Please note: This post contains spoilers to the Doomsday Quest (Jedi Knight class quest line) in Star Wars: The Old Republic – Spoilers are marked with RED and you have to click them in order to reveal them.

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So there I was, minding my own business, solving this puzzle when all of a sudden a wild graphics glitch appeared. For the record, the machine I was on had an ATI card in it. It was like the lasers / glyphs were completely random (please see the video below). In order to solve the puzzle, I had to log out and log back in on another of my machines with an Nvidia card. The “lasers” were still bugging and jumping around a bit, but I could at least make out the shapes of the puzzle.

Here’s a better video I took more recently when a friend of mine did the Doomsday quest:

After I went to each and every post in that room and solved the puzzle, there was a lot of shaking and rumbling going on, and music played, but I didn’t understand why. Expecting some epic boss to spawn or something, I was looking around the room for something to have appeared and found a strange looking chest I didn’t notice before.

Solving the Doomsday Puzzle

In order to solve the puzzle you have to make the shape of an imperial insignia on the floor, change all the shapes to the squarish looking shapes and the floor will turn into an imperial insignia. The symbol you need to set on every pillar looks like this: Link to awesome mspaint modded gamescreenshot since my lazors are bugging out.

Chest within a chest

I tried opening what looked like a chest inside a bigger chest, now I had to click the chest that was clipping out of the larger chest in order to attempt to open it.

After trying to open it, I got the usual “Opening…” action bar in the bottom-middle of the screen.

Once the bar filled all the way up 100% nothing happened, and of course like any other sensible human, I clicked that chest with all the might my mouse had to give it, but it wouldn’t open no matter what angle or clicking combo I used.

I have no clue what was in that chest but I’m curious.

Did anyone out there successfully get this chest open? If so, how did you do it?

Opening the Ancient Chest

In order to get the chest open, you need to solve the laser glyph symbol puzzle (the solution is above) but here’s the caveat: Once you’ve solved it, you will have to run all the way out of the instance (where you initially landed your ship, not the Emperors dropship — I mean your own Jedi Defender ship) and Reset the phase. This will make all the mobs/NPCs respawn but rumor has it that once you’ve cleared your way back to the ancient chest you’ll be able to open it. I am sure that this was of course not intended to be this way, but somehow made it past the beta testing. If you try this, please send me a comment and let me know if this worked!

Some are saying that the solution above is the only way you can open the chest for the bug, and some are saying they are not successful in opening the chest even though they tried it, please let me know if it works for you.

I’ve had multiple comments on my YouTube videos that the Warzone trick (enter a War Zone while in the instance and then when you’re done you’ll spawn back in and you will be able to open the chest) does work. If all else fails, please try it!

What did the mysterious chest contain?
The “Ancient Chest” contains gear for T7, according to the comment Lehnert made on my YouTube video. More specifically, it contains 5 pieces of gear for T7, Item Level 102 – Thanks Katari!

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