What level to open chests?

[Terrapin]

I read that you should save your chest and not open them when you start out, but should you only wait until you are power level 300 or do you have to wait until character level 30?

[Watermelons]

You cannot get to power level 300 if you don't open chests. Open them whenever you'd like.

[Pungent]

Only containers that can drop red items are commendation chests, General's and Emperor's Chests (Champion difficulty), and every type of Vault (Legend difficulty). Therefore, anything you have that isn't at least a commendation or general's chest should be immediately opened so that you can try and hit the 300 power level cap as soon as possible.

[Ghuldarkar]

open up a few before power level 100 (on the weapons, not hero) then wait till 100 with the commendation boxes, then you can open whatever you want. Just keep in mind only commendation boxes have hats in them and they will always only drop for whoever is opening them, not for other characters.

[Terrapin]

I'm already above power level 100 on all characters. I've been opening strongboxes, also scrapping and crafting to get higher level items. But the Commendation and Emperors was what I was mainly questioning.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by Terrapin:

I'm already above power level 100 on all characters. I've been opening strongboxes, also scrapping and crafting to get higher level items. But the Commendation and Emperors was what I was mainly questioning.

Emperor's doesn't make a difference if it's a Strongbox. Strongboxes are limited to 100 power, and you will never get anything beyond that. Start playing Veteran or higher if you want to continue to raise your power besides Commendations and crafting.

And in general, if you want better quality, rarity gear, what really matters is a character's level. A character starting off will always get white and greens, even from Emperor chests. The higher rarities will begin to trickle in once a character has leveled up more. Even reaching the 300 power cap and orange/reds on one maxed out character, then switching to an unleveled character, your loot will be white/green at first. Power level will stay at +/-5 the highest you've reached, even 300, but rarity will always start off crappy.

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by Terrapin:

I'm already above power level 100 on all characters. I've been opening strongboxes, also scrapping and crafting to get higher level items. But the Commendation and Emperors was what I was mainly questioning.

well if you're already doing legend runs while below power 300 you can just go ahead and open everything, since you need to open boxes to get the power level up. Also power level is shared across all heroes.

[Terrapin]

Thanks.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by ShellaSunshine:

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

You cannot get to power level 300 if you don't open chests. Open them whenever you'd like.

False. You can level gear score by crafting by up to +10

Oh yeah, so how do you expect someone to get scrap to spend on crafting if they don't open up chests in the first place to get said scrap material?

Hmmmmmm.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by ShellaSunshine:

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

Oh yeah, so how do you expect someone to get scrap to spend on crafting if they don't open up chests in the first place to get said scrap material?

Hmmmmmm.

LOL From chests obtained from Recruit since they are utterly useless. They are capped at 100

All other chests should be saved up.

So what you're saying is, you gotta open chests to raise your power level at least some
:V

I know you can raise your power level by crafting, but you're putting the cart before the horse. Scrap's gotta come from somewhere, and I did keep that in mind when I said what I said. You cannot reach power level 300 without opening some chests sometime.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by ShellaSunshine:

Can you not read?

If a person's gear score is over 100 then any item they get from Recruit chests will be CAPPED at 100. Those items are pure scrap. Scrap for crafting.

I was able to get my gear score to 300 by level 7 from crafting.

Step 1: Play Recruit
Step 2: Salvage Everything
Step 3: Craft
Step 4: Obtain max gear score

Literally takes 2 hours or less. Depending on how fast you can get through Fort Brusselsprouts

You're not getting what I'm saying, but that's okay. Use brain some other time.

[Watermelons]

El em ay oh. Yep, sure, I didn't know about crafting to raise power. I'm the one who lacks reading comprehension.

" You don't have to open chests to raise your power, you have just to open Recruit chests (which TOTALLY don't count) to scrap and craft to raise your power. Ignore the part where you open recruit chests, and ignore the part where opening recruit chests when you're first starting off in the game and are below 100 power, so you're still actively raising your power by opening Recruit chests"

[Watermelons]

"It doesn't count when it's Recruit chests" - ShellaSunshine, 2018. A modern day Einstein.

[Missa La Hache]

It doesn't matter, open all as you get them.