New chest farming method [MERGED]

I tried using my warrior monk with a running build and started to hunt for shiverpeak chests, because I wanted to try out using those keys that I can buy at the merchants. However, I found that it's very easy to run to chests and have a very good shot at getting a gold item. I already unlocked 4 different weapon parts and 5 runes, and salvaged some very useful parts. Seems quite abusive to me (unless questing in Sorrows Furnace can give much better stuff, haven't got that far yet). It's easy to farm enough gold to buy these keys and get gold items (and farming may result in gold items too), so farming may be back.

I stopped running becaues I want to check out the new content, but so far this seems to be the best way of getting gold items.

I agree.
To a farmer, 400g for a key is like nothing, and now the chests are guaranteed to have good stuff in them.
I unlocked one chest on my way to Grenth's Footprint with my team of henchmen and got a pruple armour piece which had a minor air rune.

But now with the new Green items, and alot more gold items for all, prices on trades will drop, making farming gold items, not as profitable.

they just about killed the point of farming

I think killing it was the point to making thing more easy to get.

They just made it more fun now that they added keys... now if only they just added a keyring to put all the keys on... like an extra slot that could hold only keys and stuff.

I think this was exactly the point. Sure "farming" chests may be easier, but now just about anyone can do it, and with a guarantee of a nice reward. I only did two chests tonight (gotta get up early tomorrow ) but one was a max-dmg gold axe that unlocked two mods for me. If I can get a reward like that one out of every 3 or 4 chests... that's an easy decision for me. No more playing the market, just buy keys and let the unlocks roll.

Here's the problem: MOST times the item you get from a chest isn't worth the amount a key is worth. I've gotten two purple items with no mods. That's silly, why are purple items with no mods even in the game?

Right now the new items (keys, superior kits) aren't really worth the amount of gold we're being charged. They're sane if you were a farmer who has thousands of plats spare. Some of us aren't that, so chests are a serious crapshoot.

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Notice this also temporarily kills chest farming bots, until they crack the random algorithm for chest distribution, if ever. Meanwhile, actual players are rewarded with nicer items.

It is a gold leak. As the new skill prices and so on...but I have to agree it is made damn well. :P

i just hope there wont be too much gold floating around...

and that was worth 600 gold?

I wonder how many people neglected to buy keys on their way to the new zone? lol

Yes... I think it'd be wise to buy about 5 shiverpeak keys or so. Shiverpeaks and UW keys are probably the most used.

Lots I'm sure, first mission I did with a group, I was the only one with keys so I got the loot out of 3 chests all by myself.

A potential problem I see here though is what happens when more than one of your party members has keys and you are all running for the same chest? Kind of silly when you end up fighting over who gets the chest or it turns into a race to get to a chest right in the middle of a battle just because someone doesn't want to risk losing the chest to someone else.

I read about this - I believe that everyone with a key will get an item in the chest. I've not played GW since the update so I'm not completely sure of the truth in this, but I definitely read it last night on a SF Review website...I'll try to find the link.

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Oh yeah, it's the link from the front page of GWG that directs you to the IGN preview. If you read this, it explains how the keys/chests idea works:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/648/648244p1.html

I had a buddy unlock a 3/1 vampirc tonight. I've been playing for months and not seen one dropped. It's worth it right there.

What happens is once you use a key on a chest, it's looted for you. It closes back and then someone else can loot it too.

you're correct, a guildmate and i ran into a shiverpeak chest, he opened it and got an item then it closed... and i was able to open it after him and get an item for myself

What happens to the key afterwards? Does it only last until you've unlocked your first chest for that area, or can you use it for all chests in that area?