Flightstones and Shadowflame Crests are two currencies that players will need to upgrade their gear in WoW Patch 10.1, how to get & use them, as well as how to upgrade crafted gear in Dragonflight Season 2?
How to Farm Flightstones in WoW Dragonflight 10.1 Season 2?
Flightstones are an exclusive currency to Dragonflight Season 2 and used to upgrade PvE gear, you can earn Flightstones through pretty much any content in patch 10.1 including, quests, world quests, treasures, rares as well as current season raids, and Mythic plus dungeons, you can also farm a good amount of Flightstones through the new Niffen and renowned faction and their related quest lines. One character will be able to hold 2,000 Flightstones at once during Season 2, but there's no limit to how many you can earn and spend in one week, so if you farm 2000 in one week, you could then spend some to bring your total down and still be able to farm some more until you hit your 2000 cap and repeat this process since flight stones are rewarded from almost all types of endgame content.
What gear pieces can be upgraded with Flightstones? you can only use them to upgrade PvE gear in WoW Dragonflight 10.1 Season 2. When upgrading from Rank 1, you need to cost 13, 26, 39, 59, 79, 99, and 119 Flightstones for 8 upgrade levels.
How to Get Shadowflame Crests in WoW Dragonflight 10.1 Season 2?
Shadowflame Crests come in four different quality levels, depending on the difficulty of the content they come from. You can earn different types of Shadowflame Crests through various content.
- Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest: LFR raid, Mythic+ dungeon level 5 or blow, World Quests & Treasure
- Drake’s Shadowflame Crest: normal raid, Mythic+ dungeon level 6-10, Zaralek Cavern Weekly event
- Wyrm’s Shadowflame Crest: Heroic raid, Mythic+ dungeon level 11-15
- Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest: Mythic raid, Mythic+ dungeon level 16+
How to get Shadowflame Crest fragments?
It is also possible to purchase Whelpling and Drake Shadowflame Crest fragments that once combined will create a Shadowflame crest of the same quality, 15 Crest fragments of the same quality are required to create one Shadowflame Crest and these fragments can be purchased from Spinsoa in Loamm in exchange for Unearthed Fragrant Coin, another new currency that is earned by completing zone events around the Zaralek Cavern, you can purchase chests of three different sizes for the Whelpling and Drake Crest fragments, which are the two lowest level crests.
Wyrm and Aspect Shadowflame Crests are the two highest quality crests that cannot be made with fragments and will need to be earned directly from their corresponding content, these crests can each only be purchased once per week and one character can hold up to 150 crests fragments or 10 crests per week, but this will increase as the season progresses, the two highest quality crests are available to farm since season 2 begins, so the weekly cap for the most powerful crests will always be one week behind if you want a quick and easy upgrade early on in WoW 10.1, the Niffen Renown faction rewards a Drake Shadowflame Crest Crest at Renown level 3, which is simple to unlock by completing a small amount of open world content.
How to Upgrade Gear in WoW Dragonflight 10.1?
With each upgrade, the item level will increase by 3 or 4, simply speak to an upgrade NPC to start upgrading your gear, each upgrade will cost you a handful of Flightstones and one Shadowflame Crest depending on the gear piece and the upgrade you are looking to make. For example, upgrading a weapon is going to cost more Flightstones than upgrading pieces such as gloves and belts.
How to Upgrade Crafted Gear in WoW Dragonflight 10.1 Season 2?
Shadowflame Crests can also be used by enchanters to create enchanted crests, you can add enchanted Shadowflame Crests in the optional reagents while crafting or re-crafting items to empower them further and increase their item level up to a maximum of 447, which does not require you to step to Mythic+ raiding There are three enchanted crests in total, Enchanted Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest, Enchanted Wyrm’s Shadowflame Crest, and Enchanted Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest, each scaling up in quality based on the reagents that are required to make them, the Enchanted Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest is the most powerful optional reagent. Below is the item level of the Shadowflame crafted gear you can reach using different enchant crests.
- Enchanted Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest: upgrade crafted item level 395 to 408, blue quality gear
- Enchanted Wyrm’s Shadowflame Crest: upgrade crafted 424 to 437, pentagon quality gear
- Enchanted Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest: upgrade crafted gear up to 447
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