Please Note: I am not refering to a chest that requires a key. Just a chest that you click on, and it opens and gives you something (once for me).
Thank You...
Is This True?
ccfrecc
I go to Mahanti Keys all the time and I always visit the spot where a Teasure Chest always is. I got a gold Armor piece from it once. Now my question is: "Am I ever going to get anything from it again, because every time I check the chest, It is empty?"
Please Note: I am not refering to a chest that requires a key. Just a chest that you click on, and it opens and gives you something (once for me).
Thank You...
Please Note: I am not refering to a chest that requires a key. Just a chest that you click on, and it opens and gives you something (once for me).
Thank You...
crazybanshee
Stop checking it. There are chests like that throughout nightfall that give pretty decent stuff on first opening them. Wait a few months, then try again. They have to reset, which they won't do if you keep checking them. If you open it too soon and it did reset, you'll just end up with some purple junk.
HawkofStorms
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Buried_Treasure
Explanation plus all locations of them. There is 2 in every "area" (ie, 2 in Istan (that island you start the game on), 2 in Kourna, 2 in Vabbi, etc)
Explanation plus all locations of them. There is 2 in every "area" (ie, 2 in Istan (that island you start the game on), 2 in Kourna, 2 in Vabbi, etc)
ccfrecc
I had heard something about "something" resetting but I must have forgot it was chests. Well thank you as that is what I needed to know. But on another measure... what would be an accurate measure of how long after I first checked it should I check it again to get a "Gold" item?
Thanks Again...
Thanks Again...
BuD
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what would be an accurate measure of how long after I first checked it should I check it again to get a "Gold" item?
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This is from the link Hawk posted...
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| upon opening one of these chests, a "magical force" will prevent that character from opening the chest again for approximately 30 days after the last attempt to do so. |
Read the entire page & all your answers will be answered.
Kumu Honua
Getting a gold again from a free chest? Never. You will ALWAYS get purple items the second time. No matter how long between opening. Including a full year.
Dzjudz
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Originally Posted by Kumu Honua
Getting a gold again from a free chest? Never. You will ALWAYS get purple items the second time. No matter how long between opening. Including a full year.
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Phaern Majes
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Originally Posted by Dzjudz
Not true. I've gotten plenty of golds out of treasures I'd already used before.
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REDdelver
From all my experiences.....
The first two times have been golds always. Every time after has always been purples, but you still get a little coinage. I've seen where other people have claimed to get golds after the 3rd time....but its rare if at all.
The first two times have been golds always. Every time after has always been purples, but you still get a little coinage. I've seen where other people have claimed to get golds after the 3rd time....but its rare if at all.
ccfrecc
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Originally Posted by Kumu Honua
Getting a gold again from a free chest? Never. You will ALWAYS get purple items the second time. No matter how long between opening. Including a full year.
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Devastating Flames
i got golds my first few times opening them but now i get purples and a little bit of gold
ccfrecc
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Originally Posted by Devastating Flames
i got golds my first few times opening them but now i get purples and a little bit of gold
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Sora267
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Originally Posted by ccfrecc
About how much gold did you get from the chests (it doesn't matter where or what chest you got it from)? Also, So I should take a previous posters advice and wait about a month until opening it again?
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BoxOfCox
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Originally Posted by Kumu Honua
Getting a gold again from a free chest? Never. You will ALWAYS get purple items the second time. No matter how long between opening. Including a full year.
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ccfrecc
It mostly sounds like:
Thanks Guys...
- You can get golds after the 2nd+ time of opening a free chest
- You should wait every month before opening a chest otherwise the timer resets and you have to wait another month
- If you wait longer than a month you are most likely to get more items from the chests maybe even a couple of golds if you wait 6 months+
Thanks Guys...
Verene
I get golds from those chests more often than not.
Anyway, best to wait a few months before reopening one of those chests. I tend to forget about them completely, so I go two-three months between opening them.
The quality of the items you get from them also depends on where they are - the ones on Istan are going to have low level junk, whereas you're more likely to get something decent from the ones in Vabbi or the Realm of Torment.
Anyway, best to wait a few months before reopening one of those chests. I tend to forget about them completely, so I go two-three months between opening them.
The quality of the items you get from them also depends on where they are - the ones on Istan are going to have low level junk, whereas you're more likely to get something decent from the ones in Vabbi or the Realm of Torment.
HellScreamS
based on my exp so far, i've always got 1.5k gold at least and always gold items, opened a total of like 7 chests so far, I never could be arsed to run em monthly. But if those statistics help, there you go.
Fay Vert
I got golds from my first chest, then had to wait over 9 months for a rest including severa 2 and 3 month breaks without trying, when it finally did reset I only get junk purples now. I rarely ever try as I get more for killing a sigle level 24+ mob.
The wiki article is worthless junk and myth, just ignore it.
The wiki article is worthless junk and myth, just ignore it.
Bulletproof Maniac
Just forget about it its not worth your time waiting and thinking about it for months and then getting some purple crap. There are far more worthwhile things to do.
The Drunkard
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This is untrue, after getting back from my 1+ year ban I opened the free chests for the 2nd/3rd time and got an abundance of golds.
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Kook~NBK~
Every time you open a particular chest and get something, that something will be of a lesser value than what you got from it the previous time. The length of time between chest opening has no bearing on drop values.
The link HawkofStorms provided explains all that stuff, and more!
The link HawkofStorms provided explains all that stuff, and more!
Anduin
Like it has been said in here:
The first 2-3 times will give golds and decent money (usually, but the first time it's for certain). After that, it usually isn't worth the time and effort.
My ranger, who didn't get past Kourna before being deleted, would check every month and get golds, even after the third time (I think I opened the ones in Istan at least 4 or 5 times each), but he had never opened all of them in the game, nor had he beat the last mission.
The first 2-3 times will give golds and decent money (usually, but the first time it's for certain). After that, it usually isn't worth the time and effort.
My ranger, who didn't get past Kourna before being deleted, would check every month and get golds, even after the third time (I think I opened the ones in Istan at least 4 or 5 times each), but he had never opened all of them in the game, nor had he beat the last mission.
AngelWJedi
you really need to read that link. you HAVE to wait a month that is the time it needs to reset it. and yeah the first few times you can get golds but after that you will get grapes. doesnt matter how long you wait 1month or a year if you keep doing it the money amount will go down along with the quality of the item. and sometimes you will get gems but thats more likely on the mainland ones.
scratchdude
Dear ccfrecc, you seem to take things a little seriously : after going through the whole nightfall campaign, you will have probably found about 100 gold items, which aren't worth anything most of the time. Buried treasures aren't even worth checking, cause they drop stuff that you can buy from the playerbase market at a relatively low cost. Once you will have farmed gold a little, you will understand that having interest in buried treasures that can be looted once a month or Istani low cost chests isn't worth it : there are some much greater and important things in Guild Wars. For the time being, I suggest you to level your Dervish to 20, finish the storyline (which is great by the way), and do some HM stuff. 99% of GW content is after lvl 20, in "high-end" areas (including HM) and titles. Believe me, level your derv and stop losing time on small questions like these!
ccfrecc
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Dear ccfrecc, you seem to take things a little seriously : after going through the whole nightfall campaign, you will have probably found about 100 gold items, which aren't worth anything most of the time. Buried treasures aren't even worth checking, cause they drop stuff that you can buy from the playerbase market at a relatively low cost. Once you will have farmed gold a little, you will understand that having interest in buried treasures that can be looted once a month or Istani low cost chests isn't worth it : there are some much greater and important things in Guild Wars. For the time being, I suggest you to level your Dervish to 20, finish the storyline (which is great by the way), and do some HM stuff. 99% of GW content is after lvl 20, in "high-end" areas (including HM) and titles. Believe me, level your derv and stop losing time on small questions like these!
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... But I hope to be in a couple of months as I have loads of studying to do for the upcoming finals. Thank you...And also, to everyone else, I also wish to thank you for taking the time to post your responses, but as for "scratchdude", that was a very informative post...
Thank You All!
zwei2stein
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Every time you open a particular chest and get something, that something will be of a lesser value than what you got from it the previous time. The length of time between chest opening has no bearing on drop values.
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I had several characters in kammadan and was able to be gold items from two istan chests five times on ~4 characters.
When i progressed some of those characters throught campaign, drop quality went down, eventually getting purple in desolation chest when it was open first time.
tasha
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Oh, And have this been proved by any tests/research?
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My Ranger was my primary character at the time and had opened the chest several times (around 4) more than any other character there. As you can see she got a lot fewer gold items than the other characters I ran.
All characters were run from the highest end chest to the lowest end chest (starting in Realm of Torment and finishing up in Istani) This was done because of rumours at the time that the quality of drops diminished as you opened more of them, so I wanted to get the highest possible quality drops first. This wasn't the same phenomenon as opening (for example) the Mirror of Lyss chest over the course of 6 months, but rather that the order of opening the chests mattered. As you opened the chests each month the quality would go down with each successive chest opened. Note again: this was rumour, I don't think it was ever proven but is supported by the above poster.
scratchdude is right though, mostly the chests drop junk. I've never had a "decent" drop from it besides a ruby or sapphire. Now a days I only open the chests if I'm going past them rather than purposely making a trip for them.
isildorbiafra
The chance of droping max golds is determined by weather you are running Hard Mode or not. Its just like loot drops. Hard Mode will more likely drop you golds.
drkn
it's like you were asking if opening a chest in eotn has some secret value of retaining a lockpick than normal. it's all random. the fact that some people got purple items from several chests in a row proves nothing. the fact that some people got only golds, even when revisiting, with only few purples in total, proves nothing. it's just random. why wouldn't it? who really thinks that anet would waste more time and money to code a super secret algorithm for some free chest drops? it's must be something kept simple, as pure randomness.
the sole fact that i always break lockpick in echovald forest in nm while i had two chest runs outside boreal when i opened over ten chests with a single pick means nothing either.
i'm much more curious about the reset thing, though. don't think it's totally random here - it should be connected to something, me thinks. i'm pretty sure that some other data in the servers resets as well, same as some machines have to be rebooted from time to time, even if we're not talking about a general, global maintenance of everything they have out there. any guesses why it's a month or month and a half and not two weeks, two months or any other value? as far as i noted, it's not set in stone - it's not always 30 or 50 days. usually something between.
the sole fact that i always break lockpick in echovald forest in nm while i had two chest runs outside boreal when i opened over ten chests with a single pick means nothing either.
i'm much more curious about the reset thing, though. don't think it's totally random here - it should be connected to something, me thinks. i'm pretty sure that some other data in the servers resets as well, same as some machines have to be rebooted from time to time, even if we're not talking about a general, global maintenance of everything they have out there. any guesses why it's a month or month and a half and not two weeks, two months or any other value? as far as i noted, it's not set in stone - it's not always 30 or 50 days. usually something between.
BuD
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The chance of droping max golds is determined by weather you are running Hard Mode or not. Its just like loot drops. Hard Mode will more likely drop you golds.
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This is so not true. It doesn't matter NM or HM, they will be same either way.
The Drunkard
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Originally Posted by drkn
it's like you were asking if opening a chest in eotn has some secret value of retaining a lockpick than normal. it's all random. the fact that some people got purple items from several chests in a row proves nothing. the fact that some people got only golds, even when revisiting, with only few purples in total, proves nothing. it's just random. why wouldn't it?
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Jetdoc
I'm hitting at about a 60% gold drop rate from these chests, but then again I don't check them every single month.
ccfrecc
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scratchdude is right though, mostly the chests drop junk. I've never had a "decent" drop from it besides a ruby or sapphire. Now a days I only open the chests if I'm going past them rather than purposely making a trip for them.
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BlueNovember
You can get a purple the first time.
I ran 5-6 chests on a few characters very quickly, then a character who had not opened a chest before (area around it was unexplored, so I am quite certain) got a purple from it
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Seems they're designed to be tricky to farm.
I ran 5-6 chests on a few characters very quickly, then a character who had not opened a chest before (area around it was unexplored, so I am quite certain) got a purple from it
.Seems they're designed to be tricky to farm.
MagmaRed
I have opened all 12 chests on all 10 of my characters at least 5 times each. From my EXPERIENCE.... what I have actually seen, not heard.....
1) waiting 31 days or more will allow you to get another item from the chest
2) repeated openings decreases the value of what you get. I got approximately 20-24 gold items from the 12 chests (2 each roughly) then I got purples. Once I got a purple from one, I NEVER got another gold from any of the chest. Even the gold you get decreases, basically after the 2nd openings.
3) although the drop of gold items diminishes, gem drops do not appear to decrease.
4) it doesn't matter which chest you open, the TOTAL number of chests opened seems to qualify the possible drop. Since the Torment chests have 'better' drops, it would be 'best' to ONLY open the ones in Torment, at least until the purples start showing up.
5) it is character based, not account based. So 2 different characters can open the same chest on the same day with no problems.
1) waiting 31 days or more will allow you to get another item from the chest
2) repeated openings decreases the value of what you get. I got approximately 20-24 gold items from the 12 chests (2 each roughly) then I got purples. Once I got a purple from one, I NEVER got another gold from any of the chest. Even the gold you get decreases, basically after the 2nd openings.
3) although the drop of gold items diminishes, gem drops do not appear to decrease.
4) it doesn't matter which chest you open, the TOTAL number of chests opened seems to qualify the possible drop. Since the Torment chests have 'better' drops, it would be 'best' to ONLY open the ones in Torment, at least until the purples start showing up.
5) it is character based, not account based. So 2 different characters can open the same chest on the same day with no problems.