They're trying to nerf everything...Running, now nerfed in Factions with unlockable zones and missions. Farming, now nerfed with the increased drops and better drops. Power leveling, now nerfed with the massive amount of XP gained from quests.

Im not complaining about the xp and drops =P Wish I didnt hafta play through this game over and over though..

You misunderstood me. When I said all the chests used to be like that, I meant that you didn't need keys to unlock them. They were different as fars as drops went, because they definitely weren't as nice as the ones this one was giving. I suspect that the drops on this one were nice because it shared code with the locked chests, but that's pure speculation on my part.

Actually, while true you usually only got worthless stuff from chests (or gold), I've received several decent gold items from them long before the locking system went into place. With a party of henchman you'd almost always just get the gold though.