Random Chest Spawns in the World

One of the things I found cool about adventuring around in MMO's was finding those random treasure chests just sitting there waiting to be opened.

World of Warcraft has this. Most of the time it's just a potion that restores hp or mp with a few random items inside too, crafting materials or something...but it adds a lot of flavor to adventuring around in areas you have already explored, since it adds randomness to the game and more sense of adventure.

In the future, could we get something like this? The drops don't have to be gear, obviously. Simple materials and/or potions would do just fine...even Ventures!

While a cool enough idea, do you really need more potions?

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Originally Posted by HyperSMB

While a cool enough idea, do you really need more potions?

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Depends... from POTD i'm fully stocked on max pots lol. But I could use stat pots!

As long as it wasnt just potions to fill up my inventory.

And you could make it its own thing too, like when found shoots a light up in the sky, and anyone can grab a copy of whats inside within 5 minutes. Then it disappears. They've start to add nifty things to fates too like the double exp mob that shows up. This could be tied to fate completion, or add an effect for players doing fates also etc.

Who knows but might as well be creative :)

Finding chests with some loot was my favorite thing in WoW and ESO!

There needs to be SOMETHING in open world to encourage more adventuring. It's very beautiful and even more bland.

I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!

I think glamours, glamor prisms, materia, and rare gathering mats would be fine. The key part is they have to be both random enough to foil people purposely farming them, and common enough that average players will find at least a couple without really trying.

Plus, I would hope that all items obtainable via this method, (included potentially mounts) would be tradeable/sell-able on the Market Board. Else, if there was anything exclusive, it'd be the worst RNG frustrating grindfest in existence. I don't think anyone wants ANOTHER Time Lost Proto Drake.... Or Vitrious Stone Drake... Or Time Lost Hippogrif... WoW had a LOT of these.

I like the idea of getting maybe ventures from chests. Those are always handy. But please no potions. There is only one potion I need that is good to pop in some fights here and there, but that it. I get them from the market board.
I guess crafting materials would be alright, glamour prisms. Things like that. Something that you can sell or use. Definitely make them a rare find though. I think there should still be more systems out there to encourage crafting.

How about a large list of random items much likewhat the PotD hoard chests offer?

I was thinking about this curiously missing detail today. I found myself wanting to take a odd path instinctively looking for a chest, only to remember FFXIV doesn't have them in the world like other FF titles do.

You can find them in leves ^_^

The chest that will contain malm kelp and Lominsan anchovy ?
No thank you.

I would love to have open world chest spawns , and Notorious monsters as well. The problem is as soon as you introduce either of these people will begin to clamor for something worthwhile to be in them or dropped by them. If that happens money farmers will flock to those in order to make fast cash off them to sell to the player base. There is also the fact that SE has said they don't want some players to be better than others based on camping drops, rather they would have people work to earn what they have. This is why we can't have nice things.

I think chests droping in fates would be a better idea like everyone who took part in a fate got loot from the chest

Aren't maps basically this? You get a map, go to the location in the world, a chest spawns, you kill some mobs, get the loot. And then on some you even get a chance at a magical portal opening that throws you into a mini dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!

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I used WoW because it's an MMO. If we're talking about classic JRPG's then I want to be able to go through town and find random items in jugs, drawers, and corners 8^)

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Originally Posted by Aronys

Aren't maps basically this? You get a map, go to the location in the world, a chest spawns, you kill some mobs, get the loot. And then on some you even get a chance at a magical portal opening that throws you into a mini dungeon.

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This is cool and all, but to me it's go to my favorite nodes, get map...and it pin points where it is. Also they made it happen once per day for those maps, since they are relatively simple and easy to get.

I want to be able to just be randomly out and about and finding these. That would be awesome.

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!

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Same argument as "FFXI did it" in other threads. To be honest, as long as it is a good idea, does it really matter where it came from?

I'm probably over thinking it, but I'm seeing a lot of potential bot/hacking abuse. Plus (using WoW as a negative here), if FFXIV progresses to the point where we can hop servers, then that could lead to abuse of PF/group invite spam in order to steal chest on other servers.

I do like the idea of personalized chests, kinda similar to what Niqote said about the current Leve chests, or RubyCirha's idea with FATEs. :)

FFXI did the fate/chest thing in it's wings of the goddess expansion which at times was nice. I think the posters original intent is that there are large detailed zones with voids between sparsely placed monsters lending to a general feel of emptiness. It is less about what is in the chest and more about filling the zones a bit more.

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Originally Posted by Elfidan

FFXI did the fate/chest thing in it's wings of the goddess expansion which at times was nice. I think the posters original intent is that there are large detailed zones with voids between sparsely placed monsters lending to a general feel of emptiness. It is less about what is in the chest and more about filling the zones a bit more.

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I haven't a clue about FFXI, but I agree with the rest of what you said. There's space for clickable objects and lore tid-bits, monuments (broken or whole) with readable plaques. A random bit of vendor fodder out in the world with a tooltip description that could help enrich the lore of the zone you found it in, or just something silly that makes you smile. I know there are some interesting things scattered about, just nothing you can interact with. So much more could be done with the space. :)

Would be cool if they had chests in the SB area that randomly appear and drop Stygian Ash. It will at least allow people to get the ash in some other way besides the Gazelle maps. Dont know about your servers but the ashes are up on the MB right now for 8 -9 million.