Awakening the Machine is much more tolerable now that they took out the breaks
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It simply isn’t offered every week to every character. Last week I had a World Soul quest choice. This week, they wanted me gathering Titan Discs.
I believe that leveling characters will see it more often.
This takes less than one minute on my main and less than 5 on most others. I’ve got a warband total of 547 radiant remnants and most toons have 3-4 weeks worth. While it would be nice for keys to also come from delves I would do these anyway since they also are worth gold. 20-30 minutes, 4 keys and 3-5k gold later it’s delve time. Rarely do more than 4 delves on any one toon so I get 5-6 through the rotation each weekend.
Sounds like delves aren’t for you.
I’ve got 0 cause I don’t do anything in the zone. I don’t quest. I hate quests. And I hate killing mobs (rares, random mobs, any mob) I only do mobs and quests when I am leveling the 1st time lol.
It’s funny because spreading the light is literally light 4 small torches and that’s it. You don’t actually have to do any of the WQs in that little area. So it takes all of 10 seconds to complete.
Awakening the machine on the other hand is like pulling your teeth out. It’s far better now that we don’t have to wait between waves. But it’s still gross to do.
But you need the shards to light them, did you catch where I said I had 0 of those things? Meaning i’d have to farm them and that’s time consuming and boring.
One full WQ clear of that area would probably net you enough for the next month or more. They throw them at you. Also I think you can just straight up buy them off a vendor.
For Spreading the Light, you can kill the elite mechanicals for about 15-30 minutes and have enough of the crystals for several weeks worth of quests.
Once you have a stack of crystals, you can do the weekly quest (the only important one) in roughly 1-2 minutes. It takes longer to fly there than to do the quest.
This is kinda bordering on straight-up obstinance now. 
Even starting with no remnants, you can beat up 5-10 shredders in the area to get the remnants for the torches. That’s quicker than Awakening the Machine, isn’t it? I dunno, it’s weird that you apparently want to run delves, which is generally not much more than basic combat, but don’t want to do any basic combat to pick up a few coffer keys.
I guess the lifeline for you is that maybe you’ll eventually progress enough through the seasonal bar to be able to straight up buy keys without doing anything, huh?
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It’s an absolutely atrocious value though, IIRC it costs like 325 Resonance Crystals for ONE Radiant Remnant.
You’re far, far better off doing anything else in the quest area for them, even looting the remnants out of the dirt.
Just quit mate.
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He is saying that if a ‘subjective opinion’ is shared by enough players, it becomes an objective data point.
You know, I understand having opinions on certain things and not wanting to do things because you don’t like them or don’t enjoy them, but I find it so painfully silly when people come to the forums with the basic “I want the things, but I don’t want to do anything to get them”, especially when those things you can do are simple and don’t take much time.
Again, I get it if you don’t LIKE the things, but if you want something in this game, you usually gotta DO something to get what you want, just normal gameplay, sorry.
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How do you get these other than by killing the mechanical scarecrow guys in the fields? Every time I want to complete this, I go there and kill about a dozen of them. It doesn’t take long, but I’m not aware of a reliable alternative. Yeah I’ve seen some drop from random elites and such, but it’d take longer to farm that way than by killing the aforementioned mechanical scarecrows, I’d imagine.
If you happen to have excess Resonance Crystals (which at least I have in the 5 digit thousands) you don’t even have to farm for the Remnants … just travel to Hallowfall’s Quartermaster and buy them for 325 Crystals per Remnant
I think I got most of my stockpile from looting chests and completing all the objectives in the area during the first few weeks after launch.
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There’s a TON of ways to get these. Any mob in the questy/darkened area can drop them. Elites drop them more often. The little mini-caches from the Keyflame quests have them. They are sometimes literally sticking out of the ground. You can get them from any chest in the entire zone. And that’s just the methods I remember off the top of my head.
So this is a you problem then, Got it then. If you do not want to do the things to collect keys to better your gear or challenge then I guess one needs a new game to put money on instead of wasting it on this one. GO make yourself happy.
This one I’ll give you (Spreading the Light), as it is far too ridiculous to ever consider doing, and takes 5x as long as all the other options.
Really they need to adjust that quest somehow, either De-Elite some of the mobs, or make it so you only need 1 objective, or just change it to “Light 4 lesser keyflames” (IE, finish the weekly meta there).
The rest of what you said is just whiny nitpicking.
thanks for this list, just hit 80 last week and was wondering wtf to do now that i finished the story