Guild Wars 2

Soon to get 100+ black lion chest on my account and I’m sure people have more so how bout a crafting recipe to make lock picks, bandits drop broken ones all the time. We could use like 50+ of those to make a single lock pick. Not sure what crafting proffesion it could go with but we could also make it in the mystic forge or have a “bandit” merchant hidden away somewhere that can fix them.(Last option would be a good “Once Daily” quest)

I know we can get keys from daily achievements(I think, not sure :x) and map completion as well as some of the story quest but the last time I got a key was like a month ago now, at least on my main character. Would like some “reliable” way to get keys without paying for them.

~Palinois(poor f2p player)

It seems to me the main point of Black Lion Chests is to get you to buy the keys from the Gem Store. (Yes, you get keys in-game, but they’re rarer than the chests are.)

The items within the chest are similar to what you can purchase in the Gem Store… ANet needs to make money to support the server costs somehow.

It’s not like you really need anything from the Black Lion Chests. They just give tonics, the boosters from the store, along with some other items that aren’t really necessary.

Boosters can kind of be replicated by cooking consumable food items.

ANet is only charging users for “convenience”… Not playing the game. And compared to GW1, I’d imagine server costs for all the persistent stuff is much higher.

I don’t mind buying cosmetic stuff to support a company but things like this annoy me. And yes most in the stuff in the boxes are not great but they added new stuff to them like a permanent trader and some other permanent stuff I believe. In my first box I got a permanent tonic, its pretty fun even though it only turns me into furniture >.<

Endless tonics were also in GW1 from Zaishen Chests. However, each Zaishen Chest opening only gave one item.

Black Lion Chests give, as you mentioned, permanent traders (as well as the non-permanent version, which is sold in the Gem Store). Since ANet charges for the non-permanent version, I’d imagine that making the permanent version free wouldn’t be high on their priority list.

I’m currently saving all my keys until after the Halloween update to try and get the weapon skins. (Chainsaws ftw)

Minos.5168:

I’m currently saving all my keys until after the Halloween update to try and get the weapon skins. (Chainsaws ftw)

One of the reasons I posted this was because of that, I got a single key from a map completion that I’m holding onto at the moment. Its sad that I’m only gonna get 1 chance to get one of those (most likely) rare skins v_v

I know they drop broken lockpicks BUT no way to either use them and when you go to sell them, you have to click on them and then click sell because they are not junk for some reason but we can’t use them

So why not let us combine them at the Weapon-smith station, so that we can make them into usable lock-picks to unlock Black Lion Chest’s

I’ve been saving my keys for a moment when the chests might give nice stuff. I may spend them in halloween but only if the skins look like something I would use. If they are steampunkish as the image in the website implies, nope not using my keys.