The Question We Have Been Asking Ourselves The Entire Time We Were Chestfarming...

In my experience I've found much higher quality loot in chests with loot bonus gear
Might just be luck or time since chest spawn

 

The current problem with consistently testing this as a community is that we don't fully understand how loot chests work.
Does the chest have to be rendered for the time boost to take effect?
We know that the longer a chest is unopened the more loot there is, but is it an exponential increase?
How many data samples would we need to accurately prove or disprove this?
Let's assume that loot bonus does affect it, how much, and how is it calculated?
How strongly does RNJesus play into lootrunning, what standard deviation should we expect?
How would you compare loot quality? (What's better, 6 rares or a legendary? Powders, stat pots)
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