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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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Great point on Bloodstone Fen; but it 's not really a farmable method with brand new alts (because they're not level 80)

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 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.

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.

There is a setting in arc dps to remove the green star btw

As a Belgian, I cant buy any keys anyway XD

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 :)

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.

Are there any other maps like bloodstone fen which are finished within 10 minutes?

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?

i cant use mistlock passkey to skip the intro, is this only possible with home stone?

The Experience Scrolls take you to level 20. Is that too high? I've not seen one that only takes you to Level 10.

wow, you're quite a manufacture of content :O the quality still is amazing, hope the consistency will soon make the channel grow :)

I couldn't skip the tutorial with the Mistlock pass after using leveling tomes. Is there a trick?

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

Just wanted to say you can turn the personal story marker off in the options

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?

Why would you pop tomes until lvl 10 or 11? You get exp while doing story quests.

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.

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?

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

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.

Are you from Europe? We have 1 or 2 countries afaik wo made some gambling laws😅 I’m from germany

Fastest run i've seen: 6:37 on ranger kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdGfa7ugrreon2Q.html There are still imporvement possible in this run

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u dont need new character for every run ...

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?