Chest Running Question: Has it been updated to "Totally Random" now?

Hey folks!

Havent been on for a couple of months and missed out on w/e was updated.
(last time I was online was week 06 wintersday and I even missed out on the jester' hat )

Im new to the lockpicking thing, which I tried yesterday and it doesnt really help me imo. lol (ive read about it too).

I want to know what's happened to the chest spawns now. It use to be a fixed number of chests in an area and yesterday when i got back to running chests, it's been 1-4 in the areas I use to run. (1-2 mostly in a few old areas, lucky if i get 4, which one area of mine still has).

If anyone can direct me specifically on what was explained or how their systems been changed. etc.

thx in advance.

I haven't noticed a change in the number of chests in the high end areas...in normal mode...but in hardmode...it seems as if it is more based up size of the area.

K.

For starters,
These 3 areas I ran through a few times yesterday use to have 5 chests that spawn everytime. (I still remember the spots on each which they spawn at but they barely showed up or they didnt at all)

The Mirror of Lyss (1-2, it was 5 constant b4)
Nightfallen Jahai (1-2, it was 5 constant b4)
Poisoned Outcrops (was getting a steady 4, but it had 5 constant b4)

^Ez/Hard mode didnt really affect it, they either spawned in the specific spot or not.

I guess later, Im gonna try the kurzick/lux areas + Raisu Palace and see if they are different as well now...these areas too should spawn 5 chests like b4...dun dun dun...

Im thinking that it didnt get noticed that much since it's not a huge thing w/ the player-base atm.

---I smell an undocumented nerf...lol ---ouch!

I'm quite certain that they've moved the chest spawns around since you last farmed. That's like using a map from 1950, to get around a city...

Well in raisu palace its the same. However, it seems to me that chestrunning is not as profitable. I have gotten about 8/10 purps in all the old areas. it might just be me, but i cant be sure
Same as before for me in:
Ice floe, Drazrach thicket, Silent Surf, Raisu palace

But I really need to learn the NF runs

That would have been better if they did move the spawns, but everyone of my runs always covers the whole map, that's what I find strange now.

Update:
Melandrue's Hope (kurzick) --3 max.
Wilderness of Bahdza (Nf) --3-4 max.
Raisu Palace (Factions) --5 max.
Poisoned Outcrops (Nf) --4-5 max. (got a 5 today. lol)

So only thing so far untouched is Raisu...but then again it's pretty much random now when you enter an area to chest run...crap

(trying to get to the last lvl of the title is gonna be more a pain than it already was b4. lol. o well.)

/g'day.