Chest loot in trials/dungeons

jcr

Hello,

Was searching to find an answer to the looting system in trials and dungeons. I am not talking about dead npc, but about containers like chests, havy sacks, sacks, backpacks, crates, kegs, barrels and so on.
If someone loots X items from a container , does that container have X items less for the others to gather? I found on PUG runs some members cryingout to the rest of the group to disable autolooting because they were not getting anything. I personally don't hv autoloot on and as a non eso+ member I manage my in by not looting just anything. On the other hand I think that containers have the same initial items for everybody to get regardless if someone already looted that( at least for chests).

Would you be so kind to clarify this for me ? Are this containers all alike or have a difference for looting ? Would it be possible that a looter with autoloot empty everything in a trial or dungeon and leave only npc loot for the others? I really hope not but want to verify if those that raged about this were right.

Aeslief

All containers in dungeons and trials are instanced, including chests and heavy sacks. Everyone gets to loot the heavy sack. One person picks the lock on the chest and everyone will get loot from it. Everyone gets loot from the boss. Not everyone will get the same item but everyone will get the same loot table.

I can’t imagine what those pugs were talking about, crying about autolooting. If all the containers were empty to them it was a bug and had nothing to do with the rest of the group looting or not looting.

zaria

Aeslief wrote: »

All containers in dungeons and trials are instanced, including chests and heavy sacks. Everyone gets to loot the heavy sack. One person picks the lock on the chest and everyone will get loot from it. Everyone gets loot from the boss. Not everyone will get the same item but everyone will get the same loot table.

I can’t imagine what those pugs were talking about, crying about autolooting. If all the containers were empty to them it was a bug and had nothing to do with the rest of the group looting or not looting.

Note that the chest or bag stays until all has looted it and if you has already looted it you can interact but will not get loot.

VaranisArano

Chests are also instanced for things like the treasure hunter passive, so only the person who has the passive benefits. Its makes no difference whether they open the chest or not, another common dungeon chest misconception.

jcr

I agree with all of you. Thank you for this confirmation.

Sekero

In a way I can understand the PUGS. Ignorance, pure and simple, and that's NOT an insult, used in this way. First time ever in a dungeon I saw the other 3 crowded round a chest, and I thought "Good luck to whoever picks the lock." Then one of the others indicated I should loot the chest. Till that point I thought that whoever picked the lock got the loot. That guy also kind of stood over me to make sure I looted what was to loot. If he didn't move on, there was something I had not looted. They knew it was my first time, though.