They’ve changed the contents of nearly every weekly cache.
Theater Troupe, Special Assignments (outside of K’aresh), Undermine weeklies, etc. now give 50 coffer key shards instead of one coffer key. You can open 4 of these per week = 200 coffer key shards = 2 coffer keys.
Right now, I’ve found two caches that still give keys: 1) the weekly titan shard quest from Dornogal, and 2) the Special Assignment in K’aresh.
The coffer key system was already a slog. Why do we need to do 6 weeklies instead of 4?
Edit: Updated information Aug 27th. In addition to the above, we now have:
1 coffer key from the Eco-Dome weekly (which has to be unlocked via the campagin)
1 coffer key from More than just a Phase (hotfixed this week)
25 coffer key shards for some world quests that appear to be spawning across Khaz Algar again
It is still more tedious than it used to be, and unnecessarily complicated, too.
Gear rewards are all over the board as well - thought I’d do some of this stuff on alts, and getting adventure gear instead of vet gear for completing a weekly is annoying, as is getting key shards instead of keys.
Also seeing reports that gear in Nightfall event has been shifted to S3, with rewards mostly adventure gear, but also some (chance maybe) vet from the 100% event box - though also seen someone say the gear is now bound.
Lastly, the visions weapon vendors sell up to vet weapons (heroic vendor sells S3 vet weapons, unlocked by character completing 5 mask run).
Crests also nerfed, the original weeklies (Theater, Light, Machine, Azj;Kahet) now drop weathered crests instead of carved, adventure gear instead of vet gear, and 50 key frags instead of a key.
Nightfall has been updated - dailies dropped green BOE S3 explorer gear in the reward box, event vendor sells blue BOP S3 adventure gear, event box reward dropped token and a bound S3 vet item, purple 100% event box dropped a bound S3 vet item, boss dropped green BOE S3 explorer gear - all crests were S3 weathered, including the reputation award that still shows as carved (haven’t checked other reps).
My druid has 4 complete keys without doing any half-key activities.
I got one from titan disc fragments.
I got one from the delve weekly.
I got one from the worldsoul weekly doing one seasonal dungeon.
I’m not sure where the 4th was from. Maybe the world boss? I don’t think I got one from the phase diving weekly.
Assuming it would also let me do the fragment weekly stuff, I would actually be able to get more keys per week now from weekly activities than last season.
I figured the coffer key shards were a bonus since the season doesn’t actually start until next Tuesday. Are there even any bountiful delves right now? I didn’t see any yesterday.
What I think happened is my main character ran into that bug from the beginning of TWW where you aren’t offered certain weekly quests.
My alt got the delve quest and the quest that prompts you to choose an activity. Those two + K’aresh special assignment + titan shards means that at least my alt can have 4 keys without shards.
Following the paper trail, it seems like only the most relevant weekly stuff gives the best rewards. In S3, that’d be pinnacle caches and stuff on K’aresh. Everything in Khaz Algar might be updated for S3, but it’s still ‘easier’ (compare Awakening the Machine to completing K’aresh’s special assignment) so it gives lesser rewards.
It sucks, but it makes sense to me if this is maintained moving forward since even though it’s all max-level stuff, we still have 11.0 content vs 11.1 content vs now 11.2 content and if they aren’t going to scale it all up to be the same ‘difficulty’ it makes sense to have varying reward levels across all of it.
The problem with this is you can catch up to the available number of pinnacle chest activities. There is only one new pinnacle activity (titan disc, call of the worldsoul, delves etc) each week but they stack. So if you’re someone who’s been doing these each week you’ll have to do 6 chests to get 4 keys instead of 4 like it’s been the whole expansion.
