With all of the content available now I seem to keep finding myself with an abundance of Valorstones and no Crests to upgrade my Champion and Hero gear. What are thoughts on Bountiful chests also awarding Crests. I feel if you are spending a key on that, it would be nice to guarantee some sort of useable reward as the piece of loot you get could be useless. I don’t think it should be as high as M+ but maybe half like 6 or 7 as there are max number of keys you can get in a week. Maybe have that +11 delve drop Gilded Crests.
Another thought after playing Panda Remix is it would be nice to scrap unwanted pieces of gear for even just like 1 or 2 crests. As there is a weekly cap on crests anyways I don’t see much harm in this. If anything it may put more people into running content as any piece of gear becomes valuable. And before anyone says “well now no one will trade unwanted gear” that is already a rare thing as hardly anyone talks to each other in this game outside of guilds and people leave groups before you can even type “GG”. The number of crests given from scrapping shouldn’t be high enough to deter those friendly scenarios that sometimes occur though.
Interested in hearing what other people think on the matter.
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Currently delves give 56 runed crests a week out of a rolling weekly cap of 90. The largest number of runed crests it is possible to need is 900. Vault rewards and free enchanted crest from story / reputation reduce this by roughly 300 at the low end of RNG. (Do not use your actual earned crests for crafting purposes)
I don’t see much harm in giving a couple more each week to delve players, but I figured I’d toss out the numbers for you to have a rough idea of what the progress will be. It’ll take roughly 10 weeks to reach 619 in all slots.
The gilded crests you get from maps I’d save until you have 90, then make a 636 weapon with crafting.
EDIT: You can also convert 90 Carved crests into 15 runed crests every week once you have a 606 or higher item in every slot. It’s not great but it’s another item upgrade per week.
That is true, and good numbers to have. The only downside to those numbers is there are time gated in a way. It requires you to log in every day and run all 4 bountiful delves. If you miss a day then you just loose those crests. As this content seems to be for those who don’t have the same kind of dedicated time, having a way to get a decent quantity of crests with the time they have at their disposal might be a good idea.
Another idea. Have 2 chests at the end. 1 with gear and 1 with crests. Use your key on which ever you need. If puting both in 1 chest is too powerful a reward, give the choice to the players.
This assumes that you do all 4 T8 bountifuls every day of the week, which is pretty ridiculous since you’ll only be getting 5-6 coffer keys a week
You don’t need to use keys to get crests, also bountiful regular chests are what drop the maps which enable you to get 610 hero gear, saving yet more crests, as well as the gilded crests you’ll eventually craft a weapon with.
Maybe runed crests drops could be upped from 2 to 3 per bountiful, that sounds fine, but I’m more just trying to make people aware of how the system works so they don’t miss out on rewards they likely want.
Delves give crummy crests, and Battleground Blitz gives crummy conquest. I think both could be better, BUT since I can effortlessly farm T8 delves with a 0% failure threshold in heroic dungeon gear, and BGB is the current easiest way to get seasonal rated PVP rewards, maybe it’s deserved to have some sort of downside to them.
Perhaps you know. If I have a Delver’s Bounty, do I need a coffer key to unlock it? I’ve never paid attention, currently have the debuff and have stopped farming coffer keys since I don’t really have any slots that champion gear would be an upgrade for on my Shaman.
No. The delve itself doesn’t even have to be bountiful. There’s just an extra chest in the treasure room.
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