The Blinding Vale Boost and Key Carry

Why players pick The Blinding Vale boost

Each of the vale's four bosses lists a trinket in the dungeon journal, four in total, which puts it level with Murder Row and Altar of Fangs for the most trinkets in this season's rotation. That makes it a natural pick when the slot you want to fill is a trinket, and it is the main reason to name this dungeon at checkout rather than take a random key. The vale is one of five Midnight dungeons in Season 2 and fits four bosses into the same timer length that Voidscar Arena and Altar of Fangs use for three.

Four bosses, four trinkets

• Lightblossom Trinity: the Seed of Radiant Hope, next to a Thornblade dagger and the Pruning Lance polearm.
• Ikuzz the Light Hunter: the Seed of the Devouring Wild, plus the vale's ranged picks, Amirdrassil's Reach, a crossbow, and the Doompetal wand.
• Lightwarden Ruia: the Lightspire Core, with the Lightwarden's Bind ring, the Branch of Pride staff and the Luminescent Sprout off-hand.
• Ziekket, the last boss: the Sapling of the Dawnroot, with the Thorned Reply sword and the shield Teldrassil's Sacrifice.

Ziekket's list goes further than gear: two leatherworking patterns, Pattern: World Tender's Trunkplate and Pattern: Primal Spore Binding, and the Veilroot Fountain decor. In a keystone, everything comes from the one chest you open when the run is done, and which pieces appear is up to chance, so each item here is a possibility rather than part of the order.

The garden behind the glare

The vale appeared in an instant. Rutaani stepped out of the Lightbloom and carried it with them wherever they went. When the Lightbloom lost in Eversong, Orweyna began surgical strikes to hold it back, and this dungeon is one of them. Past the blinding light lies a garden where the Lightbloom breeds new creatures and new magic for a single purpose: growth that nothing can stop.

Before you order a Blinding Vale key

1. Pick the key level. From +10 up, the chest and the Great Vault give the season's top Mythic+ item level.
2. Name the dungeon. Choose Specific Key at checkout and select The Blinding Vale; it adds a percentage, and the price table above shows the total per level. A random key is cheaper but may land anywhere in the rotation.
3. Decide on the timer. An in-time run raises your keystone one level, or two or three at the faster marks, and at +10 or higher it completes Keystone Hero: The Blinding Vale, which unlocks a teleport to the vale.

That teleport achievement is separate from the season's rating title, the Keystone Hero boost, which needs 2,500 rating over the whole rotation. If no particular dungeon matters to you, the Mythic +10 carry is the simpler gear order, and our Mythic+ boost section lists every key level.