Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know what the actual reset time or reset criteria are for Splendid and Grand chests from JPs, mini-dungeons and so on? (Not from bosses)

I had always assumed that they reset at the daily reset, with most other things, but they definitely do not. Even six hours after that, they’ve not reset.

Normal chests appear to reset either at that time, or at some point in those six hours.

The wiki and so on do not appear to have this information, but surely someone out there knows?

I suspect that they are like ori and ancient wood nodes. From harvesting every day in Frostgorge, thus is what I have seen, normally those reset at the reset time unless you have harvested that node within 6 hours of reset. Then it’s reset plus those hours. That is, if you harvest 5 hours before reset it’s reset plus 1 hour. If you harvest 3 hours before reset it’s reset plus 3 hours and so on.

That would explain why someone opens a chest within the 6 hours before reset and then it’s not available again at reset, he need to wait that extra time.

My JP chests always seem to reset with the daily, so I’m not sure why yours would be behaving differently.

sometimes the reset doesnt stick on your character. This happens mostly when you camp near the chest (log out to a different character)

Interesting.

I ran the Queensdale chest route with three characters, and lazily logged two out after finishing it (near the exit to Demongrub Pits, not actually by the last chest), whilst I kept playing the third.

With both of the lazy characters, not only did the big chest at the end of Demongrub Pits not reset, but also, half-way across the zone (literally – maybe further), the Beggar’s Burrow chest did not reset! One that neither of them was near (obviously). Both were done an hour or two before the reset.

All the normal (i.e. not Splendid or Grand) chests in the zone reset properly on both.

What I haven’t checked is whether they reset for the third character, who logged out in Lion’s Arch later.

What this would suggest, if it’s not some weird bug, is that either:

A) Logging out even in the same zone as chests you’ve opened is risky.

or

B) Logging out near one Splendid/Grand chest that you’ve opened could potentially prevent reset on all of them (in that zone, at least).

What’s particularly odd is that I have logged out right next to JP chests in Lion’s Arch before and they’ve reset just fine.

I’ll check with the third character and update this thread. If they’ve not reset for her, either, it has to be some kind of account-wide thing, I’d think. I sure did open a lot of chests last night. I know people who do all the JPs on practically a daily basis, though, and haven’t seen this problem.

Astral Projections.7320:

I suspect that they are like ori and ancient wood nodes. From harvesting every day in Frostgorge, thus is what I have seen, normally those reset at the reset time unless you have harvested that node within 6 hours of reset. Then it’s reset plus those hours. That is, if you harvest 5 hours before reset it’s reset plus 1 hour. If you harvest 3 hours before reset it’s reset plus 3 hours and so on.

That would explain why someone opens a chest within the 6 hours before reset and then it’s not available again at reset, he need to wait that extra time.

Thanks Astral, I logged in and checked, and this appears to be it – the normal chests reset on the daily reset regardless, but the Grand and Splendid ones are doing something along those times – I think it may be slightly longer, or it may round up, when calculating the delay, but certainly it’s along those lines.