If you can spare the provisioner tokens, I recommend picking up Bloodbound weapons that your chosen class will use. They cost 10 provisioner tokens, and they scale in level with the level of your character. They are also better than any other similar weapon below level 80. They are account bound, so you only have to buy them once, and put them back in the bank before you delete your character. You can then give them to the next key farmer. Bloodbound weapons are also great if you are leveling a character up to 80.
As a solo player who dove into the game with zero info, your videos have literally changed the course of I play. Thank you so much for your content man! Just learning some of this stuff really makes me feel like less of a noob.
I do this run every week. If you are short on tomes or just want to conserve tomes, completing Adventure Guide: Volume One is fast and easy in queensdale.
I do a weekly key farm up to the level 40 story key (2 keys). I stop there because, unlike the level 10 and 60 keys, the level 40 key is given at the start of the story, not the end. For those using human commoner, I recommend the "dead sister" option in character creation if you are going to level 40.
@@Sarcaustik Yes, its "disposable" alt for weekly key farm. Meaning new weekly reset = you make new alt and level it to 10 or 40 like quiquae and then delete it and w8 for next week. Or if you have time can also just level it to 80 over the week and do other "free key" stuff. That's what i usually do nowadays, just level up alt to 40 and then do weekly WV, and if i dont play sth else play that alt for extra keys as i stopped grinding non stop for "best gold farm" spots (my brain is permamently damaged from gw2 gold farming, too much time spent there, could've just swiped.....)
@@ChoJun69 Thank you for the explanation. This is why I love GW2 lol. You can actually do anything and have fun. I've been on and off for the past 6 years but I always return to GW2 because of the expansion and its amazing community. i really appreciate it.
My go to class for lv10 key rush is Thief. Buy a shortbow at the pvp lobby after you got out of tutorial (be sure to equip it on slot1 or after you get out of the lobby) and you can just S1 your way thru the story.
There's another easy one to get too, if you don't have it yet, and that's the Living World season two episode, 'Tangled Paths'. It's a VERY quick (one of the three missions is literally have two conversations) level 80 story chapter that rewards a guaranteed black lion key. You can do that on all your level 80 characters. The two missions that actually have something to do are relatively easy (once you learn the path through the maze). Also, for the human starter area, you can just jump down the hill to the side of the fort and run back up the other side to be immediately at the area where you fight the elemental and skip the centaur defense stuff.
Dont use Tomes of Knowledge, just fly, run, ride around the starter zones, Queensdale, Caldeon, Ashford, Metrica and Wayfarer, etc you wont need all 6 for level 10, maybe just 1 (Lions Arch also good for this, but the cities themselves feel slower than the starter zones) Im not saying do all the HP (but they do award XP ofc) im just talking about discovery XP for areas, POIs, WPs etc - You wont even need to do all of these if all you want is level 10 YMMV depending on account XP bonuses etc I just levelled a char to 80 doing this (though i did include HPs obviously), and it really doesnt take long, and in my case i wanted the maps unlocked anyway, i got to 80 before i even hit any level 30-40 map This is besides the point of this video of course, im just pointing out how easy it is, unfortunately i didnt pay attention to how much exploring i did to get to 10, 20 etc, but its very fast Hope this helps someone EDIT ADDITION, i just realised as soon as i hit "Post" that if you can get to EoD zones, you can jsut take the Raptor Taxis around, im not saying tis faster, but its more hands-off for people busy irl, or at work etc
@@didoma73 Indeed, especially for those who are "Good at Griffon"" I did say _"just fly, run, ride around",_ tbh though a Raptor is good enough, its pretty fast and you can jump through most mobs if need be
If you play pvp and/or wvw you are litterally swimming in Tomes. I have over 15 k tok, and yet i use every week for keyruns and have been all this years. So for players who have too many then do by all means use the tomes. Well unless you are short of spiritshards.
I love this farm. I've been doing it nearly every week for years, and it's given a ton of keys. Getting to the second guaranteed key from the level 40 story is still pretty fast, and the extra shot at a key from exploring Bloodstone Fen makes it worth using the tomes/scrolls of experience to get to lvl 80 every week (of course this might not be viable for every player, depending on how many of these tomes you have piled up). After the key farm I like to park the character at a JP or flax farm for the rest of the week, to get some extra daily value out of the "occupied" character slot.
that's a usefull video, I've been playing for about a month but there're still many things I don't know about and I literally googled yesterday "how to get black lion chest keys" lmao, I think I'll stick to map exploration even more now
Btw: if you don't hacve the home portal and want a free variant in game, then you can do the achievements for LWS1 and get the old lions arch key. It works the same way if i remember correctly.
I knew about the level 10 story weekly key rush, but not the other guaranteed keys. So thanks for mentioning those! To be fair, I rarely ever do the level 10 rush because I find it not all that worthwhile for a key that may just give me the black lion ticket scrap that I need 10 of before I can get a weapon, maybe a trinket that is worth only 1 gold, or maybe a wardrobe unlock. I'm not that fond of gambling in the first place as my general luck when it comes to these things is pretty bad. I usually get plenty of keys from just map completion and as someone who enjoys doing that for me those keys are enough and usually it is a nice surprise to get a key from just playing the game.
@@lavenderloveeAs Phandrel mentioned in the video, it is a 30% chance to get it from map completion, but when you have 35 characters and have done total complete map completion across 18 of them (so far), you end up with quite a few keys. I just really enjoy exploration in the game so map completion isn't an issue for me personally. I totally understand where you are coming from though and a guarantee key is really nice and relatively fast to grab. In my case, I just don't see the justification to go specifically after a single key though, since there is very rarely anything in the chests that I actually want that is actually obtainable for someone with terrible luck like me. I've accepted that the super rare stuff like the permanent bank item and its like will never drop for me, so getting a key from playing the game is just a nice bonus to maybe get a wardrobe unlock item.
Ofc you get random things you dont want to have, but if you do it frequently you will get nice things too. Over the years i got bankcontract, skins of all sorts, framing nodes to your instance, and other things. Obviously i had some rng luck, not all people get a bankcontract and i nearly fainted when i did, i am just saying that it is free key for 15 min of your time and sometimes you might get lucky =)
You should add that the LS2 chapter of Silverwastes (into the laberynth) gives 1 key, it takes 15m max if u know the route (the first and second time maybe you take more time since is the first time you do). In first instance go back and u will see a flamethrower. It speed up that instance a lot. Also the 2nd instance (the last one) you can check map in wiki. The tip is that once you open the vine, you can ignore all NPC and run to the last one and then go back to the final boss.
@@campioneri You have be4 open the vine gatherer the 3 NPC, but the important one is Rox, who is the guy that opens the vine, so u must look for him the last one (is next to the vine). Ones you find him, you must go as fast as possible to the vine so NPC dont go to attack enemies, once it open the vine u can ignore them, go to Braham, talk to him and thats it
I remembered the early days where I farmed blc keys every 5 or so minutes for several days at a time before they nerfed the key farm to a weekly. Those were some cathardic days there. I used to also enjoy doing infinite spin on my war while holding twlight it was a fun bug; there might be some vids still here that have it. It's fun to check out old content that they've fixed or updated.
I regret not having farmed more of them back in those days, although I can't complain, as I was following Champ trains all day in Orr :) It's indeed very cool to see how everything changed, recently saw the old hero panels, which was a throwback in itself.
I usually take the time to explore the whole of shaemore. Takes like 45min and I can't count anymore the times I have received another key as part of the reward chest.
There is a (perhaps "suboptimal") farm that I enjoy from time to time between updates - create a character (human commoner, missing parents) then immediately go to home instance to buy better-than-starter-armor and weapons, then travel to guild hall to hit the armor anvil and grab an xp buff from the tavern. While there, sit in a novelty chair for 5 minutes while you customize your appearance and consume any other xp buffs. exit guild hall to tutorial and skip to the end by running directly to the elemental. Now complete Queensdale, Kessex Hills and Harathi Hinterlands to reach level 50 (Adventurer Guide achievements really help) *before* starting the personal story. You can reach lvl 60 in time to get to Claw Island - a number of the story missions can even be 'skipped' by rushing to the end and triggering cutscenes. Total run time is around 7-8 hours at most ((not a race but a marathon)) and if you do this run 1/day every day for a week you will get 15 Black Lion keys plus any extra from map completion and rare loot drops.
Oh yeah, RNG can be brutal. Thank god we can now get the Fused Gauntlets through the festival vendors. I actually couldn't get them to drop either in 2013.
I pick Asura Statics for my key farm. Is the easiest and most chill to do for me personally, even if is not the fastest. You avoid lots of combat this way
Hello! Is there any way to "break" the gifts of magic or power that they give us in the wizard's tower to recover the T6? I'm not interested in making legendary content but gold is good for me, I thought I saw somewhere that you could unite the gift of power and magic with the ectos etc and make the gift of luck, and you could "break" that one. and recover the t6 and those that could be sold, am I drunk or is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance for reading and future responses :)
You can't salvage the gifts into their components anymore. It was in fact possible for a short while, but they patched it out about a week after the first Starter Kit. A lot of people had that same idea, and ANet didn't particularly like it :P
Maaaan, i was excited cz people kept saying do map completion and you'll get alot of keys... I did 13+ map completion with 0 keys, it just kept giving me the thing for changing armor skin, so disappointig... i gave up. Never doing map completion ever again.
You can skip all the stuff in the human tutorial by running to the elemental boss right away and just being nearby. Living World daily chests are worth 1/10 of a level.
True, I just do it to get instant access to the level 10 storyline so that I minimize my key farming time. In reality completing a few hearts gets you there really fast as well, though.
You'll need to be level 2 for the Mistlock pass, so you'll need to consume a tome of knowledge before using it. The Home Portal stone does work at level 1 for some reason.
Alright, just tested it out myself and you're right. It didn't work for me anymore either. Instead, there's another fix though: Use your Tome of Knowledge to level up and open up the world map. This will let you teleport to Shaemoor Waypoint in front of Divinity's Reach.
It's definitely better than using gold to buy keys, but if you really value your time, it doesn't seem worth it. Keys cost 100 gems discounted, 125 undiscounted, so about €1.25 or €1.7 each. Even if you optimized this to do it in 15 minutes, that's what... €5 worth of value per hour?
Some people have more money than time Others have more time than money Im a stay-at-home disabled person who cant work, i have more time than money, i miss the days when i could farm gold and sell it for money back in UO, long before the Chinese Gold Farmers broke it for everyone, by forcing a change to most cou ntry's laws
when using Lily of the Elon invitation to skip intro quest I get the message 'You cannot use this item right now.' (at lvl 10) are you sure specific one works? if yes, do you know how to fix this?
In the past there was Southsun Cove, but that got patched out, IIRC. I kinda like the maps without any hearts present, mainly in HoT and SotO, as well as Dragonfall. Those are vastly longer than Bloodstone fen, though.
20 is the minimum as far as I know. If they're wasting away in your bank, they're definitely worth using to save some time. You'll get a few extra skills/slots, which should make things faster.
No, that was from the Beta. Whenever there's a beta event, your bank gets copied over to a sandbox environment, and the characters created would have 5 maps fully unlocked. So you could teleport to those, hope to get a few keys. And do it all over again. Caveat, being that you didn't unlock anything in the non-sandbox (live) environment. There was huge value in this event for people who wanted to do data research on things like the BLC drop rates, which is usually difficult due to cost.
Yep :) From Belgium. As long as developers don't publish the Drop Rates of "loot boxes" (anything that is bought with real money, with a random outcome), it'll be blocked here. Same thing with Lost Ark.
Am i getting something wrong here? This seems to be pretty stupid... One key from store is 125 gems, which means roughly 45 gold. I suggest you guys play the game and the content you enjoy. If you hiti 80, and maybe you manage to get to your first ascended armor etc. you will be able to easily get 20-25g per hour running with ls4-train, doing strikes, open world mission etc. This way you can enjoy the game, and if you wish you can buy 4-5 keys per week.... who would want to play the same shit over and over again just for some inefficient and boring way to get a key?
It's just a simple and easy method to get an extra key. That's all. If you want to apply the same math, we're getting that key in 15 minutes, which would've cost 45g. Technically, no gold farm in the game would come close to this efficiency.
dumb comparison. This is not "grind this for 1 hour straight to make some gold" path, this is just weekly thing you can do for extra free key if you bother to waste 10-15mins (depending how fast you're can be even faster). So do your hourly grind for 30g/h and then do this along side your WV weeklies.
BLC Drop rates: www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/wylu92/psadata_a_guide_to_black_lion_chests/
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If you can spare the provisioner tokens, I recommend picking up Bloodbound weapons that your chosen class will use. They cost 10 provisioner tokens, and they scale in level with the level of your character. They are also better than any other similar weapon below level 80. They are account bound, so you only have to buy them once, and put them back in the bank before you delete your character. You can then give them to the next key farmer. Bloodbound weapons are also great if you are leveling a character up to 80.
As a solo player who dove into the game with zero info, your videos have literally changed the course of I play. Thank you so much for your content man! Just learning some of this stuff really makes me feel like less of a noob.
Really glad to hear that! Thanks!
I do this run every week. If you are short on tomes or just want to conserve tomes, completing Adventure Guide: Volume One is fast and easy in queensdale.
Can you explain how do you do this?
I do a weekly key farm up to the level 40 story key (2 keys). I stop there because, unlike the level 10 and 60 keys, the level 40 key is given at the start of the story, not the end. For those using human commoner, I recommend the "dead sister" option in character creation if you are going to level 40.
What do you buy with your keys?
@@didoma73 Whatever junk is in a Black Lion Chest. 🙂
Do you delete the character once you're done?
@@Sarcaustik Yes, its "disposable" alt for weekly key farm. Meaning new weekly reset = you make new alt and level it to 10 or 40 like quiquae and then delete it and w8 for next week. Or if you have time can also just level it to 80 over the week and do other "free key" stuff. That's what i usually do nowadays, just level up alt to 40 and then do weekly WV, and if i dont play sth else play that alt for extra keys as i stopped grinding non stop for "best gold farm" spots (my brain is permamently damaged from gw2 gold farming, too much time spent there, could've just swiped.....)
@@ChoJun69 Thank you for the explanation. This is why I love GW2 lol. You can actually do anything and have fun. I've been on and off for the past 6 years but I always return to GW2 because of the expansion and its amazing community. i really appreciate it.
My go to class for lv10 key rush is Thief. Buy a shortbow at the pvp lobby after you got out of tutorial (be sure to equip it on slot1 or after you get out of the lobby) and you can just S1 your way thru the story.
There's another easy one to get too, if you don't have it yet, and that's the Living World season two episode, 'Tangled Paths'. It's a VERY quick (one of the three missions is literally have two conversations) level 80 story chapter that rewards a guaranteed black lion key. You can do that on all your level 80 characters. The two missions that actually have something to do are relatively easy (once you learn the path through the maze).
Also, for the human starter area, you can just jump down the hill to the side of the fort and run back up the other side to be immediately at the area where you fight the elemental and skip the centaur defense stuff.
Dont use Tomes of Knowledge, just fly, run, ride around the starter zones, Queensdale, Caldeon, Ashford, Metrica and Wayfarer, etc you wont need all 6 for level 10, maybe just 1 (Lions Arch also good for this, but the cities themselves feel slower than the starter zones)
Im not saying do all the HP (but they do award XP ofc) im just talking about discovery XP for areas, POIs, WPs etc - You wont even need to do all of these if all you want is level 10
YMMV depending on account XP bonuses etc
I just levelled a char to 80 doing this (though i did include HPs obviously), and it really doesnt take long, and in my case i wanted the maps unlocked anyway, i got to 80 before i even hit any level 30-40 map
This is besides the point of this video of course, im just pointing out how easy it is, unfortunately i didnt pay attention to how much exploring i did to get to 10, 20 etc, but its very fast
Hope this helps someone
EDIT ADDITION, i just realised as soon as i hit "Post" that if you can get to EoD zones, you can jsut take the Raptor Taxis around, im not saying tis faster, but its more hands-off for people busy irl, or at work etc
Good point; although this would be more efficient with a flying mount, which most people don't have
@@didoma73 Indeed, especially for those who are "Good at Griffon""
I did say _"just fly, run, ride around",_ tbh though a Raptor is good enough, its pretty fast and you can jump through most mobs if need be
If you play pvp and/or wvw you are litterally swimming in Tomes. I have over 15 k tok, and yet i use every week for keyruns and have been all this years. So for players who have too many then do by all means use the tomes. Well unless you are short of spiritshards.
I only just got into this game a few months ago but so I'm gonna have to go through your crash course of a channel. Super useful. Thanks for this!
I love this farm. I've been doing it nearly every week for years, and it's given a ton of keys. Getting to the second guaranteed key from the level 40 story is still pretty fast, and the extra shot at a key from exploring Bloodstone Fen makes it worth using the tomes/scrolls of experience to get to lvl 80 every week (of course this might not be viable for every player, depending on how many of these tomes you have piled up). After the key farm I like to park the character at a JP or flax farm for the rest of the week, to get some extra daily value out of the "occupied" character slot.
Parking them at one of those farms is actually pretty genius! I hadn't thought of that yet.
Get Blish HUD to speed things up, and just run around the city maps doing map completion. Level 10 comes fast.
that's a usefull video, I've been playing for about a month but there're still many things I don't know about and I literally googled yesterday "how to get black lion chest keys" lmao, I think I'll stick to map exploration even more now
Btw: if you don't hacve the home portal and want a free variant in game, then you can do the achievements for LWS1 and get the old lions arch key. It works the same way if i remember correctly.
What's the achievement name please?
@@lavenderloveeLion's Memory
@@lavenderlovee the key is called Lion's Pride; however it takes you to Old LA, and doesn't take you inside home instance
Thank you 🙏
I knew about the level 10 story weekly key rush, but not the other guaranteed keys. So thanks for mentioning those!
To be fair, I rarely ever do the level 10 rush because I find it not all that worthwhile for a key that may just give me the black lion ticket scrap that I need 10 of before I can get a weapon, maybe a trinket that is worth only 1 gold, or maybe a wardrobe unlock. I'm not that fond of gambling in the first place as my general luck when it comes to these things is pretty bad.
I usually get plenty of keys from just map completion and as someone who enjoys doing that for me those keys are enough and usually it is a nice surprise to get a key from just playing the game.
Oh Definitely! If Map Completion is something you enjoy, you'll have no shortage of keys.
That's just rng, cz i did 13+ map completion and got no keys and hated every second of it. I rather do the weekly key at least its guaranteed.
@@lavenderloveeAs Phandrel mentioned in the video, it is a 30% chance to get it from map completion, but when you have 35 characters and have done total complete map completion across 18 of them (so far), you end up with quite a few keys. I just really enjoy exploration in the game so map completion isn't an issue for me personally.
I totally understand where you are coming from though and a guarantee key is really nice and relatively fast to grab. In my case, I just don't see the justification to go specifically after a single key though, since there is very rarely anything in the chests that I actually want that is actually obtainable for someone with terrible luck like me. I've accepted that the super rare stuff like the permanent bank item and its like will never drop for me, so getting a key from playing the game is just a nice bonus to maybe get a wardrobe unlock item.
Ofc you get random things you dont want to have, but if you do it frequently you will get nice things too. Over the years i got bankcontract, skins of all sorts, framing nodes to your instance, and other things. Obviously i had some rng luck, not all people get a bankcontract and i nearly fainted when i did, i am just saying that it is free key for 15 min of your time and sometimes you might get lucky =)
You should add that the LS2 chapter of Silverwastes (into the laberynth) gives 1 key, it takes 15m max if u know the route (the first and second time maybe you take more time since is the first time you do). In first instance go back and u will see a flamethrower. It speed up that instance a lot. Also the 2nd instance (the last one) you can check map in wiki. The tip is that once you open the vine, you can ignore all NPC and run to the last one and then go back to the final boss.
You can do it once per character at lvl 80 (if u have 10 character you can get 10 keys)
The last one, meaning Braham? So you can just skip the other 3? That's great to know!
@@campioneri You have be4 open the vine gatherer the 3 NPC, but the important one is Rox, who is the guy that opens the vine, so u must look for him the last one (is next to the vine). Ones you find him, you must go as fast as possible to the vine so NPC dont go to attack enemies, once it open the vine u can ignore them, go to Braham, talk to him and thats it
I remembered the early days where I farmed blc keys every 5 or so minutes for several days at a time before they nerfed the key farm to a weekly. Those were some cathardic days there. I used to also enjoy doing infinite spin on my war while holding twlight it was a fun bug; there might be some vids still here that have it. It's fun to check out old content that they've fixed or updated.
I regret not having farmed more of them back in those days, although I can't complain, as I was following Champ trains all day in Orr :)
It's indeed very cool to see how everything changed, recently saw the old hero panels, which was a throwback in itself.
I usually take the time to explore the whole of shaemore. Takes like 45min and I can't count anymore the times I have received another key as part of the reward chest.
Great point on Bloodstone Fen; but it 's not really a farmable method with brand new alts (because they're not level 80)
There is a setting in arc dps to remove the green star btw
As a Belgian, I cant buy any keys anyway XD
😂
Just wanted to say you can turn the personal story marker off in the options
Doesn't the "objectives" option also turn off the objective in instanced content then though?
There is a (perhaps "suboptimal") farm that I enjoy from time to time between updates - create a character (human commoner, missing parents) then immediately go to home instance to buy better-than-starter-armor and weapons, then travel to guild hall to hit the armor anvil and grab an xp buff from the tavern. While there, sit in a novelty chair for 5 minutes while you customize your appearance and consume any other xp buffs. exit guild hall to tutorial and skip to the end by running directly to the elemental. Now complete Queensdale, Kessex Hills and Harathi Hinterlands to reach level 50 (Adventurer Guide achievements really help) *before* starting the personal story. You can reach lvl 60 in time to get to Claw Island - a number of the story missions can even be 'skipped' by rushing to the end and triggering cutscenes.
Total run time is around 7-8 hours at most ((not a race but a marathon)) and if you do this run 1/day every day for a week you will get 15 Black Lion keys plus any extra from map completion and rare loot drops.
That sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing, i might just have to try it.
I still remember doing like 70 key runs or so to get the fused weapon ticket back in 2013 xD ... It just wouldn't drop
Oh yeah, RNG can be brutal. Thank god we can now get the Fused Gauntlets through the festival vendors. I actually couldn't get them to drop either in 2013.
@@phandrel Was the fused weapon skins actually :) I really wanted that fused greatsword back then haha
I pick Asura Statics for my key farm. Is the easiest and most chill to do for me personally, even if is not the fastest. You avoid lots of combat this way
I've read a lot of good things about that specific choice as well! I mix it up every now and then, just to make sure I don't grow bored of it.
Hello! Is there any way to "break" the gifts of magic or power that they give us in the wizard's tower to recover the T6? I'm not interested in making legendary content but gold is good for me, I thought I saw somewhere that you could unite the gift of power and magic with the ectos etc and make the gift of luck, and you could "break" that one. and recover the t6 and those that could be sold, am I drunk or is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance for reading and future responses :)
You can't salvage the gifts into their components anymore. It was in fact possible for a short while, but they patched it out about a week after the first Starter Kit. A lot of people had that same idea, and ANet didn't particularly like it :P
Maaaan, i was excited cz people kept saying do map completion and you'll get alot of keys... I did 13+ map completion with 0 keys, it just kept giving me the thing for changing armor skin, so disappointig... i gave up. Never doing map completion ever again.
Damn you were very unlucky
You can skip all the stuff in the human tutorial by running to the elemental boss right away and just being nearby.
Living World daily chests are worth 1/10 of a level.
Why would you pop tomes until lvl 10 or 11? You get exp while doing story quests.
True, I just do it to get instant access to the level 10 storyline so that I minimize my key farming time.
In reality completing a few hearts gets you there really fast as well, though.
i cant use mistlock passkey to skip the intro, is this only possible with home stone?
You'll need to be level 2 for the Mistlock pass, so you'll need to consume a tome of knowledge before using it.
The Home Portal stone does work at level 1 for some reason.
Wow thx for that tipp
wow, you're quite a manufacture of content :O
the quality still is amazing, hope the consistency will soon make the channel grow :)
It's kind of a passion at this point, I really love the process of making videos and trying to improve with every new one :)
I couldn't skip the tutorial with the Mistlock pass after using leveling tomes. Is there a trick?
I'll check when I'm levelling my next key run character tomorrow!
Alright, just tested it out myself and you're right. It didn't work for me anymore either.
Instead, there's another fix though: Use your Tome of Knowledge to level up and open up the world map. This will let you teleport to Shaemoor Waypoint in front of Divinity's Reach.
It's definitely better than using gold to buy keys, but if you really value your time, it doesn't seem worth it. Keys cost 100 gems discounted, 125 undiscounted, so about €1.25 or €1.7 each. Even if you optimized this to do it in 15 minutes, that's what... €5 worth of value per hour?
Some people have more money than time
Others have more time than money
Im a stay-at-home disabled person who cant work, i have more time than money, i miss the days when i could farm gold and sell it for money back in UO, long before the Chinese Gold Farmers broke it for everyone, by forcing a change to most cou ntry's laws
when using Lily of the Elon invitation to skip intro quest I get the message 'You cannot use this item right now.' (at lvl 10)
are you sure specific one works? if yes, do you know how to fix this?
Have you done the very first mission of Path of Fire? IIRC, the pass won't work until you complete that one at least once.
@@phandrel I have done the entire PoF story on my main character
edit: ill try doing it again later today see if it helps
Are there any other maps like bloodstone fen which are finished within 10 minutes?
In the past there was Southsun Cove, but that got patched out, IIRC.
I kinda like the maps without any hearts present, mainly in HoT and SotO, as well as Dragonfall. Those are vastly longer than Bloodstone fen, though.
The Experience Scrolls take you to level 20. Is that too high? I've not seen one that only takes you to Level 10.
20 is the minimum as far as I know. If they're wasting away in your bank, they're definitely worth using to save some time. You'll get a few extra skills/slots, which should make things faster.
Also what end of dragons meta give you keys?? You said they got the 33k keys from end of dragons meta, is there a meta that gives you keys?
No, that was from the Beta. Whenever there's a beta event, your bank gets copied over to a sandbox environment, and the characters created would have 5 maps fully unlocked.
So you could teleport to those, hope to get a few keys. And do it all over again. Caveat, being that you didn't unlock anything in the non-sandbox (live) environment.
There was huge value in this event for people who wanted to do data research on things like the BLC drop rates, which is usually difficult due to cost.
@@phandrel ohhhhh didn't know about that, thank you.
Fastest run i've seen: 6:37 on ranger
ruclips.net/video/Gko8XoIQDo0/видео.html
There are still imporvement possible in this run
Oh, I love Elu's videos! Some of the craziest things in the game I've seen :)
Are you from Europe? We have 1 or 2 countries afaik wo made some gambling laws😅 I’m from germany
Yep :) From Belgium. As long as developers don't publish the Drop Rates of "loot boxes" (anything that is bought with real money, with a random outcome), it'll be blocked here. Same thing with Lost Ark.
@@phandrel your country is smarter than everyone else's then.
@@phandrel sad but good but sad that we need those laws nowadays😵💫
BELGIË REPRESENT WOP WOP
There's dozens of us!
Am i getting something wrong here? This seems to be pretty stupid... One key from store is 125 gems, which means roughly 45 gold. I suggest you guys play the game and the content you enjoy. If you hiti 80, and maybe you manage to get to your first ascended armor etc. you will be able to easily get 20-25g per hour running with ls4-train, doing strikes, open world mission etc. This way you can enjoy the game, and if you wish you can buy 4-5 keys per week.... who would want to play the same shit over and over again just for some inefficient and boring way to get a key?
It's just a simple and easy method to get an extra key. That's all.
If you want to apply the same math, we're getting that key in 15 minutes, which would've cost 45g. Technically, no gold farm in the game would come close to this efficiency.
I do actually like those chill runs ^^ probably helps I'm always doing it with one or two friends :D
dumb comparison. This is not "grind this for 1 hour straight to make some gold" path, this is just weekly thing you can do for extra free key if you bother to waste 10-15mins (depending how fast you're can be even faster). So do your hourly grind for 30g/h and then do this along side your WV weeklies.
u dont need new character for every run ...
What do you mean? The Level 10 story key is a one time only reward for every character