Key

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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.

Contents 1 Prophecies keys 2 Factions keys 3 Nightfall keys 4 Core keys 5 Notes 6 Trivia 7 Related articles

[edit] Prophecies keys

	Name	Cost	Region used
	Ascalonian	50	Ascalon
	Steel	80	Northern Shiverpeaks
	Krytan	200	Kryta
	Maguuma	300	Maguuma Jungle
	Elonian	450	Crystal Desert
	Shiverpeak	600	Southern Shiverpeaks
	Darkstone	600	Ring of Fire Islands
	Miner's	750	Sorrow's Furnace

[edit] Factions keys

	Name	Cost	Region used
	Shing Jea	80	Shing Jea Island
	Canthan	450	Cantha
	Kurzick	600	Echovald Forest
	Stoneroot	1 250	Urgoz's Warren
	Luxon	600	The Jade Sea
	Deep Jade	1 250	The Deep
	Forbidden	600	Raisu Palace

[edit] Nightfall keys

	Name	Cost	Region used
	Istani	80	Istan
	Kournan	450	Kourna
	Vabbian	600	Vabbi
	Ancient Elonian	600	The Desolation
	Margonite	750	Realm of Torment Nightfallen Garden
	Demonic	1 250	Domain of Anguish

[edit] Core keys

	Name	Cost	Region used
	Phantom	750	The Underworld Ruins of the Tomb of the Primeval Kings
	Obsidian	1 250	The Fissure of Woe
	Lockpick	1 500	All regions
	Zaishen Key	5,000 Balthazar faction or 5 Tournament Reward Points	The Battle Isles

[edit] Notes

• Droknar's Key is not technically a key to open regular chests. It is a reward from Droknar for completing the Storyline of Eye of the North and can be used to obtain an endgame unique item.
• In normal mode you can choose whether to use the corresponding key or a lockpick to open a chest. However, in Eye of the North, all chests require lockpicks, regardless of your choice of difficulty.
• In hard mode you need a lockpick to open a chest, as all regular chests are replaced by Locked Chests.
• Zaishen Keys do not count towards the Treasure Hunter title.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Related articles

• Treasure
• Chest
• Lockpick