Guild Wars 2

Since 2 days I noticed new loot chest/bags in some place of the world with every time a uncommon item. Now I’m sure I never saw them before in such place since I rolled many alts in those zones. They are not related to mobs kills/event reward and don’t require channeling to be open. I don’t have screenshot since it disappears as soon as I pick the item.

I found notably many of them here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Darkriven_Bluffs
and there http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Giant%27s_Passage

did a skritt thief event just run past? They drop bags with various things in them. You get this event by opening a random chest you find in game.

In PvE, if a player is awarded loot by killing a creature and the loot is of uncommon rarity or higher, a chest will appear that contains the loot that would previously have been on the corpse. If the rarity of the loot on the creature is lower than uncommon, the loot will remain on the creature’s corpse.

In the last patch notes. You said it isn’t related to mobs, but I cant help but think this is what you are seeing. I could be wrong.

Nah that wasn’t that super-buggy-chest. It was more like a bag. Actually the name was something like “loot bag” (I play in french so for me it was written “sac de butin”).

Typically the bags the event Skritt thief leaves behind her as Yargesh suggested. But I never saw that event running at those place and usually I notice it (and hear it) from far (“Shiny! Shiny!”). Anyway I’ll try to pay attention next time :-)

Me and a couple guildies went around trying to locate all the Skritt Burglar events a few weeks back. We found a bunch of them and chased that giggling little rat all over Tyria!

The loot bags I saw from the Skritt were purplish, iirc, and glowed. I doubt you get any unless you do that particular event.