Chest Guides

[JoeyD]

I'm surprised that there aren't any chest guides for this yet. Borderlands 2 has hundreds, and they started springing up pretty much at release. I know this has only been out for a little while, but I would've thought there'd be a couple, at least, but I can't find any.

I like to scour each map for hidden chests, but I also don't like to move on unril I know where every single chest is, do you guys know of any?

Guess I could always just make one.

[ILIFISLM]

should there be?

[grumpstar]

best overall farm spot that I have found, both on normal and tvhm is the stage where you are assembling the constructor in robot construction facility, and specifically the part where the techy is calibrating the lasers and needs 12 kills. its an excellent grind of non stop waves of minibadasses and scavs that keep coming out of the tunnel. good for a solid 3 or 4 experience levels and just loads and loads of loot you can go vendor and come back to the grind. excellent way to prep for felicity fight. just be sure not to let him cap the 12/12 kills required for that leg of the quest or kite them out of his line of sight and you get to have what I consider to be the game's most gratifying slaughterfest, its a bit reminiscent of the barroom in bl2.

also you might note that chests are perhaps of diminished value in this game.
i have nearly 200 hours in already, I have seen legendaries only as
a quest reward
a boss drop
a standard mob type drop
and most commonly from vending machines.
purples are common out of chests.
but the best chests in the game cost you a taxing 40 moonstone to open even.
but i am saying it would be highly inefficient to use moonstone for anything else than grinding top level legendaries pretty much.

[rresuggan]

you have to open 10 moonstone chests to get achievement so you will have lots of luneshine purples to grind

[rresuggan]

i have found 2 purples in all the red chests ive opened so its not worth the effort to find them

[JoeyD]

Originally posted by LadyKill:

should there be?

Um...yes? Just for consistency sake alone.

[Squidy The Cowboy Catgirl]

Originally posted by rresuggan:

i have found 2 purples in all the red chests ive opened so its not worth the effort to find them

You must have horrible luck... I very rarely never get a purple from them

[JoeyD]

Originally posted by Level 60 Paladin:

Originally posted by rresuggan:

i have found 2 purples in all the red chests ive opened so its not worth the effort to find them

You must have horrible luck... I very rarely never get a purple from them

Yeah I've got several purps and one Blowfly ledge. Might start collating data for the chest guide, start recording vid.

[CatPerson]

Red chests (both older style and the "flat box") haven't impressed me that much in TPS ... but they are better than in BL2. More blues and purples on average, so far for me.

I wouldn't mind a list of where the off-the-beaten-path chests are, however. 8-)

[ILIFISLM]

Originally posted by JoeyD:

Originally posted by LadyKill:

should there be?

Um...yes? Just for consistency sake alone.

nah

[Estilgar]

After reaching the control room on Helios there will be a mission from Tassiter back in Jack's office "Don't get cocky". The mission involves a cargo container that has 3 of the red chests inside, afterwards whilst hopping around platforms you are likely to meet Dan Zando 4 or 5 times. He is a regular badass who always uses a beam weapon and will drop at least a blue item almost every time.
Leave the zone, sell off/grind, then renter zone and do it again and again. 3 chests + several drops from a named badass.
I get at least 1-2 purples each two runs, and lots of blues.
("Don't get Cocky" is a Star Wars reference while Dan Zando is a The Last Starfighter reference [Zando Zan, note Dan Zando's eyes]