Treasure Chest EtiquetteFollow

Maybe this is just my gripe I don't know, but I am going to put it out there anyway.

[rant]I hate it when I am exploring a new dungeon, fighting my butt off killing mobs equal to my level. Get midway through a dungeon and happen to see a treasure chest on the mini map(dwarf racial ). Get exicted and try to go for it, patiently fight my way to it, carefully kill the mobs around it(usually there are 2 or more surrounding a chest). Then get all excited because I can finally open the chest. Open the chest and.... oh god damnit... Only thing to be found in the chest is a glass of cold milk, or some crappy piece of cheese.[/rant]

I am wondering, should there be some kind of etiquette when it comes to looting treasure chests. I for one take everything out of the chest regardless of if I want the items or not. I feel that by taking everything the chest will dissappear and eventually respawn with the possability of even better items in it.

There is no reason not to take everything from the chest. Even if it is a practically worthless item. If you don't want to take up that precious inventory space, I can relate, but the very least, take the items then discard the items, don't leave them in the chest, if you do that the chest will stay there, only to have some poor soul come along, get excited about finding a chest only to find crap in it. It's heart breaking when that happens.

So what's your feelings on this, do you take everything (even if some of the items are junk) just to have the chest despawn and eventually respawn with the potential to have better items in it, or do you just take what you want and leave the crap in there?


Edit: As a side note, I know it is frustrating when it happens to me, and I have an advantage finding chests with my dwarf, I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for humans, and NE, or other races that don't have the ability to see treasures in thier mini-map.

Edited, Dec 27th 2006 11:54am by SynnTastic

I have noticed with some chests (I'm not sure if it's all of them) that after a few minutes of being looted they fade and disappear. SFK for instance has several chests. Some Locked, some open, changes every time I run. If I loot a chest in the beginning, usually there is one in the main courtyard area, it is gone by the time I am done with the instance. I usually only take what is needed. Its a money run, solo at that, so no bother on my part.

A lot of the lower level chests can in fact spawn only crap loot. Only once have I received a blue item from a chest in SFK which is a low level instance. Even some chests that I find in searing gorge have the occasional trash. I think they are the same as mobs where it is a random generated drop with the same percentages.

Etiquette wise, if what I think is true, leaving other loot in the chest will still despawn it; not effecting future pulls. If you open a chest shortly after someone else, I'm assuming you are SoL to whatever they left.

One man's trash is another man's treasure...

I unintentionally did that once, I was in the troll area in dun morough (really can't remember the name), and a guy was fighting a troll, but I didn't see him, I heard the sound in the distance so I figured he was close but elsewhere and had no clue about the chest. But as I started opening it, he came running up with the troll still hitting him, and he called me an ***. I realized I was "stealing" his chest, so I didn't take anything and told him to relax I didn't take anything. That was actually the first time I had ever even seen a chest in the game too.

Loot the chest and wait for the respawn. Everything comes to those who wait.

QFT.

I like cheese......