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Spark of Ingenuity: How to Find More Bottled Essences
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07/02/2023 à 09:00
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Étincelle d’ingéniosité
is required to craft powerful items that can go all the way up to item level 418! Once you've earned the first 5 Sparks from questing, you gain the
Détecteur d’essence
effect, letting you find more
Essence en bouteille
from pretty much any activity in the game. Now that this has been out for a couple of weeks, we've started to get some information about where exactly these extra Sparks are most commonly found and have gathered some tools that can help you in your quest for more sparks!
Spark of Ingenuity Guide
Before You Begin: Complete the Quest Chain
First and foremost, before you use any of these strategies, make sure that you've actually earned the 5 storyline sparks - this can mean doing the full questline or making use of
the skip
, but note that the skip cannot be used if you've already started the questline.
How to Farm More Sparks of Ingenuity
Étincelle d’ingéniosité
(
Essence en bouteille
) can drop from almost any content in the game, but based on some early reports we believe some methods may be more efficient than others. That being said, we don't know for sure exactly what the chances are or even if these methods are actually better or if we're running into confirmation bias, so keep that in mind before you change your gameplay from what you'd normally be doing! Also, make sure that your plan doesn't leave you behind on other reagents that you'd need before the Spark was useful to your character, such as
Chaos primordial épuisé
(which is now
account wide!
), or
Imprégnation primordiale
- if you can't use the Spark without those, may as well farm them first since the Spark might drop along the way!
Dungeons and Raids
All of that said, we've found that while Sparks can drop from Raid and Dungeon content, they don't seem to have an especially high drop rate from this - it appears to be in the very low single digits from any given raid boss or Mythic+ chest at best, while certain rare mobs out in the Dragon Isles seem to be dropping them at a potentially similar drop rate while being far easier and faster to kill.
Rares
It's anecdotal, but the same set of "super rares" that were farmed early in the expansion for gear seem to be among these good targets, as do a set of rares that were moved to a 30-minute rotating spawn timer with Patch 10.0.5. On the NA/EU Servers,
this WeakAura
will provide you with the location and spawn timer of the next in the list - head into the custom options and turn on the coordinates and use an addon like
TomTom
to navigate there - note that sometimes they spawn a minute or two after the WeakAura says they will, and sometimes they're in a cave! Other "high value" rares like Primal Storms rares, rares in Nokhudon Hold, Imbu, the Obsidian Citadel, and the Primalist Future all also have been reported to drop Sparks frequently. Again this may be simply due to people killing these rares more often than others, but special note should be made of the Primalist Future rares, as due to the way that zone works you will often zone into a fresh instance of it which has all or many of the rares up!
Dirt and Treasures
Dirt and Scout Expedition packs have dropped Bottled Essence, but players suspect that the drop rate was nerfed early last week. You can probably still get Sparks from this, but you may be better off spending your time doing some of the other activities.
World Quests
It's also worth noting that some players have seen Bottled Essence as a reward from a World Quest - check your map on any characters that you'd want a Spark on once per World Quest reset (the Weekly Reset as well as halfway through the week)!
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