It would diminish the value of those who have actually gotten their sets if it was made too easy to get them later. As long as we get a new "real" tier 3 boss strata later within a month or so, I'm perfectly fine with these shadow lairs continuing to be gated. Since the content is basically just remixes of older stuff aside from the Unknown Passage, not doing the rest of the stuff, while it is fun, isn't a huge loss (though I guess my opinion is somewhat biased because I got to run it all on the test server). Sure, you miss out on the echo stones too, but they're pretty vague backstory anyways.
Maybe 000 should just keep the Shadow Keys rare
Have played those levels during preview, no need to bother doing more than that.
With all the money this update should provide, maybe its time to improve the network material and give proper network conditions to everyone. Cause yeah, who would bother trying to spend craptons of CE for a shadow key to reach an unplayable, laggy, glitched set of levels?
As long as we get a new "real" tier 3 boss strata later within a month or so,
Assuming that they don't also restrict said content and any future tier 3/4 releases like they have done with Shadow Lairs. If this turns out to be profitable for them, it's hardly unlikely they'll start applying it to more updates, heck the Silver Keys were essentially the precursor to this.
"Assuming that they don't also restrict said content and any future tier 3/4 releases like they have done with Shadow Lairs. I"
Which is why I put "real" tier 3 boss strata in quotation marks. As long as we get some real farmable content that is an alternative to doing FSC hundreds more times, I'm perfectly fine with Shadow Lairs going unchanged.
now your just making us who couldn't see the test server stuff even more unhappy :(