Hamlet Defnese Chests

Please let me apologize in advance for such a noob question. I would sincerely appreciate clarification on how the hamlet defense chest works. I have done this a number of times, good scores, bad scores, failures. As best I can recall, at the end, I've always clicked on a chest, similar to Ifrit or Moogle run, but yesterday, by the time I got there, the chest was gone. Both runs I got absolutely nothing, no DM, etc. Prior to yesterday, as best I can recall, I've always had a chest to click on. How does this work?
Someone told me if I'm not near the chest when it's opened I cannot get any drops. Is that true also? Thanks.

P.S. - I didn't even get any DM yesterday with the chest gone.

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Originally Posted by zzapp

Someone told me if I'm not near the chest when it's opened I cannot get any drops. Is that true also?

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Yes.

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In fact, you can't see what is droped on people who aren't near you. If you don't get anything it's only because you was unlucky.

It doesnt work like primal chest, it wor.ks like raid cchest

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Originally Posted by zzapp

Please let me apologize in advance for such a noob question. I would sincerely appreciate clarification on how the hamlet defense chest works. I have done this a number of times, good scores, bad scores, failures. As best I can recall, at the end, I've always clicked on a chest, similar to Ifrit or Moogle run, but yesterday, by the time I got there, the chest was gone. Both runs I got absolutely nothing, no DM, etc. Prior to yesterday, as best I can recall, I've always had a chest to click on. How does this work?
Someone told me if I'm not near the chest when it's opened I cannot get any drops. Is that true also? Thanks.

P.S. - I didn't even get any DM yesterday with the chest gone.

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i do get item one time when im very far from chest. like 1/5 :O just FYI

yes you get items if you are far from the chest. There is only 1 chest to click on so if someone else gets to it before you, you dont have to click it, but the items are randomly distributed. The loot works similar to defeating an enemy if you are far away you dont see who gets the item unless its you.

Also dark matter is a reward for people for low scores, I dont think I have ever got from the chest DM from high end scores

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

yes you get items if you are far from the chest. There is only 1 chest to click on so if someone else gets to it before you, you dont have to click it, but the items are randomly distributed. The loot works similar to defeating an enemy if you are far away you dont see who gets the item unless its you.

Also dark matter is a reward for people for low scores, I dont think I have ever got from the chest DM from high end scores

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Thank you. This seems how it works. I got item this morning far from chest so.... Regards.

Nope, this is still an issue. Last run someone opened the chest and I was apparantly too far away to even see the drops, so I got nothing. IMO, this should be fixed, specific to Hamlet defense, as we are at the mercy of anyone in party who is unaware of how this works, and may open the chest prematurely. The drop rate is horrible enough to begin with. Spending close to an hour each run with re-entry cooldown only to have this happen just isn't right.

It just means the drops didnt went to you, like when people were farming inferno tapers and you stand at ifrit nodes, you wont be able to see if it drops to them, and they wont be able to see if it drops to you. But, it may still goes to your pool regardless of range.

you have a chance to get drop regardless of where you are when someone opens then chest. just because you didnt a couple times when you were too far doesnt mean anything. that being said we usually wait till everyone is near the chest to open it so we can see what everyone got.

To be honest it just common etiquette to wait on everyone to gather round the chest before opening. You need to have a talk with your party members.

some people might think the same think as the OP did, in that if you're not near the chest you cant get anything, so they try to open it as fast as possible to eliminate competition for seals. I personally will NOT open the chest cuz i think its bad luck :P

Ya, nothing needs to be fixed here really, you can still get items, you just don't see who got the items Ifrit isn't you and not near them.

I think I got what you're saying. The fact that I can't see what others get because I'm too far from the chest, doesn't preclude me from getting items? So in these circumstances this has happened, this means I wouldn't have gotten anything anyhow. Correct?

Indeed, correct

I have been next to the chest and gotten nothing (not even Grade 5 Dark Matter ; ; ). So it is possible to get nothing. And if you are far away from chest, yes, you will see nothing and get nothing and wonder if anyone opened the chest ^.^;. That is an unfortunate and I hope it is fixed in future.

Not sure what 'etiquette' is, but to me, it is more fun for all us adventurers to stand around the chest and open it together, as we all earned it together.

Now, some people believe /grovel /bow and (soon: /pray) are the magic emotes that increase the chance of a drop. But this is all hog-wash, as everyone knows its all about direction and having a taru dancing whilst opening it that increases the drop rate.

Good luck in there ^.^

My groups usually gather around chest then open.

You should probably replace the person that keeps opening the chest with a decent human being that waits for people to get there.