I’m a bit perplexed. I farmed cinders and opened two living steel chests in less than 30 minutes. Got some more while waiting for the 30 minute mark. It rolled over and the chests never reset? Do they still reset? If so, when does it happen?
I dont think they do anymore….at least i havent seen it.
Suppose it doesnt matter anymore because they all reset after an hour in a new HT.
They don’t seem to. But if you have 2 chairs that are capable of doing helltides the cinders carry over between your different characters and and the chests reset over character. What I do is farm up enough to open two extra chests then log in on my druid and go open them.
They used to reset quarterly when the HT was on an 1hr 30 min reset timer(or whatever it was).
eg. Random HT start and reset times as it used to be when they ran for 1 full hour:
HT Starts at 12 Noon. No reset as it ends on the hour.
HT starts at 12:15 - 45 min then reset on the hour for 15 min, ends at 1:15.
HT Starts at 12:30 - 30 min then reset on the hour for 30 min, ends at 1:30.
HT Starts at 12:45 - 15 min then reset on the hour for 45 min, ends at 1:45.
Now HTs are 55 minutes with 5 minute cooldown. Starting on the hour, every hour.
Sidenote: My original suggestion was for HT to have a 15 min cooldown so that we’d have all 4 flavors of HT 4x a day +3.
We’d then have 25% of HTs be current, hour long HTs per day but also have all 75% of the other HTs be Resets, just on a tighter schedule than it was originally.
For single Helltide we’d get 2x chests, no cinder reset/loss, no character swapping, no jump through hoops to maximize - 75% of a days Helltides would be 15min, 30 min and 45 min old style cycles basically.
They do not reset anymore sadly
That’s why when the Helltide issue was a hot topic I would insert the idea(I mean MAKING a post results in 
- that what one gets for trying to be constructive and find the best solutions…but I digress.)
It SHOULD be on a 15 min downtimer.
25% of a day’s HTs would be on the hour.
75% of a day’s HTs would have the 3 Reset marks. 45/15. 30/30 and 15/45 as it used to be.
19 Hts per day, 15 min downtime.
Nice rotations with chest resets.
No char swapping or hoop jumping to maximize any given HT. Heck the “standard” 1 hour one could be ignored. We’d have 3 in a row 45/15, 30/30 and 15/45 for a whole 3 hour and 45 min(3x 15 min downtime) gameplay session.
They don’t reset anymore. You get two chests per hour now. However, it’s easy enough to farm up 4 chests worth in an hour. So, in this case I open 2 chests worth with my speed farmer, and then I log in my 2nd character and open 2 more chests using the left-over cinders.
And then I fall asleep from boredom and quit the game for a while. This process suxx hah hah. Zero fun, no challenge, just… one shot everything that moves for an hour, every hour, for weeks/months on end. Yawn.
Hopefully Blizzard makes the game a bit more exciting in the future.
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They do not because helltide starts on the hour. So 15 min to collect your 2 275 chests than other things for 0.45-1.5 hour
They used to reset on the hour mark. Now helltides start on the hour mark and finish at +55minutes. So for example 12pm>>12:55pm I believe. They no longer ever pass through what used to be the reset point. But a new helltide starts anyway so it’s all the same.
Interesting that people farm up 4-6 chests on one char then switch to alts to open them. I didn’t know cinders are account bound. I assumed people farm them on different alts.
Although chests don’t reset anymore, you can still login to another character and open chests, chests reset for every character while cinders are shared between them.
I’ve had chests reset a couple of times Kehistan.