What’s the best way to farm awakened drake’s crests?
I bought my weapon with bullions (and also some gear from low keys) and need drakes. I really only wanna do mythic + on this alt. Farming them from M0s sounds terrible and bleh to running the raid on normal on an alt when I already run on my main.
I know I can max out wyrm’s and start getting drakes, but that is a lot of running for an alt.
Is there a downgrade vendor for the awakened crests?
Edit: I did find the vendor. Vaskarn in Valdrakken in front of the AH.
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That I am aware of you only have:
- Normal Raids
- Mythic Dungeons (0s)
- Weekly Events
The problem you have is that really the only repeatable content is the M0 that drops them and that itself is loot locked to once a week per dungeon.
What is stupid is that you need drakes to upgrade the 493 to 502 track items. But really at 493 and even earlier your encouraged and pushed into +2 both by the game and other players.
+2 continues to drop gear that is 496 and requires Drakes but drops Wyrm crests. But you can run +2 ad naseum for crests until you earn your limit.
There is no drake equivelent of being able to earn upto the weekly limit from just running dungeons like there is from Wyrm and Aspect. This is one critical flaw of the new crunch.
- Another reason why the loot lock needs to be removed from 0s.
- Downgrading currency from a higher track needs to credit the acquisition of that currency and debit the lower currency you bought with it - OR - it needs to be something that is a much higher exchange ratio. They charge us 90 crests I think it was to get 15…upgrading up… 6:1 ratio… the downgrade should be a similar…but would be happy with like 5:1.
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If you cap on wyrms, any content that would drop wyrms will instead drop drakes.
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That’s fantastic but it only helps people doing +2 or higher… or (+12 from S3 or higher). Everyone else has quantifiably easier paths to farming relevant crests except folks who need Drakes.
How many crests do m0’s give, are they rewarded per boss or only the final boss?
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Just do M+25 or higher for easy crests.
I am pretty sure you earn them per boss similar to how it works in raids. But I don’t recall the number per boss.
You gain 10 Drake’s Awakened Crest at the end of the Mythic 0 instance only.
Not quite farm, but you can get 75 out of your weekly 120 doing the the weekly quest out of Valdrakken. 15 per activity (from the new cache they award) and 30 from the awakened cache final reward.
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A run of normal gets you 95/120. 15 min doing stuff around the Emerald dream gets you the remainder. This isn’t challenging stuff.
If you run keys that drop 4/8 champion gear or better, you will get pieces that no longer need Drake crests. Once those are soulbound (equip them so they are not tradeable) you will no longer need drake crests to upgrare that slot. You need a 2h or main/offhand weapon, 2 rings, and 2 trinkets for those slots to be discounted.
You can also trade 90 whelp crests up to 15 drake when you get your gear high enough to no longer use Whelp crests.
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10 crests per completed dungeon.
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emerald dream “outdoor” content doesn’t give drake or any crests. the world boss doesn’t (maybe it does when it’s awakened?) the blooms don’t give any (maxed out gigantic seeds) and the paragon boxes don’t give anything either.
quests are giving some flightstones, rep and gold.
I can understand the weekly cap of Drake Awakened Crests. But why limit the sources? I don’t do mythic dungeons (never did), so I can’t even come close to the weekly cap.
This wasn’t done with Drake Dreaming Crests. Why the double whammy with DACs?
Because the ceilings have shifted. An entire bracket of content was removed, thereby shifting where and how you get Crests.
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+1 I’ve been farming M2’s so I can get into better groups but imagine my surprise when I literally can’t upgrade my gear because I’m locked behind Drake’s Awakened Crests, I actually have more Wyrm’s Awakened Crests, there needs to be another source besides M0 or normal raids
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