This WoW Housing Trick Lets You Choose Your Weekly Cursed Keepsake Reward

World of Warcraft's Cursed Keepsake looks like another perfectly innocent weekly Housing quest. Complete a short scenario, cleanse a suspicious piece of furniture and receive one of 20 different Purified decor items. The obvious problem is that the reward appears random, which could turn collecting the entire set into at least 20 weeks of hoping Blizzard's furniture lottery eventually produces the lamp, mirror or questionable troll object you actually wanted. Fortunately, players have discovered that the reward is not tied to your character at all. It is tied to the neighborhood, which means you can use WoW's House Finder to shop around until you find the Cursed Keepsake reward you want before completing the weekly quest.

It is exactly the sort of optimization we should probably have expected once Housing decor started becoming WoW's newest collectible problem. Blizzard gave players furniture. Players responded by developing a method for server-hopping through residential districts until the correct candle appeared. The natural order of things has been restored.

Cursed Keepsake Has 20 Different Housing Rewards

Cursed Keepsake is a weekly Warband quest added with Patch 12.1. The object appears near The Last Architect in your neighborhood town square and offers one of 20 Purified Housing decorations. These include items such as the Purified Ancient Urn, Purified Elven Mirror, Purified Floating Lantern, Purified Sin'dorei Candle, Purified Dracthyr Stein and an assortment of troll, tauren, earthen and goblin decorations. With Housing already gaining 18 additional Artisanal Room Plans to turn decorating into a full collection grind, another 20 weekly pieces are exactly what everyone's completion tab needed.

According to current testing of the Cursed Keepsake reward system, the important discovery is that different public neighborhoods can offer different decor rewards during the same week. The reward also appears capable of changing from day to day. You therefore do not need to accept whichever item happens to be sitting inside the bubble in your home neighborhood.

Use House Finder Until the Quest Shows the Reward You Want

The trick is straightforward. Accept Cursed Keepsake, open the Housing Dashboard and use the House Finder to visit other public neighborhoods. Once you arrive, you do not need to travel all the way back to the Cursed Keepsake object every time. Simply check the quest in your log. Its listed reward will update to match the neighborhood you are currently visiting. Keep hopping until the quest displays one of the Purified decor pieces you actually want, then complete the scenario from that neighborhood.

That makes the House Finder considerably more useful than simply locating somewhere to live. Patch 12.1 already expanded Housing with Large Exteriors and substantially larger placement budgets, while Housing Blueprints now let players save and share complete layouts. Being able to browse neighborhoods for a specific weekly reward adds another wonderfully WoW-like use for the system: competitive property tourism for furniture.

Do Not Just Kill the Scenario Mobs as Fast as Possible

There is a second trick inside the Cursed Keepsake scenario, and this one can determine whether you leave with barely enough currency or enough to buy several additional copies of your chosen decoration. During the scenario, the ground contains green corruption pools. Killing enemies while they are standing on those pools clears the corruption and dramatically increases the amount of Keepsake Corruption you receive. Simply rushing through the waves and killing everything wherever it stands can leave you with around the minimum required for the quest. Carefully pulling enemies onto corruption pools before killing them can push the total beyond 600 Keepsake Corruption.

The important detail is that each pool disappears when an enemy dies on it, so blindly gathering everything and dropping one giant AoE burst is not necessarily optimal. Move enemies between pools and use them to cleanse as many areas as possible. Public matchmaking can complicate this slightly if another player joins and approaches the scenario with the traditional WoW philosophy of killing anything with a health bar before it develops opinions.

Extra Copies Cost 100 Keepsake Corruption

After completing Cursed Keepsake, additional copies of that week's purified decor can be purchased for 100 Keepsake Corruption each. That is why maximizing the scenario matters. A strong run can potentially provide several extra copies of one decoration, which is particularly useful for candles, mirrors, lamps and other items you may actually want to use repeatedly in a build rather than own once for collection credit. Keepsake Corruption is temporary, so spend what you want before it expires rather than preserving it as another archaeological layer in your bags.

Housing currencies have already become a recurring theme. Neighborhood Endeavors introduced Community Coupons as an ongoing Housing reward system, while players recently had to spend their remaining Decor Duel currency before that activity disappeared. Cursed Keepsake adds another currency, another weekly objective and another set of decorations because apparently owning a fantasy house also means understanding fantasy municipal finance.

Choose the Reward Before You Complete the Weekly Quest

The most important rule is therefore simple: do the neighborhood hopping before completing Cursed Keepsake. Once the weekly Warband quest is finished, you cannot use House Finder to retroactively turn your reward into another one of the 20 pieces. You can purchase additional copies of the decoration you unlocked, but neighborhood hopping does not let you collect multiple different rewards during the same weekly completion.

Patch 12.1 Housing has already arrived with its share of bugs, strange Blueprint behavior and decor problems, but this particular interaction appears to be the reward system working according to how neighborhoods are configured rather than a glitch.

So before cleansing your cursed furniture this week:

Accept the quest. Visit neighborhoods. Find the reward you want. Then take the mobs swimming in the green puddles.

Housing remains the relaxing part of World of Warcraft.

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