Key Fragments Make No Sense...

Atherakhia · September 2020

I've never bothered with key fragments. Imagine my surprise when simply walking into the vault room magically converts all of my fragments into multiple keys without even the slightest hint that it will happen. Then imagine my surprise when ZOS made it so the keys are specific to the vault you go in. So I now have a dozen keys that are of absolutely no value. There needs to be some warning to the player that they're about to do something that can't be taken back. It shouldn't just automatically do it to 15 stacks of fragments upon entering a vault.

Dark_Lord_Kuro · September 2020

Atherakhia wrote: »

I've never bothered with key fragments. Imagine my surprise when simply walking into the vault room magically converts all of my fragments into multiple keys without even the slightest hint that it will happen. Then imagine my surprise when ZOS made it so the keys are specific to the vault you go in. So I now have a dozen keys that are of absolutely no value. Even novice game designers don't make mistakes like this.

Did you prefer as it was before every vault had there own specific key fragment? I cant remember the detail as i went to ic twice before the change
The first was on release date with a lv45 character(pre-one tamriel player will know hom much of a chance that character had to survive aggaint mostly anything) seccond was my first real try with a new cp112 characters so i didnt farmed those fragment myselfbut from what i recall any could drop from any source current fragment could multiplying farm time by a lot if you were unlucky

JamieAubrey · September 2020

Yeah before the change I ( as AD ) had to go to the DC sewers and farm there for Willpower keys

cnyanes · September 2020

Though it's true that some kind of alert wouldn't be bad at all, I have to agree that the old system was crap... placing your key fragments in the bank so they don't get blasted when you enter a vault seems to be the way to go.

newtinmpls · September 2020

cnyanes wrote: »

Though it's true that some kind of alert wouldn't be bad at all, I have to agree that the old system was crap... placing your key fragments in the bank so they don't get blasted when you enter a vault seems to be the way to go.

I tend to keep them on a particular character who doesn't PvP or go to IC so I don't even go into a vault with keys "by accident"

Yes it's frustrating, but the old system was worse.

luen79rwb17_ESO · September 2020

Old system was a pain and add to an already lacking inventory system.

Atherakhia · September 2020

I've only been playing about 10 months now so I'm not at all familiar with the old system. However, it makes the current system that much more disheartening knowing that this is supposed to be the better system. The fact that the chests are in unique instances likely means we don't even need unique keys for unique chests. Just a generic key for all of them.

But there are countless way they could have done this.

1.) No unique keys at all.
2.) A vendor to buy unique keys with fragments.
3.) No need for fragments at all and just let us buy keys with Tel Var.
4.) How about a tip on the loading screen for ICP and WGT saying how the fragments work?

That took me all of 30 seconds to come up with. I'm not sure how we ended up with what we have now.

polaris86 · May 2023

I'm resurrecting this thread to say this behavior sucks. I had a big stack of key fragments and was going to finish my achievement. Not knowing this behavior, it made like 6 Legionary Chest keys upon entering the first vault.

PLEASE change this to where ONE key is assembled when entering the vault (or ideally when activating the chest). No need for separate fragments.

XSTRONG · May 2023

polaris86 wrote: »

I'm resurrecting this thread to say this behavior sucks. I had a big stack of key fragments and was going to finish my achievement. Not knowing this behavior, it made like 6 Legionary Chest keys upon entering the first vault.

PLEASE change this to where ONE key is assembled when entering the vault (or ideally when activating the chest). No need for separate fragments.

Tip.. If you dont want the chest dont go in

Goldie · May 2023

Atherakhia wrote: »

I've never bothered with key fragments. Imagine my surprise when simply walking into the vault room magically converts all of my fragments into multiple keys without even the slightest hint that it will happen. Then imagine my surprise when ZOS made it so the keys are specific to the vault you go in. So I now have a dozen keys that are of absolutely no value. There needs to be some warning to the player that they're about to do something that can't be taken back. It shouldn't just automatically do it to 15 stacks of fragments upon entering a vault.

This exact thing happened to me as I planned to go to each of the vaults - but the first one screwed me completely.

ZOS added too much too fast, and didnt think about every little detail, so they could stand to update a lot of things. Maybe one of these days we can get a quality of life update and not a rush to puke out a new chapter.

Goldie · May 2023

XSTRONG wrote: »

polaris86 wrote: »

I'm resurrecting this thread to say this behavior sucks. I had a big stack of key fragments and was going to finish my achievement. Not knowing this behavior, it made like 6 Legionary Chest keys upon entering the first vault.

PLEASE change this to where ONE key is assembled when entering the vault (or ideally when activating the chest). No need for separate fragments.

Tip.. If you dont want the chest dont go in

They WANT the chest - but they DONT want all of their fragments turned into useless keys for THAT chest upon entering. Nowhere in the game is this noted or explained until its too late and hours worth of game time is wasted due to a poorly designed system. Of course, you already know all that - you just wanted to leave a baited reply, classy.

SoraJP · May 2023

I think the easiest way they could do this would be to have no unique keys at all, and only consumes fragments when you open the chest, not when you enter the room.

Necrotech_Master · May 2023

when i used to save key frags i would put them in a storage chest in my house, and when i wanted to go into a vault i would get the specific amount of keys i needed for the amount of times to open the chest, and then go to the vault

nowadays i dont hardly keep any keys because i sell them all for like 600g each lol

ZOS_Phoenix · May 2023

Greetings,

We've closed this thread given its age and that some information may be out of date. If you wish to continue discussing this topic please create a new thread.

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ZOS_Phoenix