BTW, you are correct about the Noble armors dropping in value because of Arena. Yes, it was pretty dumb for them to have the same item drop from all the bosses there. But that's what they decided to do, so Noble armors are very cheap now.
As for Elite Golden Warchests, I disagree that Arena had anything to do with their declining value. Elite Golden Warchests are worth so much more than Elite Silver Warchests and Elite Copper Warchests because they have the chance to have mythic & arcane items. They are declining in value because the mythic and arcane items are declining in value. The same exact thing happened during the Kraken expansion with Elite Golden Pirate Chests, and there wasn't any Arena during that campaign. By the time it got to a few days before Nordr was being released, Elite Golden Pirate Chests were going for around 30k. I would guess the same thing will happen with Elite Golden Warchests over the next 2 weeks, and I don't think Arena will have much to do with it.
Unlike the Noble Armors, Elite Golden Warchests do not drop that often in Arena. I spent about 2 hours farming there earlier today, and from that I ended up with 6 Noble Armors and 1 Elite Golden Warchest. We had a party of 4 players for the first hour, and 3 players for the second hour. I must have seen more than a dozen Noble Armors drop, but only 2 Elite Golden Warchests dropped, 1 to myself and 1 to another player. I used to get more Elite Golden Pirate Chests when we used to do Elite South Seas during season 3.
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