Elder Scrolls: Blades is all about collecting chests that you can open to collect a variety of rewards. You’ll get gold, new equipment, building and crafting resources, gems, and more, with the rarer chests providing the most and rarest rewards. …
Elder Scrolls: Blades is all about collecting chests that you can open to collect a variety of rewards. You’ll get gold, new equipment, building and crafting resources, gems, and more, with the rarer chests providing the most and rarest rewards.
Chests range from Wooden to Elder in terms of rarity, and, as you can guess, Wooden chests are a lot easier to gather than Gold or Elder. Fortunately for you though, in this guide we’re going to detail exactly how you can collect the rarest of chests and provide you with a few tips on how to open them.
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There are currently five different types of chests you can collect in Elder Scrolls: Blades, and we’ll list them all below.
| Chest | How Long to Open |
| Wooden | 5 seconds |
| Silver | 1 hour |
| Gold | 6 hours |
| Elder | 12 hours |
| Legendary | 24 hours |
You get chests by simply playing the game. You’ll find them lying around dungeons, collect them as rewards for completing chests, and getting them as job rewards. You can also just buy them outright from the gem store, starting at gold upwards.
However, you probably care most about collecting gold chests upwards, and there are a few reliable methods. Jobs are a solid method, which provide a mystery chest upon completion of every single one of them.
It turns out though, that there isn’t much of a mystery. A clever Reddit user actually discovered that there’s a pattern to the mystery chests that goes as follows, resetting on the 500th job:
As you can see, you get a gold chest around every 10-15th job, while you can only earn two Elders from jobs, at 290 and 497 job completions respectively. That’s not very promising, is it?
It’s worth noting that you can complete a maximum of 100 jobs per day, which is a lot.
A potentially faster, more reliable, and, dare we say it, fun method is to farm the Abyss. This is an endless dungeon that challenges you to battle your way down as many levels as possible, earning better rewards the more levels you beat.
However, you’re not going to do that. Instead, you’re just going to play it until you get your Gold chest.
How the Abyss works is, you’ll earn a chest every few levels or so. The first is Wooden, the second is Silver, and the third is Gold. As soon as you’ve got your Gold chest, quit the Abyss and go on your merry way.
You could do this potentially two or three times daily for an abundance of rewards: first thing in the morning before work, at the end of the work day, and just before you go to bed. Time it right, and that’s three Gold chests per day you’re opening. Not too shabby!
That’s right. While Elder and Legendary chests are clearly superior, they’re virtually impossible to get right now unless you spend actual cash. That’s clearly a deliberate decision on Bethesda’s part to get you to part with your hard-earned cash.
So instead, just focus on unlocking Gold chests and ignore the rest. Well, you can open a few wooden chests if you like but try and avoid getting Silvers because the rewards just aren’t worth it for how long they take to open.
