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imnotyourmother · Mar 12, 2009, 01:53 PM // 13:53

This is true about the treasure hunter title. That said treasure hunter title help decrease the cost of keys. BUT with higher lvl of LUCKY title you have an even HIGHER chance of retaining the lockpick.

SO getting 500,000 Lucky points and THEN getting the chests open that count for the TH title is MUCH more cost effective than just opening chests willy nilly.

The chest run outside of Dronknar's Forge is a great place to open 600g chests as the retention rate is even higher than at borial Station in GW:EN. The station can have 2 chests in a 3 minute run and almost always has 1 chest.

The COF run exists to open the last chest. Everything else is gravy as I have just listed 3 other options that will say you at least 750K over the life time of the UN/Lucky/Hunter titles

Anon-e-mouse · Mar 13, 2009, 02:57 AM // 02:57

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Originally Posted by imnotyourmother

This is true about the treasure hunter title. That said treasure hunter title help decrease the cost of keys. BUT with higher lvl of LUCKY title you have an even HIGHER chance of retaining the lockpick.

I am already R5 Lucky (1,150,000 points and counting), opening undervalue chests isn't going to help much when I'm nearer to R6 Chest Hunter (900 chests to go for a 3% higher pick retention rate), than R6 Lucky (1,350,000 more lucky points for a 2% higher pick retention rate). So for me opening high end chests is far more important than whether I retain or not (although retaining would be nice).

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Originally Posted by imnotyourmother

The COF run exists to open the last chest. Everything else is gravy as I have just listed 3 other options that will say you at least 750K over the life time of the UN/Lucky/Hunter titles

You still seem to miss the overall view, CoF runs work on more than one title track. Dwarven, Legendary Master Of The North (first time only), Vangard, Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky, Unlucky, and after the dust has settled you get a nice XP bonus to level up any lagging low level heroes, a decent gp quest reward. And even if I break 4-5 picks over the entire run, I still make enough gold to replace those picks.

Besides, I don't just sit back and let the runner do all the work, all the toons I get run (I've done the dungeon normally on 4 toons), have a build that helps the runner in some way, Like Succor, or Marytr/Purge Conditions or anything useful.. so I'm atleast doing something other than picking lint from my belly button, whilst being run.

And yes I do run the chests outside Boreal station to, they don't drop armour/runes though, so I tend to only do them occasionally.

Mar 12, 2009, 01:53 PM // 13:53	#21
imnotyourmother Desert Nomad Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: in a house Guild: The Knitters Guild Profession: W/R	This is true about the treasure hunter title. That said treasure hunter title help decrease the cost of keys. BUT with higher lvl of LUCKY title you have an even HIGHER chance of retaining the lockpick. SO getting 500,000 Lucky points and THEN getting the chests open that count for the TH title is MUCH more cost effective than just opening chests willy nilly. The chest run outside of Dronknar's Forge is a great place to open 600g chests as the retention rate is even higher than at borial Station in GW:EN. The station can have 2 chests in a 3 minute run and almost always has 1 chest. The COF run exists to open the last chest. Everything else is gravy as I have just listed 3 other options that will say you at least 750K over the life time of the UN/Lucky/Hunter titles