I’m always disappointed about the loot found in Black Lion Chests and I personally never going to buy Black Lion Chest Keys and it seems hard to think someone will buy those be it real money or gold.
So my suggestion is make the loot more appealing and make two types of keys:
Gold Black Lion Chest Keys that would have a 100% chance at opening the chest
Silver Black Lion Chest Keys that would have a x% chance at opening the chest. If unsuccessful then it would brake.
Pretty sure the keys have 100% chance to open the chests now. They are easily obtainable, if you so desire.
What is the purpose of keys that are not 100% guaranteed to open a chest? I mean, why would we want keys that might not open the chests, when we have ones that absolutely will now?
Edit: I buy keys occasionally, and farm them regularly. I’ve received some nice things, and lots of scraps. =)
The drop rate of the keys used to be a lot better before they added the black lion tickets. They needed to do that to keep the tickets rare. However people can key farm them though the level 10 storyline so …. most people don’t care.
The question is do you want to pay real money for random chance or do you want to spend 30 minutes for random chance of something.
People are kittened off now for the value of useless items they get with a 125gems key purchase. Now imagine the waves of rage if someone spent 125gems just to get nothing at all, but a say Broken Lockpick http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Broken_Lockpick one could vendor for 2c.
The issue is with the loot-table and how some RNG outputs can be a total waste for someone. I couldn’t count the times I got a combination of the following items: scroll of knowledge, crafting/killstreak booster, essence of luck, mystery tonic. Which are all completely useless to me. Crafting maxxed. Scrolls rain on me everyday, and I don’t even champ train, just from dungeon chests. Killstreak I’m not even gonna go there, it’s that bad. Essence of luck should have never been added to the loot pool in the first place.
If they kept the more valuable items and added some more exclusive items apart from the occassional LW miniature for limited time, more people would buy them for sure.
The drop rate of the keys used to be a lot better before they added the black lion tickets. They needed to do that to keep the tickets rare. However people can key farm them though the level 10 storyline so …. most people don’t care.
The question is do you want to pay real money for random chance or do you want to spend 30 minutes for random chance of something.
People keep saying that keys dropped like rain the first month I really don’t believe it. I have not to this day gotten a key as a drop and I started with the headstart.
I’d like to see ArenaNet add an unlimited use Black Lion Key that has a 24 hour cool down.
Gem price being 1200 (on the low end) or so.
I’d buy it.
Yeah I’d buy one too.
The only problem I have with that, is that it would take 15 days for it to have it be better than buying real keys (which is cheap), and it also creates another “come back everyday to do something once per day” mechanic.
