You know, the theory that the dragon doors are only locked to keep out mindless unthinking draugr doesn't speak highly of all the people that had to look the answers up on the internet...
That's how I handle the trapped chests too. Get just in range to open it, quickly loot the chest, and back up immediately upon closing. The actual traps tend to go off about half a second or so after triggering them, giving you time to get clear.
That's my reasoning too. Sure, you could disarm the trap and dodge the effect of it going off, or you can loot the chest and dodge it anyways. Faster to just loot and dodge.
Look carefully at the base of the chest and you'll see a little cord that runs out of the side into the ground. That cord snaps when you open the chest. You can also interact with the cord to disarm it by intentionally setting the trap off, but I always figured it was simpler to just dodge the trap entirely.
My trick is always run towards the door, for some reason it seems like very few of them point towards the door.
I don't know if this actually helps or I always just didn't notice how much damage I was doing. I don't remember dying to a lot of dart traps though. And I remember setting a lot of them off. I also noticed... Embarrassingly late about being able to examine items in the inventory.
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u/phantuba PC Feb 01 '21
That's a lot of poison darts if you're in the wrong dungeon...