Best Chest?

(And NO Im not talking about the ones on ele and mesmer girls)

In your Opinion,
1) Which Chest (location, type) yields the best rare drops most consistently?
2) Which Chest (location, type) is the most easily accesible from the nearest outpost?

Thanks

Phantom chests yield pretty good crap, if you can find them.

They're located in the UW. There's almost always one in the Ice Plains.

Darkstone chests - fire island chain
Shiverpeak chests - southern shiverpeaks
Phanton chests - Underworld
Obsidian chests - fissure of woe
Miners chests - sorrows furnace

Those have all yeilded max damage good weapons/shields/staves/wands/offhands for me anyway, but its a rarity. you can get a bunch of crap from them too. but if you happen to find a key or 2 or can afford a key or 2 then its usually a good chance and always gaurenteed a gold or puprle max item

Yeah the southeren shiverpeaks have been pretty lame IMO. FoW chests are extremely hard to come by I know, only 2 in there that randomly move, but the drops are spectacular ive heard. Miner's Chests have gotten me some decent items but some 1k stuff too.
any Others?

MistressYichi's got about all of them. Basically, the chests will drop the same level of items that enemies in the area will drop, except the chests' items are purple and gold. It's random whether they'll drop rares, or if they'll be close to a portal. Just go run around and find some; don't expect to be able to farm chests easily.

one would think that the one which key costs the most gold and hardest location should yield the best results

otherwise why didnt ANET just make them all cost the same

an obsidian chest wielded me with this

a gold grim cesta focus

with +5 armour

and -5 energy


is that any good? never come by one before

No, that is not good; it is, in fact, rather naughty.

Except it could be used to rid yourself of hexes that end when you're at 0 energy. It's not worth much, though.

Chests in Shiverpeaks are numerous and easy to sprint to if you are a warrior - all points to strength for extra sprinting time. Quickest run is from Port Sledge, you can sprint to 2 chests in under 2 minutes on a good spawn, then die...like the sorry chest farmer you have become ...and viola! you will res near Droks and should be able to find another chest close by.

I tried this with about 40 keys....yes I am rich and yes I was very bored. Around 1 in 10 will drop a gold sword/axe...the rest drop gold or purple staffs and off-handers that even the merhants frown upon.

Chests are like gambling...you either lose your money straight away or you lose it the next time you gamble.

Shiverpeaks chests have netted me pure crap. Three Fow chests gave me a purple non max Chaos Axe, only mod was fire damage, and two Shadow Shields. OOne was req. 13 (yay) and had +12 health, other was req. 11 and had -1 damage while hexed. Two UW chests got me 2 max, but high req. purple storm bows but with crap mods, shocking damage and other has a 10/6 sundering.

crap, thought GWGuru was goin porn there

I misunderstood.

I like the Elona chests... relitively cheap keys (although I don't buy them) and they've dropped good stuff for me so far. I actually made some profit off of them

Phantom chests drop pure gold for me, stormbow + gold =

I have to tell you guys something about chest farming (dont try to correct me if you dont beleive me...just try it first before posting something like 'omg its random dude' (and Im trying to help you). If your in a group on fow, uw or sorrows always let someone else open the chest first. If they get purple dont waste a key because that chest will drop all purple from then on. If they get gold use your key as everyone will get gold. If you dont believe me try it then tell me im right and by the way Im not saying Im the first to notice this but I think my post about sorrows chests describing this phenomenon was.

ty for the great tip now i need to get my necros arse to ToA and start get some nice drops

i get alot of oglds from elonian chest (argury rock)
got a 15-22 gld gladius with +30hp mod

OMG hes right :O.

Was in UW and went to first chest and everybody got purples, 2nd chest and all golds.

Hello, I'm Seissor and I'm a key junkie. Its been about a month since I last bought a key. I originally blew 80k on keys...and made 30k profit....I used that to buy more keys >.<

I once wasted this much money on keys ()______ =^ . ^= ______()

From what I've seen, some chests DO drop better items (on average) than others.

The order I've noticed is (from best to worst)

1. Obsidian chests
2. Phantom Chests (?) - I don't spend a lot of time in the UW, so I'm not sure here.
3. Miner's Chests
4. Darkstone chests/Shiverpeak Chests
5. Elonian Chests.

Now, I've seen absolutely worthless stuff drop from obsidian chests just as quickly as from elonian chests. My strategy is: Starting at Droknar's (assuming you played the game through and got there via dragon's lair instead of a runner), I purchase ONE key (and if I get more via drops, great). Now, If I see a chest, I'll usually not be the first to open it, but rather, wait until someone else does. If that chest drops a purple, I leave it alone. If it drops a gold, I open it. (The chests follow a pattern: if it drops a purple, they're ALL purple, same with gold).

Only exception to the one key rule for me is FoW or UW. I take two keys with me down there.

As for the other keys, that you get before the desert, just sell em back to the merchants. They're not worth the gold cost imo. (Heck, even the other keys aren't really worth the gold cost, but the chance of getting something good is a lot better.)

Just my two gold pieces.