Vaults should reset

[Corwynder]

I understand vaults lock after you’ve done them but they should stay locked then until fully reset. It’s nothing like going into a vault and finding maybe 6 or 7 mobs to kill. The boss is not there but the chest with the sigil and eldarium is there and loaded. Yesterday I did this same vault and all the mobs appeared to be there but after killing the boss all 3 chests appeared to be empty.

[Narelle]

We have been reporting issues with the chests here:

Vault boss chest room not giving loot

The big chest behind the orbs you look into for the story are not giving out loot after defeating the boss of the vault. along that the skull level 1-3 mobs are not giving skeleton keys and its a very serious issue atm on official servers

and here:

Missing Vault Bosses and Empty Loot Chests

Game mode: [Online private] Type of issue: [Bug] Server type: [PVP] Region: [North America] Numerous players are encountering a scenario in which a vault is not locked, the boss is not there, and loot chests (including the boss loot chest) are empty. We attempted to replicate the reports and discovered the following things. The vault is supposed to lock when the boss is killed. The pressure plate to the final loot room is gated by the boss kill but the boss kill itself it what triggers the…

There seem to be some sort of issue with populating the chests which appears to be completely random. Cooldown desync might also contribute to the issue but it is not just that.