in 3 minutes. The drops out here however are absolute rubbish. OCCASIONAL VERY OCCASIONAL fellblade. Normal skinned longbows, armors, possibly tomes. Dont kno what else is out there cause I never run it.

Fissure of Woe
Honestly I have never been a fan of FoW running because I never got anything good, and it was absoluteley expensive. Shadow bows, Shadow Axes, Shadow Swords, etc, tomes, whatever, 1k entrance fee 1.5k lockpick, broke in a few days.

Underworld
You obviously cannot chest run underworld, but the chests down there drop Tomes, Gloom Shields, StormBows, Eternal Bows, Eternal shields, really nice stuff, but again you cant run it. Look to the W/Rt or the E/Me A/E builds to farm it quickly (roughly 15 minutes)



Hope you guys like my list of areas to run. I tried my best to remember off the top of my head what kind of items you get, the build you need, etc. Please, feel free to correct me if I had made a mistake, just trying to put in a rough sketch before the weekend.

can someone post the route for witmans plz, and can witmans be done with a warrior?
also how is the gold rate their?

This run can be done with almost any build with a running skill (I made the map using only Enraging Charge), but I'll give you a Warrior build.

Strength: 12+1+1
Tactics: 12+1
Protection Prayers: 3

[skill]Charging Strike[/skill][skill]Enraging Charge[/skill][skill]Balanced Stance[/skill][skill]Endure Pain[/skill][skill]Mending Touch[/skill][skill]Healing Signet[/skill][skill]Holy Veil[/skill][skill]Signet of Stamina[/skill]

And the Gold rate is terrible. I would only run this if you are going for Treasure Hunter titles.

What's the ice floe map?

it was posted early on in the thread, check 1st few pages

Get anything against Knockdowns if you run Port Sledge.

Yeah, my bad....wasn't thinking and put sprint instead of balanced stance. I'll change that.

I ran today @ Poisoned Outcrops on HM, opened 50 chests , 0 purple

how as the drops?, and what build/class are u using to run it in HM?

I Chest ran in Nightfallen Jahai in NM and got 3 purples out of 60 chests
I was averaging 1/3 broken lockpicks to chests open. So 57 golds for 20 or so lockpicks not bad :P
Funny thing is I only have 50% chance of not breaking the Lockpick, but im averaging 66%. Maybe the more i open the more ill see that fail.
Best drop so far, Req9 Fellblade :P

Poisoned Outcrops has Elemental Swords, Icy/Fiery Blade Axes.

Here's what I use:

Strength: 12+1+1
Shadow Arts: 12

[skill]Shadow Form[/skill][skill]Death's Charge[/skill][skill]Dark Escape[/skill][skill]Enraging Charge[/skill][skill]Dash[/skill][skill]Endure Pain[/skill][skill]Feigned Neutrality[/skill][skill]Signet of Stamina[/skill]




Pretty easy run. Hopefully we will all get Elemental Swords.

May I ask where the tyria titans spawn? I want a magma shield :]

last tyria mission..soem thing with hells... forgot name

So does Realm of Torment, it also has no Acolytes with that annoying Signet of Judgement!

Hell's Precipice, and the Titan quests after that.

Actually your math is wrong. %50 change of not breaking means every time you pened a chest its calculated again. For exemple:
you open 100 keys 50 remeain
You open the 50 key didnt broken 25 remain
So far you opened 150 keys and 25 left you open those 25 12.5 remain
So far you gıt 175 keys ran and 12.5 leftyou run those 12 lets say 6 keys didnt boke and so on it should be likle 200key opened

No, I don't mean the Hell's Run, I mean a nightfall quest in the realm of torment. You can get Magma Shields with Inscriptions there. I think it was in the Domain of Secrets/Gate of Madness but I don't remember the quest anymore.

Got it: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Holding_the_Line

That run is boring as hell though. I also completed the quest a while back so i've only done it with a guildy. Think i'll stick to accumulating random crap and getting my titles up than hoping for a decent drop.

Which monster in Poisoned Outcrops drops Elemental Sword or Fiery/Icy Blade Axe? And is that run for Normal Mode or for Hard Mode.=P

[wiki]Elemental Sword[/wiki]

The build works in both normal and hard mode.

The Poisoned Outcrops run is quite an easy and quick run.I just use a standard wammo build,charge,balanced stance etc.

Umm, question running with Hold The Line active, you doing it in HM or NM?

Hard mode....

Ok, thanks for the speedy answer

Hells Precipice:
About 30 chests opened
-got a req13 magmas on first run, req9 on 4th run, about 14th run another req13 magmas (neither of them was portal chest!)
-got also a req12 sephis axe from portal chest
-about 8 gold armors, 4 monk runes!
All the magmas were crap, as well as sephis (sold the q9 magmas unid for 30k, tested it, no hp mod ;P)

I have a question:

Say I'm going for the Treasure Hunter titles...and I start doing Witman's Folly. Should I go NM w/ Shiverpeak keys...NM w/ Lockpicks (R2 Lucky, R1 Treasure Hunter)...or HM w/ Lockpicks? Which would I benefit most from (title-wise).

Please and thank yuhh!

IGN: Of Great Height

Shiverpeak Keys in Normal Mode until you get your chances of keeping a lockpick up.

NM Keys > Lockpicks, I have Treasure Hunter 3 and Lucky 2 and all of my lockpicks break.

im treasurehunter 6 and luck 4..... lockpicks are brilliant in NM

like average 4 items per lockpick