Grey vs Golden Keys

[famine40]

Question that has been bothering me, is there any functional difference between the golden keys and the silver keys or is the purpose purely decorative? I haven't really noticed anything, but I have not really conducted a thorough scientific experiment here. Thoughts?

[Gang$Robin]

there is no difference in them

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by Gang$Robin:

there is no difference in them

Then why have two of them? There should be a difference between them if there's two kinds.

[famine40]

Nah im totally fine with variety in the sprites they both look cool, I just wanted to make sure one didn't have a higher chance of lower quality gear and one had a higher chance of high quality gear. Thanks so much!

[Kito Ballard]

While I also don't mind the different sprites, I do see the problem of people confusing the 2 of being "better" than the other, despite no actual differences.

[VirgoCompany]

Potential modding idea: maybe they could be items with stats? Brass keys being 'conductive' and causing a little extra damage when mana passes through them, while the grey keys add scratch damage whenever the player uses the scratch option. One is a little extra trinket for magic builds, one for scratch builds, both being consumable to open any locked chest.

More key sprites that still function as regular keys but add to play styles, such as a structural key acting as a structure piece to activate bricks and other structures for that bonus block, but the key itself doesn't provide bonus block. Rusting keys to add one poison when attacked, kind of like spikes but instead of dealing spike damage when attacked it'll just apply poison so as to bypass an enemy's blocking. And for a bigger item there could be a keychain, deals extra damage per adjacent and diagonal key.