Talk:Bitterblack Weapon Lv.3/@comment-10397473-20130623175312/@comment-5166842-20130624180322

Actually I believe the devs decided to give players an extra Godsbane (the one after you kill The Dragon) simply so they COULD farm chests. They know what's up, they know many players, maybe even the majority, are going to farm the rare Everfall loot, so they gave us the first Godsbane so we'd have it for our first trip through The Everfall.

So whether or not you feel it's cheating doesn't matter much, as the devs evidently didn't think so. I can personally attest, before Dark Arisen at least, if you didn't farm Everfall chests you'd go hundreds and hundreds of hours without seeing much of it (I learned of the existence of Burnished Bracers after 900 hours).