Guild Wars 2

NOTE The purpose of this thread is NOT to tell people what is the most efficient way to farm Empyreal Fragments. If you don’t like exploring or hunting chests, please go to another thread.

Calling all Tyrian Explorers!

We know that Empyreal Fragments drop from chests all over the world, and that we have a nifty list of the chest locations here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_basic_chests

However, the list is incomplete! There are plenty more chests in the world. I found two myself with only a bit of searching and added them to the list. It’s a wiki article so you can edit it yourself. However, if you don’t want to do that, just post your findings in this thread.

All you who love exploring and discovery, let’s unite and fill this list to the brim!

Added one more chest for Lornar’s Pass.

Another one added to Lornar’s Pass.

Well that’s certainly ambitious… and I was planning to eventually contribute to it.
But I think getting the JP/Minidungeon ones finalized first is more important.

Especially since we’re still waiting for Josh’s followup on whether it’s intended or a bug that some major/magnificent chests aren’t dropping any at all.

Remember that not all of those chests give out empyreals. The one in Jotun camp in Wayfarer (the one with potato farm) doesn’t. So some of the jumping puzzle chests.

True. Most of them do, however, and for anyone who hates dungeons and/or WvW opening these chests is the only way to get Empyreal Fragments.

Besides, I find discovering and documenting these chests a ton more fun than running the same 6 chests in Queensdale every day

Nice work, bro. Keep it up.

Thanks for this Tom

Astralporing.1957:

Remember that not all of those chests give out empyreals. The one in Jotun camp in Wayfarer (the one with potato farm) doesn’t. So some of the jumping puzzle chests.

That one doesn’t behave like other chests anyway. No progress bar when opening. You just run up, F and get one item.

Edit: There is one in Lornar’s Pass at Ironhammer’s Crypt but I haven’t been able to figure out how to make it appear. It isn’t always there but I’ve opened at least twice.

Best way to get them is in WvW. Last friday I got 150 of them in about 4-5 hours.(Maybe more I didn’t really paid attention…) As a WvWer my issue are with the draconite. I have been doing the temple zerg run on my server last week and made about 200 ish. I will be done with components after the next temple zerg.

yanoch.7051:

Best way to get them is in WvW. Last friday I got 150 of them in about 4-5 hours. As a WvWer my issue are with the draconite. I have been doing the temple zerg run on my server last week and made about 200 ish. I will be done with components after the next temple zerg.

Thank you, we know that. That is not the point of this thread.

I love how Snowden Drifts isn’t even on the list. Maybe when I get home I’ll take an alt on a run through there to check for some chests and pick strawberries. I’m convinced that Snowden is the least played zone in the game and therefore needs a big hug.

EDIT: real life kinda kept me from this. But all I found was:
Snowden Drifts
NE part of Darkhoof heights – Grand Chest guarded by Champ Snow Troll Leader
Only other one was in King Jalis’ refuge.

I did many event chains and kept an eye out for caves, tents, etc. that may hold chests but didn’t find any. However, I did find an Asura who is afraid of owls, a sleeping Dolyak (I let him lie) and a fishing pole in the lake.

yanoch.7051:

Best way to get them is in WvW. Last friday I got 150 of them in about 4-5 hours.(Maybe more I didn’t really paid attention…) As a WvWer my issue are with the draconite. I have been doing the temple zerg run on my server last week and made about 200 ish. I will be done with components after the next temple zerg.

Nope, I can get 100 in 2 hours by running to the basic chests. It took longer the first time to figure some out but now its easy. If you have stealth you don’t even have to clear any mobs.

thehipone.6812:

I love how Snowden Drifts isn’t even on the list. Maybe when I get home I’ll take an alt on a run through there to check for some chests and pick strawberries. I’m convinced that Snowden is the least played zone in the game and therefore needs a big hug.

That would be awesome. I’ll be finishing my tour through Lornar’s Pass today and the next zone I will be exploring is Dredgehault Cliffs.

Khisanth.2948:

Edit: There is one in Lornar’s Pass at Ironhammer’s Crypt but I haven’t been able to figure out how to make it appear. It isn’t always there but I’ve opened at least twice.

If you can figure out how to trigger that chest, let me know

This is a nice list, but for those who want to gather them a bit faster, WvW focus on camps/towers (most groups do) is an easy 100 per hour, plus many champ bags

It’s not that hard to get 50 per day just doing chests and JP’s on a couple of maps.

Tom Gore – thanks for the list, could you put JP (jumping puzzles) for locations, it not always clear which locations are JP’s which are not!

Running dungeons is so much quicker guys. SE p1 is 4 minutes, COF p1 is 5.5 minutes, AC p1/3 are like 10 minutes.

Shemsu.8721:

This is a nice list, but for those who want to gather them a bit faster, WvW focus on camps/towers (most groups do) is an easy 100 per hour, plus many champ bags

Don’t they drop 4 per camp and 8 per tower? That means you would need to cap 15 camps and 5 towers in an hour to get that rate.

Ommu.1649:

Shemsu.8721:

This is a nice list, but for those who want to gather them a bit faster, WvW focus on camps/towers (most groups do) is an easy 100 per hour, plus many champ bags

Don’t they drop 4 per camp and 8 per tower? That means you would need to cap 15 camps and 5 towers in an hour to get that rate.

I’ve actually not paid attention to each, i thought it was somewhat randomized, but i’ve been averaging 100 an hour everytime i play. Just dont play wvw for dragonite, the drop on keeps and sm is terrible for that.

Sola.7250:

Tom Gore – thanks for the list, could you put JP (jumping puzzles) for locations, it not always clear which locations are JP’s which are not!

I haven’t listed JPs and I think there should be discussion if those should be included at all, since there are other lists for those.

It’s odd we don’t get them in the SAB chests

ixie.9271:

It’s odd we don’t get them in the SAB chests

Well, SAB is kind of it’s own thing, separate from the rest of the game.

Turns out Dredgehaunt Cliffs was pretty well documented already. Didn’t find any new chests there.

Missing one in Rebel’s Seclusion in Fireheart Rise, on the way to the big chest there is a smaller one guarded by a ghost. It is easy to walk past without seeing it. It is near the rich platinum vein.

20 per dungeon path, go.

Edited the first post to clarify this thread isn’t about finding the fastest way to farm Empyreal Fragments.

Also looks like there are separate lists for Splendid Chests and Grand Chests.

This was a great idea, but merges together information from all kinds of chests including jumping puzzles (which some people hate) and chests without Empyreals.

For detailed information focusing on Open World Chest
Empyreal Farming Methods & Locations – Click Here