Chest Run: Prophecies - Reed Bog - NM

Hi all,

For those who don't know me, I am a full time Chestrunner as well as large variety collector. I enjoy chestrunning in NM for Q8 Foci, Shields, and Swords as well as HM for a variety of skins. I have been contacted by a variety of players seeking information about different chestrunning options. Since I have a large rotation, I decided to put together some info on my runs to share with the community. I also collect data on my chest drops to analyze trends and have a data set that will provide me insight on things such as % of weapon types that drop, Q8 chances, and different skins per map. I will include some of that data in with my posts. If these show to have an interest, I will continue to document other runs in the same fashion.

I want to stress that this is only intended to be a guide. There are multiple paths to take and builds to use per run. There is no right or wrong path or build. Feel free to choose to take a different path as you learn more about the specific run, be aware that chest spawn locations may change depending on your starting point or path. If you think my run is too long, shorten it to your liking. Sometimes it is more about chests per min than how long the entire run can take.

I hope you find value in this info and enjoy the art of chest running if you don't already.

Agent Chevy | AKA "Chevy"

My Current Data Sample:

Thank you mushroom for the heads up. It should be good now.

I have had a few issues in the past where an image on one of these older posts wasn't displaying, but then will work the next day. This time it turned out that the picture was actually removed from the image host site, which is strange cause all other pictures I post is from there as well and still active. One of those GW life mysteries hehe.

Hey, Ya, I believe that's where the count came in but honestly, that can be misleading.

I have changed it to 1-3 (one way). 1-2 is more common, I have seen the 3rd appear when you kill one specific Redwood Sheperds.

Thanks for the question

Chevy

Quote from Red Fireball

Tell us more! A chestspawn upon a kill is something unheard of (except for reward chests on dungeon/quest ofc)

I will take some screenshots of location and also try to recreate it. Of course when you are trying to get something to happen it probably won’t cooperate but I certainly will try

Quote from Red Fireball

Tell us more! A chestspawn upon a kill is something unheard of (except for reward chests on dungeon/quest ofc)

Ok... be ready to have your mind blown....

So I did a run just for the purpose of mapping and screenshotting where I have seen a chest spawn upon kill.

Here is the specific Redwood and the location on the map....

So while I was here, I did a few runs back and forth from Ettin's to The Falls to see if I could get this chest to pop. Since the Rewoods can drop q8s, it was a potentially valuable farm.

As I was coming back from the Falls, passed the few spiders and went over the first tree.

The first Redwood Shepherd gave me a dirty look so I stopped to give him a piece of my mind...

Upon it's death...look at what appeared.....

So my new conclusion is that it wasn't that specific Redwood that I had seen this happen with, but multiple.....

So the chest count is now in question cause when I wrote this post originally I had thought that this pop up chest would be in addition to 2 chests but this one time that just occurred it was just only 1 of 2 again so 3 may not happen, it’s been awhile before now that i did this run.

LOL you can probably rumor anything here and not many people read these chest running posts. I did hear that the legendary Crystalline Hammer can drop here, the crysta sword skin with Blunt dmg.

Side teaser on Maguuma chests, this question inspired me to go do some Dry Top suns (very similar zoning run to this one). When I am at my pc later I will post in the “how did GW treat me today thread”