How to AFK farm commendation chests

the guide fatshark doesn't want you to see

What you need

1. Back to Ubersreik DLC
2. The Fortunes of War map unlocked
3. decent equipment and levels on each of your characters
4. natural bond
5. an object that can be used to depress your space bar

Equipment

Choose the Ironbreaker class with axe or hammer and shield equipped, preferably with block cost reduction and some stamina, as well as Natural Bond in your necklace slot.
For the bots
1. Foot Knight with a greatsword/executioners, handgun, and natural bond, with these talents
2. Waywatcher with a glaive, longbow, natural bond and these talents
3. Zealot with flail, crossbow, barkskin and these talents

The setup

Go to the dwarfen lodestone in the keep and set the difficulty to recruit. All difficulties reward the same experience, which is all you need to get commendation chests. Walk into the portal and wait patiently for the dialogue and cutscene to end.

Activate the three runes on the statue, and then find the stand with the first aid kits on it. Stand between it and the statue.
Now, bind your spacebar to the defend key. Take your weighted object and place it on the defend key so that your dwarf holds up his block. I used an old glasses case






















Standing near the medical supplies will allow your bots to heal if they need to while you're AFK. When you're done, it will look something like this.

The juicy part

With your dwarf blocking on his own, the difficulty extremely low, plenty of damage resistance and health regen, an elf bot that will snipe specials and two more bots that are nearly unkillable, you can comfortably leave your game running while the the bots handle this mission on their own.
While waiting, I microwaved and ate one of these bad boys

































I've found that it takes 15-18 minutes from the time that you activate the runes to when the izkradkakrazduminazkrenakkrutilgid opens up. After doing this 20 times, I only had 2 failures, both times because of bots getting stuck on terrain. If you want to, you can activate your career ability to help out your bots every so often, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Conclusion and grievances

Once you've picked up the artifact, disable your auto blocking apparatus, collect the loot dice scattered around the map, and enter the portal to finish the mission. Normally, you'd get about 1000 experience, but with the double XP active until July 2nd, you can get around 2000 each time. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity before Fatshart rushes to patch it out, even though they could be using their time to
1. Add the dedicated servers they promised us
2. Fix crit power
3. Make heroic intervention viable
4. Make inspiring shot viable
5. Make hand of shallya viable
6. Stop paywalling a difficulty setting
7. Make the bogenhafen DLC worth spending money on
8. Stop locking new players to the brain dead recruit difficulty
9. Allow multiple players on a character
10. Sanction some mods
and some other things i can't think of off the top of my head
Anyway, act fast and get your FREE XP before they fix it

[civilian]

who tf cares about commendation chests

[Ante]

yeah but then i cant whack off while getting xp? major flaw in your logic bro

[RattleSn8pe]

This or you can run a real mission like screaming bell and get more xp at 5 minutes a run.

[Mercenary Scar]

*ahem* Based.

[(BIGM.I.K.E.)327san]

yeah i did it yesterday

[Slusher]

does this still even work?

[Senior Kruber]

Thank you, King.

[Ante]

based

[Janfon1]

"izkradkakrazduminazkrenakkrutilgid"

"auto blocking apparatus"

Now this deserves a Poetry award