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Comment by Phaelien

This quest is part of the intro quests for the new areas and systems of Dragonflight Season 2.

Flightstones are an item used in Dragonflight Season 2 to upgrade PvE gear (along with Shadowflame Crests). Flightstones are required for all PvE item upgrades, from Explorer 1/8 (i376) to Hero 5/5 (i441). Generally speaking, the higher the item level you are upgrading, the more flightstones you will need to use, however the actual cost also depends on the item being upgraded, with weapons requiring the most. Flightstones have no weekly or seasonal cap, but you can only hold up to 2,000 per character at any one time, and they can not be traded between characters. Flightstones come from almost all Season 2 PvE content, including Treasures, Quests, World Quests, Rares, Rare Elites, Weekly Bosses, Fyrakk Assaults, Dungeons, Mythic+ and Raids, with harder content rewarding more flightstones.

Item upgrades in Season 2 have an Account-Wide discount - for a given item slot, if you upgrade a new item at a lower item level than you've previously upgraded for that slot, you will only need to pay 50% of the cost of the upgrade. For example, if you already have a belt - which dropped at Veteran 2/8 (i405), and you upgraded it to Veteran 7/8 (i421) before dropped at Champion 1/8 (i415), you can upgrade the new belt up to Champion 3/8 (i421) for 50% of the Flightstone cost that it would've taken if you didn't upgrade the initial item, as well as not costing Shadowflame Crests. If the item dropped for a different character on your account, the Flightstone discount would still apply, however you would need to use Shadowflame Crests if the upgrade required it. For slots with two items (Rings, Trinkets and Weapons), the lower level of the two items is the one that counts for the purposes of upgrade discounts.

Finally, Flightstones are also used for upgrading crafted gear. You can buy an Empowered Flightstone from Dustmonger Topuiz for 150 Flightstones, which can be combined with an Enchanted Shadowflame Crest to upgrade a crafted item to between i395 and i447, depending on the rank of Shadowflame Crest.

Shadowflame Crest Fragment sources in Dragonflight S2:

Crest Name	Fragment Name	Fragment Source
Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest	Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest Fragment	LFR Aberrus Bosses, M+2 to M+5, World Quests, Treasures, Rares, Spinsoa (bought with Unearthed Fragrant Coin).
Drake's Shadowflame Crest	Drake's Shadowflame Crest Fragment	Normal Aberrus Bosses, M+6 to M+10, Zaralek Cavern weekly events, Weekly Quests, Rare Elites, Fyrakk Assaults, Spinsoa (bought with Unearthed Fragrant Coin).
Wyrm's Shadowflame Crest	Wyrm's Shadowflame Crest Fragment	Heroic Aberrus Bosses, M+11 to M+15.
Aspect's Shadowflame Crest	Aspect's Shadowflame Crest Fragment	Mythic Aberrus Bosses, M+16 and above.

PvE item upgrading in Dragonflight S2:

Item Version and Rank	ilevel	Initial Shadowflame Crest Cost
Explorer 1/8 to 8/8 and Adventurer 1/8 to 4/8	376 to 398	None
Adventurer 5/8 to 8/8 and Veteran 1/8 to 4/8	402 to 411	One Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest per upgrade
Veteran 5/8 to 8/8 and Champion 1/8 to 4/8	415 to 424	One Drake's Shadowflame Crest per upgrade
Champion 5/8 to 8/8 and Hero 1/5 to 4/5	428 to 437	One Wyrm's Shadowflame Crest per upgrade
Hero 4/5 to 5/5	437 to 441	One Aspect's Shadowflame Crest per upgrade
Mythic	441 to 450	Not upgradable

PvE item sources for Dragonflight S2 are in the below spoiler:

Gear Source	ilevel	Item Version
World Content.	376	Explorer 1/8
World Content.	379	Explorer 2/8
World Content.	382	Explorer 3/8
World Content.	385	Explorer 4/8
World Content. Normal Dungeons.	389	Adventurer 1/8
World Content. Normal Dungeons.	392	Adventurer 2/8
World Content. Heroic Dungeons.	395	Adventurer 3/8
World Content. M+0 Dungeons.	398	Adventurer 4/8
World Content. LFR: Kazzara, the Hellforged, Essence of Shadow, Warlord Kagni. End chest of M+2.	402	Veteran 1/8
World Content. LFR: Neldris, Rashok. End chest of M+3, M+4.	405	Veteran 2/8
World Content. LFR: Zskarn, Magmorax. End chest of M+5, M+6.	408	Veteran 3/8
LFR: Neltharion, Scalecommander Sarkareth. End chest of M+7, M+8.	411	Veteran 4/8
Normal: Kazzara, the Hellforged, Essence of Shadow, Warlord Kagni. End chest of M+9, M+10. Great Vault from M+2.	415	Champion 1/8
Normal: Neldris, Rashok. End chest of M+11, M+12. Great Vault from M+3.	418	Champion 2/8
Normal: Zskarn, Magmorax. End chest of M+13, M+14. Great Vault from M+4, M+5.	421	Champion 3/8
Normal: Neltharion, Scalecommander Sarkareth. End chest of M+15, M+16. Great Vault from M+6, M+7.	424	Champion 4/8
Heroic: Kazzara, the Hellforged, Essence of Shadow, Warlord Kagni. End chest of M+17, M+18. Great Vault from M+8, M+9.	428	Hero 1/8
Heroic: Neldris, Rashok. End chest of M+19, M+20. Great Vault from M+10, M+11.	431	Hero 2/8
Heroic: Zskarn, Magmorax. Great Vault from M+12, M+13.	434	Hero 3/8
Heroic: Neltharion, Scalecommander Sarkareth. Great Vault from M+14, M+15.	437	Hero 4/8
Mythic: Kazzara, the Hellforged, Essence of Shadow, Warlord Kagni. Great Vault from M+16, M+17.	441	Mythic
Mythic: Neldris, Rashok. Great Vault from M+18, M+19.	444	Mythic
Mythic: Zskarn, Magmorax. Great Vault from M+20.	447	Mythic
Mythic: Neltharion, Scalecommander Sarkareth.	450	Mythic

Comment by Alaurynn

Anyone else running into a problem where you go to upgrade an item and it upgrades in the Upgrade interface, but the item itself does not upgrade and the quest does not complete?

Comment by Xemnuz

Upgraded 3 different items, quest does not complete, bug or am I missing something?

Comment by RedCat30

If the quest doesn't complete for you, note that the upgrade NPC Cuzolth also lets you upgrade season 1 items for Valor. Make sure you upgrade a season 2 item. It should say something like "Explorer 3/8" (rather than "Level 11/13"), and the total cost should be some amount of Flightstones, not Valor.

Comment by grelb

I reached cap on these.
What else can you spend them on other then item upgrades? Is there some way I can swap them out for gold?

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Flightstones

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Acquire 50 Flightstones by defeating unique creatures, conquering dungeons and raids, completing world activities, or by looting caches. Then speak to Cuzolth, and upgrade a piece of equipment using Flightstones.

	Upgrade a piece of equipment with Flightstones (1)

Description

You caught my eye from the moment you stepped foot in Loamm, champion! Look at all that sparkling gear. And I can sense you want... more. You may have stumbled across Flightstones already. My friend Cuzolth and I know how to harness the power of Flightstones to upgrade gear. We have shared the knowledge with our network of upgrade specialists. Any of them will be able to tell you exactly what you need. Cuzolth can show you now, provided you have enough Flightstones.

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Rewards

You will receive:

	Obsidian Flightstone		Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest Fragment

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72658))