Drizzlewood Events not awarding any keys

[Ice.8956]

Ok, I'm super frustrated with this one as it doesn't seem to be affecting anyone else, however, having just recently started the Icebrood Saga and working on Drizzlewood the last few days, I immediately felt something was wrong with the key to chest ratio. Completing the ENTIRE Event Metas both South and North, and I would only have enough keys to maybe do half of the champions after the South Meta Bridge, and maybe 5 keys by the time the North Meta ended, with full participation and Gold on every event and lots of tagging. I quickly realized that part of the issue is that none of the events awarded any keys and figured it was just a poor design, until others on the map let me know that those events are in fact supposed to award keys during the South Meta escorts and camps at the very least. I don't understand what is happening but for three days and numerous meta completions I have only rarely received keys that I did not buy from the vendor, and never from the events themselves, only occasionally from one of the "track" chests. I don't understand what is wrong or why it is affecting me more adversely than anyone else on the map, but it has been greatly discouraging me from playing or enjoying the new content.

[Linken.6345]

You very rarely get keys from events you have to buy them or the reward track mate.

[Ice.8956]

I appreciate the reply, but that leaves me even more confused as I spent at least an hour talking in the map chat about when specifically people acquire keys. It seems that everyone was getting keys from the chests at the end of taking camps/forts on the southern Meta every time, however, I was not. Is it confirmed that the only sources of keys are reward track and vendor?

[SoftFootpaws.9134]

First of all, make sure you have the Salvage upgrade before you do anything else , or you're losing lots of War Supplies and thus, lots of potential keys to buy. Once you have that, make sure you buy the free-ish five keys every single time the price goes back down; they're NOT per day, they're per instance/meta.

 

As you already know, only south meta gives keys, the north meta does not. On top of this, you need to receive enough credit, and that means using siege weapons on the buildings. If you don't have siege weapons in your inventory you can grab the bomb from the waystation and it does just as well for getting credit.

 

But mostly you're supposed to complete the events, mine War Supplies and buy the keys.

 

This meta isn't even about opening chests or getting loot, its all about the Reward Tracks which even give you Mystic Clovers. Its meant to work like WvW, and the only reason chests exist is so the PvE'ers wouldn't complain.

Edited August 27, 2021 by Hannelore.8153

[Linken.6345]

18 minutes ago, Ice.8956 said:

I appreciate the reply, but that leaves me even more confused as I spent at least an hour talking in the map chat about when specifically people acquire keys. It seems that everyone was getting keys from the chests at the end of taking camps/forts on the southern Meta every time, however, I was not. Is it confirmed that the only sources of keys are reward track and vendor?

Oh I have only been doing north meta for quite awhile so that why my reply was like it was mate.

[Ice.8956]

50 minutes ago, Hannelore.8153 said:

First of all, make sure you have the Salvage upgrade before you do anything else , or you're losing lots of War Supplies and thus, lots of potential keys to buy. Once you have that, make sure you buy the free-ish five keys every single time the price goes back down; they're NOT per day, they're per instance/meta.

 

As you already know, only south meta gives keys, the north meta does not. On top of this, you need to receive enough credit, and that means using siege weapons on the buildings. If you don't have siege weapons in your inventory you can grab the bomb from the waystation and it does just as well for getting credit.

 

But mostly you're supposed to complete the events, mine War Supplies and buy the keys.

 

This meta isn't even about opening chests or getting loot, its all about the Reward Tracks which even give you Mystic Clovers. Its meant to work like WvW, and the only reason chests exist is so the PvE'ers wouldn't complain.

Hey, thanks for the response, I understand this though. My problem is that the South Meta events are NOT awarding keys regardless of my participation. I have no issue accomplishing Gold and 200% participation within minutes of every camps events, the problem is that am I NOT receiving any keys from any events, full stop. I am also, as previously stated, fully aware that I can and do buy  some keys up until they cost 500(!) per key, this does NOT provide me with enough keys to complete even a single south meta, and definitely not enough to push into the north meta at all. There is no way this is currently functioning as intended, as people are telling me that the events are supposed to award keys, and they do not for me, which means that I can complete and participate in EVERY SINGLE EVENT for a meta, which takes over an hour or two, and not be able to loot a single one of the dozens of chests that drop...

 

Also the chests are one of the primary sources of commendations from the events... which are needed for the reward tracks...

 

Also isn't it a little weird to say that a purely PVE zone and function of a .. story-driven PVE map should function like PVE is expected to? It's already weird enough how much they simply emulated WVW with the map, but to say that providing PVE rewards is not the point of a PVE zone is kind of disingenuous.

Edited August 27, 2021 by Ice.8956

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Cache Keys are not rewarded from events, you find them in Chests (0 - 3).  They occasionally drop from enemies.   Maybe you are having bad luck.  🤷‍♂️

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cache_Key

Edited August 27, 2021 by Inculpatus cedo.9234