Curse

Mohnzh · Sep 16, 2008, 12:18 AM // 00:18

I run from Boreal Station. There are 3 possible spawn regions and the run takes about 1.5 minutes. I bring 2 heroes (W/P or P/W) carrying "Charge", "Fallback", one more speed skill that cannot self-target, and res signet (just in case). I put "Fallback" on my bar and a fast self heal in case aloes or avalanche stop me. With this hero setup, I may have to trigger a skill one out of every 20 runs.

The three regions:

1) across the first narrow land bridge where the wurms spawn before crossing chasm (chest can be anywhere on small loop)
2) across the chasm ranging from the northwester corner on the narrow path to just past the rez shrine (enemies can be wurms or aloe)
3) in the region with the pinesoul and avalanche - chest will be either on eastern ledge that skirts region or one of the three mob areas (4 general locations, but variability in exact location within each general location)

Drops are fairly horrid, but occasionally get a nice mod to salvage. Never once got an armor drop. Dolyak Prod Staves are very common. Gold drop rate is about 33%. This is not the place to make money back, but if you are shooting for speed, this is the way to go. I average just over 2 chests per run, but there are the occasional "empty" runs with no chests. By leaving Boreal Station and coming right back in before starting your first run, when you reach you last chest you can /resign to be placed right at the exit so you can immediately start a new chest run without traipsing through the station. Saves bookoo time.

Personally:

1350+ chests opened (550+ opened using this run)
r2 lucky, r2 unlucky
buying lps for 1.25k from a regular, reliable supplier.

Ewa Kirch · Sep 16, 2008, 11:35 AM // 11:35

I have opened approx 9960 chests

. The fastest place for me was Witman’s from port sledge, 3 chests in 2-4mins depending on location. I have managed to open 3 chests, type /age and it said 1 minute, but it must have been just under 2 minutes.

It is easy to sell 7 unid’s for 5.6k, and when you have found a few buyers, I would just pm whoever was online when my mules and storage where close to being full, so 50+ at a time. I only dropped to selling 7 for 5k in Kamadan when I was so full of un-id’s that I couldn’t run any more chests and none of my regular buyers where on-line. If you want you can easily identify the +30hp mods or +5 energy mods to sell them on, but in the end, I stopped doing that as it just slows down the chests running, while you look for buyers.

At about r4 treasure I started to break even, buying 80 lockpicks for 100k is quick and easy in America Kamadan district.

Witmans chests drop a lot of purple and gold armor, the purples often have major vigor and radiant/survivor insigna’s etc, the gold armor also, I don’t reckon it makes much difference if you id the gold armours (in the hope of a superior vigor and/or insigna’s) or sell them un-id, as you get the same return overall ie you will need to id 15-20+ gold armor’s before you find a superior vigor rune.

Now at r6 treasure and r5 lucky I was actually making money from it! and have now stopped selling un-id’s as I have enough lockpicks left to finish the title. I reckon I have made 200k from the last 5000 chests, which works out at 40g per chest (lol).

As a final note: I would get a gold fellblade approx every 1000 chests opened (none of which have been 15^50

).

cataphract · Sep 16, 2008, 11:44 AM // 11:44

I ran from Boreal Station when going after max Treasure Hunter. Since it was going to be my 30th maxed title, I decided to sell unids after checking them for +30 mods. Most of the time I was selling 7 for 5.5k, but a good deal of them was sold to a regular buyer who payed 6k per 7. That, and money from +30 upgrades made me a nice profit.

As Mohnzh's running build is concerned - there is no need for heroes. The build I've used was Dash, Dwarven Stability and "I Am Unstoppable!". DS gives a nice 6 second Dash. Coupled with +20% ench weapon, DS lasts 36 seconds and requires only one recast just before the bridge. Obviously, "I Am Unstoppable!" is here to counter knockdown from Aloes using SoJ.

Also, I've never ran close to the res-shrine, let alone beyond it. If the chest did not spawn just on the other side of the bridge, I'd resign and start over. Average run time: 55 seconds. Chests opened per hour: 40-50 depending whether I'm typing in guild/alliance chat or not.

Argentino · Sep 16, 2008, 05:27 PM // 17:27

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how do u check for a +30hp or any other mod when the wep is not identified?

Do u just equip the wep/armor and look if your hp has increased or is there another way?

trdsn89 · Sep 16, 2008, 10:49 PM // 22:49

If you want to max you title the fastest, I have been running the secret layer of the snowmen for a while now and i can say that you can run between 2 to 5 chests in 2 mins. ( If you can keep up shadow form)

cataphract · Sep 19, 2008, 08:49 AM // 08:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argentino

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how do u check for a +30hp or any other mod when the wep is not identified?

Do u just equip the wep/armor and look if your hp has increased or is there another way?

Yes, one simply equips the unidentified weapon and checks his health. +30 health and +5 energy mods are the easiest to check. You can check for +45 stance/enchanted and 20% longer enchantments mods fairly easily, but I did't want to waste time on those.