Guild Wars 2

The first two zones I completed I received a black lion key as a reward. The past three zones I did not.

Does it only apply to starter areas or did I miss a patch or something? Im pretty new so still learning.

The rewards vary. You do not always receive a Black Lion key. Do your Personal Story and you will receive 1 at level 10 and another later on.

laughs I have finished the race cities on each of 5 characters and have 70ish Transmutation stones (3 each map/character) and 0 keys aside from the ones I got for finishing the level 10 personal story quest. kind of sad they can’t be sold

Peregryn.6578:

laughs I have finished the race cities on each of 5 characters and have 70ish Transmutation stones (3 each map/character) and 0 keys aside from the ones I got for finishing the level 10 personal story quest. kind of sad they can’t be sold

You will NEVER get anything besides those stones for finishing cities. Why is this? Think about it for just 1 second. Never mind I’ll tell you why. Imagine if you got keys, cash or anything just for finishing a city map (which for me only takes 10-15 mins tops) we would have players creating a char, clear the city maps, delete and repeat for easy keys/stones whatever. Nope Anet did not like that idea which is why they did remove the only other reward that we DID used to get for clearing the city maps which btw was only 1 measly copper. They thought 1 copper for 6 cities (being 6 copper total) was even bad enough for players thinking about doing this so they removed that copper….

Oh btw I was meant to say that besides the armour/cash/experiance rewards for clearing maps the other item/items is totally random. Keys are kind of rare. I have 100% world complete on 4 chars so far so you could say I have completed around 100 maps (theres 25 maps not counting cities and lost shore) and I would say out of that many maps I may have got some 10-20 keys total from them all.