Restoring Coffer Key Shards to Loot Bountiful Delves in Midnight

Posted 2026/03/18 at 1:21 PM by Archimtiros

Restored Coffer KeyCoffer Key Shardplayers can only gain 600 shards per week

Certain quests, including favors during Saltheril's Soiree award 25-35 shards.

Rare mobs award 50 shards each.

Prey Hunts award 75 shards each.

Weekly activity rewards, such special assignment world quests and Apex Cache award 100 shards.

Naleidea RivergleamDelver's Starter Kit

After completing the The Season Starts: Midnight introductory quest, the Delver's Starter Kit tooltip will state that it gives 200 coffer key shards, though this is not actually the case and likely just a holdover from the previous system. We can confirm it continues to give two full keys that do not count against the weekly cap. The bag is limited to one per warband though, so purchase wisely.

Naleidea RivergleamCoffer Key Glue

Comment by KerathrasConverting the shards to keys is easy, simply walk into a delve and it will be done for you! While shards are capped each week, Keys are not, so converting them will help ensure you continue earning shards towards the cap each week.Comment by stymSo there is a hard cap of 6 keys per week? That's definitely down from TWW, where you could easily earn 8 to 10 keys.Comment by SineruConverting the shards to keys is easy, simply walk into a delve and it will be done for you! While shards are capped each week, Keys are not, so converting them will help ensure you continue earning shards towards the cap each week.Comment by stymConverting the shards to keys is easy, simply walk into a delve and it will be done for you! While shards are capped each week, Keys are not, so converting them will help ensure you continue earning shards towards the cap each week.Comment by GnomesRuleThis is a great improvement. Shards don't take up bag space any more, they combine automatically when entering a Delve, and it's much easier to farm them as well. Also the Vault finally shows completed Delve Tiers in the tooltip, similar to M+ Dungeons.
Also for people complaining, we started the season with 2 keys and soon we can purchase keys from the vendor, that's all over the 6 keys you can get from the fragments.Comment by PhaelienIt's a more elegant system than what we had in TWW, that's for sure. Keeping track of both key rewards and shards, and converting shards to keys wasn't exactly difficult, but it was cumbersome compared to having the shards as a currency and just walking into a delve.Comment by imdopeyI am really happy with the change to more sources for the coffer key shards. No more checking the map every day to make sure you didn't miss a coffer key world quest.Comment by stymThis is a great improvement. Shards don't take up bag space any more, they combine automatically when entering a Delve, and it's much easier to farm them as well. Also the Vault finally shows completed Delve Tiers in the tooltip, similar to M+ Dungeons.
Also for people complaining, we started the season with 2 keys and soon we can purchase keys from the vendor, that's all over the 6 keys you can get from the fragments.Comment by ApturoTopturoJust get rid of shards and make it full keys again, the system was fine and then they turned it into a mess with extra steps, I thought this xpac was about simplifying things?Comment by PixelfoxOn a related note, the cost to buy one of the gadgets that summons the nemesis has gone from 2,000 delver's currency in TWW to 5,000 in Midnight, which is a HUGE nerf and makes the whole gearing system more RNG dependent unless they greatly increased the drop rate on these or have a guaranteed nemesis spawn after so many delves. No more buy one each week and do your 3-4 T11 delves and done.

Also beware of things that are warband wide like the two free starter keys you get for doing the Midnight Delve S1 introduction quest. The character that does it will get two keys, and all your other characters will be out of luck.Comment by TinyOctopus
Could you clarify where those two starter keys come from? I certainly didn't collect any before todayComment by Cikala
Could you clarify where those two starter keys come from? I certainly didn't collect any before todayComment by lordlexxThe random treasures in each zone were giving me 13 coffer key shards per container. Was farming those for the weekly knowledge point items and got them.. was already capped though from doing other quests lolComment by Sarielyn
Could you clarify where those two starter keys come from? I certainly didn't collect any before todayComment by bluechameleonOn a related note, the cost to buy one of the gadgets that summons the nemesis has gone from 2,000 delver's currency in TWW to 5,000 in Midnight, which is a HUGE nerf and makes the whole gearing system more RNG dependent unless they greatly increased the drop rate on these or have a guaranteed nemesis spawn after so many delves. No more buy one each week and do your 3-4 T11 delves and done.A Nightmarish TaskComment by bodhiranaSoooo... you cannot get more than 600 shards a week. You need 2K for a key. So you need 2.333333333333333333 weeks to get a key. Or 4 keys every 7 weeks.Comment by ArchimtirosSoooo... you cannot get more than 600 shards a week. You need 2K for a key. So you need 2.333333333333333333 weeks to get a key. Or 4 keys every 7 weeks.Beacon of HopeUndercoinComment by selkiesidheYou know whats fun? Capping stuff like this.

SAID NO ONE EVERComment by BelziBhaalIdiotic #$%^&*ed system that needs to be removed. If you do a bountiful delve - and come on, nobody does delves that aren't bountiful - then you should be rewarded appropriately. Timegating gear like this is one of the most !@#$%ic game design decisions ever.Comment by ChettiGood change really, frees up bag slots and just converts currency to currency upon walking into a delve. Easy. Being able to earn 6 from sources (quest boxes, etc) is higher than the 4 keys that could come from weekly boxes. Not including extras, a good change all around.