This is highly suspicious of blizzard.

[Ualaa]

There's probably a reason for each change they make.
The removal of 25k per opening of the chest, is a decent one.

But the side effect, especially on boxers, kind of sucks.
More collateral damage...

[Ughmahedhurtz]

There's probably a reason for each change they make.
The removal of 25k per opening of the chest, is a decent one.

But the side effect, especially on boxers, kind of sucks.
More collateral damage...

I wonder if that's really related. It would seem to be ridiculous at first glance that a competent dev team would break every other loot object in the game over one quest instead of just disabling that quest or hot-fixing it to temporarily grant no XP unless you were turning in the quest. A fairly trivial adjustment of two numbers in the game rather than reworking/breaking an entire mechanic.

[Ualaa]

It depends on their code, I guess.
I remember EQ having to globally effect a whole category, to change one thing within it, because their code wasn't as well written as it could be... and it got modified/convoluted over time.

I'd imagine Blizzard's code is better written... with a larger team, and being a later released game, they have the ability to look at predecessors and avoid their mistakes.
So there is also a good chance, this is a bug.
Or maybe it was a fix for the said treasure chest, but the global action is the bug.

[moog]

But the side effect, especially on boxers, kind of sucks.

Next thing you know, they'll attempt to break some bots and stop MBing in BGs... er... oops