Compendium

Sealed Vaults

Gold-banded doors set into the walls. Finish the short task in the room outside and the strongroom opens on a hoard: an epic-or-better piece, two rares, gold and materials.

How they work

A Sealed Vault is a strongroom behind a wall. You can see its gold-banded door from the room in front of it, and its glyph shows which task opens it. At most one per floor.
About 25% of floors have one. Never on a run's first floor, and never in an Ember Breach, the arena, an Audience or the Training Grounds. If you go 4 floors without one, the odds rise each floor, up to 60%. Your first vault comes early.
The vault is always off to the side of the path, never on it. You never need to open one to reach the stairs.
The task starts when you walk up to it. There is nothing to press: walk, fight and stand, with a controller, touch or mouse. Every failure can be tried again on the spot.
The hoard is set by the floor. Leaving and coming back, or restarting the floor after an update, shows the vault already emptied.
Co-op: anyone can do the task and anyone can open the hoard. Every player gets their own hoard, rolled for their class.
Daily Descent and Weekly Rite: everyone gets the same vault and the same task.

5 tasks

The glyph on the door tells you which task opens it.

Ember Relay

Light the pulsing brazier, then race the flame to the next.

3 braziers (4 from Act III) near the door. Light the pulsing one by walking past it, or hit or shoot it.
Each flame starts a fuse to the next: 3 s plus 0.55 s per tile between them. The next brazier pulses.
If the fuse runs out, every flame dies. After 2.5 s the first one pulses again.

Quillon: “Braziers and a vault. Light them in turn, and quickly. Fire waits for nobody.”

Rune Lock

Tread the runes in the order the door shows.

Three rune stones (Ember, Frost and Thorn) near the door. The door shows the order as three coloured pips and reads it out as you walk up.
Tread the stones in that order. A pip lights for each one.
A wrong stone gives a small shock (6% of your health) and the lock resets.

Quillon: “The order's on the door. I even used colours. You're welcome.”

The Warden

Its Warden wakes as you near. Kill it before it gets back inside.

Come within 4 tiles of the door and its Vault Warden steps out: an elite of the floor's foes, 2 levels higher.
You have 45 seconds to kill it. The door's ring counts down.
If time runs out, the Warden goes back through the door. It comes out again 12 s later when you walk up.

Quillon: “Every vault has a Warden. This one's punctual and grumpy.”

Hold the Seal

Stand in the circle until the seal burns through.

A warding circle in front of the door. The seal burns while anyone stands in it (20 s in all).
3 waves of foes walk in from the far side of the room. The last one has an elite.
With nobody in the circle the seal pauses. After 3 s it cools down again, a second per second.

Quillon: “A seal that burns if you stand on it. Bring friends, or bring patience.”

Hidden Levers

Three levers in the rooms nearby. The door keeps count.

3 levers in 3 of the rooms nearest the vault. Their minimap markers show once you've seen them.
Each pull makes a distant clunk, and the door counts it.
There is no way to fail. Less common on the biggest floors.

Quillon: “Three levers, hidden nearby. I hid them. Not well. Not badly either.”

The hoard

Items still follow the rarity drip, so early levels can't drop legendaries. Compare Pipsnizzle's Vault, a different hoard reached through the thief's portal.

What the hoard holds
	Sealed Vault hoard
Items	3: epic+, rare+, rare+
Item level	the floor's level +2 (with your difficulty's bonus, never past your Pyre Tier's top); on a chart, the chart's item level +2
Magic find	+150% on every hoard roll, plus your difficulty's
Legendary	5% (+1% per Pyre Tier above the first, at most 15%): the epic piece becomes legendary or better. From hero level 10, 1 in 4 of those is a unique
Gold	8 piles
Materials	2 drops of your level's material, 1–2 each
Also	a potion, and Vaultbreaker's Favour for the party: +15% magic find and +10% gold find for 90 s