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How The Great Vault Works in WoW: All Objectives & Rewards

Want some help getting to grips with the Great Vault in WoW? This guide will give you all the details on this endgame weekly reward system.

The Great Vault is a vital part of World of Warcraft’s endgame and a key way for players to improve their character and take on the game’s more challenging content.

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By completing certain objectives, players will be able to earn more options for extra loot after a hard week of grinding and taking on the game’s content, all of which will help towards taking on more challenges as you progress. To help you get to grips with this important gameplay feature, we’ve put together this guide with all the details on how the Great Vault works in World of Warcraft, including each objective’s requirements and the rewards players can expect to get.

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What Is The Great Vault In World of Warcraft?

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The Great Vault is a weekly reward system that gives players an extra piece of loot for completing objectives in WoW’s endgame. Every week, as players complete certain content, they will unlock slots within the Great Vault, and players can then choose a piece of loot to claim for their hard work after the weekly maintenance and reset. This occurs on Tuesdays from 07:00 to 08:00 PST for the US and Wednesdays from 03:00 to 04:00 CEST for the EU.

The Great Vault is located in Valdrakken, the main city of the Dragonflight expansion, with the exact coordinates being 55.52 57.23. You can see its location on your map by looking for the lock symbol.

Great Vault Objectives in WoW Dragonflight

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The Great Vault has three categories of objectives: Raids, Dungeons, and PvP. Each of these has three slots, for a total of nine potential rewards for players to choose from.

Below are the details on what requirements you need to meet to unlock the slots in the Great Vault for each of these categories.

Raid

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To earn raid rewards, you must defeat several raid bosses for the current season’s raid. At the time of writing, this is Amirdrassil, The Dream’s Hope. You unlock each slot after defeating two, four, and seven bosses, respectively, and will earn rewards up to the furthest boss you kill in the raid.

For example, suppose you defeat the fourth and fifth bosses but not the previous three. In that case, the one slot you unlock will potentially have the loot from the first to the fifth boss of the raid, meaning you don’t necessarily need to do every boss in the raid if you choose not to or are looking for a specific item.

Similarly to dungeons, there are Normal, Heroic, and Mythic raid levels, and these rewards will be at the same level as the raid you cleared, so if you do the raid on Heroic difficulty, your loot will be Heroic level quality.

Dungeons

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Earning dungeon rewards requires completing dungeons at the Heroic, Mythic, Mythic+, and Timewalking levels, with Timewalking dungeons counting as Heroics. To unlock your slots, you will need to complete one, four, and eight dungeons, and these can be a mixture of difficulties.

Mythic+ Dungeons

The most effective and highest rewards in this category come from Mythic+ dungeons. These involve using a Keystone, an item given to you from the Great Vault or an NPC, to take on dungeons at ever-increasing difficulty within a time limit, with Affixes that alter the expereince and better loot for higher difficulty keys.

These rewards will be drawn from all the dungeons you complete to unlock these slots and will be higher than loot dropped in dungeons. Their item level, which determines their power and stats, differs depending on your highest, fourth-highest, and eighth-highest dungeons completed. It can be confusing, so we will break it down for you.

If you complete under four Mythic+ dungeons, you will be rewarded one slot with the ilvl based on the best dungeon you complete. If you do more than four, you will get two slots; the first slot will be based on the highest level dungeon you complete, and the second will be based on the fourth highest you complete. If you manage to do eight, your first reward slot will be based on the highest level dungeon you complete; the second will be based on the fourth-highest; your third will be based on your eighth highest.

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It is possible to improve your slots by completing a Mythic+ dungeon of a higher level to update them, so as an example, if your third slot was a Mythic five and you completed three more Mythic six or higher, your third slot will update to Mythic six for its reward.

Below, we have listed the rewards table for Mythic+ dungeons that you will find in the Great Vault.

Difficulty (Dungeon Level)Great Vault ilvl Reward
2454
3457
4460
5460
6463
7463
8467
9467
10470
11470
12473
13473
14473
15476
16476
17476
18480
19480
20483

PvP

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Completing Rated PvP will add these slots to your Great Vault, with their item level determined by the highest rating you achieve in the week. This requires you to earn 1,250, 2,500, and 5,000 Honor from Rated PvP games to earn each respective slot.

How To View Your Great Vault Rewards In WoW

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You can check on your Great Vault rewards by going to the Great Vault in Valdrakken, or more conveniently, you can open the Party Finder with hotkey I, and you can click the Mythic+ dungeon tab, and you should see a lock symbol on the center of the UI, click this, and it will bring up the Great Vault UI, and you can see your current progress for the week.

As a side note, you still need to go to the Great Vault to open it after reset.

Other Rewards From The Great Vault

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If you don’t see anything you want in your Great Vault, you can get another reward called Aspects’ Token of Merit. This currency can be used to purchase items from Evantkis, an NPC found to the right of the Great Vault.

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You can hold up to 12 of these tokens, and you will receive two for completing one objective, four for achieving two objectives, and six for completing three or more objectives.

The items for sale are as follows:

ItemCostDescription
Nature’s Cradle6 TokensAdd a socket to a Dragonflight Season 3 item that does not already have one. Can be used on Helms, Bracers, Belts, or Rings.
Ruby Flightstone1 TokenContains 75 Flightstones.
Gleaming Satchel of Drake’s Dreaming Crests1 TokenUsed to upgrade higher-level Veteran and lower-level Champion gear.
Shimmering Clutch of Wyrm’s Dreaming Crests2 TokenUsed to upgrade higher-level Champion and lower-level Hero gear, or to craft an optional reagent for crafted gear.
Splintered Spark of Dreams 2 TokenCombine 2 Splintered Spark of Dreams with 250 Flightstones to create a  Spark of Dreams.
Chest of Gold2 TokenContains 1000 gold.

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Matt is a freelance writer based in the UK and has spent over three years covering and writing about video games. He discovered his love of games journalism while attending Canterbury Christchurch University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in Game Design and has been writing ever since. He will find any excuse to play and write about games. When he isn't fighting dragons or exploring far-off galaxies, he spends his free time playing D&D, listening to music, or reading a good book. His primary game bests are Diablo IV, the Final Fantasy series, D&D, and anything new releasing that tickles his fancy.