I'm beginning to wonder if Gold chest only show sup the first time thru. as far as speed run goes. go whm + clric, nuke it to death. shouldbe able to finish it before the second set of wolves without too much problem, easily before 3rd set. if that effects the chest drops...I have no idea. so far I'm 1/4 on 3rd leve (forgot to open chest on second run like a nurbling)

P.s. - my first run (the i got the drop on), I let the NPC kill the mob. the only dmg i did to it was form aoe's. I'll try that again later