Puzzling Cartel Chips Guide

Puzzling Cartel Chips are a new limited-season currency introduced in World of Warcraft: The War Within Season 3 as part of the Turbo Boost event in Patch 11.2.5 (you can learn more about the event in our dedicated guide - Turbo Boost Event in The War Within Season 3).

They work as a raid and dungeon loot catch-up system, allowing players to directly purchase powerful trinkets and weapons from the Manaforge Omega raid and Season 3 Mythic+ pool without relying on RNG drops.

Essentially, Puzzling Cartel Chips are Season 3 dinars, a controlled way to buy your best-in-slot gear once you’ve proven yourself in high-end content.

When Do Puzzling Cartel Chips Become Available

Puzzling Cartel Chips become available starting October 21 (US) - October 22 (EU), two weeks after the launch of Patch 11.2.5.

You’ll earn three Chips from a one-time introductory quest, followed by one Chip per week, up to a maximum of nine per character.

This means that by the beginning of December, every player can buy up to three endgame items of their choice.

How to Get Puzzling Cartel Chips

There are only two ways to earn Puzzling Cartel Chips in The War Within Season 3, both tied to the Turbo Boost event. These quests are designed to reward consistent raiding or dungeon activity, helping you gear up through a steady and predictable system rather than relying on random drops.

1. Turbo Boost: Trade Must Flow (One-Time Quest)

This is your introductory quest to the Turbo Boost system and the first step toward earning your Puzzling Cartel Chips.

To complete it, you must:

• Defeat 4 raid bosses in Manaforge Omega on Normal difficulty or higher, or
• Complete 4 Mythic 0 dungeons of any kind.

Once completed, you’ll immediately receive 3× Puzzling Cartel Chips, enough to purchase your first raid-quality item from the vendor.
This quest is only available once per character, but it establishes the foundation for the weekly rotation that follows.

2. Turbo Boost: Infinite Growth (Weekly Quest)

After completing Trade Must Flow, a new repeatable quest becomes available: Turbo Boost: Infinite Growth.

The objective remains the same:

• Kill 4 raid bosses in Manaforge Omega (Normal or higher), or
• Complete 4 Mythic 0 dungeons.

Each completion grants 1× Puzzling Cartel Chip per week, up to a maximum of nine Chips per character for the entire season.

This means that by keeping up with your weekly clears, you’ll be able to buy a total of three raid-level items over the course of Turbo Boost.

If you miss a week, don’t worry. Blizzard has confirmed that the Turbo Boost quests include a catch-up mechanic. You can repeat the Infinite Growth quest until you reach the current seasonal cap of Chips, ensuring that late starters can still earn the full nine without falling behind.

The fastest method early on is to run four Mythic 0 dungeons, since queue times are short and groups are easy to form compared to organized raids.

Where to Spend Puzzling Cartel Chips

Once you’ve collected enough Puzzling Cartel Chips, it’s time to turn them into real loot.

To do so, visit the Cartel vendors in Dornogal, the central hub of The War Within.

You’ll find two NPCs who handle all Cartel Chip exchanges:

• Fixer So’kir
• Fixer So’tho

These vendors are located just outside the Dornogal bank.

Rewards

The vendors offer a curated selection of endgame gear from Manaforge Omega and Season 3 Mythic+ dungeons.

• Raid weapons and trinkets: including Mythic-tier options once unlocked.
• Mythic+ trinkets and cantrip items: hybrid pieces with secondary passive effects.
• Hero-track armor: purchasable once you’ve defeated the associated raid boss on Normal or higher.

Each item costs 3× Puzzling Cartel Chips, so plan your purchases carefully. There’s no vendor reset, and every item you buy is a long-term investment in your character’s build.
The inventory is the same across both Fixers. Item costs and availability depend on your raid or dungeon progress (see below).

If you haven’t yet defeated the boss associated with a specific item, it will appear locked on the vendor list.

Requirements to Buy Items

Each Puzzling Cartel Chip reward in The War Within Season 3 is tied to the content difficulty where that gear normally drops. This ensures you’ve proven your capability in the relevant content before you can buy it outright.

These requirements are character-specific, not account-wide. Even if you’ve cleared the raid on one character, your alts will still need to meet those requirements separately to access Myth-track purchases.

If you’re only aiming for Hero-track upgrades, Normal raid clears are enough, but for Myth-track trinkets and weapons, plan to complete full Mythic clears at least once.

Puzzling Cartel Chip Costs and Rewards

Each Puzzling Cartel Chip has the same value regardless of where you spend it, and every vendor item costs exactly 3 Chips.

Since you can earn a maximum of 9 Chips per character throughout The War Within Season 3, this means you can purchase up to three high-end items during the Turbo Boost event cycle.

Seasonal Purchase Timeline

It takes seven weeks of consistent play to unlock the final purchase. Each step grants access to progressively stronger gear, with the most powerful rewards, such as the Mythic weapons from Dimensius, reserved for players who commit through the entire event period.

Optimization Tips

• Prioritize your purchases carefully. Weapons and trinkets should always come first since they have the greatest impact on performance.
• Armor slots can usually be filled through raids, Mythic+, or crafted items, while top-tier trinkets often remain best-in-slot until the next major patch.
• Don’t rush your first buy unless it’s a guaranteed upgrade. The vendor inventory doesn’t rotate, so saving for a rarer trinket or end-boss drop may be worth the wait.

Turbo Boost Event

Every system in your endgame progression is tuned to accelerate catch-up across all content types, from raids to Mythic+ dungeons and Delves.

Here’s how it all works together:

• Crests are uncapped, meaning you can freely upgrade gear without hitting weekly limits.
• Valorstones become Warbound, letting you transfer them between alts to gear up faster.
• Warband-Until-Equipped items now drop at double the previous rate in both Manaforge Omega and Mythic+ content.
• Ethereal Voidsplinters and Untainted Mana Crystals are new currencies used to fuel the Catalyst and craft Hero- or Myth-track gear.
• Heroic and Mythic gear now have two additional upgrade ranks, pushing the cap up to item level 730.

Because Puzzling Cartel Chips are limited, planning your spending strategy matters as much as earning them. You’ll only get enough for three purchases per season, so each decision should support your long-term build goals.

Final Thoughts

Each Puzzling Cartel Chip is valuable and with only nine available per season, every purchase counts. But if you want to skip the weekly grind, farm Chips efficiently, or unlock Myth-track vendor items without spending weeks organizing Mythic groups, that’s where we can help.

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