Blizzard will raise the maximum number of Sparks World of Warcraft players can hold to four with the August 18 weekly reset, after an unintended quirk let some characters collect a third this week. Wowhead reported the change and Blizzard's explanation for it.
The discrepancy came from Midnight: World Tour. Characters that had not completed the quest since the start of the expansion were able to pick up one additional Spark, taking them to three for the week, while players who had already finished it were left on two.
To address this, we're planning to bring the maximum number of Sparks to 4 next week. That change will go in with the weekly reset on August 18.
Raising the cap for everyone rather than clawing back the extra Spark puts all characters back on the same footing, and it changes what is craftable next week: four Sparks is enough for a two-handed weapon, which Wowhead notes may be worth factoring into crafting plans before the reset.
This week's two Sparks
Two Sparks are available before the reset. One Spark of Tides comes from the weekly PvE quest, either Midnight: Vaults of Atal'Utek or Trailing Xal'atath — but not Turn Back the Surge, which Wowhead says is affected by a bug. The second comes from Sparks of War: Voidstorm, picked up from the Conquest Area in Silvermoon City, which Wowhead points out is not listed alongside the other sources.
Players who want a head start on next week's four can complete both this week. It is the second time the situation has arisen: a similar extra Spark was available to some players during War Within Season 2, and Blizzard settled that case the same way, by raising the ceiling rather than removing what had already been earned.
Sparks gate crafted gear, so the difference between two and three in a week is not cosmetic — it decides which pieces a character can commission and when. Levelling the count at four for everyone removes the advantage held by players who had left Midnight: World Tour unfinished, while giving the rest of the roster the same crafting budget from August 18.
Blizzard has not said whether the underlying quest behaviour will be changed, and the bug affecting Turn Back the Surge as a Spark of Tides source was still in place at the time of Wowhead's report.
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