The Great Vault Guide for Midnight

Great Vault Guide Quick Facts:

1. The Great Vault rewards you for playing endgame activities like raids, dungeons, and world content as much as possible
2. Each type of activity has its own reward track with up to 3 rewards unlocked by completing a set of objectives: activities completed or bosses defeated
3. You can claim only one reward from the vault, no matter how many rewards you unlocked
4. You claim the reward on the next weekly reset based on how much you’ve done in the previous week
5. There’s also a currency in case you don’t want any of the Great Vault rewards

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What is the Great Vault in Midnight?

To put it simply, the Great Vault is a reward system that encourages you to engage with the game’s content as much as possible. The more you play a certain type of content, the more rewards you’ll get next week. It’s a source of additional gear on top of what you get for completing raids, m+ dungeons, and world content such as events, world quests, etc. Here’s how it works:

• The Vault has 3 types of rewards based on the endgame activity: raids, dungeons, and world.
• Each reward type has 3 tiers tied to objectives that are either activity completion or boss kills.
• Every week (on a reset day), you can claim only 1 out of a maximum of 9 rewards based on how many activities you’ve completed in the previous week.

What is the point of doing as many activities as the Great Vault can reward you for? Just so you can choose the best item out of all those on offer. So, if you have done only 2 dungeons last week, you can only choose 1 reward. But if you’ve done 6 raids, 8 dungeons, and 8 world activities, you get to pick from 9 different items.

Note that rewards are not available as soon as you complete the required number of activities; they only become available on the day of the reset. More on that later.

Great Vault Location

In the Midnight expansion, the Great Vault is located in Silvermoon City, as this is the main hub for this expansion. It’s almost in the center of the city, to the north-east of the Sanctum of Light, and in the same building as the portals to Stormwind and Orgrimmar. This Great Vault can be used by players from the Alliance and Horde. However, Horde players do get their own Great Vault by the Royal Exchange. Although Horde’s Vault does not have the Merit Exchanger NPC. Here are the coordinates to find both:

• Common Great Vault: 50.2 66.2
• Horde’s Great Vault: 71.8 65.1

To use these coordinates, install the TomTom addon and then type /way 50.2 66.2 into the chat window. This will create a pin on your map and a little arrow on the mini-map to help you find it.

When Does the Great Vault Reset

If you play WoW, you might already know that every week there’s a big reset when weekly progress and activities reset, allowing players to play them again and get more rewards. For the Great Vault, though, this is when the rewards become obtainable based on how many objectives you’ve completed last week. If you intend to use Great Vault to gear up, you should make note of when the reset happens. Here’s a quick reference table for the weekly reset timing:

Region	Day	Time (UTC)	Local Example
EU	Wednesday	04:00	4 AM UK
US	Tuesday	15:00	10 AM ET / 7 AM PT

Just to reiterate on how this works - if you open the Great Vault this week, you’ll see the rewards in the Vault based on last week’s progress.

Great Vault Objective Paths

Previously, I’ve said that Great Vault counts the number of completions of different activity types you do in a week. While this is mostly true, it’s worth looking into this in more detail. Here’s what the Great Vault objectives actually are like:

• Raids - Defeat X amount of Midnight Raid Bosses
• Dungeons - Complete X amount of Heroic, Mythic, or Timewalking Dungeons
• World - Complete X amount of Delves or World Activities

Based on the number of activities completed (or bosses defeated in the case of raids), you can unlock up to 3 rewards in each track, but can only claim one of them.

Raid Objectives

Since raids are more time-consuming than any other type of endgame content in WoW, the Great Vault counts the number of raid bosses defeated rather than the number of times you completed a raid. This makes it more manageable to unlock all 3 rewards from this track in the Great Vault. Here’s the number of bosses you need to defeat to unlock each reward:

1. Defeat 2 Midnight Season 1 Bosses - unlocks the 1st raid track reward
2. Defeat 4 Midnight Season 1 Bosses - unlocks the 2nd raid track reward
3. Defeat 6 Midnight Season 1 Bosses - unlocks the 3rd raid track reward

The rewards from this track are actually the items and gear from those raid loot pools. And if you want to see a better quality or higher ilvl raid gear in your Great Vault on the next reset, make sure to complete the raids on the highest available difficulty. The Great Vault remembers the greatest difficulty of raids that you have done, each of the objectives from the raid track.

This might need some further explanation - let’s say you’ve done your first raid in the week on LFR difficulty and the second one on Normal. That will mean that the first raid reward in the Great Vault will be of the same quality and ilvl as the Normal difficulty loot.

If you then decide to kill 2 more bosses on LFR difficulty, the second Great Vault Reward will be the same as LFR gear.

In cases where you skipped bosses in the raid (possible if you joined the raid party late), the Great Vault will still offer the gear from all of the bosses prior to the one you killed. The order is the same as the order of bosses in the raid or Adventurer Guide if the raid has no strict encounter order.

Dungeon Objectives

The same principle applies to completing dungeons; only the numbers are different, and you get way more options in terms of the dungeon choice. The second reward track can be done in any of the available dungeon types besides the outdated ones. It also won’t work with the difficulty level lower than Heroic. Here’s the number of dungeon completions you need for each reward to unlock:

1. Complete 1 Dungeon - unlocks the 1st dungeon track reward
2. Complete 4 Dungeons - unlocks the 2nd dungeon raid track reward
3. Complete 8 Dungeons - unlocks the 3rd dungeon track reward

The difficulty and quality of items inside the Great Vault in the dungeons track follow the same rules as for raids. Although it gets a bit more complicated with Mythic+.

Mythic+ works a little differently from regular dungeons because your Vault rewards are based on your best runs of the week, not just how many dungeons you finished.

If you complete up to 3 Mythic+ dungeons, you unlock 1 Vault choice. That item level is based on your highest completed key.

If you complete 4 to 7 Mythic+ dungeons, you unlock 2 Vault choices. The first is based on your highest completed key, while the second is based on your 4th highest completed key.

If you complete 8 or more Mythic+ dungeons, you unlock 3 Vault choices. The first is based on your highest completed key, the second on your 4th highest key, and the third on your 8th highest key.

What matters here is your completed runs sorted from highest to lowest. The order you did them in does not matter at all.

For example, if your weekly runs are +9, +9, +9, +7, +7, +5, +5, +5, +5, +4, and +4, your three Vault choices will be based on these breakpoints:

• highest key: +9
• 4th highest key: +7
• 8th highest key: +5

That means your first reward uses your best run, your second reward uses the fourth-best run, and your third reward uses the eighth-best run.

 

 

World Objectives

Arguably, the simplest type of activity to do if you play casually is the World activities, which include:

• World Quests
• Weekly zone events like Ritual Sites
• Delves
• Rare elites
• World bosses
• Prey System

So again, you have a bunch of options, all of which you can do sort of on the way. Difficulty-wise, all world activities have the same quality of rewards as Tier-1 Delves, so if you want to choose between better rewards in this track, you will have to do higher-tier Delves only. Here’s the number of completions to unlock each reward:

1. Complete 2 Delves or World activities - unlocks the 1st world track reward
2. Complete 4 Delves or World activities - unlocks the 2nd world track reward
3. Complete 8 Delves or World activities - unlocks the 3rd world track reward

And that’s all there is to know about this reward track of the Great Vault, but there’s more to this system yet.

Thalassian Token of Merit Explained

There’s a Great Vault-related currency called Token of Merit, with Midnight’s version going by the name of Thalassian Token of Merit. It exists so that you still feel rewarded for doing all of that content multiple times, even if the Great Vault rewards aren’t what you expected or needed. So, every time you complete an objective in the Great Vault, you get some amount of these tokens:

• 2 Thalassian Token of Merit for completing one objective
• 4 Thalassian Token of Merit for completing two objectives
• 6 Thalassian Token of Merit for completing three objectives

You can only have 12 tokens at a time, and this is a seasonal currency, which means there’ll be new ones in Season 2. Previous season currency can be sold for 500 gold per token. Otherwise, you spend this currency at the Token of Merit Exchange vendor standing next to the Great Vault.

Great Vault Rewards

This has been a long time coming, because the raid, Delves, and m+ dungeons all have their own loot pool, and then there’s also whatever the token of Merit Exchange vendor sells, so let’s take a look at everything you can get from the Great Vault. So, let’s break down everything you can get from the Great Vault.

Raid Great Vault Rewards

Midnight Season 1 raid loot gets stronger deeper into the raid, even within the same difficulty. Earlier bosses drop items at the start of the track, while later bosses drop pieces that are already further upgraded. Here is how Heroic and Mythic raid loot compare side by side:

Boss	Heroic Drop	Heroic Item Level	Mythic Drop	Mythic Item Level
Imperator Averzian	Hero 1/6	259	Myth 1/6	272
Vorasius	Hero 2/6	263	Myth 2/6	276
Fallen-King Salhadaar	Hero 2/6	263	Myth 2/6	276
Chimaerus the Undreamt God	Hero 2/6	263	Myth 2/6	276
Vaelgor & Ezzorak	Hero 3/6	266	Myth 3/6	279
Lightblinded Vanguard	Hero 3/6	266	Myth 3/6	279
Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar	Hero 3/6	266	Myth 3/6	279
Crown of the Cosmos	Hero 4/6	269	Myth 4/6	282
Midnight Falls	Hero 4/6	269	Myth 4/6	282

This progression applies to direct raid drops. Great Vault raid rewards work differently, since they are based on the highest difficulty you cleared that week rather than the position of the boss inside the raid.

Delve Great Vault Rewards

Delves have their own reward scale, and the item level of your Vault reward depends on the highest Delve tier you completed during the week. The better the Delve tier, the better the Vault reward.

Delve Tier	Reward Track	Item Level
1	Veteran 1/6	233
2	Veteran 2/6	237
3	Veteran 3/6	240
4	Veteran 4/6	243
5	Champion 1/6	246
6	Champion 3/6	253
7	Champion 4/6	256
8 and above	Hero 1/6	269

This makes Delve tier 8 the big breakpoint. Once you reach that level, your Vault reward jumps straight to Hero track gear, which is a major boost compared to lower-tier Delves.

 

 

Mythic+ Great Vault Rewards

Mythic+ works a little differently, because the Great Vault rewards are actually higher than the loot that drops from the end-of-dungeon chest. That makes the Vault one of the biggest reasons to keep pushing keys every week.

Keystone Level	End of Dungeon	Crest Rewarded	Great Vault
2	250, Champion 2/6	10 Hero Dawncrests	259, Hero 1/6
3	250, Champion 2/6	12 Hero Dawncrests	259, Hero 1/6
4	253, Champion 3/6	14 Hero Dawncrests	263, Hero 2/6
5	256, Champion 4/6	16 Hero Dawncrests	263, Hero 2/6
6	259, Hero 1/6	18 Hero Dawncrests	266, Hero 3/6
7	259, Hero 1/6	10 Myth Dawncrests	269, Hero 4/6
8	263, Hero 2/6	12 Myth Dawncrests	269, Hero 4/6
9	263, Hero 2/6	14 Myth Dawncrests	269, Hero 4/6
10+	266, Hero 3/6	16 Myth Dawncrests	272, Myth 1/6

The key thing here is simple: the dungeon chest gives decent loot, but the weekly Vault gives the real prize. Even a +2 already gives a Vault reward higher than the item that drops at the end of the run, and that gap continues as you push higher keys.

If you don't know what the Dawncrests are, check out my gearing guide for Season 1.

Token of Merit Exchange Vendor

If none of your Vault choices are useful, you can instead take Thalassian Tokens of Merit and spend them at Vaultkeeper Elysa, who stands next to the neutral Great Vault.

Item	Cost	Notes
Radiant Jewelbinder	6	Adds a socket to a Midnight Season 1 item that does not already have one. Works on Helms, Bracers, and Belts. Cannot be used on PvP gear.
Triumphant Satchel of Champion Dawncrests	1	Grants 10 Champion Dawncrests.
Celebratory Pack of Hero Dawncrests	2	Grants 10 Hero Dawncrests.
Chest of Gold	2	Contains 1000 gold.

In most cases, the socket item is the most valuable long-term choice, especially once your gear starts getting harder to replace. The crest bags are also useful if you still need upgrade currency, while the gold cache is mostly a fallback option when nothing else helps.

How to Get the Best Value Out of the Great Vault

Don’t think for a second that you’re getting the best value by unlocking all 3 rewards in the Great Vault so that you have the most amount of choices to pick from on the next reset. That’s not how it works. To get the most out of this vault, all you need is to hit the breakpoints and give yourself the best choices to pick from.

Most players go for the highest M+ keys they have, as the dungeon row in the Great Vault gives you the best value for the time spent on it because Mythic+ rewards are based on your highest run, then your 4th-highest, and then your 8th-highest run of the week.

A simple way to think about it is this:

• Start with one strong Mythic+ run
• Improve your 4th-best run if you can do it without much trouble
• Only push for 8 dungeon clears if your 8th-best run will still be useful
• Treat the world row as bonus value unless you are doing high-end Delves or Prey
• Focus the raid row when you want a specific raid item, not just any upgrade

This is why one high key plus filler runs often give better value than spamming lots of average keys. You should also be selective when choosing between gear and tokens. A Vault item is usually the right pick if it is a real upgrade you will equip right away, especially in slots like weapons, trinkets, or pieces that are hard to replace. If the Vault only offers weak sidegrades, awkward stats, or items you expect to replace soon, then Thalassian Tokens of Merit are often the smarter long-term choice.

In short, do one strong key first, only add more dungeon runs if they improve your real breakpoints, use the raid row for specific loot you actually want, and treat the world row as efficient bonus value unless you are doing Tier 8 Delves or Nightmare Prey.

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