Surely I am not the only one that made the mistake of doing all the main quest, using the rep tokens because I don’t care about story/rep/dailies/weeklies and I just do dungeons and raid. Then unfortunately found out you need to accept a quest and get 1500 rep for your spark that I can no longer get because I need 1500 from world quests that give 75, and there is only 3 of them. Certainly, Blizzard does not plan on punishing people who make this mistake by putting them a week behind on sparks for the rest of the patch right? This punishment seems a bit extreme for the crime of only doing content I like to do. Patch 10.0 was perfect, for your spark you simply talk to a person and they have you do a quick little quest and that is that. Putting this behind a rep grind if you happen to make one mistake is completely uncalled for. Any advice on how to get rep as quickly as possible is appreciated or possibly some hidden quests that give a lot of rep most likely missed.
I did the niffen quest for 1500 rep and didn’t get my half spark so I can’t turn in the tutorial quest for the first spark unfortunately.
You are given an item you have to use that contains the spark half, I am saying I can’t complete the quest because it’s too much rep. Unless you’re telling me it bugged and just didn’t give you the item it should be in your bag. In case it is a bug I would report a ticket.
You said “using” the rep tokens, which some of those quests gave you an item that awarded 1,000 rep. Did you mean “flushing” the rep tokens, because if you did the main quests and used the rep tokens they awarded, then I have no idea how you’re not rank 3 or rank 4 with the Niffen (e.g., 7,500 to 10,000 rep already).
Aside from this first week in the off-season, Patch 10.1 will give you a free half-spark every week, no quest required. That sounds even easier than 10.0’s acquisition method.
Having said that, a missing a free whole spark in the first week if you did the main quests seems bad (like that shouldn’t be possible bad).
How do you get sparks on new character (alts)
I am a level 60 alt character. My main has completed the campaign but I’ve never gotten a spark of ingenuity before (just completed the campaign today)
How do I catch up to my main and start getting sparks?
I’m pretty sure the old spark of ingenuity is no longer relevant. I would guess the quest to acquire 5 for a fresh L70 alt is disabled until 9-May when Season-2 starts. You can get the new spark of shadow-flame by doing the Zaralek Caverns quests but that might be a L70 only zone.
You could double-check by going to Valdrakken on your L60 alt and seeing if there’s a quest to get your 5 old sparks from the Maiden of Inspiration at (83.5, 53.4). If not, then you probably need to be L70 to get that quest (and like I said I think all S1 crafting stuff is disabled like the S1 catalyst for tier-conversion is disabled).
My concerns lie in the long term. How are we supposed to get 1500 rep on your main let alone alts after the one time rep quests are done every week just to get sparks… 75-150 rep per world quest is abysmal… Just bring the back the spark questline…like WTF…what was wrong with that…
This is not true. To get your sparks you are required to complete the 1500 Noamm Rep quest every week.
Probably should wait and see then instead of panicking over nothing. There’s likely weekly quests for rep besides the WQ, like the weekly quest for 5 heroic dungeons gives 500 rep alone.
How about we shouldn’t have to do anything… Like in 10.0 you did a short quest chain… WTF, why would I want to farm rep every single week on my main and alts just to keep up on sparks. Idgaf if there are other methods of getting rep. The spark acquisition was fine before…
Sorry ahead of time but this is a long response but hopefully it clears up the misunderstanding.
So to get the spark you are given 2 quests, one is called “Power Unified” (PU), the other “A Worthy Ally: Loamn Niffen” (LN). PU quest requires you present them with a splintered spark, you get this splintered spark from LN. Therefore, you must complete LN to get the spark essentially. You get a lot of rep from doing the main story and from using all the free rep tokens you get from the story. There is a catch though, during the story you must pick up the LN quest to start getting credit towards this quest. If you made the mistake of doing all main quests without picking up any side quests and then used all your rep tokens because who doesn’t, you get the token and you use it like not a big deal. Wrong, very big deal, massive mistake that cannot not be retroactively fixed. If you have done all of this and got your rep up to 4/5 then go pick up LN the rep you have already gathered is not retroactively added and you are stuck with 0/1500 needed rep for the spark.