Chest ransack

This page is about chest/quest reward ransack timer. For Ransack quest XP bonus from breakables, see Experience points.

Chest ransack timer
Looting a chest too many times will temporarily reduce (or shut off) the amount of treasure you get. This is to prevent players from farming the same chest over and over, especially easily accessible chests that certain characters/classes can reach with no effort, as well as chests that contain certain highly sought after items.

Every single chest in game has its own chest ID and "ransack timer". All quest difficulties are on same ID (with a few exception). Each toon is on a different timer.

Ransack warning happens at 8th time you opened it. Starting from 8th time you receive chest loot with -1 level each. You no longer get any loot once you've driven the loot table down to 0. It depends on the initial loot level to determine how many runs that will take.

This timer expires with exactly 7 days (168 hours) to the minute from the first time you opened a chest. In other words, it actually begins before the ransack warning appears and then any time you open the chest after that resets. The timer starts from the first time you open a chest, not when you first receive the message. Game update or server maintenance doesn't reset ransacks - although the timers will still be running.

Tip
When you reopen a chest, it will show you the message if you would be getting the message the next time you loot. At the 7th time you open it and then reopen it, you will get the ransack massage. It is an easy way to know if you will soon be ransacked without keeping track.

Reopening a chest does not advance your ransack count. This has been confirmed by a developer. [need citation]

YES

 * Festival Coins
 * Chests with 100% static loot have no ransack rules.
 * Prey on the Hunter, Tempest Rune for Dragontouched Armor and Toothpick
 * Eye of the Titan clam

NO

 * Almost all of chest specific named items
 * Gianthold Tor Dragon Scales
 * Greensteel ingredients - Raw ingredients, Shavarath Stones, Small/Mid/Larges
 * Reaver's Refuge Draconic Runes
 * Seals for Epic Crafting

Quest reward "ransack"
The same goes for quest end rewards, do one quest over and over and you'll ransack the reward list, too.