Guild Wars 2

I suppose its a penalty for not playing the living story when it was around, however looking through the wiki I am sad to see all the weapon skins I will never be able to get. All of them require black lion claim tickets which drop so rarely in lion chests it would cost a considerable amount of money to be able to unlock even one ticket.

I recently opened 25 lion chests and only received 4 ticket scraps, not a great return rate. I totally understand that it was my choice to miss out on the content but man did I miss a lot, would be nice if there was still a more reasonable way of obtaining these items.

Perhaps introduce the ticket scraps as drops to all mobs with a very low drop rate? Would take a very very long time to unlock them all trying to collect enough scraps to create tickets. Just disappoints me seeing a really cool skin that I likely wont be able to get any time soon.

With the festival coming (since I missed it last time) do any of the mobs drop the ticket scraps, or just specific drops to the items available for that content?

I am hoping a lot of the features and content for both the Crown Pavilion and Labyrinthine Cliffs returns. I had a PC crash and came in at the end of the Cutthroat Politics arch and missed a good deal that I would have wanted in on.

With the living story, you have to accept that there will be things in the past that you may have missed and which you cannot now acquire. The upside is that there is always something new coming which you can.

It’s sometimes much cheaper to buy the skins off the trading post. They are plenty expensive still, but it’s cheaper to convert straight to gold, than it is buying all those keys and crossing your fingers and hoping the RNG gods smile upon you.

Irkie.8034:

I suppose its a penalty for not playing the living story when it was around, however looking through the wiki I am sad to see all the weapon skins I will never be able to get. All of them require black lion claim tickets which drop so rarely in lion chests it would cost a considerable amount of money to be able to unlock even one ticket.

I recently opened 25 lion chests and only received 4 ticket scraps, not a great return rate. I totally understand that it was my choice to miss out on the content but man did I miss a lot, would be nice if there was still a more reasonable way of obtaining these items.

Perhaps introduce the ticket scraps as drops to all mobs with a very low drop rate? Would take a very very long time to unlock them all trying to collect enough scraps to create tickets. Just disappoints me seeing a really cool skin that I likely wont be able to get any time soon.

With the festival coming (since I missed it last time) do any of the mobs drop the ticket scraps, or just specific drops to the items available for that content?

You can get them, on the TP. I wouldn’t hold up hope that ticket scraps will be moved to mob loot tables, those are intended to drive gem shop sales.