I started this char somewhat late into the expansion and I was then delaying the HoI step of the spark quest because I didn’t know it would unlock the ability to get sparks from other content (allegedly), but still I’ve been playing for month and a half after finishing the questline, and I got no sparks from anywhere.
I primarily do M+ and the weekly events with some WQs, and vary rarely raid, but there were 0 sparks drops in like 40 days of playing since completing the questline. This seems pretty insane when there’s already a sizable concentrated focus grind for every item which is more than enough IMO seeing how you’re limited to 1 item a week from the Vault for M+ gearing.
Getting no sparks on top looks like my gearing is just gonna grind to a halt once I spend the next spark, which is very demotivating because waiting on the Vault RNG to maybe get you an upgrade (the last 4 were tier set pieces I already had only at higher ilvls), is one of the most boring and unrewarding parts of the game. Does any content produce sparks at a faster rate or is this horrible drop rate intended?
Yes, I got 2 from 2 boxes I got from solo shuffle.
You get 4 (or 5 i can’t remember) sparks as catchup.
Have you used them all because all I can see you wearing is the lariat?
I get them all the time and don’t even need them. “Accord” weekly quest gives one quite often, event chests and yes, also world boss or m+ end chest.
I have had three drop, one on each of the toons I play. Two were from the world boss, the other was from a rare. I am only doing the biweekly wqs at the moment due to internet issues, or I would probably have seen more drop.
Yes they do. I don’t play THAT much and got one from a world quest
Yeah it dropped for me at the end of Halls of Valor m+ chest. I was in a russian group and when they saw me get it they called me ‘‘pidar’’ in chat and instantly removed me from group lol.
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I used 3 so far on Lariat, dagger and the ring, saving the last 2 for the main hand and idk what else yet.
Then I have atrocious RNG or idk what’s going on. I’m doing all of that every week with about 5-8 M+ runs on average, WB kill every week, both the soup and the siege event once or twice, and I can’t remember getting a single spark in over a month.
oddly, I got some sparks from simple rares in the world - not from high M+.
Got one from heroic raid too
I got a couple from M+ but that’s across dozens of runs, one from dirt and the others I got all dropped from rares but I farmed a bunch of them.
I’ve had a couple, one from the weekly Accord box and one from a rare in open world.
My mage is still on the quest to get the spark from HoI and I did get one from PvP box. So yes you can get an additional one if you not finished the quest.
One from weeky box, one from a Raidboss this week for me
I’ve heard rumors of those.
Seriously, I haven’t seen a drop in almost three weeks, doing mostly mythic plus dungeons in my limited time in game.
4 chars and most do 15-20 m+ each week and other activities, 1 spark so far. On the one which didnt really need it of course.
You could have bought 2 sparks with 4 weeks of bad vault RNG.
They were still ilvl upgrades so I got them but would’ve been much better to get slots I can’t upgrade with valor. 2 weeks is also a lot, idk how the bad luck replacement reward is still so bad after over 2 years of the great vault. One week = 1 spark is a much more sane proposition considering you still need a lot of grinding and gold to craft that item.
I only get them on chars that don’t need them 
Yes, they drop quite regularly actually.