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Hello!

1,2. Tbh, I never considered PVP chest as a particularly valuable source of dust, especially the legendary PVP box. The amount of dust you'd get per day per slot if you constantly farming them is 768 for Common, 1440 for Rare, 1080 for Epic and 406 for Legendary (and farming Legendary chests took a lot of time skipping). It's not especially bad if you value each 1 dust as ~7 gold, but wasn't significant, until the silver box nerf. And you could still do it, but given that you don't play 24-hours a day yes, your efficiency would definitely drop. But it wasn't very high to begin with - events are by far a better source of dust.

3. I don't think they gave that much of a thought. My hypothesis is that they either heard the feedback that it takes hours of farming to get the legendary chests and decided that this isn't user friendly, or they just figured they could significantly reduce their game hosting costs if they avoid 90% of user requests where all these users are doing is skipping PVP chest. In the latter case I would expect them to keep doing changes like that to the other game features where they see players using these too much. I think developers do not really care about the end game and old players and do not consider having all decks maxed out as a must. From that perspective having a few hard to complete decks is totally fine.

4. Maybe. I haven't played much as a new player recently, just a few alt accounts for guild wars, but I noticed that you could amass a whooping 2000 gems in just a few months by simply accepting all gem ads they send towards the new players. As a new player I would probably be using event decks a lot, coupled with maybe Guild Wars Elven Queen after some time. New F2P players have always been having a rather slow start in this game, so I don't know if that changed.