Guild Wars 2

Why do some “icebound” chests auto loot and some don’t… I open chest with torch and some stay open and all its contents run down the screen above the mini map as normal but some close back up again and don’t “loot” until I click “open”..
Hoping everybody has noticed this, as I see some players opening chests on the run…

Never noticed this issue and they aren’t part of the auto loot system.

Icebound chests in the main section of the map (ie not the hidden ones) are trapped in ice and need to be melted then interacted with again to loot. Sometimes, someone else has melted to ice already, so you only have to interact with it once to get the loot.

If that is unrelated to what you meant, then I have no idea. I have not seen or experienced anything else in relation to chests

• If a chest is frozen, you have to unfreeze it, which has a channeling time.
• Some chests are unfrozen by another player before you arrive; no need to wait to channel.
• You can’t re-loot the same chest over and over.

Do you have the kind of Auto-loot that requires ‘spamming’ the ‘F/Interact’ key? Or the kind of Auto-loot(Auto Auto-loot) that requires no input at all?

If the former, then you may be spamming F/Interact and within range of pre-melted Icebound Chests.

If the latter, I’ve not had that experience. It may be a bug or corrupted file in your client.

Good luck.