Suggestion: Hero's Choice Chest
I feel the same about that. 1 of those is just so meaningless because if you’re capped on them (like me) you avoid them either way, no matter if it’s 1 or 100. But those who do need them are gonna go with either the gemstone (because they need it for the legendary itself or sell it) or the package of keys because you are guaranteed to get more of them from the stashes.
Yep, choose the one with keys and currency. Those keys will give you more of the items you need than the single choice item from the meta events. And with the exception of Verdant Brink you can use the currency you get to buy even more keys to get more of the items you need. I think adding a single Airshop Oil/Auric Dust/Leyline Spark is pretty laughable compared to how many you get from opening the chests on the map, but am not too bothered with it. My material storage is practically full of those items anyway (well over a thousand of each now).