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Not to be confused with Missions.
Wanted Chests

Wanted Missions appear as chests (and are colloquially known so) in the upper left corner of the home/Base screen. To open each chest and gain some loot, players must attain a number of kills. The three default types require killing: 100 monsters (on the Map or in Quests); 40 Heroes (as faced when raiding or in War); and 5 Titans (which can be tackled when within an alliance). Rare Elemental Chests sometimes appear instead of any of the three, presenting the challenge of getting kills (both enemies or heroes) from a specified element.

After completion of Monster, Hero or Elemental Chests, they get greyed out with a timer showing how long it will be before the chest becomes active again.  It is a 12 hour wait between Wanted Chests, but the timer is separate to both types of chest.  Once a Wanted Chest starts, there is no time limit for completion, you may draw it out over days, weeks, or months if you like. (There is no explicit timeout for Titans, as it is built-in in their 23-hour cycle. However, with excessive hopping between Alliances the chest becomes grayed out for some time, so even if it were possible to participate in killing 5 titans within minutes, they would not count; see below.)

The timer between chests may be skipped at a cost of 20 gems for the full 12 hours (with the cost decreasing at a rate of 1 gem every 36 minutes) though much of the time may be of concurrent use in the replenishment of world, raid, or titan energies.

Farming Locations[]

There are four types of Wanted Chests (for more detailed recommendations on Elemental Chests, see the image in forum linked at the bottom):

Type Enemies Required Recommended
1.  Monsters Any monster kills S1:  7-4 or 8-7
2.  Elemental Kills must be of a particular element (raid or monster)
Dark S1:  7-4  or  8-4
Holy S1:  10-6  or  12-9
Nature S1:  7-5
Fire S1:  4-1, 6-8, 11-6
S2:  3-4
Ice S1:  8-7
3.  Heroes Only raid, war (and Season 1 outposts for the starting players) kills count, max 5 hero kills per battle
4.  Titans All titan kills count; must be in alliance for the duration of the hunt
Second wanted chest

A second elemental chest appearing after the first was deliberately left unfilled.

There only way to prompt faster or more common spawning of the rare Elemental Monster Missions is by skipping chest timers with gems.  They seem to appear between 20 and 40 chest completions and are thus extremely difficult to predict.

Most of the recommendations above are made in consultation with Mai's Guide to Efficient Farming

Wanted Chest Rewards[]

Mission reward

Monster and Hero Chests[]

These basic chests have the potential of providing high quality rewards but the percentage changes of this are comparatively low.

It is said that Diamond raid/hero chests offer greater rewards than those awarded for individuals in platinum, but it is also well recognized that the rewards from one tier to the next don't really make stretching to achieve the next tier terribly worthwhile. Monster chests are filled by the killing of both monsters and bosses on either map stages or quest challenges. 100 kills are required to fill a chest so, they'll be filled more quickly when choosing targets that have higher monster/boss spawn rate such as, Season 1 Provinces 3-2 or 8-7.

Hero chests are filled by killing heroes in Raids (or in final outposts of Season 1 provinces). 40 kills are required to fill a chest which can be achieved in a number of ways such as, 8 flags achieving 5 kills each; 4 flags achieving 5 kills and 5 flags achieving 4 kills or 10 flags achieving 4 kills.

Some players adopt a weak, 'cup dropping' defence team (typically with five relatively weak heroes in conjunction with similarly low level troops) for the purpose of losing trophies to make it easier to find lower level raid targets. Another approach is to adopt a "kill four heroes, flee, rematch, repeat" strategy against a reliably week opponent. Only two rematches are available on raids, leaving an optimum of killing 4 heroes twice and 5 heroes once. Outposts present no limit on the number of times that four hero kills can be achieved.

Elemental Wanted Chest[]

The most-wanted Chest is the rare Elemental Chest.  It spawns once every 30–40 regular chests (approx. two weeks for most players).  This may be sped up significantly by skipping the cooldown timer on chests (up to 4 per day may be skipped, see below).

While regular hero and monster chests offer fairly basic rewards, the Elemental Chest awards notoriously excellent loot (and NO Food or Iron); it is the only loot source that guarantees so many high quality ascension materials, which is what justifies the gem cost to skip chests so regularly for many players.

Elemental Chest contents (tentative estimate)
Reward Quantity Percentages
3* or 4* Ascension Material 2 4* = 20% ?
3* = 180%
3* or 4* Battle Item 1 % unknown
Gems 20-50 Average: 32
Summon Tokens 3 Epic Hero:  20%
Epic Troop:  52%
Daily Token:  228%
Energy Flask 1 33.3% chance for each (World, Raid or Titan)
Trainer Hero 1 Average:  1.24*
Valhalla Coins 3-30 Average: 6
Class Emblems 3-50 Average:  21
Loot Tickets 0, 3 or 6 ca 25 / 50 / 25 %
4* Ingredient 1 100%

(Source: E&P Elemental & Titan Chest Tracking, small amount of 2018–9 data)

Titan Wanted Chest[]

The titan wanted chest is filled when five titans (onto which a player has inflicted any level of damage) are killed. Loot from titan wanted chests are often far from exceptional.  It provides an 11% chance for a 4* ascension material and 24% chance of an Epic Troop Token. (Source as above)

That said, since it requires killing 5 titans, it's basically a once-a-week reward for alliance based players (inclusive of titan escapes) and, potentially, something a bit over a twice per five days reward for mercs. When players, including those acting as mercenaries, leave an alliance, the players' titan wanted chests gets greyed out. These chests are given a 12 hour chest timer that cannot be skipped by gems. A player's titan energy will begin recharging from the instant it is reduced from 3 to 2. The player may then wait within an alliance to witness the titan's death and then, after leaving, there will be a further 12 hours of energy recharge time before the player can again add filling to their titan wanted chest.

If a titan wanted chest is replaced by an elemental wanted chest, even if the elemental chest is filled more quickly, a merc player may do well to wait for the end of a 4 hour titan energy recharge cycle (or be prepared to use a titan energy flask) before mercing again. Wanted chest credit for a titan kill will only be given after a player has damaged a titan.

Skipping Chest Timers[]

Gems
to
skip
Time rema­ining
20 12h
19 11h 41m
18 11h 05m
17 10h 29m
16 9h 53m
15 9h 17m
14 8h 41m
13 8h 05m
12 7h 29m
11 6h 53m
10 6h 17m
9 5h 41m
8 5h 05m
7 4h 29m
6 3h 53m
5 3h 17m
4 2h 41m
3 2h 05m
2 1h 29m
1 53m

Skipping timers of monster and hero chests speeds up the arrival of the rare elemental chests (listed above).  To skip one of these timers costs 20 Gem icon Gems, with the cost reducing by 1 gem every 36 minutes. However (as elsewhere in the game), the periods are shifted by half: That is, the first skip from 20 to 19 Gems comes only after 18 minutes, at 11:41:59 (seconds are not displayedby that time); while the skip from 2 to 1 Gem is at 0:53:59 and the final wait is longer. So, it is easy to learn to calculate that X gems begins at (0.6*X + 0.3) hours. (Minus 1 second; the table on the right shows the lower minute cound as is mostly displayed, without the ":59s".)

The player may skip three chest timers in any given 24-hour period.  This is a rolling timer and it is shared amongst all wanted chests.

The shortest time reported between Rare Elemental Wanted Missions is 4 days, while the average for someone who skips multiple chests per day is more like one every 7-10 days.  Skipping 3 chest timers per day costs approx. 60 gems per day and if done for the average of 8 days it would total 480 gems per chest on average.  This figure changes, however, depending upon how much time is left on the timer when you choose to skip what remains.  (Source)

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