Update on puzzling cartel chips to help us choose the loot from our vaults properly

i would like to see an announcement regarding the puzzling cartel chips sooner rather than later.

if the puzzling cartel chips are coming, i would like to know when. If they are coming soon, then i won’t choose things like Jastor Diamond or House of Cards from my vault.

If the puzzling cartel chips won’t be coming for a long time or they won’t be coming at all, i would like to know so that I can choose items like Jastor Diamond or House of Cards from my vault.

Leaving the playerbase guessing about Puzzling Cartel Chips only serves to invalidate our vault choices - and the great vault is already crippled by RNG enough that it barely gives useful gear anyways. So, losing out on value to actual good items in the great vault due to the lack of communication regarding Puzzling Cartel Chips just feels very bad.

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The lack of clarity is really the issue. Players have been planning around the assumption these would be added on 11.1.5 as explicitly stated so any reversal of that needs to be communicated asap

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yes i would agree 100%

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11.1.5 and everyone will get them at the same point apparently

https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/news/puzzling-cartel-chips-explained-new-raid-tokens-coming-in-patch-11-1-5/

but when in 11.1.5?

on the release date of 11.1.5?

one month later?

two months later?

we need clarification

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you can keep a vault for a few weeks before accepting an item btw like up to three weeks

The troubling thing is that all we’ve heard since they were removed from the Gallagio renown is that they’d be coming in 11.1.5 instead. But now 11.1.5 is looming over us and there’s been no further clarification about them. It’s hopefully just a nothingburger, but it’s rather odd that Blizz has remained completely silent about them ever since they were removed from 11.1.0.

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I agree and approve of this post. It’s really odd that they are being quiet about it. Probably trying to see if they can get another month of subs from some people if they wait. I can’t think of any other reason why they are holding off on this info.

Only one vault at a time though, right? I doubt you can stack multiple weeks. I have no clue.

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You can have multiple vaults saved I accidentally do it on alts all the time lmao

Why would you skip on the diamond just because you’re going to get a cartel chip later? Why not just…plan to use the chip to buy the thing you skipped the diamond for, and take the diamond first?

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Vaults do not go away until end of expansion. You can stack however many you want, and just open them all during 12.0 pre-patch.

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yes, i am not sure why blizzard would hold off on releasing info regarding the puzzling cartel chip.

blizzard had announced that puzzling cartel chips would be available and people have planned their gearing around receiving the puzzling cartel chips.

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Because YOU CAN’T BUY ARMOR WITH THESE THINGS. Dinars/bullion and presumably cartel chips too are limited to weapons/trinkets and items with special added effects like Sprocketmonger’s Go-Pack. There’s barely anything meaningful TO BUY with them aside from JDiamond/Eye of Kezan.

Getting one of those special items in the vault is very nice, but it’s also on hero track and not mythic because barely anyone is downing M Gallywix yet. Token items are upgradable all the way to max mythic.

So there are extremely good reasons to take something weaker now if we knew that better things would be available on the long-term. As it sits now, the safest assumption is that the entire plan went in the trash and nobody wants to be the messenger getting shot delivering that info to the playerbase because it’s such a boneheaded reversal.

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I wouldn’t choose those things on hero track regardless, because despite being the best loot at its ilvl you can get myth track gear out of m+ that’s still better. If you’re getting them on myth track in vault then take them and use the cartel chip on something else when it comes later.

Huh, interesting.

blizzard we would like to know this is vital and is needed with all the RNG farming

We haven’t forgotten! We’ll have more details to share about the implementation of Puzzling Cartel Chips soon after the patch goes live.

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Whew, good news indeed.

I want that Mister Pick-Me-Up. :partying_face:

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Pretty sure they aren’t coming in 11.1.5

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I do think dinar as a whole outside of meme seasons is borderline a bad idea.

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