Treasure Chest....When does it decide?Follow

I was driving around and thinking about this scenario. When does the Loot inside the Treasure Chest become the Loot that it is? Like for instance if inside a Chest there is Feysteel Cluster and <Scroll Name> Adept I. At what point does the Randomization set in? At the time the Chest Appears or when you open it? Just a thought my feeble mind came up with, I'd like to hear some feedback on some other peoples thoughts :)

(dup post! I blame the baby...)

Edited, May 7th 2007 6:44pm by Calthine

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. If I were a betting man I'd say the loot was randomized when the chest is generated. I'd guess several checks happen when the mob is killed:

*deathblow struck
*random check to see if there will be a chest drop
*random check to see what type of chest it will be
*loot table is determined based on previous check
*random check to determine what loot from that chest type/mob's loot table is presented

EQ1 was fun in that the loot was determined when the mob was spawned and you could sometimes determine what the mob would drop based on how it appeared (That golem carrying the big sword would in all likelihood drop that big sword for you, that one zombie that is glowing is probably carrying a lightstone/torch, etc.).

... I always imagined the chest loots were better on a well contested fight... (those always seemed to be when one or more of the team dropped below 2 bars for some period and power was sorely tasked before mob death) but you all know what hearsay and imagination are like :)