World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has made massive changes to professions in their entirety, as crafting gear and gathering materials have become far more intricate and rewarding to do. From specialization trees to crafting orders, to more cross-profession interactivity through different resources, it truly is a whole new world (of Warcraft).
The shiny new profession system is vast and incredibly nuanced, so this article will focus on the optional reagents you can pick up to improve your crafting. Adding these is a small, yet very important, aspect of professions as a whole, so read on.
What Are Optional Reagents?
Simply put, optional reagents are extra items of varying qualities that help upgrade your crafted gear’s item level and stats. As such, there are two important things to note:
- Optional reagents do not apply to gathering professions (Mining, Herbalism, Skinning), only crafting professions (Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, etc.).
- Though some optional reagents are Soulbound (untradeable), they can still be utilized in crafting orders if you have them.
When picking which optional reagent(s) to use when crafting your gear or putting up a work order, there will be one to three total slots, depending on the gear:
- Titan Matrices or Power Infusions
- Missives
- Embellishments.
However, not every piece of crafted gear has access to all of these slots. For example, you cannot add Embellishments to most Rare-quality gear, only Epic gear. Even so, there is some Epic gear whose stats and powers are predetermined, so you can’t use Missives or Embellishments on them (i.e. Ancestor’s Dew Drippers for Leatherworkers) either.
Titan Matrices And Power Infusions
There are six total optional reagents (as of Dragonflight’s first season), each of which can be obtained in different ways and boost your gear’s item level and stats by different amounts.
|
Optional Reagent Name |
Crafted Gear Quality It Is Applied To |
Item Level Range |
How To Get Them |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Titan Training Matrix I |
Rare |
333-343 |
These are the easiest to snag as they drop from World Rares. Once you reach a high enough item level though, they’ll generally stop dropping. |
|
Titan Training Matrix II |
Rare |
346-356 |
These only drop from Normal-level final dungeon bosses. |
|
Titan Training Matrix III |
Rare |
359-369 |
These only drop from Heroic-level final dungeon bosses. |
|
Titan Training Matrix IV |
Rare |
372-382 |
These only drop from Mythic-level dungeon bosses. |
|
Primal Infusion |
Epic |
395-405 |
These require 10 Primal Focus and 100 Primal Chaos to create. A single Primal Focus drops after completing any Mythic Plus dungeon at Keystone levels one to fifteen. |
|
Concentrated Primal Infusion |
Epic |
408-418 |
These require 10 Concentrated Primal Focus and 150 Primal Chaos to create. A single Concentrated Primal Infusion drops after completing any Mythic Plus dungeon at Keystone level sixteen or higher. |
The item level of the gear within each optional reagent’s item level range is determined by the quality of your materials and skill in the profession.
All four of the Titan Training Matrices can also be obtained through certain World Quests. Make sure you’re checking them whenever they’re up, and bear in mind that the level of the Matrix scales with your item level — just like gear rewards from World Quests do.
To use them, pick a piece of gear in whatever crafting profession you’re pursuing, click the Empower with Training Matrix slot for Rare gear, or the Infuse with Power slot for Epic gear, and pick which optional reagent to use.
Missives
The next optional reagent to address is the Missive. This is the most straightforward of the three, as they simply allow you to pick your secondary stats for a piece of crafted gear.
Only Inscriptionists can craft these, so if you want some Missives, be sure to level the profession up on one of your characters. Otherwise, you’ll be buying them off the Auction House, although they’re usually relatively cheap.
There are six total Missives (as of Dragonflight Season One), each with three levels of quality. As you can see in the table below, the higher quality reduces the recipe’s difficulty, allowing you to more reliably craft higher quality gear:
|
Missive Name |
Guaranteed Secondary Stats |
Tier One Recipe Difficulty |
Tier Two Recipe Difficulty |
Tier Three Recipe Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Draconic Missive of the Fireflash |
Critical Strike and Haste |
25 |
20 |
15 |
|
Draconic Missive of the Peerless |
Critical Strike and Mastery |
25 |
20 |
15 |
|
Draconic Missive of the Feverflare |
Haste and Mastery |
25 |
20 |
15 |
|
Draconic Missive of the Quickblade |
Critical Strike and Versatility |
25 |
20 |
15 |
|
Draconic Missive of the Aurora |
Haste and Versatility |
25 |
20 |
15 |
|
Draconic Missive of the Harmonious |
Versatility and Mastery |
25 |
20 |
15 |
In order to utilize them, click on the Customize Secondary Stats slot under your optional reagents options. If you don’t see a slot there, that means the secondary stats of the selected gear are predetermined and cannot change.
Also, if this slot is locked for you, that means you haven’t progressed a specific specialization tree in your profession to unlock the ability to utilize Missives in that type of gear.
Embellishments
The final type of optional reagent is the Embellishment. These allow you to add some unique, powerful effects to your gear and, in most cases, two can be equipped at the same time on a given piece of gear. These also come with three quality levels.
|
Embellishment Name |
Item Slot |
How To Get |
Effect |
Tier 1/2/3 Recipe Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Potion Absorption Inhibitor |
All |
Alchemy |
Increase the duration of Dragon Isles potions by 50 percent. |
35/30/25 |
|
Magazine of Healing Darts |
All |
Engineering |
When you heal, you sometimes fire a Healing Dart. |
35/30/25 |
|
Blue Silken Lining |
All |
Tailoring |
While above 90 percent health, gain Mastery. |
35/30/25 |
|
Alchemical Flavor Pocket |
All |
In the Supply-Laden Soup Pot weekly quest reward. Complete five tasks during Iskaaran Tuskarr Community Feast. |
Increase the duration of Well Fed from Dragon Isles meals by 100 percent, and they now persist through death. |
N/A |
|
Armor Spikes |
Armor slots |
Blacksmithing |
Adorn your armor with thick spikes (has a chance to deal damage when hit by melee attacks). |
35/30/25 |
|
Toxified Armor Patch |
Armor slots |
Leatherworking |
Infuses the item with the essence of decay. |
35/30/25 |
|
Fang Adornments |
Weapons |
Leatherworking |
Physical attacks sometimes deal extra physical damage. |
35/30/25 |
|
Bronzed Grip Wrappings |
Weapons |
Tailoring |
Your spells sometimes cause a ripple in time (your damage and healing spells have a chance to retrigger). |
35/30/25 |
|
Griftah's All-Purpose Embellishing Powder |
All |
Sold by Griftah, located atop the Obsidian Citadel |
Removes player-crafted Embellishments from gear (usually during recrafting). |
N/A |
In order to utilize them once bought, click on the Add Embellishment slot under your optional reagents options. Some epic gear already has Embellishments built into them (i.e. Acidic Hailstone Treads, as shown in the image above), and will consequently not have the Embellishment slot open.
Furthermore, most rare-quality gear cannot be given an Embellishment, as usually this optional reagent slot is reserved for the Epic-quality crafted gear that you unlock through your profession’s specialization.
Lastly, as with the Missives, if this slot is locked for you, that means you haven’t progressed a specific specialization tree in your profession to unlock the ability to utilize Missives in that type of gear.
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