The Great Vault Guide

The Great Vault is a weekly chest that provides you with 1 piece of loot every week from a pool of up to 9 items.

Think of the Great Vault as a box you fill with items. The more activities you complete in the previous week, the more item choices you will unlock. However, you can only pick one item each week.

You can add more items to the weekly chest by defeating raid bosses, completing dungeons, or Delves / World Activities.

You can select one item from the Great Vault after the weekly maintenance in your region — on Tuesdays in North America and Wednesdays in Europe.

The War Within Season 1 further enhances the gear upgrading system introduced in Patch 10.1. The item level brackets for this season and the corresponding gear upgrade tracks are as follows:

• Explorer Gear — Item Level 558-580;
• Adventurer Gear — Item Level 571-593;
• Veteran Gear — Item Level 584-606;
• Champion Gear — Item Level 597-619;
• Hero Gear — Item Level 610-626;
• Myth Gear — Item Level 623-639.

For more details about gear upgrading, check out our dedicated guide!

The Great Vault in the War Within is located in Dornogal at the Isle of Dorn. As always, the exact location will be highlighted on the city map.

You will find the Great Vault just behind the bank room. Here is what it looks like in the War Within expansion.

The Great Vault has 9 slots. The more slots you unlock, the more options you will have when choosing your weekly reward.

The weekly chest is divided into three categories — Raids, Dungeons, and World. The PvP category has been removed in the War Within.

Below is a screenshot showing the current Great Vault requirements:

The item level of rewards in this category depends on raid difficulty. To unlock all three item choices, you need to:

• Defeat 2 Nerub-ar Palace bosses.
• Defeat 4 Nerub-ar Palace bosses.
• Defeat 6 Nerub-ar Palace bosses.

Defeating a later raid boss gives you a chance at loot from all the previous bosses. For example, if you are only invited to defeat Queen Ansurek, you will b 1/9 towards your vault progress for that week. Additionally, the loot from the entire raid will now be included in your vault pool for the raid slots.

Complete a Heroic or Mythic max-level dungeon to unlock a Great Vault reward in this category. Timewalking Dungeons also count as Heroic. The item level of your reward will depend on your highest run of the week.

To unlock all three item choices, you need to:

• Complete 1 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeon.
• Complete 4 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeons.
• Complete 8 Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeons.

The table below covers the item level of rewards from the Great Vault in Mythic+ in The War Within Season 1. We list end-of-dungeon rewards item level and the item level of gear you will find in the weekly chest the next week.

Complete delves or world activities to unlock Great Vault rewards in this category. World activities count as Tier 1 Delves. The item level of your reward will be based on your highest run of the week.

• Complete 2 Delves or world activities.
• Complete 4 Delves or world activities.
• Complete 8 Delves or world activities.

Here is a table covering the item level of rewards from Delves.

If you do not select any loot from the Great Vault, you will instead the Algari Token of Merit currency, based on the number of slots you have unlocked for that week:

• 2 Algari Token of Merit for 1 Great Vault slot.
• 4 Algari Token of Merit for 2 Great Vault slots.
• 6 Algari Token of Merit for 3+ Great Vault slots.

Algari Token of Merit can be exchanged at Ardgaz, standing near the Great Vault for the following items:

• Chest of Gold — Contains 1,000 gold. Costs 1 Algari Token of Merit.
• Golden Valorstone — Contains 75 Valorstones. Costs 1 Algari Token of Merit.
• Triumphant Satchel of Carved Harbinger Crests — Contains 15 Carved Harbinger Crests. Costs 1 Algari Token of Merit.
• Celebratory Pack of Runed Harbinger Crests — Contains 15 Runed Harbinger Crests. Costs 2 Algari Token of Merit.
• Nerubian Gemweaver — Adds a socket to a The War Within Season 1 item that does not already have one. Can be used on Helms, Bracers, or Belts. Costs 6 Algari Token of Merit.