[2020] Focused Feedback: The Vault

Hi friends!

First off, I wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to chime in with their feedback here. It’s super clear to me that you are really excited about the idea of the Vault and some of the items you can earn with it! As everything we do with Dauntless, we want to make sure that you have a great experience so I’m keeping a real close eye on the balancing of this system and I have a few ideas for future updates to make this as exciting and rewarding as possible.

Now that we have an initial release of the Vault and have some feedback from you as well as some analytical insights into the economy of it, I think we have a lot of room to start looking for improvements. Instead of reducing the price of items in the Vault, I’m really eager to explore options for adding more and new ways of earning Vault coins in your Dauntless journey.

Some ideas we’re tossing around are:

1. Having more events that make it easier to earn bonus Vault Coins throughout the season.
2. We’re also going to be adding some to next season's Hunt Pass straight up, so you feel like you’ve got a head start on your collection by the time you hit level 50 on your track.

I also totally get that people are now feeling stuck grinding out Heroic+. I definitely want it to feel like there is more than one path to success and the new Escalation season is a lot of fun, so I’m going to be doing some Hunt Pass XP rebalancing coming up in favour of Escalations in the next few days.

Thanks again for taking the time to give us such well-formed feedback. I genuinely appreciate it. I’m looking forward to continuing to balance the Vault.

See you in the Shattered Isles!

Hey, we understand it's a grind right now. Instead of lowering the cost of the items, we want to make Vault coins easier to attain. This will mean it will be easier to get through HP levels and we think it will benefit a lot of players.

As we try this out, we'll still be looking closely at feedback, so let us know how it feels in the future!

Great feedback! There are definitely going to be more things like dyes put into rotation. In fact I’m starting to think about what will be coming down in our future rotations right now and will put in a reminder for me to add a bit of variation. In regards to what goes in what slot, noted - I’ll monitor what’s working and make changes where things are not.

Thanks so much for your positivity and feedback! It’s really challenging to create a system that is engaging and also doesn’t invalidate the effort and platinum that people put into previous Hunt passes. I’ll continue to work on balancing this feature and make sure it ends up in the best possible place for players like you. This is our initial launch but my hands aren’t off the wheel yet.