On my DK I’ve dug up over 200 treasures (went through 10 sturdy shovels and a few charges into an 11th) killed 53 rares, completed 13 M+ dungeons, all my weekly stuff (soup, siege, hunts) and have YET to see a a Spark of Ingenuity since I’ve gotten the essence detector.
Am I doing it wrong? Is there a better way to farm for it?
Side note, any chance we could get a weekly fill the bar quest to guarantee at least 1 a week?
Join a spark farm group. You’ll get it in no time just pvping.
Yeah the system is absolutely designed terribly. RNG lottery grinding BS with little to no clarity or expectations set out. Absolute failure of a system.
They’ll “greatly increase” the rate next MAU cycle.
not really. you already have 5 sparks. now they basically say ok you can get extra of them from just doing what you normally do. not everything should just be handed out instantly
Did 1 lfr and found one…
RNG is RNG 
Ive got 5 sparks already so the 6th is just sitting in my bag…maybe ill craft something for OS…
it’s a waste of time to “farm” sparks. Just play the game and accept them as they come.
ended up getting one from one of the WANTED rare i got this week from dragonscale basecamp.
guess it tries to drop 1 per ~2 weeks but some will get more some will get less.
Why do you assume I just wanted it dumped in my lap or raining from the sky? What I want is a system that is not some opaque BS with no explanation. You have people with 3-5 sparks and people with 0. I want a system that doesn’t encourage grindy BS.
And don’t pretend a general list of “doing random stuff” is an explanation. When one guy in my raid is able to craft 3-4 418 ilvl pieces of gear and others have 0, this system encourages grinding in a way that they’ve said they wouldn’t design around anymore. They took out daily reset on DAILY QUESTS because it was too grindy and then introduced this system which is much, much worse.
You think that’s bad hell trying to do the raid and not rolling anything higher than 22 for the last 4 weeks sucks major back end to.
its really not that deep. the guy who got 4 got really lucky good for him. it’s not like the sparks are giving you legendary effects. and if you want specific drop rates for certain activities then it sounds like you are the one who wants to grind them out. you literally don’t need to grind, you can just play the game and expect to get one every 2 weeks. and no, no one is gonna discriminate against you because they say oh you only have 5 sparks!
Yeah, I really despise this method of acquiring sparks. I get that you can get them from all kind of different things, but I know people who have gotten multiple in one week and others who have gotten zero. Farming rares shouldn’t reward gear this good. Farming dirt piles absolutely shouldn’t reward gear this good. I’d much prefer to have some kind of fill the bar quest for some predictable acquisition rate. Having it feel random, while knowing that it’s not really random, feel really frustrating to me. It also makes me feel like I should be farming rares all day long to maximize acquisition. That’s not fun and shouldn’t be the best (or even a remotely acceptable) way to get them.
This is a ridiculously naive take lol. “you don’t have to try and maximize your item level 418 drops!” When someone is getting 3-4 of them there’s evidently no cap on how many you can get. 418 gear is a huge deal when progging mythic. Grindy lottery BS has no place in wow anymore. Any system that promotes endless grinding for some of the best gear in the game needs to be nuked from orbit.
its what 2 or 3 months into the tier? doubt your guild is that serious about people maximizing their 418 drops by grinding all day
and god forbid a game rewards people who play it
You do realize that CE guilds are in mass getting to the end boss in the next couple of weeks right? I get it you aren’t very hard core and you don’t care about gear. There’s a huge population of people who will feel pressure to log in to grind this BS. 2-3 months in to the tier is very late. I just want it normalized with transparency. IDC if it’s once per 2 weeks or every day. idc.
oh noooo the ‘hardcore’ player has to play the game to get loot
Gregory Alan Isakov has a suitcase full of 'em.
Yeah I’m not sure you are capable of understanding why this is bad design. Just keep up moving the goal posts lol.
bad design for you. good design for people who like to play the game