Using stealth to loot chests A work in progress by , a 70 Rogue . The disclaimer . The following is a list of chests I have successfully managed to solo since reaching 70 , and the method by which I was able to do it . Reproducing or copying this material in any kind of official Blizzard forum is a thoroughly bad idea : whether or not this is in line with a balanced game is for developers to decide , but there ' s no need to attract their attention . . . I am posting this as a resource for other rogues to draw on , since there is a disappointing lack of information available about stealthable chests and instances . It will be a work in progress : as I manage to achieve different instances I will list my techniques and the time it took to complete them . Please note that this is probably not the most effective way to earn gold : I ' m sure that farming primals on Elemental Plateau or doing quests in Netherstorm is a faster and more efficient way of making money . However , with some practice , farming these chests can be easy , rewarding ( especially with the occasional blue ) and , most of all , a whole world of fun . Enjoy : ) Advice . Here we go . Hellfire Citadel . Hellfire Ramparts : Normal Difficulty . Average loot per chest : 5g 75s cash , one green item , scrolls and potions . Rarer drops include Nightseye , Breastplate of Blade Turning and an alchemy recipe . Two chests appear in this brief instance , and after some practice the first one can be reached , cleared and looted in under 10 minutes . Theoretically this chest could be done in around five minutes with no deaths , perfect execution of preparation and one cooldown cycle of vanish . Here is my way of doing Chest One . 1 . The first patrol does not need to be sapped and / or killed . Watch his pat once so you can see where he actually stops and turns around , when he ' s patrolling towards the entrance to instance you need to distract when he reaches his turnaround point 2 . Hug the left wall , and sap the left guard , keep hugging the wall and walk through the left guard and continue across the bridge . 3 . Watch for the dog pat , you can effectively have both the bridge pat and the dog pat coming at you and not pull aggro , just don ' t move , but that shouldn ' t be an issue . 4 . Follow the left wall going behind all the catapults , and braziers . 5 . Keep following the left wall , there will be another dog pat , avoid this pat and move to the right wall , hug the right wall all the way til you get to the chest . 6 . Sap the mob to the front left by the dog 7 . Walk around the carriage and cheap shot the caster , with those 2 CP ' s pop SnD , then pop Evasion , Blade Flurry , and Adrenaline Rush . This should be enough to kill everything attacking you . If done fast enough , bandage up and kill the final mob after sap expires . If you sap already expired , blind the mob or vanish and bandage , then finish it off . 8 . Loot the chest , stealth out , rinse and repeat . I ' ve done roughly 25 of these runs , have gotten 3 BoE blues , 5 Blue gems , and about 20 - 22 greens . When perfected , this style of the run can be done incredibly quickly . Not counting AH ' able items , this works out to be about 50g in that half hour . Counting selling the gems and blues , I have made upwards of about 150g for that half hour of work depending on drops . Chest one . Difficulty = Relatively Easy Chest two . Difficulty = Medium Coilfang Reservoir . The Underbog : Normal Difficulty . The Underbog is a fantastic place for any rogue to farm , be they a miner , herbalist , alchemist ( needing Sporeggar rep for potion recipes ) , chest - farmer , or simply after an easily accessible source of guild credit in Sanguine Hibiscus . Most of the spawn points of Sanguine are easily accessible with the aid of a distract , since they do not link mobs like a chest or resource node : most of the spawn points of ores are accessible , INCLUDING the one under the water ; and at least one of the chests can be farmed quite easily . Notice that the second chest is not a guaranteed spawn , which can be quite frustrating , but there are still plenty of nodes and Sanguine Hibiscus further along in the instance to make it profitable : if , however , all you want are the chests , Ramparts is the place for you . Here ' s how to stealth farm the Underbog . Chest one . I have only had one death - free attempt at taking this chest , and that involved a great deal of cooldown abuse in a cookie - cutter 20 / 41 / 0 fist build and a lucky resist against Itchy Spores . Chest three . Through my own adventures with this guide , I ' ve found that it is possible to stealth through the entire instance and pick up a number of extra Sanguine Hibiscus in my Sporeggar reputation farming . I ' ve also seen a number of Rich Adamantite Deposits and even Khorium Veins . While on these runs I found a 3rd chest than can spawn , it appears in my experience that if chest 2 does not spawn then chest 3 will . It is located just before the third boss , Swamplord Musel ' ek and Claw . So here we go ! Notes . Average loot per chest : 5g 91s , one green item , one green gem , various pots . No rare items from an Underbog chest to date . Also note that it will take you a farking long time to thoroughly farm this instance , especially if you get detected continuously . On a farming session for the guild alchemist I was only able to obtain about 30 sanguine hibiscus , a stack of Adamantite , 4 Khorium ore and 2 chests ( I had a mutilate build and didn ' t ' want to risk dying badly on the first chest ) before giving up : I had died 6 times . Latency is awful in this instance , since it can be hard to predict where the underbats are pathing or how close they are relative to you two seconds ago . Or something like that . From Katharn : I have received a few rare items from chests within Underbog . Two Noble Topaz and one rare helm . Other than that its the usual green item and gem . From Atnip ( Detheroc Server ) : I intended to solo the last boss for a Sporeggar rep . quest : I then acquired a resto Druid . Together we stealthed all the way . The second chest dropped The Dreamer ' s Shoulders . A good drop , as the first one dropped a Star of Elune . Needless to say , I now have a very nice new tabard . " " ' As of Patch 2 . 2 the chests in Tempest Keep : The Mechanar have been moved so that they are nearly impossible to solo . . Prerequisites . There are three spawn points for each chest , and I will list them in counterclockwise order . Chest one : right staircase . Make your way into the instance and head towards the right . Through the doorway , an Tempest - Forge Patroller will be patrolling . Wait for it to head back in and follow behind it , passing the first three Blood Elves , then the two guarding the door . Walk over to the far side of that small area and wait for the Guardian to patrol back down to the starting area . Straight ahead from where you came in will be another two Blood Elves guarding the passage . Go past them and into the large room . There are many pats here , so be very careful . Look for the staircase leading down to the lower level of the room . This is the staircase where the mini - boss , Gatewatcher Iron - Hand will be patrolling . At the top of the stairs there will Blood Elves : one to the left corner , and one to the right up against the wall . Once Iron - Hand starts patrolling down , sap the one on " your " left ( the one not nearest to the wall ) . Now look over the ledge and you should see the chest among a few Blood Elf and Mo ' arg mobs on the lower level . Line yourself up with the chest and pull a mob . What will happen here is they will run around the boxes , around the pillar , and run up the staircase ledge to you . Once you see them come around the pillar , wait a second and then run off , and Vanish in midair . Try to land right in front of the chest so you can begin to open it immediately after you land . Depending on your timing , you can make it out alive with this chest . Immediately after you open it . . . walk backwards and up against the wall . If timed properly , this is out of the mob ' s aggro range and if you managed to remain out of combat , you can restealth and leave the instance . This is probably the easiest pull to reset . Last words . If you ' re able to restealth , try Pick Pocketing all the mobs on your way out . This multiplies your profits very well , and can net you some lockboxes and healing potions . From this , I have made very very nice profits with the extra pots . I ' ve noticed that Heroic Mechanar chests drop the same amount of money , and still drops a green the few times I did it . I ' m not sure if there are increased chances for blues to drop . As stated , this takes a lot of practice and patience . You will fail many times with the locked chests , and dying is almost guaranteed . Just stick with it . And make sure you watch a video of this too , to see the pulls in action . Coming soon . The Blood Furnace ( A couple spawn points which could be interesting ) Shattered Halls ( Not really optimistic about that one ) Slave Pens ( One that I know of may be doable ) Mana Tombs ( Convinced I can get that chest with the three elites spawned ! ) EDIT : It is possible to get all chests apart from the one that spawns neer the mana worms contact SilverlightEU for info . EDIT : It is also possible to get the chest near the mana worms spawn in the back of the room . Once your close to killing one ( with blade furry active ) pop CoS this will save you from 2 of the explosions . To finish off the rest sometimes I ' ll use a pot , sometimes I don ' t need to ( a lot of luck on this one ) and if you stand at max range to open the chest you won ' t aggro the other mobs . - Florinas / Arygos And more . . .