Curse

hoboplasm · Jan 24, 2007, 03:24 AM // 03:24

In my opinion Chestruns build up the market.

More than half of those Perfect Mods...Uber Skins...Low Req Godlike or even the lower stuff like High Req Nice skin....Decent skin decent req..

come from chests. the chances of getting a gold item from a chest is MUCH higher than getting one from a monster but then again the small price of 600-1500 gold isnt such a big price if you examine hte situation.
For the 600g keys, the average Gold Item is 1000-1500 worth. You can get a refund and some extra cash from a crappy unid gold. In nightfall, the Inscription business isnt so bad either. Inscriptions are always worth something good, and plus if you get a gold or purple high skinned, its garunteed you'll make money. Find an incriptable (E.G. = Crystalline REQ 8 -30% DMG -200HP crazy example not real) you can just reincript it and remod to brg its value up.

But the thing that bugs me is the actualy title. If you look on the service section, people just get the keys from others. The title doesnt mean as much as it used to mean. Sure they did the work, got the running experience, but who payed for that Key? who did the item go to? To get that title would mean spending huge loads of Cash..but not that title just costs time. (Same goes for the Wisdom Title) In the wisdom title, you atleast have to work for that money.

ShadowsRequiem · Jan 24, 2007, 03:26 AM // 03:26

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

How many tries till you got an ele sword cause thats what a really want.

how many tries? a lot lol. I prolly have run anywhere from 700-1000 ancient elonian chests and got one elemental to drop for me. It was in the posioned outcrops where the Ele stone crag boss is with Sandstorm. He was practically sitting on the chest and I openned it to my luck:P
If you're going for elemental swords try going to an areas with lots of elemental creatures, shattered ravines was a good place I heard.

oh yah just wanted to let you kno that chest lvl doesnt seem to make much of a diff, i was lvl 4 when i got my elemental and my friend had R7 maxxed out title:P and it seems like i get better stuff half the time

lol

novawhiz · Jan 25, 2007, 12:29 AM // 00:29

wow lol. I really want an ele sword. Im at like 100 chests ran.

About how many chests until you should switch zones?

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 12:43 AM // 00:43

i kinda switch every now and again..100 ancient, 100 demonic, 50 vabbi(takes to long lol)
some times i do FoW, npt as much now since i got NF.
dnt do much maraganite either

Avatar Exico · Jan 25, 2007, 01:25 AM // 01:25

No. CR is still very worth it. One of my Guildies got a Elemental Sword Gold and very nice Shield in Nightfallen and 2 Fiery and Icy Bladed Axes there. Got to Pick places that are hard and have good Chests and it depends on the Keys also. For Example i did Demonic CR (30+Keys) all my items were req9-10+ Famblous Golds nd only 5 or lower Grapes. It was very good

The Last Cruzader · Jan 25, 2007, 01:58 AM // 01:58

I've gotten 2 R10 Dead Swords in Poisoned outcrops and one R10 Sephis and Firey Blade Axe, IMO it's very worth it. I've opened around 400-500 chests there.

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 02:12 AM // 02:12

Cool, ive done around 100 keys there, started last night, nothing amazing yet :P

novawhiz · Jan 25, 2007, 02:13 AM // 02:13

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Originally Posted by Avatar Exico

No. CR is still very worth it. One of my Guildies got a Elemental Sword Gold and very nice Shield in Nightfallen and 2 Fiery and Icy Bladed Axes there. Got to Pick places that are hard and have good Chests and it depends on the Keys also. For Example i did Demonic CR (30+Keys) all my items were req9-10+ Famblous Golds nd only 5 or lower Grapes. It was very good

Hey! Guess What! I ran 30 demonic keys and got 5 golds and oh around 30 grapes.

Why am i soo unlucky jeez!

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 02:23 AM // 02:23

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

Hey! Guess What! I ran 30 demonic keys and got 5 golds and oh around 30 grapes.

Why am i soo unlucky jeez!

na, i think hes just lucky, i always get grapes from them to, thats why i never do them.

Avatar Exico · Jan 25, 2007, 02:42 AM // 02:42

Hehe my Guildie Told me that The Treasure Title HElps alot i mean way way alot and i do runs here and there i get Golds still so i cant belive it. i got 3Shadows Axes on the day DoA came out.

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 02:45 AM // 02:45

but..ive opened 2000 chests alltogether, and i still get purples from that area, tho..DoA i dont think ive got a purple lmao
i love runing DoA xD

Buns United · Jan 25, 2007, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Don't pay too much attention to this but:.. I usually just open up any chests that are in the area I'm doing quests or stuff in. For instance last week, when I did 2/4 mallyx quest

got req9 inscrible shadow axe with hsr 10% and +30 health (hurray my first perfect

)

But when you do it like I do you start paying less attention to what stuff drop. Most of the stuff I find is worthless though and I'm hardly ever up for selling stuff..

Anyway I suggest if you go chestrunning, try a difficult area or one that's fun to run in (DoA or FoW for instance

), makes you worry less about the time you're busy with it.

novawhiz · Jan 25, 2007, 03:22 AM // 03:22

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Originally Posted by onerabbit

Cool, ive done around 100 keys there, started last night, nothing amazing yet :P

100 chests in one night??????

How fast to you use chests???

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 03:24 AM // 03:24

erm, well im euro, so last night as like..24 hours ago lmao

novawhiz · Jan 25, 2007, 09:43 PM // 21:43

Oh ok.

The title doesnt up your chance to get gold just helps salvaging.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Treasure_Hunter

If you get best title you have 71% of not destroying an itme when you salavge it.

Bonelance · Jan 25, 2007, 10:59 PM // 22:59

@novawhiz: sorry for not responding originally. the first ele sword i got was on the like 80th chest i did, and the second one was on the 350th (about there). i usually make enough money from mods/inscriptions to just buy new keys over and over again, and seeing as the keys are 40 for 24k, that can be very easy to maintain.

ps: no dead swords, fiery blades, icy blades yet, i dont know how

onerabbit · Jan 25, 2007, 11:11 PM // 23:11

cool, i think im on my 150th chest..maybe more (from that area)
nothing good yet, but im getting enoufh cash back..as i was on 650k..now im on 850k :P so, all seem good to me

Avatar Exico · Jan 26, 2007, 01:03 AM // 01:03

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

Oh ok.

The title doesnt up your chance to get gold just helps salvaging.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Treasure_Hunter

If you get best title you have 71% of not destroying an itme when you salavge it.

The Wisdom Title Helps with Salvaging.

Xiaxhou of Trinity · Jan 26, 2007, 04:55 AM // 04:55

So does cartographer. I'll have to farm up a reserve for which to start off CRing constantly with. I usually only do it here and there, running in FoW.

Dzus · Jan 26, 2007, 05:09 AM // 05:09

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Originally Posted by Xiaxhou of Trinity

So does cartographer..

I haven't seen anything that confirms or denies this, but I don't think Cartographer does. It wouldn't make sense, anyway.