Why Should I do the Zskera Vaults?

The Onyx Annulet and the Primordial Stones needed to socket it are the primary motivations for exploring the Zskera Vaults. Although there are other things to do in the Forbidden Reach that will give you Primordial Stones, exploring the Zskera Vaults will give you considerably more Primordial Gems to either socket into your Onyx Annulet or break and buy more beneficial gems. In either case, you will need to visit a Zskera Vault at least once in order to get the ring and the power to work with gems.

There are also plenty of collectibles to be obtained in the Zskera Vaults, such as pets, toys and mounts.

Unlocking the Zskera Vaults

After finishing the Forbidden Reach’s introductory questline, the Zskera Vaults become accessible. Complete the following quests to get entrance to the Zskera Vaults after finishing the introduction questline, which unlocks World and Daily Quests in the Forbidden Reach:

• Helping Hand and Claw
• After completing that quest, return to Morqut Village and pick up Exploring Our Past
• Zskera Vault: Az – Unlock your first Zskera Vault and start exploring!

Are Zskera Vaults Account-Wide?

Zskera Vaults are NOT account-wide, thus you will need to complete the quest line for each character you are interested in in order to access the vaults, and each character will have their own unique set of vaults.

Zskera Vault Key, on the other hand, are account-wide goods that are used to unlock doors inside Zskera Vaults. As a result, you can send extra keys to other alts you might like to explore the vaults with or use numerous alts to funnel keys to one character.

Zskera Vault Basics

The Zskera Vaults can be reached at any time through a cave entrance in the northern part of Morqut Islet once they have been unlocked. There, a Dragonscale Expedition exploring team and a gateway can be found. You can enter the Vault by speaking with Pathfinder Jeb at any time.

You will enter the Vaults down a staircase that descends far below ground, and at the bottom of the stairs, you’ll find a sizable chamber filled with numerous locked doors. Zskera Vault Key, which is gained by completing tasks in the Forbidden Reach, is used to unlock the doors. The Vaults have 4 storeys in total, with the first floor having 5 doors and floors 2-4 having a total of 8 doors.

You will initially only have very limited access to the first-floor doors in the vaults, but as you unlock doors and solve the puzzles hidden behind each door, you will acquire resources that will let you proceed to the vault’s upper floors and loot chests in the uncovered rooms.

Onyx Annulet and Primordial Stones

An Unusual Ring will be lying on the ground at the first floor of a Zskera Vault when you first enter one. The quest The Lost Ring can be started by picking up this ring. This questline begins a questline that teaches you how to work with Primordial Stones and grants the Onyx Annulet ring.

Obtaining Zskera Vault Keys

You can get Zskera Vault Keys by finishing tasks in the Forbidden Reach. Account-wide Zskera Vault Keys exist. The following tasks in the Reach can be completed to get Zskera Vault keys:

• Chance to drop from killing mobs and rares at the Forbidden Reach;
• Guaranteed drop from Forbidden Hoard events in the Forbidden Reach;
• Chance to drop from Sack of Oddities, purchasable from Cataloger Daela at Morqut Village for 2000 each.

Spending Zskera Vault Keys

Doors in a Zskera Vault are unlocked using Zskera Vault Keys. You will need 28 Zskera Vault Keys in order to open every door that is accessible to one Vault per week, as each door needs one Vault Key. https://www.wowhead.com/robots.txt?upapi=trueAD

Multi-Room Zskera Vault Puzzles

There are several riddles in the Zskera Vault that can only be solved by visiting different rooms, despite the fact that the majority of them are simple and can be completed in just one. Following are a few illustrations of multiroom puzzles.

*Note: As locations of most rooms change within a Zskera Vault week after week, we’re unable to provide exact locations for the rooms described below.

Fire Rooms

In the Zskera Vaults, there may be certain rooms that are burning. If you try to rush into one of these rooms, you will take Fire damage. Find a Fire Crystal in another chamber in the Vault to gain Protective Ward of Flames, which will protect you from Fire damage for 10 minutes, allowing you to survive the harm and loot the boxes inside. The crystal may be used repeatedly.

Arcane Watcher Rooms

A watcher guarding a chest in some rooms will deliver arcane damage to anyone who enters his detection ring. Find an Arcane Crystal in another area of the Vault to obtain Reflective Arcane Ward, which will protect you from the watcher’s damage for 10 minutes, allowing you to survive the attack and loot the safe chest. The crystal may be used repeatedly.

Chests Encased in Stone

There will be certain chests that are covered in stone and cannot be looted. Find a room with two cauldrons, alchemy vials, and the chests to be looted. Choose one Empty Obsidian Vial from the Empty Vials on the ground, then use the empty vials to fill them with Stone Dissolver by placing them on the green cauldron. When you interact with the stone-encased chests, the stone will dissolve, allowing you to plunder them. 20 Empty Vials and 20 Stone Dissolvers can be held in your hands at once.

Frozen Rooms

The Zskera Vaults may contain several rooms that are frozen. If you try to enter this room, you will take Frost damage. Go to the same alchemy room mentioned above to obtain Empty Obsidian Vials from Empty Vials on the floor, then find a room with an Obsidian Sentry firing in circles – This room contains a cauldron that allows you to fill vials with Vial of Flames. This will allow you to withstand the damage and loot the chests inside. This vial can be used on the frozen room to melt the ice so you can plunder the chests inside.

Zskera Vault Cosmetic Rewards

At the Zskera Vaults, a variety of cosmetic goodies can be found.

Mounts

Mossy Mammoth

Obtained from finding and combinining items found in several chests through a Zskera Vault.

• Strange Petrified Orb and Scrap of Black Dragonscales combine into Particularly Ordinary Egg
• Particularly Ordinary Egg and Drop of Blue Dragon Magic combine into Magically Altered Egg
• Magically Altered Egg and Everburning Ruby Coals combine into Egg of Unknown Contents
• Egg of Unknown Contents and Speck of Bronze Dust combine into Sleeping Ancient Mammoth
• Sleeping Ancient Mammoth and Emerald Dragon Brooch combine into Mossy Mammoth.

Pets

Brightfeather

Random chance to drop from Hardened Chest found in the Zskera Vault, in a room with 2 chests wrapped in Stone Encasement. The chest itself has no requirements besides reaching the room.

Emmah

Fished up from a Zskera Vault’s Nasty Vat, which was in one of the rooms. If you have the ability to track fishing pools, the Disgusting Vat appears as a fishing pool and can be followed.

Gilded Mechafrog

Chance to be looted from Tattered Gift Package, obtained from turning in Neltharion Gift Token to the Prototype Tinker-Tron, hidden in one of the locked doors in the Zskera Vaults. Neltharion Gift Token can be found scattered around the vaults if you find a Energized Circlet in other rooms. Energized Circlets are usually standing by bookshelves.

Kobaldt

Located in one of the frozen rooms in the Vaults. An Inanimate Crystalspine will be found by a sled. To reanimate it, find a Ley-Infused Crystal in another room and bring it to the Inanimated Crystalspine, and it will revive the creature, giving you the Battle Pet.

Patos

Found in an aquarium room. First grab the 3 Escaped Fish and throw them back into the aquarium, then find a room with Empty Vials, collect at least one Empty Obsidian Vial, interact with Restorative Water in the same room to obtain Restorative Water, and return to the aquarium room and use the vial on the aquarium to obtain the Battle Pet.

Toys

Holoviewer: The Lady of Dreams, Holoviewer: The Scarlet Queen, Holoviewer: The Timeless One

A common room on the fourth floor of the Zskera Vaults is the opera room, where this item is kept in a chest. Each Zskera Vault will only allow the looting of one toy per week, and the same character may loot duplicates. The only prerequisite is getting into the room.

Spore-Bound Essence

Located in a room full of bone piles and an Overgrown Skeleton. To obtain this toy, find a room with Empty Vials, collect at least one Empty Obsidian Vial, interact with Restorative Water in the same room to obtain Restorative Water, return to the bone pile room and use the Restorative Water on the Overgrown Skeleton to obtain the toy.