Regarding gold chests
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 6:51 pm
I'm quite fan of loot everything and leave nothing behind. And after cleaning a floor if there's a chest or vault, I prepare always escape routes before open any of it (dig my way to any exit mostly). Then, when I open those, these are the most common scenerarios:
- 10% of times-, big relief, nothing appears but the loot.
-20% of times-, mi character is surrounded by weak normal monsters. Not big deal.
-30% of times-, a weak or two rares appear (with "weak" I mean something with a set of skills you can easily handle like a melee monster without rush against an Archmage or Archer or something which main move is inflict status effects you are immune to). Manage to kill them with being careful enough.
-50% of times-, something nasty appears a boss/a strong rare (mostly with corruptor,doomed,necromancers,summoner,temporal skills or worse ). My wisest move is to gave up the loot and just escape, leaving it hanging around in the floor. When I feel foolish,confident and strong I try to bring them down and most times I ended up One-Shotted. I rarely have an entertaining long battle whose final outcome is guaranteed thanks to advantages the local terrain has to offer.
Since most of my deaths are due RNG being an usual douchebag, I decided not to open gold chest in early game ever again, specially those whose spawns in Golem Graveyard/Assassin Lord Hideout/Labyrinth/Dark Crypt. Even opening vaults aren't as traumatizing as it is with golden chests.
My questions are the following: Do you find opening gold chests worth the risk? And for roguelike players, do you afford the risk or skip them?.
- 10% of times-, big relief, nothing appears but the loot.
-20% of times-, mi character is surrounded by weak normal monsters. Not big deal.
-30% of times-, a weak or two rares appear (with "weak" I mean something with a set of skills you can easily handle like a melee monster without rush against an Archmage or Archer or something which main move is inflict status effects you are immune to). Manage to kill them with being careful enough.
-50% of times-, something nasty appears a boss/a strong rare (mostly with corruptor,doomed,necromancers,summoner,temporal skills or worse ). My wisest move is to gave up the loot and just escape, leaving it hanging around in the floor. When I feel foolish,confident and strong I try to bring them down and most times I ended up One-Shotted. I rarely have an entertaining long battle whose final outcome is guaranteed thanks to advantages the local terrain has to offer.
Since most of my deaths are due RNG being an usual douchebag, I decided not to open gold chest in early game ever again, specially those whose spawns in Golem Graveyard/Assassin Lord Hideout/Labyrinth/Dark Crypt. Even opening vaults aren't as traumatizing as it is with golden chests.
My questions are the following: Do you find opening gold chests worth the risk? And for roguelike players, do you afford the risk or skip them?.