Collecting Task Bar Hero chests and opening them is how you get all sorts of gear and materials for your heroes, but they're not that easy to come by. They're rare by design but the main issue seems to be the strain they cause on Steam's servers, meaning the chest drop rate appears to have been forcibly limited. However, thanks to Runes, there are plenty of ways you can increase the drop rates of these loots containers, so here's everything you need to know about chests in Task Bar Hero.
How to farm Task Bar Hero chests
Chests in Task Bar Hero come in three flavors with each dropping from different sources and offering different loot that's usually appropriate to the level of your heroes:
- Common Chests: Have a low chance to drop from non-boss monsters and will most likely contain Common (white) gear. While the drop chance is low, you should still get a few of these chests every hour.
- Stage Boss Chests: Have a chance to drop after defeating the boss monster found at the end of a Stage. Uncommon (green) gear has the highest likelihood of dropping.
- Act Boss Chests: Have a chance to drop after beating an Act Boss found in Stage 10 of any Act. A Task Bar Hero Soulstone is required to defeat them. Rare (blue) gear has the highest chance of dropping from these chests.
- Note that all the above chests have a very low chance to drop Legendary-Grade gear right from the start, and this chance increases slightly as your characters level up, eventually allowing higher grade gear to drop, such as Immortal, Arcana, and Beyond-grade.
The random nature of these chest drop rates means you can't farm them reliably at first, but there are plenty of Task Bar Hero Runes that you can unlock that will boost the drop rate and eventually make them quite common.
Spend your gold on any Runes of Exploration and Runes of Conquest as each one will slightly increase the drop chance of Common Chests and Stage Boss Chests respectively. You should also get Runes of Containment, Runes of the Vault, and Runes of Infinity to increase the number of Common, Stage Boss, and Act Boss chests you can hold at one time.
With these Runes activated, you can then farm chests in Task Bar Hero by selecting the hardest stage that your party can still consistently succeed at via the Portal (depending on what the stage is, you might also unlock one of the Task Bar Hero pets doing this). Harder stages usually feature more encounters and more enemies, so that means more opportunities for your party get Common Chests. Having a good Task Bar Hero build also allows your adventurers to get through the Stage quickly, therefore farming bosses and their chests even more efficiently.
Keep the game running as you can't earn chests while offline, and you should eventually amass plenty of weapons and armor to outfit your party and substantially bolster their power. With this method, you should also get a few Soulstones too, letting you repeatedly fight Act Bosses for the best odds at great gear.
Look at this Task Bar Hero tier list to see who is deserving of the best items and the right stats. Any spare or useless gear should be turned into Gold to fund more Runes or combined using Synthesis to create even better loot, all via the Cube menu.
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