Posts by Scryb Ranger

    I wish gameamp had been archived. guildwars.gameamp.com was one of the major hotspots for build guides, and I usually posted mine there before GwG. I had the first guide, and as far as I know first build, of a 55 necro that came about because of the absurd cost of sup monk runes back in the day. I still have my old HDD in storage somewhere that should have hundreds of pictures on it from 2005-2007. Hopefully I'll find it one day and be able to upload them for the cause.

    It, and almost all other "keyless" chests/barrels etc were removed when the key system was introduced. This was before my time, but the change to this happened in September of 05, according to wiki. The only similar keyless chests that remain are those in the Underworld, the Fissure of Woe, and Sorrow's Furnace (which was added with that same update). These chests still have the possibility of dropping Dwarven Axes, Crystalline Swords, and Serpent Axes, among others, but only in uncommon (purple) rarity.

    Swamp clubs appear to be exempt from this and were, to my knowledge, only available from the initial keyless chests.

    Nice to see someone from waayyyy back return to the game.

    Wiki info on most of these is pretty lacking, for sure. I've seen old screenshots somewhere on the interwebs of people opening some of these, but this was years ago and I can't seem to find them today.

    Sorry to necro a thread, but these chests (there were two in dreadnaught's drift) are some of my favorite pieces of forgotten content/Guild Wars history. They were so unknown among most of the player base.

    Here's what really happened: The key system was introduced in 05 like you stated, but they actually overlooked a few chests. There was one left in Maguuma jungle somewhere (I don't have any specific info on this one), one that would sometimes spawn in the little park area in Ice Floe right outside of Thunderhead Keep that mostly dropped armor pieces (this may be the one mentioned being outside granite citadel, or there were two), and finally the best two were left in Dreadnaught's Drift.

    Back in the day it was quite difficult to get to Dreadnaught's Drift, but typically you would run up from Rankor or War camp. There were two chests past large groups of enemies: the lost strongbox and the frozen chest. The frozen chest would drop 5-10 pieces of armor of all rarities. The Lost Strongbox was where it was at though. This thing exploded with 4-12 weapons at once. Serpent axes, dwarven axes, fellblades, crystalline swords, summit shields, white reavers, etc. I believe the only weapons that weren't proven to come from this chest were max tyrian sickles and tribal axes (are these in game now?). I personally farmed it several times and got some serpent axes that made me wealthy early on in the game.

    It was kept extremely hush-hush for a surprisingly long time, since nobody really had a reason to ever go deep enough in dreadnaught's drift to find them. There were no titles or vanqs back then. The only reason someone would explore the area would be for fun or to get Feast of Corruption from Maw the Mountain Heart. Until finally one day on GWG someone uploaded a farming guide for them. The few people (including myself) who already knew about it had begged the creator to take his post down, which he eventually did, but the damage had been done. The remaining open-world keyless chests were removed within the week. :cry:

    New storage dump. Offer away! IGN: Lone Angel


    Inscribable:

    Spears:

    Voltaic Spear Q9 Clean (400g Value) -

    Voltaic Spear Q9 +5e, 20% Enchant -

    Voltaic Spear Q10 -

    3x Voltaic Spear Q12 -

    Voltaic Spear Q13 +30hp - 25e Frsh D

    Swords:

    Fellblade Q9 - 3e

    3x Fellblade Q10 - 1e/ea

    Long Sword Q9 - 1e

    Brute Sword Q9 - 1e

    3x Golden Phoenix Blade Q9 - 2e/ea

    Colossal Scimitar Q11 - eh?

    3x Tattooed Scimitar Q9 - 2e/ea

    3x Elemental Sword Q9 - 2e/ea

    Celestial Sword Q9 - 1e

    Fiery Embersteel Blade Q9 - 7e

    Gladius (Elonian) Q9 - 1e

    Axes:

    Gothic Dual Axe Q9 - 1e

    Stygian Reaver Q9 - 2e

    Sephis Axe Q9 - 2e

    Pyroclastic Axe Q11 - 2e

    Celestial Axe Q9 - 1e

    Hammers:

    War Hammer (Spiky) Q9 - 1e

    Twin Hammer Q9 - 1e

    Mursaat Hammer Q9 - 2e

    Daggers:

    Dragon Kamas Q9 - 5eFrsh D

    Salient Daggers Q9 - 1e

    Scythes:

    Grim Scythe Q9 - 1e

    Nightmare Scythe Q11 - eh?

    Bows:

    Eternal Bow Q10 - 1e

    Celestial Longbow Q9 - 1e

    Platinum Longbow Q9 - 1e

    2x Storm Bow Q9 - 5e/ea

    Stoneshard Hornbow Q9 - 1e

    Wands:

    3x Platinum Wand Q9 Domination - 5e/ea

    Shamanic Wand Q9 Restoration - 1e

    Onyx Scepter Q9 Domination - 5e

    Blighted Rod Q9 Curses - 1e

    2x Silver Boar Scepter Q9 Divine Favor - 1e

    Silver Boar Scepter Q9 Spawning Power - 1e

    Silver Boar Scepter Q9 Domination - 2e

    2x Eternal Flame Wand Q9 Healing - 5e/ea

    Staves:

    Boneclaw Q9 Death - 1e

    Platinum Staff Q9 Divine Favor - 1e

    Onyx Staff Q9 Spawning Power (Hale +30) - 3e

    Onyx Staff Q9 Inspiration - 3e

    Onyx Staff Q9 Divine Favor - 3e

    Offhands:

    Celestial Compass Q10 Inspiration - 9e obo

    Celestial Compass Q11 Restoration - 7e obo

    Celestial Compass Q11 Curses, 20% Aptitude - 7e obo

    Celestial Compass Q11 Fast Casting - 8e obo

    Celestial Compass Q12 Healing +30, +1(20%) - 4e obo

    Celestial Compass Q12 Channeling - 3e obo

    Celestial Compass Q12 Fast Casting, 20% Aptitude, +15/-1 - 5e obo

    Celestial Compass Q13 Communing - 1e

    Protective Icon Q8 Protection BLUE - 10e

    Blessed Chalice Q9 Healing - 3e

    Warrior Shields:

    Kappa Shield Q9 Tactics - 1e

    Shield of the Lion Q9 Strength - 1e

    3x Emblazoned Defender Q9 Tactics - 3e

    Defender Q9 Strength - 1e Red Fireball

    Embossed Aegis Q9 Tactics - 1e

    Great Conch Q9 Tactics +30, +10vSlash - 2e

    Sea Purse Shield Q9 Tactics +45st, -2st - 6e

    Ornate Buckler Q9 Strength - 1e

    2x Magmas Shield Q12 Strength - 1e

    Shield of the Wing Q9 Tactics - 1e

    Guardian of the Hunt Q9 Strength - 3e

    Paragon Shields:

    Goldleaf Defender Q9 Command - 1e

    Aureate Aegis Q9 Motivation - 2e

    Demonic Aegis Q9 Motivation - 2e Frsh D

    2x Demonic Aegis Q9 Command - 2e Frsh Dx1

    Eternal Shield Q9 Motivation - 10e

    Reinforced Defender Q9 Command -1e

    Reinforced Defender Q9 Motivation - 1e

    2x Diamond Aegis Q9 Command - 3e

    Diamond Aegis Q9 Motivation - 1e

    2x Iridescent Aegis Q9 Motivation - 3e

    Exalted Aegis Q10 Motivation - 2e

    Amethyst Aegis Q9 Motivation - 4e Frsh D


    Old School:

    Swords:

    Falchion Q11 +5e

    Brute Sword Q10 15^50

    Fellblade Q11 15^50

    Axes:

    Spiked Axe Q9 15^50

    Hammers:

    Daggers:

    Scythes:

    Bows:

    Shadow Bow Q10 15^En, 5/-1, 20% ench

    Shadow Bow Q9 15^50

    Longbow Q9 15^50, +1/20%

    Wands:

    Dragon's Breath Wand Q9 Fire Magic +5^enchanted, HCT 10%

    Staves:

    Jeweled Staff Q9 Illusion 20/10

    Jeweled Staff Q9 Illusion 20/20

    Bo Staff Q9 Spawning Power 20/10

    Dragon Staff Q12 Domination 20/10, +30

    Offhands:

    Warrior Shields:

    Magmas Shield Q12 Strength +41st/-5(19%) 400g value

    Shield of the Wing Q10 Tactics +10vs Ogres, -5/20%

    Spiked Targe Q11 Strength +10vs Ogres, Earth Magic +1/20%

    Round Shield Q9 Tactics +60w/hexed, Reduces blind 20%

    Skeleton Shield Q9 Tactics +10vs Cold, -5/19%

    Paragon Shields:


    Weapon Mods: All max and 1e/each unless stated otherwise

    Spears:

    3x Sundering Spear Head

    Furious Spear Head

    2x Vampiric Spear Head

    2x Spear Grip of Fortitude

    2x Spear Grip of Enchanting

    Swords:

    3x Vampiric Sword Hilt

    2x Sundering Sword Hilt

    6x Sword Pommel of Enchanting

    Axes:

    4x Sundering Axe Haft

    3x Axe Grip of Axe Mastery

    4x Axe Grip of Enchanting

    4x Axe Grip of Fortitude

    Hammers:

    Sundering Hammer Haft

    Hammer Grip of Fortitude

    Daggers:

    2x Vampiric Dagger Tang

    3x Sundering Dagger Tang

    Scythes:

    2x Vampiric Scythe Snathe

    2x Sundering Scythe Snathe

    Scythe Grip of Enchanting

    Scythe Grip of Scythe Mastery

    3x Scythe Grip of Fortitude

    Bows:

    2x Bow Grip of Enchanting

    4x Bow Grip of Deathbane

    3x Bow Grip of Fortitude

    3x Vampiric Bowstring

    3x Sundering Bowstring

    Wands:

    17x Wand Wrapping of Memory

    Staves:

    11x Adept Staff Head

    Insightful Staff Head

    2x Hale Staff Head

    5x Staff Wrapping of Fortitude

    3x Staff Wrapping of Enchanting

    2x Staff Wrapping of Fire Magic

    Staff Wrapping of Protection Prayers

    Staff Wrapping of Smiting Prayers

    3x Staff Wrapping of Mastery

    Offhands:

    11x Focus Core of Aptitude

    11x Focus Core of Fortitude

    2x Focus Core of Devotion

    Shields:

    3x Shield Handle of Fortitude

    2x Shield Handle of Endurance

    5x Shield Handle of Devotion

    Inscriptions:

    2x Run For Your Life!

    9x Sheltered by Faith

    3x Luck of the Draw

    4x Like a Rolling Stone

    2x The Riddle of Steel

    Not the Face!

    Leaf on the Wind

    Sleep Now in the Fire

    I have the Power!

    3x Live for Today

    7x Aptitude Not Attitude - 25k or 3e/ea

    Aptitude Not Attitude 19%

    2x Forget Me Not 20% -13e/ea

    4x Forget Me Not 19% - 2e/ea

    4x Strength and Honor

    3x Master of My Domain - 2e


    Greens:

    Avarr's Scepter - 8e

    Rago's Flame Wand - 2e

    Korvald's cane - 2e

    Vision of Purity - 1e

    Straw Effigy Curses - 1e

    Wayward Wand Curses - 1e

    The Yakslapper - 5e

    Faith - 1e

    6x Urgoz's Longbow - 1e/ea obo

    3x Urgoz's Flatbow - 1e/ea obo

    3x Urgoz's Shortbow - 1e/ea obo

    Stygian Recurve Bow - 1e

    3x The People's Resolve - 1e/ea obo

    3x The People's Will - 1e/ea obo

    Guidance - 2e

    Temperance - 1e

    The Righteous Hand - 1e

    Shattered Illusion - 4e

    Shakor's Spear - 1e

    Forgotten Fan - 1e

    Victo's Blade - 1e

    The Rockmolder - 3e

    Vokur's Staff - 3e


    Everlasting/EL Tonics:

    Shiro - 1e

    Boreal - 3e

    2x Abominable -9e/ea

    3x Trapdoor - 2e/ea

    Slightly Mad King - 20e

    I have no hard prices set for any of these things, so I will leave this post up for a reasonable amount of time until I feel that most people interested in these items have been able to throw out an offer. As for the cheaper things, I will sell them sooner as long as I have a reasonable offer on them. For the higher ticket items, I may or may not advertise them for sale in game to see what kind of offers I find there. Good luck, and thanks! :)

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    Oni Blade: c/o: 5a J O L T b/o: 10a
    Storm Bow: c/o: 8a IvoryR b/o: 13a
    Sephis Axe: c/o: SOLD :)

    Shadow Bow:
    Tattooed Scimitar:
    Spiked Axe:
    Staff of Domination:
    Fire Staff:

    For inquiries, my IGN is Lone Angel, but I haven't been online too much lately.

    I'd probably become oddly attached to the cute little thing, and throw it in a nice cozy corner of my storage for several years, letting it collect dust before one day deciding that I need the room and merch it.