notebene.3190 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I got one as a drop today. Been awhile, to the point where I forgot they could drop, or maybe assumed they just stopped doing that. But it got me wondering. There used to be a chance to get a key as you opened a chest, like a chance that it didn't use the key. I'd call the frequency 'uncommon', but hardly rare, as I got them quite often. Then that seemed to stop. Did that stop altogether, or did they just make the drop chance super rare, like the chance of getting a key as loot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroth.4217 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 You can preview the black lion chests for contents inside and there should be a golden black lion key or something along those lines.... I just bought 25 for the hell of it, I didn't get one as a drop but I get a few Dreamthistle skins ateast :yum: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayumi Spender.1082 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 only the golden key which is I think uncommon in the chest. Don't quote me on that as I'm not in game right now to preview a chest to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 There are circumstances in which you can get an extra key, notably when you get a duplicate of something you already have unlocked. And, as others have noted, there's the Golden BL key, which offers a guaranteed minimum rarity of drop (spoiler alert: it's still mostly stuff that most people won't care about). I believe the OP is correct that there was a point in time when BL keys dropped from the chest, but that hasn't been the case since they added the preview panel for the container. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Actually, if your drop is a duplicate (of something you already have unlocked), you will receive 2 Black Lion Keys. One to replace the one you used, and one extra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindaklingomat.1253 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Actually, if your drop is a duplicate (of something you already have unlocked), you will receive 2 Black Lion Keys. One to replace the one you used, and one extra. What? - how? since when? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirlias.8104 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 > @"notebene.3190" said: > I got one as a drop today. Been awhile, to the point where I forgot they could drop, or maybe assumed they just stopped doing that. > > But it got me wondering. There used to be a chance to get a key as you opened a chest, like a chance that it didn't use the key. I'd call the frequency 'uncommon', but hardly rare, as I got them quite often. Then that seemed to stop. Did that stop altogether, or did they just make the drop chance super rare, like the chance of getting a key as loot? in the past the key were a drop if i recall correctly, but now you do only have the chance of the 3 golden keys. > @"Lindaklingomat.1253" said: > > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > > Actually, if your drop is a duplicate (of something you already have unlocked), you will receive 2 Black Lion Keys. One to replace the one you used, and one extra. > > What? - how? since when? :o Same here. didn't know about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Blackfeather.6509 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 > @"Lindaklingomat.1253" said: > > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > > Actually, if your drop is a duplicate (of something you already have unlocked), you will receive 2 Black Lion Keys. One to replace the one you used, and one extra. > > What? - how? since when? :o Since around the time they added the account-bound skins etc to the chest, I think around LS3:3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Yeah keys used to be one of the possible drops from the chests but they took them out at some point in the past. Although I suppose they could always add them back in if they wanted to. Also my understanding is that ideally (from Anet's perspective) no one should get 2 keys from a chest because once you've got an item you can only use once it should be removed from the drop table for you, but the double key thing is there as a back-up in case you do somehow get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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