Boreal Station NM Chest Run - Drop Rates?

Killsod

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2009

Mo/

Hey guys,

I've managed to collect enough lockpicks to get my treasure hunter title the NM low cost method way. Just wondering if anyone know the Gold to Grape drop rates since I want to try and figure out the approximate progress i'll make on my Wisdom title. Thanks.

STATS UPDATE:

First 100 chests
23 Golds to 77 Grapes

Next 100 chests
30 Golds to 70 Grapes

Unknown Duli

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Missouri

Reign Of Judgement

Rt/

will be interested to see the other responses...

when I ran the last 1400 chests for my title out there I did it almost all in HM for this reason-- while in HM there was almost always 1-2 chests within speed running range (avg 1-1 1/2 minutes) yet when I did in nm there were quite a few runs where there were no chests at all within the "speed area". I would be surprised if anyone actually took the time to catalogue/chart the drop rate in nm though.... lets see

rrthorne

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2008

Me/

you should get around 35 golds per hundred chests, just finished my title that way. no tomes tho

ranger o mine

ranger o mine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by rrthorne View Post
you should get around 35 golds per hundred chests, just finished my title that way. no tomes tho you won't get tomes from NM-chests i guesse

Tenebrae

Tenebrae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Spain

LHV

R/N

1/3 gold items drop rate in NM chests is pretty accurate.

xron

xron

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Denbigh, Wales

Zero Zero

R/

I'm nearly finished with TH from nm boreal, overall my gold drop rate is lower... probably 25-30%

Killsod

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2009

Mo/

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like i'm gonna be stuck buying UnID'd golds for a while haha. Thank you for the replies ^^.

Zodiak

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Gatineau, Qc, Canada

Kiss of Anguish [KISS]

P/W

You could always run through the second Boxing quest. There is also usually about 1 or 2 chests in there if you just keep running and hold down your Alt key.

_Nihilist_

_Nihilist_

Will Bull's Strike for $!

Join Date: Apr 2006

Isle of the Dead

There is always 1 chest in Kilroy Stonekin's Punchout Extravaganza / Fronis Irontoe's Lair.

I never ran Boreal in NM: the chance @ getting Elite Tomes is too good to pass up, regardless of the higher chance to break Picks. At least, it is to me.

Of course, now that Wisdom and TH are account-wide Titles, if you need more Golds just farm Raptors. Boring, but getting 5 golds in <1 minute is worth it. Of course, you aren't going to get 5 golds each run, but with the capability of running it 60 times/hour (every time I use the /age command after killing all the Raptor Nestlings I get the message "You have been in this map for 0 minutes.") it doesn't matter. You'll still get a ton of Golds to ID if you don't get them from Chest-running.

Puddin Cheeks

Puddin Cheeks

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

On Welfare

Jelly of the Month [Club]

It would still end up being cheaper buying the rest of your unid, than it would cost you breaking off all of those picks in HM. I think you could browse through the stats on wiki to get a more exact value on it.

superraptors

superraptors

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2008

W/

id rather run hm tbh, u get more golds which is beneficial to your wisdom and tomes about every 10-20 chests is good, not to mention ud break even from selling the tomes back, merchfood / mods

and also you wiki doesnt calculate mods/tomes etc

xxx wraith xxx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

The netherlands

N/

i ran in HM also...with 46 lockpicks i managed to get around 30 golds, 2 elite tomes (monk and ranger) and 2 or 3 tomes. The thing with tomes is, if you use them for yourself they are 1k (max skill cost) but if you sell them they are somewhere between 200-1000g.

So imo its a bit hard to say if its any good to run HM.

Total cost: 69k on lockpicks (merch price)
Total Profit: 35k, 2k unlucky 1k lucky and 30 wisdom pts

dr love

dr love

...is in denial

Join Date: Sep 2006

Hyperion

starcraft 2

P/Me

NM from my experience seems about 1 gold to 4-5 purps

Killsod

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2009

Mo/

Didn't notice my thread was still alive haha.

I have tried using picks in HM and without a doubt, it's possible to break even with better mods and (Elite) tombs, but unfortunately i'm probably going to be stuck with NM.

Unfortunately, because my online time is really restricted (max about 350 chests a week). With the title taking more than 6 months at that rate, I can't really afford making time to wait/barter in Spamadam.

Update: I placed a stat on my first post in case anyone else was looking to do TH from Boreal Station NM chests.