Where do the ship and sparrow drop?

The final chest is the ONLY one that requires a key. However, it only drops an armor piece at I think 380 power level. The weapons, presumably what you are grinding for, are rare random drops from the boss itself and do not require a key.

the first chest does not require a key and after you open 5 chests theres no reason to and given your power level the gear won't be doing much, ep is really only for the weapons or fun now

[quote]I know how EP works. 7 levels and if you beat them all you get a chest if you have the key you can claim the reward. I guess I should check for a key before starting EP, yet, sometimes you get swept up into one like i did yesterday. I was able to get the first chest fine. I guess I had a key. My reward for my efforts was glimmer and the mars collectible. After going through all 7 levels, defeating a bunch of yellow bar bosses and surviving the Time limit i couldn't even get the chest open. Isn't it enough that you fight constantly for a good 1/2 hour or more and beat a bunch of bosses? it is very frustrating to then discover you can't get the final chest open. I'm not sure any of the participants could get it open. This is the main reason i don't play EP as much as I could I suppose.[/quote] Bungie: If you don't grind and grind and grind (and coincidently spend more and more time in the game) for something, it isn't worth having. P.S. visit a youtuber to even find out what you're expected to do. Then have people post here gloating how you don't know what to do ...

For the final chest you need 7 green keys which you get from Heroic Adventures. Once you have 7 green keys you take them to Bray for a Blue key. You have to do levels in the EP to get the Blue Key decrypted into the Purple Key which will open the level 7 chest which will only give one bit of armor. The 3 EP weapons drop from The boss randomly with shaders and 2000 glimmer it you can find the glimmer as it's normally small and scattered about.

It's been this way for almost a year now. Learning the mechanics of a game is very good if you want to earn all the loot. Thank you for sharing your mistakes so that others may be able to learn from them.

The chest just gives armour man, the guns drop straight from the level 7 boss

U don’t know how it entirely works my guy😂

I don’t think you know how it works There are chests on level 3 and 5, both are nothing special, the boss from level 7 drops the shaders as always, eventually an ikelos weapon, the chest that you can open with a key just gives you a piece of armor Many people don’t open the chest because they already have the full set and/or don’t bother making the key But there is no need to complain, if this is your problem just make a key, solved

The chest only contains low powered armor. The weapons are RNG drops from level 7.