Trading-Up Crests in Patch 10.2 - Requirements and Costs

PTR Posted 2023/10/18 at 1:00 AM by Squishei

Trading-Up Crests in Patch 10.2

Whelpling's Dreaming Crest

Drake's Dreaming Crest

Wyrm's Dreaming Crest

Aspect's Dreaming Crest

Crests can now be traded up for higher-level Crests once reaching the lower level Crest’s item level or higher.
For example: Using Season 2 item level numbers, players would become eligible to trade their Whelpling Crests up to Drake Crests when every gear slot had reached item level 411 or higher. Trading up to Wyrm Crests would become available at 424 (again, in every gear slot, using the same rules as crest redundancy), and trading up to Aspect Crests would open at 437.

How to Unlock Crest TradingEmerald Flightstone

Whelping to Drake - Dreaming of Drakes - Achieve at least item level 450 in every slot.

Drake to Wyrm - Dreaming of Wyrms - Achieve at least item level 463 in every slot.

Wyrm to Aspect - Dreaming of Wyrms - Achieve at least item level 476 in every slot.

VaskarnCrest Trading Costs

Whelping to Drake - 90 Whelpling Crests for 15 Drake Crests

Drake to Wyrm - ?

Wyrm to Aspect - ?

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Comment by Tonst3r2Took an entire season to implement a basic trade-up that anyone with 5 IQ would have pointed-out.

And they wonder why the excitement to login is so low. The community has the same lack of interest as the developers have with their job.Comment by SerekittenAh yes. The tried and true classic Blizz fumble for a sad attempt at retaining a fleeing player base.

Step 1: Introduce a convoluted and messy gear progression system that half the player base doesn't understand.
Step 2: Have the playerbase yell at blizz as to exactly how to fix it.
Step 3: Ignore said advice.
Step 4: Continue to ignore the player feedback.
Step 5: Continue to ignore the player feedback only this time by now, a good chunk of the playerbase have given up and quit.
Step 6: After waiting for the premature end of the expac (due to mass exodus of players), now implement **the exact thing the players told you to do 6-12 months ago**.
Step 7: Fumble the implementation by completely messing up the detail (in this case the ridiculous conversation rate for crests).
Step 8: After new changes are implemented, log that the players do not re-engage with the new gear progression system due to the aforementioned fumbled implementation and continue to unsub.
Step 9: Point triumphantly at the metrics that show said same, proceed to completely misinterpret the data and conclude that the players "think they do but they don't".
Step 10: SurprisePikachuface.jpg when the playerbase halves itself for the release of the next expac.
Step 11: Watch the game get shut down and blame it on the fickle playerbase.

Note Step 11 hasn't happened yet but we're pretty close based on the hard empirical data coming out of raider.io, warcraftlogs etc.Comment by Toenail90 for 15? really? especially when the current cap is so lowComment by DeathwingDrake1This is bugged and not showing up in the vendor!Comment by mazejakerUnlocked the ability to do this today, got the achievement, got the mail from the NPC with 100 flightstones, not available on the vendor.Comment by KnaringHas the trade up system not been implimented or did they just give up on it. I got the achievements but it doesnt allow me to trade up since the vendor that is supposed to sell them simply doesnt sell the items.Comment by FliryfreakSeems until the weekly reset you won't have access to this system right away. In typical Blizz fashioin, it's bugged >.<Comment by priestguyI love it when some "clever" player writes a wall of text claiming how dumb the game is and that it will fail very soon. Please do the rest of us a favor and go back to playing Pokemon.Comment by cyclonewarThe main issue I have with this is the fact that it counts towards your maximum allotted amount. Don't use these until way later in the season, when you aren't gonna cap out of crests.Comment by NoirdeeI have earned Dreaming of Drakes and Dreaming of Wyrms, but the vendor does not offer the token for me.Comment by gkodiIs there a bug with this achievement? I have it, but NPC does not have an option to trade Whelpling to Drake. Anybody knows what is wrong with it?Comment by EredamereAh yes. The tried and true classic Blizz fumble for a sad attempt at retaining a fleeing player base.

Step 1: Introduce a convoluted and messy gear progression system that half the player base doesn't understand.
Step 2: Have the playerbase yell at blizz as to exactly how to fix it.
Step 3: Ignore said advice.
Step 4: Continue to ignore the player feedback.
Step 5: Continue to ignore the player feedback only this time by now, a good chunk of the playerbase have given up and quit.
Step 6: After waiting for the premature end of the expac (due to mass exodus of players), now implement **the exact thing the players told you to do 6-12 months ago**.
Step 7: Fumble the implementation by completely messing up the detail (in this case the ridiculous conversation rate for crests).
Step 8: After new changes are implemented, log that the players do not re-engage with the new gear progression system due to the aforementioned fumbled implementation and continue to unsub.
Step 9: Point triumphantly at the metrics that show said same, proceed to completely misinterpret the data and conclude that the players "think they do but they don't".
Step 10: SurprisePikachuface.jpg when the playerbase halves itself for the release of the next expac.
Step 11: Watch the game get shut down and blame it on the fickle playerbase.

Note Step 11 hasn't happened yet but we're pretty close based on the hard empirical data coming out of raider.io, warcraftlogs etc.Comment by Savas76Is this bugged for anybody else? I have the achievement dreaming of drakes but when I go to Vaskarn there isn't an option to buy drake's with my whelplings like their should beComment by FacebonezNow let us trade welp crests for flghtstones :)Comment by PotatoKnightAbsolutely hate that I can't get these at a reliable rate as a heroic raider compared to the ease that M+ers can farm them.

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