New Haven Crate Trick
I'm sure that a lot of you have figured this out already but there are 3 crates in Newhaven. 2 red and one metal crate.
Once you are able to go to New Haven you have access to these crates everytime the game loads. You can repeatedly farm these crates by simply creating a private XBL game and starting going directly to New Haven. Get all the crates, sell what you dont want, exit and repeat.
I have some pretty sweet gear at the moment from these crates.
There's also 1 additional chest right outside New Haven, at the South area from New Haven, under the windsock and tent, so it's technically 6 chests within the area to farm.
Where are they all? I found 1 red and 2 whites.
They're on the roofs. Someone posted a list of how to get them all somewhere. Uh, might want to do a search for it.
Hey I started a thread awhiloe ago about this but it's been bumped off the first page here's the link
Free Guns/Shields/Class Mods! | Borderlands Guide
BTW it's missing the white chest that the clap trap shows you after you repair it
i dont get it in my borderlands on xbox360 all my crates are metal but on my mates it 3 metal and 2 red and i play as siren as both its getting really annoying

You know there are five crates right? Two red ones and three metal.
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