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Locked Chests

The landscape of Tyria is dotted with randomly positioned locked chests, which are guaranteed to contain uncommon or rare items. Whenever your party finds a new, locked chest, multiple party members can each use their own keys to unlock the chest and get their own loot. Monsters randomly drop chest keys, and you can also buy chest keys from Merchants. Chests differ in regions and can only be unlocked with the appropriate key.

A player can open a chest with the corresponding key (i.e. a Krytan Key will open a Krytan Chest). Whoever opens the chest is granted a piece of loot. Therefore, if you open a chest it is not possible for the loot to be assigned to anyone else in your party. Usually, the farther through the game you are the better the loot becomes. A chest will always produce items of the same rarity. For example, if a chest dropped a gold item for the first player who opened it, it will drop gold items for all other players, too.

Unlocked Chests

In Pre-Searing, players will find lots of unlocked Hidden Stashes. But Post-Searing, unlocked chests are very uncommon now. However, in the Ascalon region players will find piles of Wreckage that may contain some gold or goods.

Unlocked chests are chests that do not require a key, and can be opened by anyone. However, the loot can be assigned to anyone in your party, including henchmen. In the Realms of the Gods, completing a quest will usually reveal a chest near the reward giver that is also an unlocked chest.

Note: While doing the quest Kilroy Stonekin, Sorrow's Furnace will produce three unlocked chests. These chests are not normally part of the area and will not be there without that quest.

Note: There used to be 2 unlocked chests in Dreadnought's Drift. These were removed in the March 9th update.

Mission/Quest Chests

Several quests include chests (e.g. the quest "The Royal Papers"). These are unlocked and reveal quest items when opened.

List of unlocked chests

Prophecies campaign

Factions campaign

Core

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  1. Gold = Low end
  2. Paragon = High end
Tyrian Chests
Ascalonian Chest
Ascalon Gold
AscalonianChest
Steel Chest
Northern Shiverpeaks Gold
SteelChest
Krytan Chest
Kryta Gold
KrytanChest
Maguuma Chest
Maguuma Jungle Gold
MaguumaChest
Elonian Chest
Crystal Desert Gold
ElonianChest
Shiverpeak Chest
Southern Shiverpeaks Paragon
ShiverpeakChest
Darkstone Chest
Ring of Fire Islands Paragon
DarkstoneChest
Miner's Chest
Sorrow's Furnace Paragon
MinersChest
Canthan chests
Shing Jea Chest
Shing Jea Island Gold
Shing Jea Chest
Canthan Chest
Kaineng City Gold
Canthan Chest
Kurzick Chest
Echovald Forest Paragon
Kurzick Chest
Luxon Chest
Jade Sea Paragon
Luxon Chest
Forbidden Chest
Raisu Palace Paragon
Forbidden Chest
Stoneroot Chest
Urgoz's Warren Paragon
Stoneroot Chest
Core chests
Phantom Chest
The Underworld Paragon
PhantomChest
Obsidian Chest
The Fissure of Woe Paragon
ObsidianChest
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