Guild Wars 2

I want to fill my home instance with every item. I am missing nodes like Iron and Snow Truffle which can drop from Black Lion Chests according to wiki. So I have been farming keys like crazy, but no drops so far.

But after I read todays patch notes I found out I can preview Black Lion Chests and there are no home instance mine, herb or tree nodes in them.

Is there any other way I can get them other then pay crazy prices on Trading Post?

I also found out the contants of Black Lion Chest changes over time. Has it disappeared before and returned again? Does anyone know?

The BL chests used to have a chance to drop any node until a few months ago, then they got a hard nerf. Now they only have a chance to drop 1-2 fixed nodes per patch. Thats why they are even more insanely expensive than before, there is no way to acquire them anymore no matter how many chests you would open.

Solaris.2489:

The BL chests used to have a chance to drop any node until a few months ago, then they got a hard nerf. Now they only have a chance to drop 1-2 fixed nodes per patch. Thats why they are even more insanely expensive than before, there is no way to acquire them anymore no matter how many chests you would open.

Until they cycle through the chests. It appears that we get new chest contents every 4-12 weeks, so use keys at the appropriate time and keep an eye on the TP. You can use websites like gw2bltc.com & gw2efficiency to bookmark them (or just use the wiki, which also includes the same data, although on separate pages).

Thank you for clearing it up!