Curse

AW Lore · Aug 13, 2006, 08:38 PM // 20:38

one hour of farming, and i got 8 keys, did chest run in nahpui quarters with 5 lent keys, and got 5 gold drops

Arteful Dodger · Aug 13, 2006, 10:15 PM // 22:15

Zip as in nil for key drops. Not a single one.

thelessa · Aug 13, 2006, 10:58 PM // 22:58

Had two drop Friday, but not a one since.

Silent Kitty · Aug 13, 2006, 11:25 PM // 23:25

I have bought 6 keys, four dropped and they bring me 8 gold items. Nothing spectaculair, but got one good celestial bow for my ranger. I am glad that it's over so I can do missions and quests again

It isn't exactly over yet, but for me it is.

**cosyfiep** · Aug 13, 2006, 11:55 PM // 23:55

No keys and all chests in cantha were purple....returned to kurzick where I get about 1 key per run (quest)...and 80% gold chests......no reason to return to cantha in my opinion.

Numa Pompilius · Aug 14, 2006, 12:20 AM // 00:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snowman

I would be interested to know what peoples drop rates have been like on keys?

Very high. I've found, I think, at least 12 canthan keys in less than an hour.

redmen12 · Aug 14, 2006, 02:11 AM // 02:11

Well i am getting quite a lot of gold drops, and from keys that i get from Farming

Bethany · Aug 14, 2006, 02:18 AM // 02:18

For me it was a pretty deceiving event. Only one key dropped south of House Zu Heltzer and the stuff I got from the different chests were all grapes except for one gold that I kept as a circus freak-item so bizzare it was.

Glad it turned out profitable for some but for me it was... meh.

Spike · Aug 14, 2006, 02:51 AM // 02:51

In 2 warren runs I saw 13 golds drop and about a dozen keys. Also saw 10 chests and only 1 was purple. None of the golds where any good mind you. But since I usualy see maybe 2 or 3 of each per run thats a nice increase.

Kay84 · Aug 14, 2006, 03:00 AM // 03:00

Got 0 key drops, but bought like 30 keys.
Got around 20-25 golds from the chests, but only one good bow (but accidentally sold it to the merchant, double clicked on it but I wasn't paying attention.. I thought I was equipping it -_- ) and one sup. Vigor.

Caethas Turan · Aug 14, 2006, 03:35 AM // 03:35

3 Forbidden Keys in Raisu for myself, and about 4 others dropped for the team. That was this eve.

Legion Magnus · Aug 14, 2006, 04:57 AM // 04:57

A total of 3 Luxon Key drops for me all weekend. I didn't see much of an increase in 'rare' items, mostly high req stuff with near (and not so near) perfect upgrades. Plenty of purple, some gold. I did get my next level of Treasure Hunter, though.

I was generally disappointed in this special weekend (again). After seeing the quality of drops I received I feel like it was another money sink attempt by ANet to control the economy. It is nice that they *try* to do these things for us, but they never seem to hit a homerun (at least in my opinion). I'd be interested in seeing how much plat was exchanged for keys this weekend.

Probably my best overall drop (sad to say) - a Sundering Broadsword of Enchanting - 20/19 Sundering, Enchanting 20%, but a high requirement 13 Sword. I liked my chances of at least getting a decent upgrade in the salvage. Those 19 iron ingots were added to my stack ...

"You pays your money, you takes your chances!"

led-zep · Aug 14, 2006, 08:54 AM // 08:54

i had a grand total of 0 keys drop over the weekend

majoho · Aug 14, 2006, 08:58 AM // 08:58

unless you have been soloing you will hardly have noticed anything - the drop rates were up quite significantly.

Thallandor · Aug 14, 2006, 09:29 AM // 09:29

double of 1% chance is 2% chance lol.

These weekends are comming more of a gold sink for most while town controlling alliances benefitting the most from cheaper than Merchant key sales.

Cirian · Aug 14, 2006, 11:11 AM // 11:11

2 keys for me on Saturday, none on Sunday. Hohum.

Snowman · Aug 14, 2006, 12:06 PM // 12:06

well, it seems that on average people were having the same problems as me with the key drops, except for the solo farmers.

Im fairly sure that the key drop increase was localised to Cantha only, so the Tyrian and UW/FoW Increase in drops are just coincidental, unless it unintentionally effected Tyria.

I too spend alot of gold on keys for runs, this seemed to be the more profitable, and I did get some quite nice items

I think that what this does show is the REALLY low rate at which keys drop!..

I would kindly ask that ANET to consider keeping the increased drop rate (maybe increasing further) as a permenant thing!

I notice that most people hardly ever do the side quests, and only go out to explore for titles or skill capping, the excitment of finding a key and opening a chest certainly would make for more enjoyable game play.

Maybe in future chapters Keys could be offerd as part of missions rewards.

Well, all in all I would say I really enjoyed this weekend thanks ANET.

Numa Pompilius · Aug 14, 2006, 12:14 PM // 12:14

* Farmed keys for two hours by killing Vermin (the only easily-killed quantity mob I know of in Cantha), got perhaps 25 keys.
* Blew them all in Nahpui Quarter on chest runs.
* Got 25 worthless koi scepters and cockatrice staffs. Oh, and one purple non-max clouded maul. <sigh>

I made significantly more money off the scales from the vermin hides, and I didn't get what I was looking for: a max clouded maul.

Keys are are a rare drop for a REASON, people: they're a gold sink.

But yeah, it was fun. I'd actually never done a chest run before.

Rusty Deth · Aug 14, 2006, 12:36 PM // 12:36

i got a total of 2 keys dropped ( the Kryta key don't count ) And I was playing all weekend.

But i noticed it happend after I bought a whole mess keys. Thing is after I got a max damage 15 % in stance 20/20 sundering sword and a couple good runes on Saturday, I was sort of hooked.

( everytime I try to save money they pull some special event and I get broke all over again )

Burakus Lightwing · Aug 14, 2006, 01:29 PM // 13:29

Not one key drop for me either. A bunch of other useless junk that went right to the merchant, but sadly no keys.