Dragonflight Season 4 Great Vault: Two Sockets a Week, Half Price
Aspects' Token of Merit was Dragonflight Season 4's Great Vault overflow currency, and half-price Eye of Awakening sockets meant two gems a week.
By:
John Langan
Key Takeaways
- Aspects' Token of Merit was Dragonflight Season 4's Great Vault "overflow" currency, picked from the weekly chest whenever none of the gear rewards appealed.
- The Eye of Awakening socket consumable was cut from 6 tokens to 3 for Season 4, the "half price" that gave the original news its headline.
- A maxed-out week earned 6 tokens, and at 3 tokens per socket that bought exactly two sockets per week.
- Token earnings scaled with Great Vault progress: 2 tokens for one unlocked objective, 4 for two, and 6 for three or more, capped at a stack of 12.
- The vendor Evantkis stood next to the Great Vault in Valdrakken and also sold Flightstones, Awakened Crests, and gold for the same tokens.
- This was a Patch 10.2.6 feature only; Blizzard retired the token in Patch 11.0.2, so it reads today as a Dragonflight-era reference rather than a live tactic.
Season 4 "Awakened" was Dragonflight's send-off season, and its Great Vault carried one of the quietest quality-of-life wins of the patch. Here is how the token economy worked and why socket farming briefly got twice as fast.
How the Great Vault overflow currency worked
Every week the Great Vault offered a choice of gear from the slots you had filled through raiding, Mythic+, and PvP. When none of those pieces was an upgrade, Season 4 let you take a stack of Aspects' Token of Merit instead, turning a dead vault week into steady currency rather than a shrug.
The amount you banked tracked how much of the vault you had unlocked that week:
- One Great Vault objective completed earned 2 tokens.
- Two objectives earned 4 tokens.
- Three or more objectives earned the weekly maximum of 6 tokens.
Tokens stacked to a cap of 12, roughly two weeks of banking, so you could save a little but not hoard indefinitely. That cap nudged players to spend rather than sit on a full stack.
Half-price sockets and the Eye of Awakening math
The flagship purchase was the Eye of Awakening, a consumable that added a socket to a Season 4 item that did not already have one. It worked on Helms, Bracers, Belts, and Rings, the four slots that could take an extra gem.
For Season 4 its price dropped to 3 tokens, down from the 6 it had cost before. That halving is where the "two sockets per week" promise came from: a player who unlocked three or more vault objectives banked 6 tokens, and 6 tokens bought two Eyes of Awakening, so two fresh sockets every reset. Over a month that was eight extra gem slots spread across bracers, rings, and a belt, a meaningful secondary-stat gain for raid and Mythic+ pushing alike.
What else Evantkis sold
The tokens were not socket-only. Evantkis, the vendor standing beside the Great Vault in Valdrakken, stocked a short list of catch-up wares priced in the same currency:
| Item | Cost | What it gave |
|---|---|---|
| Eye of Awakening | 3 tokens | Added a socket to a Season 4 Helm, Bracer, Belt, or Ring without one. |
| Ruby Flightstone | 1 token | Contained 75 Flightstones for gear upgrades. |
| Restless Satchel of Drake's Awakened Crests | 1 token | Contained 15 Drake's Awakened Crests. |
| Lively Clutch of Wyrm's Awakened Crests | 2 tokens | Contained 15 Wyrm's Awakened Crests. |
| Chest of Gold | 2 tokens | Contained 1,000 gold. |
| Splintered Spark of Awakening | 6 tokens | A crafting spark reagent for high-end profession gear. |
Awakened Crests were Season 4's upgrade currency, running Whelpling's, Drake's, Wyrm's, and Aspect's tiers, so the satchels gave returning players a way to convert spare vault weeks straight into gear progress.
Why it mattered for Season 4 gearing
Sockets were one of the cheapest stat boosts in the game, and the half-price Eye of Awakening turned a lucky vault into a reliable gem pipeline. A player chasing a rating push could top off bracers, a belt, and both rings in a couple of weeks without touching the auction house. The Crest satchels and Flightstone bundles, meanwhile, smoothed the grind for alts and late starters who jumped into the Awakened raids partway through the season. The Great Vault's slots filled fastest through group content, so plenty of players chose to book a WoW raid boost to keep those token weeks flowing.
FAQ
What was Aspects' Token of Merit in Dragonflight Season 4?
It was the Great Vault overflow currency for Patch 10.2.6. When you did not want any of your weekly vault gear, you could take a stack of tokens instead and spend them on sockets, Crests, Flightstones, or gold from the vendor Evantkis.
How many tokens could you earn per week?
Up to 6. Completing one Great Vault objective gave 2 tokens, two objectives gave 4, and three or more gave the weekly cap of 6. Your stash stacked to a maximum of 12.
How did you get two sockets per week?
The Eye of Awakening cost 3 tokens during Season 4, half its previous price. A full 6-token week bought two of them, and each added one socket, so a maxed week produced two new sockets.
Which gear slots could the Eye of Awakening socket?
Helms, Bracers, Belts, and Rings, as long as the Season 4 item did not already have a socket. Weapons and other armor slots were not eligible.
Who was Evantkis and where did you find him?
Evantkis was the Season 4 vendor positioned right next to the Great Vault in Valdrakken, so you could claim your weekly reward and spend tokens in the same spot.
Can you still earn Aspects' Token of Merit today?
No. The token was removed in Patch 11.0.2, the pre-patch for The War Within, so it lives on only as a Dragonflight Season 4 reference. Current seasons handle vault overflow and sockets through their own systems.
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