Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter is a per account prestige title earned by opening high end chests. Players also receive a point in this title for each Golden Egg dropped for a character during Easter weekends.

Benefits

Each Treasure Hunter rank earned grants the player a 3% bonus to their chance of retaining items after salvaging a magical upgrade and retaining a lockpick when opening a chest.

Treasure Hunter title track

Rank	Title	High-end chests opened	Salvage/Lockpick bonus
1	Treasure Hunter	100	3%
2	Adept Treasure Hunter	250	6%
3	Advanced Treasure Hunter	550	9%
4	Expert Treasure Hunter	1,200	12%
5	Elite Treasure Hunter	2,500	15%
6	Master Treasure Hunter	5,000	18%
7	Grandmaster Treasure Hunter	10,000	21%

Notes

• High end chests require a key costing at least 600 at a merchant.
• The Wisdom and Treasure Hunter bonuses stack in determining the chance of retaining an item after salvaging a magical upgrade from it.
• The Lucky and Treasure Hunter bonuses stack in determining the chance of retaining lockpicks after opening treasure chests.
• As of the June 11th 2009 update Treasure Hunter now contributes to gaining The Favor of the Gods.

Cost of becoming grandmaster

The lowest cost to earn the Grandmaster Treasure Hunter title is about 4,510, which requires purchasing 3,764 lockpicks at a Luxon or Kurzick Discount Merchant for 1.2 each. Using all keys from regular merchants costs 6,000. Five different methods are compared below:

Method	Cost per Key/Pick	Total Cost	Notes
Normal Keys	600	6000	Cheapest high-end keys available at outposts.
Discounted keys	480	4800	Cheapest high-end Keys available at Kurzick or Luxon discount merchants.
Lockpicks	1 500	5646	3,764 lockpicks purchased at merchants.
Trade-priced Lockpicks	1 250	4705	3,764 lockpicks traded at standard rate.
Discounted Lockpicks	1 200	4516 800	3,764 lockpicks purchased at Kurzick or Luxon discount merchants.

• The costs above do not take into account loot found.
• All methods assume that players open the lowest cost high-end chests, which also has the best retention rates for lockpicks (and provides the cheapest way to progress the Lucky title using lockpicks).
• The standard trade price for lockpicks is 1 250 and is generally available in the major trading towns; the discount price is only available at Factions merchants.
• The lockpick costs assume that the player starts with 0 points in Lucky & Treasure Hunter and that the player will use 3,764 picks to open 10,000 chests. The number of picks was determined by assuming that the player starts off opening 33 chests using 20 picks (at the 40% retention rate) and, near the end, can open over 45 chests with 20 picks (with an 18% bonus as a Master Treasure Hunter and an 8% bonus from being Prosperous).