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Midnight currencies and crests, explained

Crests, coins, sparks and shards: what each one is for, where it comes from, and which ones you are allowed to stop worrying about.

  1. Restored Coffer Key
  2. Coffer Key Shards
  3. Undercoin
  4. Untainted Mana-Crystals
  5. Field Accolades
  6. Crests
  7. Gear upgrade tracks

Restored Coffer Key

  • Opens the Bountiful Coffer at the end of a Bountiful delve. You do not need one to enter a delve.
  • Made from 100 Coffer Key Shards — entering a delve combines them for you. From Delver's Journey rank 6 you can also buy 2 a week from Naleidea Rivergleam in the Delver's HQ.
  • Each character has its own keys. Your count is on Delves & Vault; the Account snapshot shows the rest.

Coffer Key Shards

  • 100 shards make one Restored Coffer Key. Entering a delve combines them for you.
  • They come from the outdoors: the game names treasures, world quests and outdoor events, and rares pay them too.
  • Weekly earn cap of 600 — track 'Weekly: X / Y' on the Delves tab. That is about six keys a week. Delver's Journey rank 10 makes every source pay more.

Undercoin

  • Vendor currency for delve-related goods (curios, upgrades, convenience items).
  • Earn primarily from running delves and delve rewards.
  • Spend before hoarding blindly — check the delve vendor when you have a goal piece.

Untainted Mana-Crystals

  • Buys Hero gear from Zah'ran, the vendor who appears at the end of a Tier 6+ delve.
  • Only from Delver's Journey rank 9: then Tier 11 Bountiful Coffers can hold them (or a Hero item), and Tiers 8-10 give smaller amounts.
  • Account snapshot can show per-character totals.

Field Accolades

  • Shared currency for the Void & Rituals systems: you earn it from Ritual Sites and Void Assaults.
  • Spend it in the Bazaar in Silvermoon City: Maren Silverwing sells gear caches (Season 2: Adventurer gear for 200, Veteran gear for 500 at random or 750 for a slot you pick), Triam Dawnsetter sells cosmetics.
  • Live count on Void & Rituals tab.

Crests

  • The currency you spend to upgrade gear one rank at a time: 20 crests per rank, and each track takes only its own crest. Not tied to your Great Vault raid slots.
  • Crafters use them too: crests set the item level of a crafted piece.
  • Live crest counts are on Basics -> Crests (not in this list).
  • Until the week of 20 October there is a cap. It counts how many you have earned this season, not how many you are holding — spending crests does not free up room. It goes up by 100 every week. From the week of 20 October the cap is gone.
  • Not the same as delve keys — see that guide for what to spend them on.

Gear upgrade tracks

  • Gear doesn't just have an item level — it sits on a track. Low to high: Adventurer (green), Veteran, Champion, Hero, Myth.
  • A tooltip reading Hero 3/6 means: the Hero track, rank 3 of 6. Each rank you buy adds item level.
  • The track sets your ceiling — the tooltip shows the item level range it can reach. To climb past it you need a drop from a higher track.
  • Each track has its own crest colour. Harder content drops gear on a higher track — that's how you climb.
  • Outgrown a track? Trade lower crests up at Vaskarn. Upgrade at Cuzolth in Silvermoon — a rank costs that track's crests plus a little gold.
  • Each track has an achievement for outgrowing it, named after the season's own crest — in Season 2 the «…of the Mist» line. It halves that track's crest cost for your other characters, and (Adventurer to Hero) lets this character trade that crest up at Vaskarn: 30 for 10 of the next tier.
  • Live counts and waypoints: Basics -> Crests.

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