Talk:Chests/@comment-25890212-20141218155722/@comment-24668482-20141218192447

Maybe for the Pandora's chests there is some benefit. Those give random collection items. If you are still working on your quests and come across a particularly tricky one for an item that has no green plus sign next to it in the collections tab (so cannot be put on wishlist nor gifted betwen friends), then if you are stuck you could roll the dice opening a few pandora's chest. If you happen to get the item from the chest it should complete the quest. They do tend to give out those tricky items reasonably often, but still the chances that it will be the one you need are low, and perhaps you won't enoy completing that chest that way (versus the satisfaction of it finally dropping after playing the right picture).

Otherwise, sure opening them as you get them is a good option. Once the items are in your inventory they are there until you use them so safe to keep them that way. The only downside is that everytime you open a chest you get returned to your home desktop, so it can be quite tedious to open a number of them at a time. I tend to open the pandoras ones and the tools ones right away as I can always use more torches and don't want to complete quests using chests, but I leave the others until I need the items. Mostly out of laziness.