chest farming?

Ok i was wondering where would one go to chest farm, it cant be to complicated so i dont need a tutorial. but plz just a location would be nice.

what locations have you done and what level are you?

anywhere except the last mission... and im lvl20

The big question here is what chests are worth opening?

Personally, I believe that chests ≥ Southern Shiverpeaks are worth it.

If you just want to run around and find the chests, then take a full party of henchies (since the chest drop is all yours anyway) and wander around. The henchies will keep the pressure off you.

I'd have to say that the Shiverpeaks have the most frequent chests at about 3-4 per map area.

buy keys at port sledge.
henchie up, exit town, head east
just follow paths, bring balanced stance and use when azure shadows come out. sprint when you need to, and theres about 2-3 chests per run, its a very short run, takes about 3-4 minutes per run...

decent drops, i got a req 8 gold max wingblade and a req 10 gold max fellblade back to back... so you judge. i'd say the goldurple ratio is about 1:4, chances are 99% the item is max.

But seriously, does buying the Keys flat-out from Port Sledge actually result in a profit? Because I've considered pulling this run, but I seem to get crap drops when I find a key... well, crap for my expectations.

I'm just trying to determine worst-case scenario. Like I have to sell all the drops from each chest to the merchant... do I really lose any money? If so, how much?

Personally, no, I don't think they're worth buying but that's just me who, unless I can use the item found, will sell it to the trader.

From my experience, this is a no go area, i think it's just another gold sink.

I tried this myself, i bought 10 shiverpeak keys and ran to a chest outside War Camp 10 times.

The outcome.. Everything went to the Merchant, all of it, bada bing bada boom all gone! No profit made what so ever.

OFC that's just from my experience...

how about doing fow chest runs...yes its 1k to get into fow but from what i hear its quite profitable...eh just a suggestion

I've gotten just as much merchant fodder crap from FoW runs that frm any other runs. Total waste of time and gold.

Fissure runs can be very nice. I do them all the time with more than one person so the entree fee is split.
On our second run we found an uber-chest which gave up a max gold chaos axe and a fellblade

Last couple of times I have gone to UW and done smites the usual 2 chests that are there are NOWHERE to be found! Anybody else noticed this? Where did they move em too?

The Whole Chest Farming Bugs Me Because The Keys Cost A Bomb And Then The Weapons Suck

yeah i dont think it's worth it in the end. When i farm griffions at augury i used to always use the key drops on the chests but now i fugure 4 keys dropped are worth 1k but if you open 4 chest your lucky to make 300g selling the weapons you get out of them.

It may not be profitable in the short run but I spent 30k on shiverpeaks keys in total and found a 14>50 brute sword req 8 and a 15>50 fell and a buncha other stuff. It just takes patience.

farming chests in fow extremely rewarding

well ima have to try it some time then

I just take Miner's Keys into SF if I farm. I got 2 15>50 Max dmg weapons (Shortbow and a Righteous Hammer), and bought about 30 Keys. Worth the money, probably not, but I like it to have chance to get a really rare weapon, it's just something like gambling, but with money I don't really care about.

The best chests, imho, are the ones heavily surrounded by aggro <usually always a gold chest, in my experience> kill agg, unlock for a nice rare. I personally believe <In my experience, again>, that these places are the best:

The Southern Shiverpeaks. <anywhere south of snakes dance/mineral springs>
<also great for elite capturing!>

SF: keys work here too.

The crystal desert: Missions here. Elona's/Thirsty/Dunes drop nice chest items if surrounded by agg <again, in my experience>


The Ring of Fire: Nice chests usually all around, never really got a crappy drop from a chest except a gold armor with a major rune.

FoW/UW: anywhere here is nice, if you get to chests in either or.

If you need more info on the spots I listed, PM me!

--The Shim

I personally prefer chest farming in south shiverpeaks, SF, fow, and uw areas. If money is no object for the keys. The chests drop items that occasionally would allow me to unlock mods and runes for pvp. I don't look at chest farming to make a profit, b/c more likely than not you lose money on your keys. But for pvp unlocking, chest farming is a nice alternative to faction farming.

Although...you will probably get shit most of the time. At 500g-750g/per key it gets pricey. Lets say you make open 100 chests for 75K in keys. You get 99 shitty weapons at 250g each (at trader). You are now out 50k...however if that 1 item drops...like a Gold Fellblade 15>15...and you can sell it of 300K...then you are up 250K. Not to mention some of those items going to be worth more then 250g. It is like gambling. People do it for fun. I always carry keys...but don't go on chest runs...YET?

Funny I read this after my post

Quick question...? If you get a Gold from the first person will all other players get a gold item drop?

BTW are the S. Shiverpeaks or the Desert better for this? Or would you suggest somewhere else to do this?

[QUOTE=bobmcclune]Quick question...? If you get a Gold from the first person will all other players get a gold item drop?

yes

Ok...next question. If the 1st person gets a high end Gold item...will the 2nd also get a high end gold item?

I can't understand. What's FARMING??

The simplest way I can put the definition read this:
http://guildwiki.org/wiki/Farming

There. Enjoy.

--The Shim

LOL

I don't really understand that much.
More clearer explanations --Confused....

Lol you cant really explain it much clearer than that wikipedia one....

The was the clearest explanation of farming to date, with in-depth resources <clickable links>...I can't put it any simpler then 1 person going out, whacking a mob to death <more then 1 mob at a time> to obtain gold/drops.

--The Shim

I just tested this route out 20 times. Each run har 3 chest, one gold and two purple. got one +29 hale staff, but most gold not worth more than 1k... And I mostly got casters items(one shield and hammer, both purple).

LOL
Well then, how do YOU do farming? ^_______^

Get a "character build" suited for taking on many creatures as possible at once without dying. Then you've got yourself a farming build. Then you just need to know where to hunt to farm. Most people farm griffons off of Augury Rock in prophet's path.

--The Shim

Thanks, Shim. So you hunt and kill. Do you sell those stuff you get? (?)

Sorry for being so inquisitive....

aye, usually what you look for are weapon mods or weapons with certain things like say 15% damage over 50% hp. Or, another good one is 15% damage while in a stance. Things like those sell

Don't be sorry. Asking questions is the road to knowledge, which rids the world of ignorance one person at a time. You can quote me on that one :P

--The Shim

Sell to the people, so for how much? Maybe when you look at the price on the NPCs then you higher it.

Cool. I just hope we have signatures. I'll put it in my guilds.ph sig anyway. hehehe. I admit it IS a good saying / quote. *adds to buddy list*

Actually, if you stick with it you can get some extremely valuable stuff. I too don't farm for profit, but rather for salvaging mods. I was able to expert salvage an insightful staff head (+5 energy) and a staff wrapping of shelter (armor +7 vs physical) and crafted my own Bortak's Bone Staff. You can get the staff in Snake dance or the Crystal Dessert, and just add the mods. Beats buying one for 100k + ecto's!! I also got a gold axe out of a chest while doing the Borlis pass mission. It was low damage, but surprisingly had a max (20%) axe grip of enchanting on it which I promptly expert salvaged out. Only bad thing is when you get screwed and it salvages into crafting material. I had that happen on 3 gold bows in a row!! grrrrrr. Try farming the chests in Grenth's footprint. You can find 5 chests and it does take a while due to the number of enemies and their toughness. But I have got a superior rune of Vigor, 4 major runes of vigor, superior monk runes and 3 runes of major absorption, as well as some nice gold weapons. For speed farming go with Whitmans folly as was mentioned in several other posts.

I've used bought keys and used dropped keys and I have yet to see a gold drop item and no item has been worth the key price at all in ANY of the areas I've been to and that includes Shiverpeaks. I think the guy above that said he got (2) golds and max everytime is fibbing big time. But, that's just my opinion from my own experiences. I've opened at least 12 chests now with no results of anything of any value. Fortunately I stopped buying keys at 4. What a waste of money.

He really wasnt lying though I have seen a nonmax dmg item comeout of a cheast in SF. Talk about wierd gold non-max. LOL But Ive gotton Sup Absorb and Sup Vigor from Chests in the past.... as far as farming them....no way fust not worth the risk vs. gain Imho. But thats just it its a money sink and its sort of like having the Lotto in game. Anyways good luck in your future cheast encounters..... PS if a purple comes out of a chest it will only drop purples for the whole party.. same for Gold if one drops it will drop Gold for the whole Party. That way everyone dosnt have to through keys at the chest just watch to see what drops for the first person if gold go for it if not just wait for the next chest.

can some one help me with running chests in FOW i cant find them and i get killed b4 i can find one

best i can do is explain it to you.

first things first, always carry with you 4 obsidian keys at a time, some runs i see more than 4 chests in one run.

You need a standard running build that includes:
Charge(e)
Spirint
Diciplined Stance
Endure Pain
Purge Conditions
Smite Hex
Healing Signet
Rebirth

Reason i carry rebirth is sometimes i go down with a partner, and we travel in different directions and scout fow faster, we communicate via teamspeak till we find chests, we open them, the when opening them you need to identify what kind of chest it is, example, if the chest drops a purple item, then warn your partner that its a purple chest, and will only reveal purples no matter how many times you open it.

If you find a gold item chest that drops a offhand weapon, like a storm artifact, then the chance it will be some type of offhand weapon for your partner, but i've been proven wrong before, i got a protective icon and my partner had a chaos axe, a useless one though so i was happy haha.

Best items ive found fow, chaos axe 15>50 req 9, soon as i sold this puppy, all my worries went away, i could finally buy 15 armor set for a few of my characters, and a fow helmet for my warrior, also the chest where i found this axe was 30 seconds away from where you spawn in fow.

Anyway to start off, you basically run past all the shadow army at the start, dont worry they are your friends compaired to the skeleton army, when you get the nack of it, you dont even have to use endure pain past them, the only time you use endure pain is when you run past skele mobs, they'll drain your energy and freeze you while the beserkers own you from behind, so you charge in, endure pain, smite hex, you might get cry of fustration on your smite hex, its the most annoying part, these ether skeletons can interrupt a 1/4 second purge conditions. so hopefully you can get around them without you dying, u should have enough nrg left to use sprint and away you go again.

Anyway the first place to check for chests is the great battlefield, which is where those lich dragons are, scout all around there, in the time ive been down there, these chests do spawn in specified random locations, but these random locations are not very random lol, example say if a chest spawns in a certian spot, remember that location for next time, mabye a few more runs down the track it will spawn in that location, when you spent as many times down there running you start to see the pattern. anyway i think i type too much, hopefully u can figure the rest yourself. gl

Do not carry enchantments in fow if your running solo, they will be stripped before you can say "wtf"