Chest

A chest is an environmental object that gives coin, equipment, crafting materials, and upgrade components. They are located throughout Tyria and come in different shapes and sizes. Normal chests can be found in fairly easy to reach places.

Rewards chests such as Splendid Chests are more difficult to reach and provide greater rewards. Boss chests often provide the greatest rewards and spawn after the completion of epic meta events that involve many players. Most jumping puzzles have a chest at the end as a reward. Players of any level can open a chest, but can be interrupted if attacked.

Types

Prefixed chests are much less common than normal chests and provide higher value loot and a greater number of items. They will often contain upgrade components. These chests typically act as rewards for a multitude of activities including meta events, jumping puzzles, Explorer achievements, dungeons and Mini-dungeons, and so on. In general, these chests are found in harder to reach areas and specific requirements and provide greater rewards than normal chests. They also reset after a given amount of time, similar to their normal counterparts.

Not all chests are static chests found throughout the world. Whenever killing a creature yields loot of at least rare quality, a small Wooden Chest appears on the ground instead of the sparkling creature's body. A chest containing the Skritt Burglar can randomly appear in a number of locations all over Tyria.

For a complete list of the types of chests that exist in Tyria, see Category:Chests.

Boss chest

Boss chests provide up to 5 rewards of various quality. An example would be the Dragon Chest after the Shatterer and Tequatl the Sunless events. These contain one universal upgrade, jewels, and equipment.

Players will receive a Bonus Chest after defeating a mega world boss.

Bonus chest

After completing certain events, characters level 39 and above will receive a bonus chest, alternatively called bouncy chest, with an item of rare or exotic quality, in addition to being able to loot a boss chest. These items will appear with a chest icon in the lower-right portion of your screen. For each event, your account can only receive one such bonus each day. The UI will display up to three unclaimed chests, including the ones from map completion or the daily. If a fourth bonus chest is earned while the first three float in the UI, it will appear after you claim the items from any of the first three. Any additional bonus chests beyond the fourth one will be automatically accepted into your inventory when you exit the game or enter World vs World. Only 20 bonus chests can be in the queue; if a 21st chest enters the queue, chest contents will automatically enter your inventory.

Since the release of Heart of Thorns, most events also have bonus Event Rewards bouncy chest with normal rewards.

Qualifying events

Event	Notes	Zone	Named drops
Epic bosses
[Group Event] Defeat the shadow behemoth (15)	Portals during the pre-event must be destroyed to awake Shadow Behemoth.	Queensdale	Final Rest, Spirit Links
[Group Event] Destroy the fire elemental created from chaotic energy fusing with the C.L.E.A.N. 5000's energy core (15)		Metrica Province	Emberspire, Emberglow, Kodanroar, Atlatl, Coiler
[Group Event] Defeat the great jungle wurm (15)		Caledon Forest	Wisteria, Wall of Thorns, Peasant's Solution, Soulshard, X7-10 Alpha, Master Blaster, Big Juju
[Group Event] Slay the Shatterer (50)		Blazeridge Steppes	Breath of Kralkatorrik, Sentinel's Bane
[Group Event] Defeat the amber head of the great jungle wurm (55) [Group Event] Defeat the cobalt head of the great jungle wurm (55) [Group Event] Defeat the crimson head of the great jungle wurm (52)	Part of the Triple Trouble meta event.	Bloodtide Coast	See: Great Jungle Wurm Chest
[Group Event] Defeat Tequatl the Sunless (65)		Sparkfly Fen	See: Dragon Chest
[Group Event] Defeat the Inquest's golem Mark II (68)	Containers must be successfully disabled before the Inquest's Golem Mark II can be summoned.	Mount Maelstrom	Symbol of the Inquest, Breath of Flame, Magmaton, Windstorm, Coiler, Super Hyperbeam Alpha, Tsunami, Alderune's Last Stand, Droknar's Recurve Bow
[Group Event] Defeat the Claw of Jormag (80)		Frostgorge Sound	Deathwish, Emberspire, Wintersbite,Skybringer
[Group Event] Destroy the Death-Branded Shatterer (80)		Jahai Bluffs	Breath of Kralkatorrik, Crystal Infusion of Power, Sentinel's Bane
[Group Event] Defeat Drakkar (80)		Bjora Marches	Drakkar's Hoard, Etched weapons
Dragonstorm		Instance accessible from Eye of the North	Frostsaw of Chilling, Gift of Aurene, Pristine Dragon's Left Eye, Pristine Dragon's Right Eye, Volcanic Stormcaller weapons
Temple bosses
[Group Event] Defeat the Risen Priest of Balthazar before it can summon a horde of Risen (75)		Straits of Devastation	Balthazar's Band
[Group Event] Kill the Corrupted High Priestess (78)		Malchor's Leap	All Seeing, Al'ir'aska
[Group Event] Defeat the possessed statue of Dwayna (79)		Malchor's Leap	Dwayna's Embrace, Star of Dwayna
[Group Event] Cover Keeper Jonez Deadrun as he performs the cleansing ritual (80)		Cursed Shore	Signet of Grenth
[Group Event] Defend the Pact interrupter device while it charges to cleanse the temple (80)		Cursed Shore	Wisteria, Mojo, Melandru's Bloom, Combustion, Breath of Flame
Event bosses
[Group Event] Kill the Svanir shaman chief to break his control over the ice elemental (10)		Wayfarer Foothills	Atlatl, Eternal Ice, Coldsnap, The Ugly Stick, Avirdanag, Trident of the True Legion, Khrysaor, the Golden Sword
[Group Event] Defeat Rhendak the Crazed (25)	Flame Temple Tombs, accessible by completing Flame Legion Battles.	Diessa Plateau	Rhendak's Trident, Rhendak's Signet
[Group Event] Kill the Foulbear chieftain and her elite guards before the ogres can rally (34)	Spotter's Waypoint is uncontested while the event runs.	Fields of Ruin	Foulbear Lucky Feathers, Sam
[Group Event] Defeat Ulgoth the Modniir and his minions (43)	Junction Camp Waypoint is uncontested while the event runs.	Harathi Hinterlands	Oikoumene, Pillar of Ulgoth, Ulgoth's Tail
[Group Event] Defeat the dredge commissar (50)	Part of In Pursuit of Knowledge meta event. Must regain control of camps before Dredge Commissar can appear.	Dredgehaunt Cliffs	Call of the Commissar, Commissar's Manifesto
[Group Event] Kill Admiral Taidha Covington (50)		Bloodtide Coast	Handheld Disaster, Old Reliable
[Group Event] Defeat the fire shaman and his minions (60)	The boss will reset his health to full twice after he has been "killed", so basically you have to kill him three times total.	Iron Marches	Cinderspire's Tactics, Cinderspire's Rage
[Group Event] Kill the megadestroyer before it blows everyone up (66)	The event spawns after stabilizing the volcano.	Mount Maelstrom
[Group Event] Destroy the Eye of Zhaitan (75)	Event chain can take 20-60 minutes to spawn after the pre events are completed and you must kill a difficult Champion Risen Abomination before the final boss	Straits of Devastation	Circle of Arah, Pendant of Arah
[Group Event] Defeat the Karka Queen threatening the settlements (80)	Event may start after securing all settlements	Southsun Cove
[Group Event] Defeat the legendary giant before the sandstorm dissipates (80)	Spawns at the start of the Sandstorm! meta event.	Dry Top
Meta event
[Group Event] Prevent the centaurs from capturing Nebo Terrace (28)		Gendarran Fields
Living Story bosses
[Group Event] Defeat Scarlet (80)	Final event of the Scarlet's Minions Invade! meta event. Awards 2 items.	All level 25+ zones except the Ruins of Orr region and Southsun Cove
[Group Event] Hold the line! (80)	Part of the Twisted Marionette Weapon Test meta event.	Lornar's Pass

Notes

• Several events spawn a huge chest, but do not reward a bonus chest:
  • [Group Event] Kill the Branded devourer queen (59)

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See also

• Meta event
• Jumping puzzle
• List of basic chests
• Splendid Chest
• Grand Chest
• Glorious Chest
• Magnificent Chest
• Strongbox
• Trade Caches - (Path of Fire only)

Zone-specific chests

• Buried Locked Chest (Dry Top)
• Lost Bandit Chest (The Silverwastes)
• Airship Cargo (Verdant Brink)
• Exalted Chest (Auric Basin) - spawn under Tarir, the Forgotten City following the successful completion of the meta-event
• Crystallized Supply Cache (Tangled Depths)
• Noxious Pod (Dragon's Stand) - small numbers appear as the meta event progresses and a large number spawn around the map following the successful completion of the meta-event for 10 minutes, then despawn
• Icebound Chest (Bitterfrost Frontier) - requires Koda's Flame mastery to open
• Zinn's Stash (Draconis Mons) - requires Ancient Asuran Power Sources to uncover
• Waterlogged Chest (Siren's Landing)
• Chest (Domain of Vabbi)
• Grand Temple Chest (Desert Highlands)
• Grothmar Valley Chest (Grothmar Valley)
• Essence chest (Bjora Marches)
• Norn Chest (Bjora Marches and Drizzlewood Coast)
• Glorious Norn Chest (Bjora Marches and Drizzlewood Coast)
• Charr Chest (Drizzlewood Coast)
• Glorious Charr Chest (Drizzlewood Coast)

Trivia

• Dungeon chests used to drop dungeon tokens until they were removed due to exploits.
• Daily chests with an increased drop rate in exotic and precursor weapons were introduced in the 26 February 2013 update. They included a guaranteed rare or better weapon that was moved to a Bonus Chest in the 26 March 2013 update.

External links

• Official forum post about changing daily chest to bonus chest