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Resplendent Chests only show up in special (randomized?) encounters within certain locations, I think there was one in the Cathedral during the beta. In my experience with them they drop some pretty good loot. What map locations can I look for these encounters and can I do it more than once?

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  • I'm unaware of a comprehensive list of resp chest locations; but more pertinently - since the MF nerf (doesn't affect chests) they are almost worthless.
    – Alok
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 20:59

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THERE ARE NO SET PLACEMENTS FOR ANY RESPLENDENT CHESTS

Yes, they are generally at the end of a minidungeon, and yes, there are some along the maps generated in the game, but they are randomly placed, and are not always in the same area. Even in the minidungeons(if there is one, since sometimes there are none) they aren't in the same generated area of the map.

As for hunting for these chests for loot, it is not worth it anymore, as they decided to make Magic Find no longer affect the loot from chests, so better gear dropping is not as likely anymore.

If good armor is what you are looking for, you can find really nice gear for really cheap if you just get gear with 90% of the stats for 2k-20k, instead of the top stats for upwards of 1-25mil.

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  • I expected this; is there at least a list of potential zones that they might spawn in?
    – authenticgeek
    Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 2:02
  • In the second level of minidungeons found throughout the game there is a chance for them to be there, but you could clear the 2 levels and find nothing. I found a resplendant chest right near a regular chest once, and many times ive found no resplendant chests down there at all.
    – Axxelsian
    Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 11:52
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    The warp that gets you closest to The Archives of Zoltun Kulle is reliably close to a resplendent chest as a random encounter. The chest is enclosed in a large spiral that is very easy to run into - it should only take you two minutes to find it. If you can't find it, then leave the game, go back to the warp and try again.
    – Sadly Not
    Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 17:27
  • @SadlyNot - That may be a spot you managed to find a chest a few times, but there aren't any directly set locations of resplendant chests(or regular ones for that matter) anywhere except for the 2nd level of a minidungeon(and even at that, they arent always there).
    – Axxelsian
    Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 19:52
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Actually, I'm fairly certain that in all dungeons, except for maybe cellars there is a small chance of finding one of these chests. I.e. I farmed the false crypts in Act 1 for a while to get the Matriarchs Bones event, and sometimes I found these chests, and sometimes in the same place there was only a normal chest.

They're basically the equivalent of Diablo II's glowing golden chests. They just have more gold + higher percentage of magic items in it. They can practically appear all over the place (of course with some restrictions), even in the overworld.

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  • The only ones I've seen have been related to mini events and thus can't appear in every area.
    – authenticgeek
    Commented May 16, 2012 at 22:39
  • I didn't mean "all over the place" literally (that's why I said "with some restrictions"). Of course, they're not going to appear in the midle of the field. I just meant that there's no restriction to certain dungeon types, or places in dungeons, or event types.
    – heishe
    Commented May 17, 2012 at 8:30
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The mini-dungeons seem to have a fairly high chance of spawning resplendent chests.

I've found them in well over half of the mini-dungeons that I've explored in Act II, so far (ignoring the single room dungeons).

If a dungeon has two levels, it (almost?) always has a resplendent chest.

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Act one, fields of misery;

In single player start from the quest beginning and run to where the Scoundrel is to save your checkpoint.

After that run left to find either the "Old man" tree boss, next to a resplendant, or the Dead beast that when you kill opens the cellar with the man and his ... "Wife"

If neither of those are there, restart your game, its like 3/5 games will have one or the other.

Happy farming

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You have a very high chance of getting such a chest on the second level of all random dungeons with multiple levels. For instance in the Cathedral on the second level there isn't always such a chest.

They can also spawn on the edges of a map, mostly at places where you don't come around if you rush through the game, but they can occur also in all other places on the map.

Notice that all chests aren't affected by MF any more so it is more viable once you reach level 60 to farm the elite packs, cause they will always drop a yellow item.

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