Does anybody know? I just completed a few of the Queens bounties and afterword there would be a little timer to the left of the HUD saying "Ether Key"

I wasn't able to participate in the first Queens Wrath, so I don't know if this is from that or not. Does anybody here know what it is?

While that timer is active there is a Fallen chest nearby (out in the open, not in the spawn caves) that has a golden "beacon" of light on top of it. It has a chance to drop legendary engrams or a "Treasure Key" for the PoE treasure rooms. Mostly they each contain planetary materials, a blue engram and an ammo synth or two.

See, I wondered if there was a chest or something. But I couldn't find one! :(
Ah well, must not have been looking hard enough.

See, I wondered if there was a chest or something. But I couldn't find one! :(
Ah well, must not have been looking hard enough.

It seems as though they're kind of hard to find every time.

Smack dab in the middle of nowhere on Ember Caves. It could've maybe been a Spirit Bloom spawn point, but I don't think so.

Yup, what Quackers said.

And no, this not something that was present in the first Queen's Wrath. That event was actually completely different and consisted of normal story missions with skull modifiers - burns, etc. It didn't involve public events.

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Me too. I've been hoping to be able to do missions with those modifiers again.

I remember doing Eye of a Gate Lord with solar burn on, and it was really intense all through the mission, since all the smaller Vex do solar damage. Then at the end I just burned the boss down with about 4 fusion rifle shots. Totally anticlimactic, but in a hilarious way. :)

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Relevant!

https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/599360818673651712

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Me too. I've been hoping to be able to do missions with those modifiers again.

I remember doing Eye of a Gate Lord with solar burn on, and it was really intense all through the mission, since all the smaller Vex do solar damage. Then at the end I just burned the boss down with about 4 fusion rifle shots. Totally anticlimactic, but in a hilarious way. :)

I made a post or two about how much I loved doing that one. Solo, it was incredibly tense and fun, much like the Garden's Spire. The modifiers made those missions very memorable.