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This article is about keys to chests. For access keys that activate products on your Guild Wars account, see Access key.

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.

Prophecies keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location used
	Ascalonian	50	Ascalon (explorable areas and missions)
	Steel	80	Northern Shiverpeaks (explorable areas and missions)
	Krytan	200	Kryta (explorable areas and missions)
	Maguuma	300	Maguuma Jungle (explorable areas and missions)
	Elonian	450	Crystal Desert (explorable areas and missions)
	Shiverpeak	600	Southern Shiverpeaks (explorable areas and missions)
	Darkstone	600	Ring of Fire Islands (explorable area and missions)
	Miner's	750	Sorrow's Furnace

Factions keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location used
	Shing Jea	80	Shing Jea Island (explorable areas and missions)
	Canthan	450	Kaineng City(explorable areas and missions), except Raisu Palace
	Kurzick	600	Echovald Forest (explorable areas and non-elite missions)
	Stoneroot	1 250	Urgoz's Warren
	Luxon	600	The Jade Sea (explorable areas and non-elite missions)
	Deep Jade	1 250	The Deep
	Forbidden	600	Raisu Palace (explorable area and mission)

Nightfall keys

	Name	Cost	Region or location used
	Istani	80	Istan (explorable areas and missions)
	Kournan	450	Kourna (explorable areas and missions)
	Vabbian	600	Vabbi (explorable areas and missions), except Nightfallen Garden
	Ancient Elonian	600	The Desolation (explorable areas and missions)
	Margonite	750	Realm of Torment (explorable areas and missions), except Domain of Anguish Nightfallen Garden
	Demonic	1 250	Domain of Anguish (explorable areas and mission)

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

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.

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.

Related articles

• Treasure
• Chest
• Lockpick