Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter
Campaign	Core
Title type	Account

Treasure Hunter is a title that is earned by opening high-end locked chests. Grandmaster Treasure Hunters can display a statue at the "Honor" monument. Treasure Hunter is also the name of the first rank of this title.

Treasure Hunter title track

Tier	Title	High-end chests opened	Salvage bonus1	Lockpick retention bonus2
1	Treasure Hunter	100	+3%	+3%
2	Adept Treasure Hunter	250	+6%	+6%
3	Advanced Treasure Hunter	550	+9%	+9%
4	Expert Treasure Hunter	1,200	+12%	+12%
5	Elite Treasure Hunter	2,500	+15%	+15%
6	Master Treasure Hunter	5,000	+18%	+18%
7	Grandmaster Treasure Hunter	10,000	+21%	+21%

¹ The chances to preserve armor or weapons after salvaging upgrades increases by 3% per title rank; this applies to all characters on your account.

² Characters also increase the chance of retaining lockpicks by 3% per Treasure Hunter rank.

Acquisition

• Opening chests: You add one point to the title for each high-end chest opened by any character on your account. A chest is considered "high-end" if the key required to open it costs 600 or more; Locked Chests count for this title and can be found anywhere in Hard mode and throughout the Eye of the North.
• Finding Golden Eggs: During the Sweet Treat Weekend, you earn one point towards the title for each Golden Egg that any of your characters pick up while it is still assigned to them.

High-end chests

The following keys will add to the title:

Prophecies	Factions	Nightfall	Core
Shiverpeak key (Southern Shiverpeaks) Darkstone key (Ring of Fire Islands) Miner's key (Sorrow's Furnace)	Kurzick key (Echovald Forest) Luxon key (The Jade Sea) Forbidden key (Raisu Palace) Stoneroot key (Urgoz's Warren) Deep Jade key (The Deep)	Vabbian key (Vabbi) Ancient Elonian key (Desolation) Margonite key (Realm of Torment) Demonic key (Domain of Anguish)	Obsidian key (The Fissure of Woe) Phantom key (The Underworld, Scarred Earth, The Courtyard, The Hall of Heroes)
Lockpicks on any Locked Chest or on chests in the zones above.

Costs analysis

The cheapest¹ way to obtain the title is to use discounted lockpicks alone to open eligible chests with the highest retention rate, i.e. Shiverpeak , Kurzick, or Luxon. Maximizing the title through this method costs² approximately:

• 4705 , if purchasing lockpicks from other players at the standard trade rate of 1  250 each.
• 4517 , if purchasing picks from Discount Merchants for 1  200 each.

¹ You can save even more by first maximizing the Lucky title, but that cancels the synergy with the Lucky/Unlucky titles.

² These costs will be reduced significantly by selling chest drops to merchants and even more so by selling valued upgrades or items to other players.

Farms

• Farming Golden Eggs during Sweet Treat Weekends is an efficient method of gaining points.

Notable chest runs

See also: Chest run

Explorable area	# chests	Average repeat time	Notes
Cathedral of Flames	1–2	~2 minutes	See CoF Chest Run Walkthrough.
Drakkar Lake	1	<1 minutes	During The Great Norn Alemoot. No fighting required; 1 chest where Nulfastu Earthbound would normally spawn.
Dreadnought's Drift	3	2–4 minutes	Start from either portal
Drok's Run	5–10	20 minutes	Not fast, but a good money maker for 8 players
Fronis Irontoe's Lair	1	< 1 minute	Take advantage of the "Kilroy Stonekin" speed boost. Start in Gunnar's Hold.
Ice Cliff Chasms	1–3	2 minutes	Start from Boreal Station; poor drops, but most popular of the runs because of its speed.
Poisoned Outcrops	2–5	5 minutes	Chance of Elemental Swords
Raisu Palace	5	5 minutes	A difficult route requiring a running build; chance of Oni Blades and Golden Phoenix Blades
Secret Lair of the Snowmen	4–5	10 minutes
Silent Surf	3–5	< 5 minutes
Witman's Folly	2–3	3 minutes	Head east from Port Sledge; drops are poor

Notes

• This title synergizes with Lucky and Unlucky titles, if using lockpicks to open the chests. It also contributes indirectly to Wisdom, since you can expect to find unidentified gold items.
• These types of chests do not count towards the title: Zaishen Chests, Treasures (Nightfall), Hidden Treasures (Eye of the North dungeons), and any Reward chests (after completing elite missions and Eye of the North dungeons). However, there is a separate Zaishen title track.
• The salvage bonus from this title stacks with the similar bonus from the Wisdom title track.

Trivia

• Treasure Hunter stopped counting towards earning the Favor of the Gods from 13 November 2008 (when the title became account-wide) until 11 June 2009.

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