Treasure Chest in Brayflox HM

So just a curious observation:

So quick backstory: the first time I ran Brayflox HM, the party grabbed every chest on the way to the final boss. Well I died at the very end of the boss fight, and accidently ported back to the beginning. Well after shortcutting back, I noticed a chest that no one had grabbed. It's very close the cave entrance of the final boss in a little campsite. Inside was a Darklight Band of Casting. Score for my SMN! And of course since I was the only one left in the dungeon as everyone else had left, it automatically went to me. So the next time I ran the dungeon with a DF group I purposely waited after everyone left and went back to the same chest (I couldn't remember if we'd opened it on the run or not) and lo and behold, it was unopened and I got a Darklight Band of Healing!

I've run the dungeon twice more and every time, every group bypasses the chest, and if I wait until everyone leaves, I'm always guaranteed to run back and claim the treasure, which has always been a good piece of gear (things I can use and also some I can't).

So my question is: Is this chest just that unknown, or are folks running past it on purpose? Also these haven't been speed-run groups.

Just very curious :)

A lot of people don't have any interest in chest and will not even spend 3 seconds to open them ,as DL gear is not very valuable right now.

So, if it's good for you, enjoy it :p

Delete this thread immediately

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Originally Posted by Elvin

A lot of people don't have any interest in chest and will not even spend 3 seconds to open them ,as DL gear is not very valuable right now.

So, if it's good for you, enjoy it :p

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I don't get this mentality though, can't you trade them in for GC seals? I mean they aren't super useful but you could spend them on ventures or something.

Yeah, seems not alot of people want the bulk of chests in Bray'hell'. I go for them, though, because I want the seals and sometimes it's a keeper. Not often, but sometimes. I still have yet to get any new gear from the new hard dungeons that I can actually use and when it is something I can use, I'm always lotted out from under. T,T

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Originally Posted by Deifact

I don't get this mentality though, can't you trade them in for GC seals? I mean they aren't super useful but you could spend them on ventures or something.

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Well, for exemple, for me, trade items for seals it's a bit inconvenient, selecting then one by one searching at the list.... I understand that some people do it, but I just don't need those seals cause I don't want ventures or anything. Is content that I have no interest in.

Yeah, you coud do some money just for spending it on items and selling them too. But well, I'm too lazy. Maybe a lot of people is as lazy as me and don't want to deal with the ankward FF XIV interface :p

It woud be deferent if it was a bit more easy, like right click & sell... But speaking with the NPC each time....

Are you kidding? Seals can buy the old tome materials which, depending on the demand, can easily be turned into quick gil at a decent exchange. Especially with how many seals each one takes. And then there's ventures, it's amazing what those retainers can manage to stea-uh, find. Yeah, find...

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Originally Posted by CodeCass

So just a curious observation:

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So my question is: Is this chest just that unknown, or are folks running past it on purpose? Also these haven't been speed-run groups.

Just very curious :)

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You mean the area where you need to free 3 Gobbies, where you can find a chest at the little camp where raptor(s) roam? Well, there is another chest on top of that little building with the circular staircase. (^_~ )

But, yeah. Most people chose to ignore those chest (as well as the 2 chest near Coeurls, after the 2nd boss)

People do the same in Halatali, there are two chests tucked away in corners that everyone skips by.

Yeah, yeah. I'm not saying that people shoudn't, not at all! Just explaining why sometimes I just click "pass" and I don't bother opening them. As I said, just laziness :p

Most people are speed running brayflox and could care less about darklight gear. We skip them all now, unless someone needs gil.

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I don't get this mentality though, can't you trade them in for GC seals? I mean they aren't super useful but you could spend them on ventures or something.

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It surprises me how unaware of the gil making potential of these chests people don't realize. I'm ok with people remaining ignorant to it. My gil making went up like crazy, esp sense I'm working on animus, and get these items a LOT sense no one wants them for the same reason. Keep it commin ya'll I've made a few mil alone just from spamming brayflox and selling the items sense the last big update. Thanks for the contribution :p.

Also not to mention the prices are going up more and more because supply is going down due to many people finishing animus and are no longer farming myth, or getting many GC items.

I grab and greed all the chests when I can, DL armors can be sold for 500+ gils, acc is 100+ gils, if i remember correctly. Most of people SR brayflox for myth or sol tomes, that is the reason why they choose to ignore the cheasts

Woah you sell it to the npc? Are you crazy? smh... I'm afraid to make a break down of how you should be doing this with the GC. The amount of people oblivious to this gil making opportunity is staggering. Just for starters I'll say 800 GC seals per DL item, maybe more. 2500 GC seals = 1 peacock ore/potash/etc(check market board for the most in demand) Just one of those items sells for 3-5k on the market board. Someone like me that farms for animus in brayflox caps this frequently. So lets say after a day of grinding you got to 50,000 seals. You can buy 20 of those items I mentioned times 3k-5k gil = 60,000 - 100,000 gil. I've capped GC twice in one day from grinding for animus. Keep on bypassing those chests, and passing please. That's not even counting all the gil you get from killing trash and such.. Or the random peacock ore, potash that drops from boss chests.

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Originally Posted by Drako

Woah you sell it to the npc? Are you crazy? smh... I'm afraid to make a break down of how you should be doing this with the GC. The amount of people oblivious to this gil making opportunity is staggering. Just for starters I'll say 800 GC seals per DL item, maybe more. 2500 GC seals = 1 peacock ore/potash/etc(check market board for the most in demand) Just one of those items sells for 3-5k on the market board. Someone like me that farms for animus in brayflox caps this frequently. So lets say after a day of grinding you got to 50,000 seals. You can buy 20 of those items I mentioned times 3k-5k gil = 60,000 - 100,000 gil. I've capped GC twice in one day from grinding for animus. Keep on bypassing those chests, and passing please. That's not even counting all the gil you get from killing trash and such.. Or the random peacock ore, potash that drops from boss chests.

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Great now the secret is out!

Shh, Drako! You're giving away all our secrets! ;)

Come on, is not that much.

In fact, in our server, Moogle, you can get aprox 1 potash/3,10 DL items and sell it for about 3500. That's about 1130/item.

It's not that much considering you can farm 150 myths in less than 25 minutes and easily get 50K + gils of the run. That's more than 2000 gil /minute ...

If you slow down a little bit the flow of the dungeon to get those chest maybe the total income is a bit more... I don't know. Speaking with the npc each time to sell them takes probably around 10-15 sec /item, them picking all those potash or cokes or whatever and selling them... Is a lot more clicks than just 1 mytho item /150 mythos.

:p Anyway I'm not doing anything for giles now :p And besides, I don't like to look on that list what I want to trade for seals and what I want to keep.

But It may work very well with people with the inventory well organized. Mine is hell :D

You can trade DL in for like 800seals a pop right now. It's worth it if only for that.

I use seals mostly for stockpiling ventures nowadays.

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Originally Posted by Aldora

You mean the area where you need to free 3 Gobbies, where you can find a chest at the little camp where raptor(s) roam? Well, there is another chest on top of that little building with the circular staircase. (^_~ )

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that's after the first boss, he's talking about before it.

Those chests are always skipped when I run the expert dungeons. I really don't mind since my alt jobs are all wearing darklight jewelry and I can't roll on them anyway.

You guys shouldn't be afraid of the "secret" getting out. The ignorance is so prevalent, I don't see it ever changing. Even with a few people that look on this forum, and the even fewer that look this thread. ESP the speed runners. They would rather get it over with and hop back in then even lift a finger to see how much gil they can make. SE created a perfect situation with this gil making. Get it while its good I guess. lol. I was about to get a small house for my little FC. But with just a few of us grinding animus it wont be long before we could grab a medium lol.
Also after explaining it to some friends on one of my LS, I can tell that they still have no interest in it, and/or are to lazy to care about it. Spelling it out and black and white, it seems like most people don't care. So I'm happy. lol

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

that's after the first boss, he's talking about before it.

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Actually, he was referring to the chest just before the final boss.

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Originally Posted by CodeCass

Well after shortcutting back, I noticed a chest that no one had grabbed. It's very close the cave entrance of the final boss in a little campsite. Inside was a Darklight Band of Casting. Score for my SMN!

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I just gave him a handfull of chest locations people normally ignore as well. But, yeah... I forgot to include the chest at the colibries, to the left of the entrance to the first boss.

Thank you! (^_^ )/

So just so I'm understanding it correctly, the best way to make gil off of these runs would be to trade in the gear I don't need to my GC for seals, then use said seals to get high-demand items to sell on the Market Board? Not going to lie, I'm really wanting to learn the best ways to make money in the game so I can get my FC a house (we're currently at 600k). So I'll take any advice I can get, and if this is a good way to make some cash, I'm all for it! :)

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Originally Posted by Aldora

I just gave him a handfull of chest locations people normally ignore as well.

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Thank you for that btw!

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Originally Posted by CodeCass

So just so I'm understanding it correctly, the best way to make gil off of these runs would be to trade in the gear I don't need to my GC for seals, then use said seals to get high-demand items to sell on the Market Board? Not going to lie, I'm really wanting to learn the best ways to make money in the game so I can get my FC a house (we're currently at 600k). So I'll take any advice I can get, and if this is a good way to make some cash, I'm all for it! :)

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Yep, you can make good money turning DL gear in for seals. You can also spend seals on retainer ventures. Sometimes they bring back crazy stuff that sells for lots of $$$. Sometimes they bring you fish. It's a gamble, but it's fun.

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Originally Posted by NaliaBrown

Yep, you can make good money turning DL gear in for seals. You can also spend seals on retainer ventures. Sometimes they bring back crazy stuff that sells for lots of $$$. Sometimes they bring you fish. It's a gamble, but it's fun.

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I have noticed that! I'm so glad you mentioned the ventures! I was unaware you could get them via seals! I've always just used what I've gotten from my Kobold Daily Quests and I run out fairly quickly. Is the best way to use the ventures just to have the retainers run "Quick Exploration" over and over again and play the random reward game? I do find it enjoyable regardless. :)

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Originally Posted by Elvin

A lot of people don't have any interest in chest and will not even spend 3 seconds to open them ,as DL gear is not very valuable right now.

So, if it's good for you, enjoy it :p

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Yeah I love when I do parties with people that don't do ventures.

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Originally Posted by CodeCass

I was unaware you could get them via seals! ... Is the best way to use the ventures just to have the retainers run "Quick Exploration" over and over again and play the random reward game? I do find it enjoyable regardless. :)

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You get 5 ventures for 1000 seals. Not a bad deal, IMHO. I usually send mine out on Quick Ventures while I'm playing in the evening, then send them out on the field/woodland/etc exploration ventures (the 18 hour ones) when I go to bed at night. By the time I log in the next day, they have a surprise waiting for me! Lots of the random crazy stuff comes from the Quick Explorations (I've gotten 2 Ifrit weapons and a Garuda weapon already, to name a few), but from what I understand, the super rare stuff that you can only get from ventures comes from the high level 18-hour ventures. For these your retainer has to be level 50 (which means they have to be a class that you have at 50).

You can also sometimes get ventures from treasure maps. We were doing the Peisteskin maps one time, and ventures showed up in the loot - we all rolled on them and when they went into my friend's inventory, 22 ventures dropped! That's a ton!

Another great item to get from seals is Durability drought. It does a substantial reduction to how much your gear is damaged for 3 hours. Its really great for when your spamming dungeons and other daily tasks. The only issue is, it wears off if you die. But I'd say the money it saves from having to repair your gear is probably decent. I always use them when farming brayflox, when I do a couple runs with a group and know we can easily burn it with no death. Its all around very useful. I repair my own gear anyhow, but it further cuts down on what i gotta spend.

Also I haven't been able to test or pay attention to see if this durability drought stacks with the FC buff of the same effect.. if it did, that would be extremely nice.

Yeah even if you have no interest at all in ventures it'd be hard to say you have no interest in those.