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Lost Strongbox & Frozen Chest Farming

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Tired of The Same Old Farming?

Bored of The Amnoon Griffons or The Underworld Aatxes?



Then today is your lucky day!


This is a quick simple guide to a fun type of farming that anyone can do (even me!). By the end of this guide, you will know how to get cool items like these:




(Yes that’s right, you can even get a shadow bow here!)


Requirements:

-1 W/Mo LVL 20 with Camp Rankor on His/Her Map
-A Decent Set of Running Spells (you can see the ones I use later on)
-10 or 15 Minutes

You don’t need much to do this farm run, but be aware the above requirements are the bare minimum.

I would advise you had:

-The Crimson Carapace Shield from the Collector outside Camp Rankor



-A One Handed Weapon with a Health Bonus

-These Skills:




1. Charge
2. Sprint
3. Endure Pain
4. Disciplined Stance
5. Balanced Stance
6. Healing Signet
7. Healing Breeze
8. Holy Vail


Note About Skills:

Use Balanced stance whenever there are Tundra Giants or Stone Summit Herders
Use Holy Vail whenever you encounter Stone Summit Heretics or Gnashers

-These Attributes:



Note: Feel free to use any runes you want (I would avoid superior ones though)


What to do:


1. Set up your skills, weapons and attributes at Camp Rankor, make sure your inventory is empty (apart from vital things) and buy around 3 Shiverpeak Keys to take with you if you want.

2 .Leave Camp Rankor and follow the route shown on this map:



3. When you arrive at the teleport of Dreadnoughts Drift. Watch out for Giants as soon as you start and make your way up the hill to the frozen chest (SHOWN IN YELLOW ON THE MAP). This is heavily guarded by Tundra Giants and more will appear when you open the chest, so keep balanced stance when you can. This chest generally drops Armours

4. You will probably die, if so that’s perfectly fine, don’t give up. Now head to the harder one, the lost strongbox, this is surrounded by stone summit, so keep Holy Veil up. Once past these guys, there should be a clearing of no enemies…YAY this is where the Lost Strongbox Is. (SHOWN IN RED ON THE MAP). This chest drops the better things like weapons and shields.

5. You can keep going in and out of the teleport and using the chest and strongbox until your inventory is full.

NOTE: If you death penalty gets above around 30%, and your Continent has Favor, pay a visit to Dwayna, She will give you a Morale Boost for a small fee, so take some cash with you, she is just near the Frozen Chest, just hold down ALT until you see her!


I can’t think of anything else to mention. Its up to you know, go and check this farming out, but don’t go with high hopes thinking you will get all golds. Just have a bit of fun…it’s only a game!

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User Comments
  lenway on 02/26/06 08:48

O.o wow, amazing guide, i will deffinetly try this with my guild, my 55 monk soloes snake dance if i get a nice spawn i wonder if i can do it with him. but i do have a tank so ill try with him, i do have a question, did you really get a ritualist weapon out of the chest???

  lenway on 02/26/06 08:50

and also, do you need anykind of key to open the frozen chest and the lost strong box or any kind of quest?

  oli_haydon on 02/26/06 08:50

Yep I can Garuntee you will get some crazy stuff in these chests, WTH is a Bloodstained Jerkin?!

Lol

Thanks for The Comments

  oli_haydon on 02/26/06 08:51

Nope, no keys are required for the strongbox or the frozen chest, although there are lots of shiverpeak chests along the way if you feel lucky

  Tseng Shinra on 02/26/06 09:45

um yeah you're pretty much god, someone was posting in guild's forums trying to sell this information for 100k, not even this info, just the location :P

Fun  Ancients Divine One on 02/26/06 10:35

That run is great, but you nothing of any worth (exception of that bow). It's just a bit of fun, get loads of crafting materials from the armours and then some ritualist weapons from the strongbox. It's just great to see like 12 items drop from a chest.

Good guide though

  I_M_A_P_I_R_A_T_E on 02/26/06 11:35

i love you man, the first time i made it to the lost strongbox it dropped a gold serpent axe! amongst other things. you are like my hero now


  Janus Anobix on 02/26/06 11:41

wow, great guide, i will probably try this out a lil later.

  RaiMysterio on 02/26/06 11:55

so gotta try this out :P

One question, if you take henchies, are there less / worse drops?

  oli_haydon on 02/26/06 12:16

Trust me...U wont need henchies (but I dont think the drop rate is changed with henchies.)

  Fat_Smurf on 02/26/06 12:18

I've try it multiple time with a ranger/mo but it's hard to get the transition :S damn knockdown ...

  Loor_Darkblade on 02/26/06 12:27

Now its gonna get nerfed though....

im gonna get pwned..  Yidd on 02/26/06 12:28

but ah well.. might as well try it..

  PiousDevil on 02/26/06 12:38

Theres also something else
Outside ThunderHead Keep, a Lost stronghold spawns from time to time. you just need to go in and come back out of the THK portal and if your lucky, (2 times out of 10 or 12) it will be there

But be aware, once you come close, you will get ganged by around 20 of the monk nightmares who will pop outta the ground, so be carefull.

....  Yidd on 02/26/06 14:13

you have no idea what hell you have unleashed.. stuff is gonna drop in price,,

  Asmodeus on 02/26/06 14:41
 
My mate got a purple Crystalline Sword, max req 9, from this, so I guess he likes ya :)

  vash199 on 02/26/06 16:26
 
[SIZE=7]I LOVE U LONG TIME!!!

  Tseng Shinra on 02/26/06 18:00

I found this is best to do with a partner, one of you stays at the zone, this way you dont die at the armor box. and its quicker

  born from ash on 02/27/06 00:19
 
OMG WHY DID U TELL PPL ON A FORUM?!?!

  born from ash on 02/27/06 00:19
 
thanks a lot -.-

  born from ash on 02/27/06 00:24
 
didnt think something could make some1 as nice as me this mad.. but im just pissed -_- loor and yidd might feel the same way

  Monk Willow on 02/27/06 04:08
 


  Monk Willow on 02/27/06 04:11
 
Well aren't you the nice guy. I wonder why people always get so upset when someone posts this kind of info.
I kind of like it. :)

Nice guide.

  PiousDevil on 02/27/06 05:21

*sigh*, unless someone farms these chest INCESSANTLY, I HIGHLY Doubt you will get items WORTH selling for crazy prices, its just a thing to do when your bored


  Taro_Ichiro on 02/27/06 06:33
 
not when you get Golden Serpent axes like i did on first try :)

  Xavier_Darkraven on 02/27/06 10:07

Would you rather he only disclosed this state secret to the fairies then?
:p
Nicely presented guide Oli.

  oli_haydon on 02/27/06 11:58

OMG, What Have I Done...I have Unleashed a Moster....

Lol Thanks for the Comments guys!

Oli

  Asmodom on 02/27/06 12:59

WOW...
I love you man!

  K_os on 02/27/06 14:23

OMG you have unl;eashed more happyness inside of me. Thanks a bunch...

  Loor_Darkblade on 02/27/06 16:07

i changed my mind.....it IS going to get nerfed....might as well get 1 or 2 runs =P

  Belshazaarswrath on 02/27/06 17:30

its not gonna get nerfed beacause no anet workers are reading this

  eponymous47 on 02/27/06 21:06
 
either its already nerfed or i have really bad luck... only got blue stuff and when i rezoned got two empty chests... :-( thanks though! i got about five gold hammers farming my way there...

  Monk Willow on 02/28/06 03:10
 
My guild sent out 4 runners for these chests yesterday, all runners ran separate for better drops. I Personally rezoned the area 6 times
but got only crap whites and blues. The other runners experienced the same thing. It seems that this might not be so lucurative after all.
We have decided to try it again tonight, but we dont really expect any difference in the drops. But then again it might.
I will get back to you after the next runs.

  darkyoshiwar on 02/28/06 22:23

i think they nerfed it
i got all whites

  schutz on 03/01/06 07:11
 
This has been common knowledge to MANY MANY people for months, and dont be stupid enough to open armor chest first its the one where you die at 90% of time, always start on the easy chest the lost strongbox, just watch the heretic then when he moves run to it its easily done with 60% dp then you run to the armor chest, ive had many great things here including max rare sephis, serpents etc

  schutz on 03/01/06 07:13
 
Oh btw, if your good enough its ALOT faster to start from war camp but not many people can make that run

  eponymous47 on 03/03/06 01:58
 
completely nerfed now :(

quote from newest update: "Removed chests from Dreadnought’s Drift and Ice Floe."

awww

  born from ash on 03/03/06 15:22
 
eh sorry about those posts up there... my stupid friend went a lil crazy while using my account for a pc x.x

  born from ash on 03/03/06 15:30
 
but yeah u should have known this would lead to them getting removed... x.x... oh well was fun while no1 knew they were ther :\

  osmosisjones on 03/04/06 01:51

lol i dont thjink they removed it just because of a guide posted on how to do it, they probably had this lined up for a fix for a while,
as to the
QUOTE
Yep I can Garuntee you will get some crazy stuff in these chests, WTH is a Bloodstained Jerkin?!

a Bloodstained Jerkin is dropped by Verata ^_^

QUOTE
its not gonna get nerfed beacause no anet workers are reading this

I wouldnt rule out A Net staff visiting this site, yes it isnt on the fan sites, but it is listed as one of the major Guild Wars sites on the net.

But all said it is a shame they removed the chests, it was fun making loads of different materials from the drops, well done on the guide while it lasted Oli

crying  splashy on 04/01/06 10:43

Can not find the chest, do i need some quest or is it nerfed ?

  oli_haydon on 04/01/06 10:59

yep its been nerfed...oh well, it was fun while it lasted

  Tseng Shinra on 04/06/06 19:04

:) Indeed nerfage, However I was able to collect a dwarven axe. A warrior with Balanced Stance and Charge could have easilly gotten the armor chest. Open it, pick up the gold/prp then run out. Interesting, if you go to the same spot, the giants still rush in.

Funnily though my best drop was my last, a superior vigor. I was doing a droks run and told the group about it, all of them wanted to see, so I popped up there and got my gold armor, id'd it and got sup vigor.

Anet spoiled the fun, to have something like that and then just take it away. :(

  Nicknack on 04/12/06 22:53
 
your a complete idiot for posting this on a forum...gotta love how when noobs let out tips it gets nerfed a week later

  Zomil on 04/13/06 15:27
 
it was nerfed?

  Zomil on 04/13/06 15:27
 
it was nerfed?

  Zirgey_Man on 05/17/06 18:25

QUOTE
your a complete idiot for posting this on a forum...gotta love how when noobs let out tips it gets nerfed a week later


if oli is a noob then im the king of mutumbu

it would have been nerfed ANYWAY because it was TWO CHESTS that droped good stuff that didnt need keys, so anet fixed it, just like they destroyed my Snactum Cay barrel runs that got me crystaline swords with their DAMMED Chest update!!!

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