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A Key is an item that can be used to unlock a chest. A key will only open a chest with a matching name and may only be used once. A key may be purchased from merchants or obtained as loot. Some types of keys may be gained by collecting items, such as Equipment Requisitions, which are awarded when a quest is completed.

Keys have different values depending on the possible quality of the item which is available from the chest. The use of keys worth 600 or over to purchase contributes to the Treasure Hunter title.

Generally you cannot get your money back from purchasing keys by selling to the merchant the items you obtain from the chest.

Trivia
Locked chests were not in the original release of Guild Wars, instead there were chests which could be opened for free and the chests often had a fixed spawn point. This led to chest farming so a new scheme with random chest spawns and keys was introduced.

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