Today I was in Auric Basin, minding my own business trying to turn in rare weapons for provisioners tokens. The map was on the phase when the chests are revealed under the city, and I hadn't done the meta. I didn't really care because I was just there for the tokens, but I noticed that one of the LFGs that I used said "come get your exalted chests." I thought to myself, "Really? I can just zone into the map, not do the meta, and go in there and loot the chests?" Turns out, yes, you can. You even get the Auric basin hero's choice chest from the first one you open. 

Does that seem wrong to anyone else?

(Side rant: I don't even have words to express how annoying it is when the provisioners token NPC isn't  available at North and South Watch. Aren't provisioners tokens bad enough without the NPC being unavailable half of the time?!? And No, this doesn't encourage me to do the events. It encourages me to map hop using LFG.)