I've been having dreadful luck thus far with getting chests, hardly getting anything from gathering and then in the coli I feel like I get one Mimic battle then like 7 regular battles and I'm getting no chests from it. Where is the best place to farm?
i get tons of the mimic foes in Waterway, and a good amount also in sandswept delta and rainsong jungle. (boreal woods continues to disappoint me in festival farming.) i dont get a ton of chests-- generally i think maki's guide is correct re best places to farm, but their drop rates per hour are insane and i figured out why-- their battles per minute rate is insane! my battles dont take long, but its the attendant loading of the new battle, the waiting for the RNG to decide what loot ive gotten afterwards, all that inefficient crap that is typical of FR that bogs down the game. So id say on average im getting abou 2 battles a minute completed including all the laggy parts i mentioned. Maki will have stuf like 6 to 8 battles per minute. i have good internet and a good computer too, but still dont see how they cram that many battles in. So anyhow, once i realized that i felt more content about the drop rate, adjusting maki's drops per 100 battles to my gameplay of x minutes times 2 battles, i do seem to get drops at the per battles rates listed by maki. which means for an hour in waterway, about 7 chests for me. i enjoy the waterway mimics a lot- that chest with its tongue out looks like a big mimic golden retriever lol.
(oh, i went in redrock cove a few nights ago and got 5 chests in ten minutes and a familiar too, then i accidentally hit the back button on my browser and had to reload coli, after which it went back to the 5 chests per hour rate... ;A;,,,)
here's another thing ive been doing-- check the swipps trade and then do your coli farming in the locations that drop the items needed for the current chest swap. ive also gone onto aH and sometimes smart sellers will list the swipps notn mats for like 45 items for 5 gems, ive spent 5 to 10 gems a few times to get the stuff for nabbing a swipps trade chest. (why are people listing the swipp stuff at more than the AH cost of a strange chest? makes no sense to me, cant imagine theyre selling much...)
gathering is useless tho for strange chests, ive gotten usually 1 or none.