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 or location used
	Ascalonian	50	Ascalon Foothills Diessa Lowlands Dragon's Gullet Eastern Frontier Flame Temple Corridor Old Ascalon Pockmark Flats Regent Valley The Breach
	Steel	80	Anvil Rock Deldrimor Bowl Griffon's Mouth Iron Horse Mine Traveler's Vale
	Krytan	200	Cursed Lands Kessex Peak Lion's Gate Majesty's Rest Nebo Terrace North Kryta Province Scoundrel's Rise Stingray Strand Talmark Wilderness Tears of the Fallen The Black Curtain Twin Serpent Lakes Watchtower Coast
	Maguuma	300	Dry Top Ettin's Back Majesty's Rest Mamnoon Lagoon Reed Bog Sage Lands Silverwood Tangle Root The Falls
	Elonian	450	Diviner's Ascent Prophet's Path Salt Flats Skyward Reach The Arid Sea The Scar Vulture Drifts
	Shiverpeak	600	Dreadnought's Drift Frozen Forest Grenth's Footprint Ice Floe Icedome Lornar's Pass Mineral Springs Snake Dance Spearhead Peak Talus Chute Tasca's Demise Witman's Folly
	Darkstone	600	Perdition Rock Ring of Fire Abaddon's Mouth Hell's Precipice
	Miner's	750	Sorrow's Furnace

[edit] Factions keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location used
	Shing Jea	80	Haiju Lagoon Jaya Bluffs Kinya Province Minister Cho's Estate Monastery Overlook Panjiang Peninsula Saoshang Trail Sunqua Vale Zen Daijun
	Canthan	450	Bukdek Byway Divine Path Nahpui Quarter Pongmei Valley Raisu Palace Raisu Pavilion Shadow's Passage Shenzun Tunnels Sunjiang District Tahnnakai Temple The Undercity Wajjun Bazaar Xaquang Skyway
	Kurzick	600	Arborstone Drazach Thicket Ferndale Melandru's Hope Morostav Trail Mourning Veil Falls The Eternal Grove
	Stoneroot	1 250	Urgoz's Warren
	Luxon	600	Archipelagos Boreas Seabed Maishang Hills Mount Qinkai Gyala Hatchery Rhea's Crater Silent Surf Unwaking Waters
	Deep Jade	1 250	The Deep
	Forbidden	600	Raisu Palace

[edit] Nightfall keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location used
	Istani	80	Cliffs of Dohjok Fahranur, The First City Island of Shehkah Issnur Isles Lahtenda Bog Mehtani Keys Plains of Jarin Zehlon Reach
	Kournan	450	Arkjok Ward Bahdok Caverns Barbarous Shore Dejarin Estate Gandara, the Moon Fortress Jahai Bluffs Marga Coast Sunward Marches The Floodplain of Mahnkelon Turai's Procession
	Vabbian	600	Forum Highlands Garden of Seborhin Holdings of Chokhin Resplendent Makuun The Hidden City of Ahdashim The Mirror of Lyss Vehjin Mines Vehtendi Valley Wilderness of Bahdza Yatendi Canyons
	Ancient Elonian	600	Crystal Overlook Dynastic Tombs Joko's Domain Poisoned Outcrops The Alkali Pan The Ruptured Heart The Shattered Ravines The Sulfurous Wastes
	Margonite	750	Depths of Madness Domain of Fear Domain of Pain Domain of Secrets Heart of Abaddon Nightfallen Garden Nightfallen Jahai
	Demonic	1 250	City of Torc'qua Ravenheart Gloom Stygian Veil The Foundry of Failed Creations The Ebony Citadel of Mallyx

[edit] Core keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location 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	Isle of the Nameless

[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