Well, maybe not all attributes. I am mostly interested in Necro/Monk/Ele/Mesmer.
The Balthazar route is probably cheapest and fastest, but i was hoping to kill two birds with one stone, grinding Treasury/Luck while getting things I might actually use.
Its the best feeling in the game when you drop something that you actually want.
Thank you both for your suggestions. I tried getting my Dervish to Domain of Fear, but got stuck farming Terrorweb Dryder in Gate of Pain as i remembered that in HM they could possibly drop a q8 Eternal Shield.
I've been running Boreal Station (trying my luck at getting Glacial Blades, although no luck so far) and noticed that I get a very high percentage of Dolyak Prod Staff. That's great but unfortunately it's only Air.
I wanna try some new builds on my Heroes, with the new mods.
Is there a place where staffs with all attributes can drop?
I believe that Ghastly and Dead would fit this. Ghastly can be done in DOA, haven't tried it but looks a bit skill intensive. Dead Staffs drop from. Mummies in Nightfall, but not sure there is an efficient way to chest run those.
The problem with poison is that there are just so many enemies that are immune to it. So it will be a wasted slot in many areas. I really wanted to play a degen ranger in Prophecies, but quickly found that it was not working out for a lot of the areas.
I am so sad that most quests are not repeatable. By mistake I accepted the reward for a quest and lost it, again. Now it's lost on 2 characters.
I am just begging to use Toolbox but wondering if I missed something that this tool can do. Is there a way to auto abandon a quest? Or maybe some other mod?
23) Colossal Pick q9: 15/Stance. c0ntrolla 1A sounds fair, let me know your IGN
26) Goldleaf Defender AR8 scarlettestace 20e sounds fair, found your IGN and will try to catch you in game.
20) Outcast Shield Q10 Strength: -2/E,+30HP. Jolly Jumper Unfortunately 15e is a bit less than i had hoped for, so i decided to keep it on one of my runners.
For now i will focus on NM, to help out others like me with low funds but wanting to get those titles. For instance Borealis seems to be faster but even in HM it wasn't really returning any value as no runes dropped, and I gave up trying to sell mods.
Bramble weapons drop Plant Fiber, and they are not very popular skins. Plant fiber is one of the most expensive normal materials. So when you get one it's great to salvage them, I'd they can be inscribed then it's great to add Highly Salvageable inscription first.
I wanted to share with you my finding from 500 runs in the Rhea's Crater in NM. I will stop the first question, "Why in NM?" I dont have that many lockpicks and am still working on my Treasure Hunter and Lucky/Unlucky titles, so i need something to keep running while progressing these titles.
Overall there are probably more profitable and faster chest runs, i will be trying others in the future to compare my results.
The Build
The runs were done with my Dervish, below is the build:
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I settled on this as the area is rather simple to run and its nice to shadow step a lot, it speeds up the process.
Recording
Time was recorded by Toolbox from the moment i left the outpost to the moment i /resigned (rounding down to the full second). Not every run was recorded. Exceptions were for runs were in the middle I had to go AFK, so it would be fair as some runs would take like 30 minutes sometimes.
Drops were recorded always as a chest always drops something. So its just a statistic of what can drop, they were recorded whem inventory got full (and i think at least one inventory was not counted, must have missed it).
The Run
As most already know, the general run is that we start over at Seaferare’s Rest. From here we exit to Rhea’s Crater. We have to have more faction of the opposing faction than the one controlling the outpost (this sometimes gets in the way, i would have finished on Thursday, but some jokers from Kurziks decided to take over the are and i was too lazy to farm Luxon faction).
When we exit we run over to the Afflicted. On my build I select closest enemy, then use Zealous Renewal>Pious Haste>Death’s Charge, and just wait. If you have the correct faction then you respawn to the North. Here the fun starts.
Below is the standard route that I would take, possible chest spawns are highlighted in pink:
Main enemies here are Outcasts. Deathhands are necromancers that can strip your enchantments if you don’t have SF on. Melee outcasts (warriors and assasins) are dangerous as they can strip your enchantments and stances is they hit you. So its best to be quick around them. After a few run you get to know when you need to keep up your enchantment and when you can drop them as you will be able to restart them after passing the groups (of course with the 50% speed boost up).
Around the resurrection Shrine there are a few possible spawns for a chest. There can be 0-2 chests here. If you want to finish the run here, but you will lose out in the long term as as the death+respawn eats into our run. So its advised to go the full route. When we reach this stone and there are no chests in front of us then we can go down the ramp to the left:
I f there is a chest somewhere in front of us we go down the ramp to the right (there will be dragons and Onis, prapare for knockdowns).
Either way you end up around here:
Here we can see all the possible chest in this area. If there is a chest to the left then you ust run down the ramps. If there is a chest next to the dragons or the outcast (the ones on the right side of the screenshot) then you can run down the ramp and try to shadow step to the dragons, this saves you a few second in most cases.
In case you didn’t find ANY chests then most likely they are hidden on the other side of them map. Here its your choice, you end it or you try getting 4 chests. In case you want to try getting 4 chests then we die to the outcasts where we ended.
Here we respawn again at the same shrine but this time we run North. Below is the general loop I make when running this side. You should see all the possible chests from here.
The area in the orange circle is controlled by Creeping Carp, I avoid this area as much as possible as couldn’t find a good way to avoid them. They are fast and strip your enchants through SF, if they touch you. The rest of the area is easy.
The Averages
Average Chests
Average Time
Chest/Minute
# of Runs
1,45
01:28:11
0,99
500
We basically have 1 chest per minute, and on average it takes around 1.5 minutes per run. You can get from 0-4 chests. 10% of the runs contain no chests at all (this excludes the times that then I would do the alternate route). Even doing the shorter rout its possible to get 4 chests, but I think it happened once.
The Loot
Note: It seems that I forgot to record a few items, must have been tired and just sold them without thinking.
So here is the loot table for 710 chests.
Type
Item
Rare
Uncommon
Total Result
Axe
Archaic Axe
4
4
Hand Axe
2
2
Jade Axe
1
11
12
Bow
Jade Longbow
15
44
59
Daggers
Hooked Daggers
2
2
4
Jade Daggers
7
14
21
Hammer
Colossal Pick
12
9
21
Jade Hammer
6
8
14
Offhand
Accursed Icon
1
1
Bleached Skull
1
1
Bone Idol
2
2
Ceremonial Cauldron
1
1
2
Divine Scroll
2
2
Divine Symbol
3
3
6
Earth Scroll
1
2
3
Eerie Focus
2
2
Flame Artifact
2
5
7
Fox’s Greed
1
1
Frost Artifact
1
4
5
Golden Chalice
1
1
Grim Cesta
2
3
5
Hallowed Idol
1
1
Healing Ankh
2
4
6
Idol
1
3
4
Inscribed Chakram
2
4
6
Jeweled Chakram
1
4
5
Jeweled Chalice
2
6
8
Jug
2
2
Lion’s Pride
1
1
Ominous Eidolon
1
1
Paper Fan
2
2
Protective Icon
3
3
Storm Artifact
6
6
Storm Ember
1
1
Salvage Item
Oni Shroud
4
12
16
Outcast Boots
12
22
34
Outcast Bracers
4
17
21
Outcast Wrapping
54
81
135
Shield
Emblazoned Defender
2
2
Embossed Aegis
1
1
2
Outcast Shield
5
8
13
Staff
Jade Staff
14
35
49
Outcast Staff
22
42
64
Sword
Dadao Sword
1
1
Falchion
3
3
Fellblade
3
3
Fiery Dragon Sword
5
5
Flamberge
3
3
Gladius
3
3
Jade Sword
13
13
Jitte
2
2
Long Sword
3
3
Oni Blade
2
2
Spatha
3
3
Wingblade Sword
2
2
Wand
Jade Wand
37
68
105
Jellyfish Wand
2
1
3
Writhing Focus
1
1
2
Total Result
238
472
710
For the general statistics:
Type
Count
Percentage
Axe
18
2,54%
Bow
59
8,31%
Daggers
25
3,52%
Hammer
35
4,93%
Offhand
84
11,83%
Salvage Item
206
29,01%
Shield
17
2,39%
Staff
113
15,92%
Sword
43
6,06%
Wand
110
15,49%
Total Result
710
100,00%
It seems that Outcast Staffs are not that rare here, although I didn’t get a decent 20/20 yet.
Outcast Shields are not common but can drop, but there are better ways to get them. Didn’t manage to get a good drop from these runs.
As someone has already mentioned (although I believe they did it in HM), Jade Swords seem to only drop as Rare.
The new skins added in 2025 do drop here, at least got a few focuses: Fox’s Greed and Lion’s Pride.
In the long run it does pay for itself through the armor drops. I got at least 2 Superior Vigors and a lot of Mesmer runes for some reason (non of the mobs are actually mesmers).
Hope this was a good read, will work on a better write up for the future endeavors. Let me know what i can improve for the next one (or in this write up).
I believe next on my list to check out is Witman's Folly, hope that will be as much fun to optimize and run.
On a ranger i am trying to get over 12 Death Magic without consumables. Is there a way to get multiple +1 Attribute on Weapons/Offhand? Maybeultiple on one staff or one on wand and another on offhand?
Reading wiki, it seems thats not possible, but I might be blind.
Will keep the Bronze Guardian for another 48 hours, just to see if there is no more interest (I thought there would be more with this *new* skin). Closing it on 13:00 CEST 6th of May.
