I've noticed that when I run a new char through Coldharbor soon after doing so on another character, all the chests are marked as empty. I think i read somewhere that the respawn timer for chests is bound to the account and not the character which would explain this. If that is the case does anyone know what the timer is?

I dot think that's the case, my first character when he got to the prohpets chamber didn't have a single chest to open they were all open.

My second character had loads to open and could refresh them by logging in and out (doesn't work every time)

I can only theorise that the respawn time is global but how frequent I'm not sure and I don't know if it's effected by "last time opened" starts the timer or if it's a set refresh by the server.

It's very odd, in the last beta I reported it as a bug but nothing seems to have changed in this one so I really don't know how it's supposed to work. It's quite annoying.

It is pretty much the same build as last beta, alot have changed in the pts build because of our feedback. The timer is 24h for creating a new char. I do not think it is so horrible since I will probably not create more then 1 char a day and play through coldharbour when the game goes gold.

next patch, which has not gone live yet, the crates and chests will be individualized.

wait so your saying after i create one character i cant create another one for 24 hours?

no, just that the crates and such in coldharbour will be empty if you looted them all.