The shard chests are de-spawned at the moment. They usually appear once or twice a year. I'd quite like a buff that gave a small chance of a shard chest spawning on entering a map per hour, per player, per realm, visited over a certain map size. Anyhoo, that's probably exploitable and wishful thinking.
As for the normal ones that take loyalty points or gold to open, explore smaller realms more than larger ones.
Yes, but there is no way of knowing where to even start! They should at least give us like a level range like, "Steel Chest spawned somewhere in realms leveled 100 to 500" sure its a wide range, but it gives us a little clue.
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