PSA: Save your Arcane Keys

[Rei]

And use them only for the Epic and Legendary chests. At Abbey's Max Arcane level, both common and rare chests no longer requires key to open.

At the very least, keep one before Magik's birthday party.

[bulldog0890]

also you hit max arcane stupid fast. i just got to part 2 and already reached it and 100%'ed exploring the abbey grounds

[Rei]

yeah, you can guarantee at least one level every time you gained a new Word of Power. I just finished the third Moon Seal and maxed Arcane Level just by exploring. Haven't even taken back the Sanctum yet.

[KaioShin]

you'll have more than enough keys even if you open all chests you come across the first time

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by KaioShin:

you'll have more than enough keys even if you open all chests you come across the first time

I agree. Only things I get from chests now are credits, gloss, and the very occasional combat item at the tier of the chest. If you are that invested in the Abbey/social side that you're opening lots of chests then you'll not run out of keys for very long. I did once miss bell day though.

[RobOda]

You'll have so many keys, that you'll get legendary drops from the common chests anyway lol.

There simply isn't enough content in the boxes anyway. I was getting the Midnight Suns colour changes from common boxes all day long as that was all I had left to unlock.

[mercureXI]

PSA : not needed, since you swim in keys later on

[Captain Flappy]

i currently have 17 keys spare... really don't need to save them.

[parent child bowl]

You don't even need to open epic and legendary chests. You can get everything from common chests.

['Strict]

Once you're done exploring the abbey you won't even get anything from the chests =p

And the few times you do get new things it's as likely to be from common as from Legendary chests.

Basically, I get 20-30 gloss or credits per chest so I just stopped opening them unless I run past them anyway on my way to talk to someone =)

[Fringehunter7719]

Originally posted by KaioShin:

you'll have more than enough keys even if you open all chests you come across the first time

I didn't open any white chest until I got the perk to make them free and frequently ran out of keys. It depends how many sidequests you do and at what stage you unlock the full abbey grounds.

[Ka'a]

you get so many keys when you unlock the atum word. it seem hard to run out of keys at this point.

['Strict]

You also get more from Sparring =)

[Zebedee]

Charlie and Ebony hand them out for being petted (along with other things - it also improves arcane skill which takes you towards freely opening first two tiers of chests).

There's actually mission secondaries which reward them for an intel cost too.

[Ruinous]

You also get even more from using the altar and gifting arcane items with the appropriate word (you get hints about the correct combos). You'll be able to open the common and rare chests for free as you level up your arcane knowledge, but there is no need to wait for that as you'll have more keys than you can use. One thing I will say though, if you get a buff off a legendary chest, don't open more that day the buffs don't stack and it'll waste the chance of the next legendary chest buffing you for another day. Those buffs aren't to be sneezed at when playing at high or max difficulty.

[mishona]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

Originally posted by KaioShin:

you'll have more than enough keys even if you open all chests you come across the first time

I didn't open any white chest until I got the perk to make them free and frequently ran out of keys. It depends how many sidequests you do and at what stage you unlock the full abbey grounds.

You do know you can just make keys, right? Look around Agatha's shrine. If you're short on keys you either are missing a ton of stuff when exploring or you aren't doing anything with your artifacts.