I've always been kinda fuzzy on these.. Some stuff I've always wondered:
1. Does your character's level affect the success rate of opening chests? Can a level 75 character use lvl 1 deluxe keys to open lvl1 chests just as well as a lvl1 character, and vice versa?
2. Sometimes when I open a chest, it just goes "ding!" and fades away. What's the difference between this event and the chest opening with nothing in it?
3. The rogue classes' unlock skill reads "opens level 1 doors with X success rate. Also opens chests". What level chests? All? Level 1's? A level equal to your character?
4. What is some of the "good stuff" you can get from chests? Personally all I've ever gotten are enchants.
Treasure Chests come in two forms; real ones and Mimics.
The mimics attack you when you try to open them. They can be spoiled and will drop items like a normal mob when you kill them. They cannot be seeded.
If you try to open a real Chest, it has a certain percentage chance to just fade away, like you've seen (it seems like about 10% do this.) It can also open and drop loot. The loot is almost always adena and/or enchant scrolls (70% chance for adena, low chance of the scrolls.) It may open and drop neither.
I have gotten full weapon drops from chests and stacks of mats as well. Best success comes from opening chests that are equivilent to your characters level. You have to keep your unlock skill trained up as well. This can get expensive since higher level chests require many keys to open and generally the adena drops keep up with the key prices and the profit comes from Mat/item drops.
The % chance to get full drops is quite low; got one on the real server, but lots on the C4 PTS.
Yes, can someone explain me well how does the unlock skill work on chests?
I already opened a thread for this question, but the answer i received was not too clear: just somethin like "read skill instruction", which thing obviously i had already done before posting.
Now, the thing is: i have unlock skill level 3, keys of thief in my inventory, and i try to open a light blue chest, but receive the same message: skill cannot be used in suitable terms.
I know it's a noob question, but would like an aswer from someone who actually can use this skill.
Now, the thing is: i have unlock skill level 3, keys of thief in my inventory, and i try to open a light blue chest, but receive the same message: skill cannot be used in suitable terms.
Are you using the skill or the keys? To use thief keys you have to click your skill, as opposed to using deluxe keys where you just click they keys.
The skill description will tell how many keys it uses each time you activate it. Just make sure you have them in your inventory, select the chest as your target and activate the unlock skill. It should activate regardless of chest level, level will only dictate your success. Don't try chests too high because they might be mimics. Also, I think there is a difference between treasure chest and boxes. Only one of them will accept the keys that the mobs drop; but I think the unlock skill can do either. Boxes should never be mimics, chests is 50/50.
They renamed the boxes to chests a while ago, because they didn't want us to be able to tell the difference between a mimic and a real one. Sneaky ncsoft.