I need way more keys. I have 63 locked chests in my inventory, and no more keys. I had three of them at one point, but then I used them all up. In beta I once had a chain in which I got a new key out of about four chests in a row, but I haven’t found a key in a chest since launch. I need way more keys than I have.
For one thing, opening a chest should have like a 50/50 chance of dropping a new key, way higher than currently. For another, daily achievements should have a decent chance of dropping them, and monthlies should always drop a key.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
i think the key drop will always be low because the gap between chest drops and key drops are /meant/ to push us to use the cash shop to buy keys.
Remember, this game has no monthly sub. For devs to keep working on a game, they need to keep getting paid in some way.. so, people using the cash shop helps balance out not having a subscription fee, i think!
That would be cruel of them. It would take me over $50 to buy enough keys to get through the chests I’ve accumulated, and the contents of those chests, even if the RNG worked in my favor (which it NEVER does), would never be worth that. I might pay $5-10 for a guaranteed personal bank vault thing, but I’m not going to pay that much for a much of mystery tonics and a ton of random boosters.
I’m perfectly willing to spend money in the gem store, I’ve already purchased character and bank slots, but I won’t be spending cash money on lotto tickets, I’m not a redneck.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
I have two level 80’s and working on my third. I think in total I have picked up 3 keys off mobs, and I have over 240 BLC. I have gotten more than enough junk from BLC with those and the ones from 100% maps and gold to gem purchases.
Chests are crap, better off to buy the items you want.
You are using 21 of 100 infractions ermm, PMs.
The chance to find keys in the chests seems to be pretty high, I recently unlocked ten chests just with keys contained in the ones I opened. Or that was just one in a million kind of luck.
Iruwen Evillan, Human Mesmer on Drakkar Lake
The chance to find keys in the chests seems to be pretty high, I recently unlocked ten chests just with keys contained in the ones I opened. Or that was just one in a million kind of luck.
Probably the latter, because since launch I’ve opened about ten chests and not found a single free key.
My suggestion is that we should be able to throw them in the mystic forge for a low chance to get an unlocked chest, or something else in return.
Yeah, I would happily chuck my 70+ chests into the forge in exchange for just about anything. Maybe some random dye, or some high level crafting materials, or just cash, something.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
Should keep it as it is. So people actually buy keys.
No. I don’t begrudge ANet making money, but as things stand, BLChests and keys are a horribly corrupt method of doing so. They should only be providing value for our money, not the slight chance of value and more likely a lot of junk that you don’t want.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
I don’t know...
As a guy who does spend as much on gems as a pack-a-day smoker in New York spends on smokes, I can tell ya, it’s working just fine for me.
You don’t actually need to buy keys, as the chests don’t really get you anything too neat. But for those of us who like ’em, it works fine.
Maybe, instead of making suggestions like this, you should just get a little gold, as gems aren’t that expensive by gold, and keys don’t take that many gems.
How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespear
Maybe, instead of making suggestions like this, you should just get a little gold, as gems aren’t that expensive by gold, and keys don’t take that many gems.
At current exchange rates, ten keys would cost just under 8 gold. To take care of the 70 or so chests I’ve accumulated, I would need to spend 56 gold, which is about twice what I have between all my characters. No thank you.
Now, if they want to make gold easier to accumulate (without scamming or buying off gold farmers), or if they want to make it so that you can buy gems with Karma, then I’d be open to that, but all things being equal, I’d just prefer they make keys easier to get ahold of.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
what kinda lock breaks the key anyway? i think they should be more akin to lock picks in that they have a chance to break not always used up somehow.
Wintersday is for the Charr, also Meatober.
True. They should make a “Permanent Black Lion Key,” like the other permanent trinkets. That would make a good reward for completing story mode.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
There really isn’t anything in the Chest worth having anyway.
Having a Permanent key would defeat the purpose, might as well not have the keys for sale, or even have the chests.
Diabel Zwierze/Ranger
80’s – Necro/War/Ele/Guard
Having a Permanent key would defeat the purpose, might as well not have the keys for sale, or even have the chests.
I would second that as well. Anything would work, I just don’t like getting all these chests that I don’t have any reasonable way to open (beyond spending 56 gold or $78USD on mostly useless junk).
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
this also you can get gems by trading gold for them so it is fine the way it is
Like I said not six posts above yours, buying black lion keys with gold would take twice as much gold as I have between all my characters. It’s by no means worth it. If they want me to spend 56 gold to open my chests then they should have 56 gold worth of contents, not 1 gold worth of contents and an off chance of getting something useful too.
If “buying gems with gold and keys with gems” is the solution then they need to either:
A: make gold far more common.
B: make gems far cheaper to buy with gold.
C: make keys cost way fewer gems.
D: Make the contents of the chest guaranteed to be worth far more than they currently are, like at least one non-consumable goodie.
They can do any combination, or all of the above, but they need to do something, because he current status quo is just not fun.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
