In the patch note we can clearly read that the following chests will be removed (I copy paste your patch notes)
Removed the following 3 chests that yielded weapon appearance modifying items.
Removed Chest/Box items
Hero's Treasure Chest –
Aden Reconstruction
Hero's Treasure Chest - Western Winds
L2B2's Gift Box
First of all Hero's treasure chest didn't had appearance as rewards.
Secondly, you are not only deleted the Hero's treasure chests but you also deleted the simple trasure chests. And you are not just deleted the Western Winds chests (even the simple ones) as you wrote in the patch notes but you are also deleted the undergound chests too. NOWHERE you said that. I've read all the patch notes and there is no warning of delete the underground chests. I'm not sure that you know your own game, but western winds chest are different than the underground. You maybe missed that, but let me tell you that YES the npc had both of them in the same html but there were totally different.
And now dear GM, can you please explain me how the average player will get boss jewels, lucky stones, even scrolls and soul crystal scrolls and talismans and also earn a little bit of profit in adenas? I'm not talking about the VIP payers with 3 golden visa each one of them who can spend thousands every month. I'm talking about the average player, the one who can not spend more than 10-20 euros per month for NC coins. And also the free player too. Free players are also players that payers need too. Cause without them, server will remain with the half population than it has.
If this isn't a proof that you want to drive players to the lovely hug of chinese adena sellers, then what?