#6

The vault behind tyreen has 2 red chests. Itā€™s great if you can melt her quick enough!

#7

Are Mayhem levels impacting quality of loot from these chests? Just have very small anecdotal evidence: L50 Fl4K on M2 opened 2 chests and got 2 legendaries. L11 character in NVHM got none.

If so, then M4, here I come - chests provide very little resistance in game! :slight_smile:

#8

I donā€™t think Mayhem Levels are effected. Last night I ran Jackbot on each mayhem for 5 runs each and both reds in treasure room amounted nearly identical results with 1-3 legendary per open(some anointed some not on each as well). About 1 in 4 runs would get stiffed on one of the chests.

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#9

I was running a new mule through the Droughts and the Red Chest overlooking the race track had an Infinity & a Firestorm. On my level 50 Amara, Gigaā€™s red chest had a Hell Shock & Flood and the red chest near Typhonā€™s cache had a Wagon Wheel & an Echo skin (a new one for once.)

#10

How long does it take for red chests to respawn/reset? I assume they donā€™t by simply save/quitting.

#11

In my Giga runs, after a certain number of save/quits the chest will reset. I donā€™t know the exact numberā€¦ Trauntā€™s vault seems to have a longer reset timer, for some reason.

#12

This may be pure luck, or maybe because it was weeks ago. But in Athenas on MH4 i killed truant 20 times and would quit, reset rinse and repeat and the chest was there every-time

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#13

Wierd, in my giga runs that chest is reset every timeā€¦ ive farmed that spot nearly 1000 times by now

  • difference in load times? Pc vs ps4ā€¦im on ps4
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#14

It only happens I notice if you do not finish the game. On NVHM I can access it every time. Still not done with TVHM on one of my char and it will only reset once every 4-5 runs.

Complete the game NVHM and it should clear that. My guess is that they do not want people chest farming during story. (but boss farming is ok)

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#15

So the only spots i know that are quick, is DLC Jacks bot with two red chests, quick kill or the Forgotten Basilica with two red chests. Both require boss fights, but both are pretty easy and tak less time then running around droughts

#16

This is an odd location with wildly varying results. My experience is that the Red Chest next to Giga spawns about 20% of the time. This is based on a slightly small sample of 50 runs I did last Saturday.
And this is specifically with save/quit/rejoin. Which makes it weirder for me.
I dunno why this works this way, my programmer brain is very confused by this behavior.
ā€“RoA

#17

I tried 3 times (exit, reenter) with the chests in the Droughts (TVHM story completed, M4 splitscreen cooperative): every time six or seven legendaries some anointed; same with one chest in Devil Razor. Itā€™s insane ā€¦ without fighting any bossā€¦ It seems that some chest are ā€˜dedicatedā€™: from one only shields, another only grenades; on Devil Razor the one I tried gives a mix of weapons (Annexed Lyuda corrosive!), mod and artifact. Too much, by the way! It`s ruining the game OR Gearbox is close to announce level cap increase :wink:

#18

I simply exit to menu and reenter; tried three or four times straight, no problem (XBOX, tvhm m4 and splitscreen)

#19

I hadnā€™t known about the one on Ellieā€™s roof and it gave me a Breaker Com, an anointed Corrosive Linoage, a Maggie, a Hornet, a StopGap and a purple pistol! TVHM M3 lvl 50 Amara. The chests arenā€™t resetting after save/quit. I need to make another mule.

#20

The red suit is a pain lol. Iā€™ve been farming it since the start of the rare spawn and only 3 annointed, none the sntnl one Iā€™m after.

But the chest is now making it less painful, as you said itā€™s 2+ every time, and usually annointed. Got Maggie ASE100 in it yesterday too.

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#21

Yea buddy, i will be farming it again tonight, the chest really makes it worth it. There have been maggies and 4 infinity pistols, not with the SNTL 100% i want, but it shows me there is a chance.

#22

Did a little testing, and what it reveals is that chests hate me!!!

First was in NVHM, lvl 22 Zane, Dumptruck chest.
10 tries. ONE openable chest. Yeah, one. And nothing interesting inside.
Second was TVHM Mayhem 2 (for speeds sake), Gigamind.
SAME DANGED THING!!! One openable chest, 9 not. Chest did give 2 legendaries.
So Iā€™ve proven to myself that for me I get a 10-20% chance that a red chest will actually be openable if I farm it. Icky.
On the plus side, GIgamind did give me a significantly upgraded Q-System and a nicely anointed Nagata.
But my chest farming makes me Sad.
ā€“RoA

#23

Are you xbox? I got Maggie cryo100 on sntnl I can hook you up with if you are, then you can remember me if you get a sntnl red suit before I do lol.

#24

Looks like chests are on cooldown of sorts - I suspect you only got it on first try, right?

I had the same experience earlier today where I took a bunch of low level characters to Drought chests (this low level Transformer I got will come in handy in Lectra City :wink: ).

If they are in a ā€˜once per characterā€™ mode in this event, thatā€™s fine with me - Iā€™d rather have an incentive to move characters forward, as opposed to quit/reloading ad infinitum.

#25

Yeah theyā€™re on some kind of cooldown, it seems to be based on time spent in-game with the character in question. At least, I think! Itā€™s kinda weird and I have no idea what the timing actually is. Itā€™s not once-per-character; Iā€™ve hit the chests in the Droughts and elsewhere several times with Zane today (and a couple times with other characters) but there was definitely some kind of cooldown in effect. I didnā€™t actually time it, but usually I could hit the chests, go to the Takedown and play through it, then go do a Proving Grounds or two, and that was usually enough time spent for the chests to reset.

Itā€™s something Iā€™d noticed in the game even before this event. I remember trying to farm the Marcus chest at the beginning on my first ever playthrough, but when I save/reloaded and went back to it, it was open and empty. I figured it was a ā€œone-timeā€ chest and never bothered to investigate further. And again with a chest after Katagawa Jr. Turned out they were just all on cooldown heh, though I had no idea at the time. Same thing with that easy red chest at Reliance.

That Gigamind one seems a bit weird though, I remember farming him and that chest seemed to be available every time. (Iā€™m about to go back in-game to see if thatā€™s still a thing. Edit: just tried, that chest seems to be on cooldown right now since in my previous session I opened it.) But on other occasions, it was seemingly on cooldown (though I didnā€™t know it then.)