Need help with lootrunning

So I just had my mage lvl 104 and was planning to start lootrunning. I've watched some yt tutorials and read some discussion posts on the topic. But I've come across some problems.

My first attempt was at Light Forest, following a loaded record I found on yt (42 chests total), and it went pretty well, I found many valuables and IV powders.
The thing is, the second time I tried the same path (about 1 hour later), all the chests barely had 5 emeralds on them. Even the III and IV chests were quite empty.

Since then, I've done the same lootrun multiple times and never found the chests filled up again. I would like to know what I am doing wrong.

This is my current build:
Gale's sight
Diamond dust
Crafted pants, boots, rings and bracelet.
Hexed amulet
Ethereal / Nepta floodbringer

My total stats are:
183% loot bonus
39% loot quality

Any commentaries or suggestions are appreciated. (Also if you could tell me how to find a world/server to lootrun, that'd be great)

 

The contents of chests depend on a few factors.

- Your loot bonus/loot quality IDs
- The tier of the chest
- How long it's been between the chest spawning (or respawning) and the chest being opened

It sounds like your issue is with the third point, a chest that just respawned after being opened will have barely anything worthwhile inside compared to a chest that has been sitting unopened for a couple hours. This is mostly out of your control unless you've been running the same route over and over in the same world, because the lifespan of a chest is server-side and it gets reset whenever anyone opens that chest.

If you want help picking a specific world to lootrun in, I personally go with any world that's been active for over an hour and a half - this is including the 24 minute wait time between joining a world and being able to open tier 4 chests.

Lastly, chests have diminishing returns on LB/LQ IDs, it starts to drop off hard after 80% loot bonus and 40% loot quality.

 

I read something like that too, so I tried switching worlds and waiting for 1-1.5 hours. Still the chests were empty.

I guess I will just keep trying until I find a good time of day to do the run.

Thanks for the help ^^

 

You should choose a world with at least 2+ hours uptime

 

If you aren't already in it, you can also join the Lootrunner's Guild discord where they have a bot that helps you see if other players have looted the chests on that server, and also share which server you're looting so that other people won't interfere with your loot run. It's not foolproof, since there are many loot runners who don't use the discord, but it's better than nothing :)

 

also receive a lot of toxicity from the server :like:

 

Basically what capslock said about the chests. If you need any further help with lootruns you can add me on discord JasonScorpio#6538, I've got some lootrun files I can share with you and some better cheap builds for mage. Good luck!