Speed bonus for picking chest (just a musing)

MarkSteel

Since all the adventure chest have a timer I think it would be neat if you got a bonus for solving them faster. Could be as simple as basing the gold inside on how quickly you open or modifying the loot.. even perhaps chance at a motif or recipe. Just a thought

nerevarine1138

That could actually be pretty neat. Or I'd support giving better rewards for higher difficulty chests and increasing the probability of finding those chests in the world. Right now, I feel like I only find simple locks.

MarkSteel

I see simple its seems 90+% of the time with an occasional intermediate high difficulty would be nice

reften

yeah something needs to happen...especially at VR levels. I'm getting to the point where I just delete all lockpicks except like 5...and am now skipping simple chests in VR zones.

Nestor

Once I learned that holding down the right click to move the pin, then using the left click to lock it in place, Advanced Chests are opened in about half the timer.

Note, you can hold the left click then right click if you prefer.

Blooddancer

What about all us ageing, slow reflex dinosaur gamers who have the shakes from too many late nights raiding and poor eyesight from sitting to the warm, glowing glowing warmth of our monitors and borderline arthritis from one too many mouse clicks.

Everyone forgets us old timers.

MarkSteel

actually your right hopefully any change would not penalize anyone from what they currently get from a chest plus this is just my musing on a morning I got little sleep

Aerdrie

I'm not sure about this. Are the chests level specific to the zone or do we have a hidden lock picking skill? My reason for asking is that sometimes early on you find a chest that is Impossible, won't even let you try. But especially in places that have little traffic, at odd times, I have run around grabbing a few more chests and come back to the impossible one and find it says master. There have also been instances, at least in early access, where someone would announce an impossible chest, and offer it up to someone else that may be able to open it. The few I got said advanced or master, while it still said impossible to the original finder.

Thus, making those chests have a bonus if you open it faster penalizes players that have opened a lot of chests in a backwards sort of way. I know I do tend to get more from the higher level chests than I do the simple ones, so I think there is an internal item level / reward mechanism in place. The ones that I don't get over a page of loot from generally have something nice like a treasure map.

MarkSteel

Yeah I was just suggesting a gold or additional bonus for opening any chest faster then the bar or tying the gold amount you get to the speed you open it. The change would not force a new mechanism on the devs as the timer already exist so they would not have to make a new timer just tie it to rewards eh it was just a thought

mar1ano1987nrb18_ESO

Speaking of chests ...did the master difficult chests dissapear? Havent found one of those in a long time ...all I found is the regular difficult ones.

frogprincess_q4

I just found a Master chest a few hours ago, but when I'm over-levelled for an area I don't find much above simple ones.