Guild Wars 2

So there seems to be a big discrepancy in the types of chests you can find and what they can offer in terms of quality of items.

Example – Regular chest, splendid, grand, glorious, etc

So can anyone explain or point me to a guide that elaborates on the hierarchy of chests and what they contain? Ive heard certain ones can contain precursors and as such exotic items. I’d love to know which types can contain which items so I know which ones to bother going back to once I have encountered them.

Well the ones that I know of that can drop precursors are the chests from world bosses and at the end of the Temple chains in the Orr maps. Aside from those I’m not sure. I can only assume the rarer or harder a chest is to get the chance for higher quality loot goes up.

The problem is I cannot determine what is considered “harder” for example the halloween chest in the labyrinth was extremely easy to get and yet contained exotics at a very high rate (bugged)? the Eternal Battleground puzzle can contain exotics and yet ive never gotten anything above a green in it. There are some in Orr that seem easier to get to and I have gotten rares out of them. So I am trying to determine what the structure of quality is. Assuming something along the lines of glorious > grand > large / dragon > marvelous(possibly confabulation) >splendid > chest. Are there more than this? I don’t even know.

Is that even the correct order?

I think the halloween one its high exotic drop rate was only in the very beginning when it was just implemented. Then they changed it to just once daily loot and lowered the exotic drop rate, though it was still higher than chests on the overworld map. It was probably that high because it was part of a special limited time event and if you noted the exotics it gave out was Mad King related.

Otherwise as to chests ranking I don’t think there is anything that explicitly states which chests are better and what are the possible frops.

Normal chests can drop rares… yet you’re more likely to get crap blues for the area’s level. If it is a rare expect it to be a crafting material including orbs.

Splendid chests always give 2-4 items and give blue to rare items on any map and level at your real level.

glorious and grand chests (depending on boss you fight, world bosses and halloween are glorius. Grand might be dungeons) give 5 items of blue to exotic rarity and even random stuff like food.

I never seen other types… except Orrian chests which are equivalent to normal and splended level.

Thanks for the responses, I am sorta fine with the idea of the rares I might get being crafting materials. I do not believe dungeon chests say grand on them though they are roughly the same size in terms of visuals on the chest itself.

the wvw chest in eb seems to drop 2-3 blue prints for seige, some badges and 2-3 blue to exotic items. I do not believe I have seen crafting materials drop out of it (doesnt mean they are not in the loot table).

Still would love to see this thread stay active and have a nice list of what you can get in which type