Guild Wars 2

Have they back to it’s previous drop rate from the chests?

I thought that was a permanent change from key to claim ticket scraps.

New Items and Promotions

• The Black Lion Chest now has a common chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets, which can be redeemed for Aetherblade weapon skins. Players can visit a Black Lion Weapon Specialist to preview Aetherblade weapon skins. Black Lion Chest Keys can be purchased in the Consumable category for 125 gems each or 5 for 450 gems.
  Collect ten ticket scraps and turn them in for a whole ticket.
• Aetherblade weapon skins* have been added to the Black Lion Weapon Specialist. For two weeks only, Aetherblade weapon skins cost only one Black Lion Claim Ticket! After August 5, Aetherblade weapon skins will cost their regular price of 5 Black Lion Claim Tickets. All Aetherblade weapon skins *are soulbound on use and can be traded until used.

Improvements

• Black Lion Chest Keys are now a rare drop from the Black Lion Chest. Most key drops have been replaced by Black Lion Ticket Scraps. This guarantees progress toward a reward rather than a simple retry.
• Tickets and ticket scraps will continue to drop from the Black Lion Chest and can be used for select future weapon sets.
• New weapon skins purchased with a Black Lion Claim Ticket are now tradable until used.

Anyone is sure it is permament? because I don’t want these useless skins :/ I prefer more keys.

It is a permenant change as the new scraps/claim tickets can be used for all future event release weapons. If you want black lion keys your best option is to alt farm them from low-level personal story.

What could you possibly want out of those chests besides a ticket for a weapon skin? Those boosters and tonics are near useless.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

What could you possibly want out of those chests besides a ticket for a weapon skin? Those boosters and tonics are near useless.

Permanent Contract, BL salvage kit, Transmutation Crystals and maybe the minis pack.

Permanent Contract, BL salvage kit, Transmutation Crystals and maybe the minis pack.

Yep, higher chance for a permament, bl and minis were better for me.

There are no tonics anymore, are there?
I thought they ditched that.

Not to mention you can get the make-over kits as well now I really want one of those and would probably prefer a retry over a skin, but whatever. Could use the skin to make some money :P

Raebfle.5914:

There are no tonics anymore, are there?
I thought they ditched that.

Not to mention you can get the make-over kits as well now I really want one of those and would probably prefer a retry over a skin, but whatever. Could use the skin to make some money :P

You can still get mystery(and I assume the endless ones too) tonics. Achievement chests would be more reliable(aside from the gem store of course :P) for the make over kit. You get one at every 5000 AP

The Black Lion Chest now has a common chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets,

More like “rare chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a super rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets”.