Guide To Treasure Chests
Treasure Chests
Introduction
Treasure chests are random open world events, which is to say that they spawn in random parts of the map. They are quick and simple events in which there is a chest which contains a treasure and multiple mobs of a certain type around it.
A player can kill the mobs around it, and open the chest with a lockpick (Wooden Lockpick, Rusty Lockpick or Professional Lockpick) to loot its contents.
Where to find Treasure Chests
Treasure chests can usually be found all over the map, they are the most common of the random events of the world, and it isn't rare to find more of them close to each other.
The best way to find one is simply to look at your minimap while traveling around. If you spot a chest icon on the minimap, that means that you have found a Treasure Chest.
Once a Treasure Chest event has been cleared, meaning that the chest has been opened and the mobs around it eliminated, the event will despawn in a few minutes and respawn again in a different part of the world.
The amount of chest events in the world is fixed, they cannot be "too farmed" to find one.
It is very possible though that you will find more of these events in areas where less players usually travel, since they accumulate there while players make them despawn from commonly traveled areas.
How to open a Treasure Chest
Each chest has a difficulty of its lock, which you can see by hovering the cursor on the chest.
They can be of the following levels: Simple, Advanced, Expert, Master, Legendary.
The higher the level of the lock, the harder it will be to open it. Opening harder locks requires better lockpicks and/or the help from talents and elixirs.
Each lockpick provides a base amount of lockpicking to your opening try, and each chest has a set difficulty value. The formula which gives the final chances to open a lock is the following:
Opening Chances(%) = (Lockpick score - Chest Difficulty)/400 + 20%Italic text
You must reach at least 20% chances to be able to open it, or the lock will simply show 0% chances. This means that your lockpick score must be at least equal to the difficulty.
Also, no matter how high your lockpick score is, your chances will never be higher than 80%.
If the try is succesful, the chest opens. If it fails, you break the lockpick you were using.
If you have multiple lockpick types in your inventory, you will be asked which lockpick you want to use. The twig like icon is the Wooden Lockpick, the one with a wavey handle is the Rusty Lockpick and the one with an actual shaped handle is the Professional Lockpick.
The following tables contain the difficulty of each chest level and the base value of the 3 lockpick types:
| Lock Type | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Simple | 100 |
| Advanced | 200 |
| Expert | 400 |
| Master | 600 |
| Legendary | 900 |
| Lockpick | Score |
|---|---|
| Wooden | 200 |
| Rusty | 400 |
| Professional | 600 |
As you can see from these tables, with a professional lockpick you can open up to Master locks, but you won't be able to open legendary chests, which will show 0% on each lockpick type.
To open those chests (or simply increase your chances to open other chests with less costly lockpicks), you can help yourself with the 2 following bonuses:
- Elixir of Thievery: This is a consumable item which for 30 minutes will increase by 50% the base score of any lockpick you use.
- Master Thief Talent: This talent again increase by 50% the base score of any lockpick you use.
Any of these 2 will bring a Professional Lockpick value to 900, which is just enough to open all types of locks.
The prerequisite to Master Thief talent will also come in handy since it reduces by 60% the chances that you break a lockpick when you fail to open a lock.
What can you find inside Treasure Chests?
So, after all this discussion on how to find them and open them, here comes the real question. Why should you bother with them? What is their loot?
Don't expect to find great items inside, the content of a chest depends on the level of the lock and on the type of mobs around it, tipically includes the following:
- Gold
- Reagents
- Gems
- Crafting Materials
The gold reward isn't exceptionally high, but is usually a nice bonus on top of the gold already dropped by the mobs around it.
The reagents are normally quite irrelevant for basic and advanced locks, but for expert and higher locks can contain rare reagents.
Gems are always there at all tiers of locks and they are the best part of it. Gems are the real reason why you go after chests, it is the best source of them.
Sometimes you may even find some crafting materials inside, in particular in chests from Jotuuns and Ogres.