Design: Ring-Bound Hourglass

Anyone knows if the recipe can drop for non-jewelcrafters as well? Can't see to find that bit of information anywhere.

Yes it does! Dropped today for my Alch/Herb Druid.

Ty for confirming this, guess ill keep farming it with mutiple chars till it drops.

ah... but can we get it on non70s, i have 17 toons on my realm, wondering if i should do this on all toons weekly?

Yes it can drop for non-jewelcrafters, my Hunter just got it and the plan sells for 700k on Area52 so well worth the farm.

I’m going to farm this until it drops I’ll update it when I get it.

For sure, same here - farming it only on 5 chars at the moment due to work and irl stuff but hopefully it drops at some point.

I've been farming it, and it just doesn't drop. It hasn't been seen on my server in over two weeks. UPDATE: According to TheUndermineJournal there are 0 available in the North American region. This is ridiculous.

i'm farming it from mid december until now it drop 1 time for a drood alchemist/gatherer ... thanks for rng blizzard you've kill crafters

Well Carnagias has not updated us. Suggests it never dropped for him or he either gave up farming it or just quit all together like so many of us. :D

It does drop, one of my toons had it in bags and I didn't even notice. In the AH now on NA.

It's a 1% drop chance from a really annoying event that you can only do once per week per character. Pretty difficult to solo and it's not always up. How fun.

Im getting pretty miffed at the low drop chance it has and added to that you only have once chance per week. This and the lariet reicpe need a buff.

it's always up at least once every 2hours between a storm's event and the next

it start when storm's fury ends and the hour after. rinse and repeat

Chest just disappears after the named elite dies and can't loot it

so annoying to farm this one. Can not even track when the even starts because its between 1-2 hours when the storm's fury isn't on. Seems like the best way to get it is to create second wow account and have it opened on second monitor and sit on pc 24/7 (: im kidding. Just want to explain how annoyed is to get it. [b]GL to all who farm this[/b]

I've had this chest just despawn at the end of the event once you kill the miniboss. It's no fun

I just had this drop on a non-JC, level 66 guardian druid it was a little difficult to solo the event, but quite doable as a tank

it's always up right when the storm's fury event ends, so just wait for that you may need to zone in and out or relog for the quest/event objectives to appear - make sure you do so

This was incredibly helpful. I went back at the end of the time for the Storm's Fury event, waited a few minutes for the chest to spawn, one of the folks in the cave kicked off the event, we defeated all the waves, looted the chest, and I got the design.

Every time I try the chest event, the chest despawns at the end. So annoying.

I believe I have found why it is despawning. If you are doing the event, and it doesn't say Stage 1, Stage 2, or whatever it's on, you won't get the chest at the end. So if that happens, get out of the cave, get out of combat, and fly halfway across the primalist future. After that, turn around and fly back. When you're almost there, it should say in the middle of your screen "Stage X", depending on which it's on. You will then be able to loot the chest when the event finishes. I have tested this theory, and it seems to be true.

can confirm the above - I've never had the chest despawn by doing this, and I've done it 30 or so times

Does anyone know why the chest dessapear when i was in the cave when the intermition ends ?

Event: Trial of the Elements Chest: Chest of the Elements Pattern: Design: Ring-Bound Hourglass /way #2025 59.85, 82.27 (portal to primalist future) Thaldraszus /way 29.30, 25.97 (cave location inside primalist future) Spawns every hour If "storms fury" event is up (it lasts 2 hours) then this chest event won't spawn - Note that even if you complete the storms fury event that dos NOT mean the storms fury event is not up. It lasts for 2 hours in total. IE you do the event in first 15-20 min it will still take another 1 hour 45 min or so before the event is no longer active. You can use an alt to see if its still up after completing or you can look on front page of wowhead to see when its over Because the chest event is phased during the storms fury event it WILL NOT spawn. Therefore as soon as the storms fury event is over the chest should appear so be at the cave as storms fury event comes to an end is best time to get it without waiting without knowing when it will spawn. Warning: If your waiting at the cave during the Storms Fury event for it to finish be aware you'll get stacks of a freezing debuff which will dmg you more and more. The freezing debuff stops once storms fury event is no longer active So you'll know the event is up several ways. 1. If you have not done the event previously you should get a notification of the event if your in the vicinity and the event starts 2. You should see brown and white swirlys on the ground during the event (even if you already completed) 3. You should see a chest icon with triangles or whatever around it on your map 4. You should see the chest with the lock on it inside the cave. 4 stages Click the locked chest to start the event. Phase 1-3: spawns swirlies on the ground you'll want to try to avoid spawns waves of elementals to kill (some elite ones i think but hard to tell with amount of ppl killing them too fast) Phase 4: spawns a mini boss, Therrocite then the chest is "unlocked" and lootable - During the event the chest looks ghostly or like icey mist is covering it along with a ghostly chain around it You can only loot the chest/do the event once per week. Script to see if you looted chest this week on that toon: /script print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(71995)) ***Despawning If the event is active but you don't see the "stage 1,2 3 or " thing then its bugged and you won't be able to loot the chest (or you've already completed the event and can't loot the chest again till next week). If that occurs try quickly flying away into the shielded dome area (with the vendors and stuff where you ported in at) then back and it should then appear and let you loot the chest at the end. Don't need to have Jewlcrafting to loot pattern so can farm this on alts Can do the event on characters below lvl 70

I believe the chest spawns every top of hour when the storm's event is off so either check as soon as the event ends or the hour after. I'll keep this updated as I try more (just 5 attempts)

I saw the chest after weekly reset and opened it right after stages. But no drop. ( 5 mins ago )

When does the event start anyone know?

when storm's fury is off

Is there any reason why the value of this recipe is dropping massively in the last few weeks? The obvious thing is that 10.2 is getting close, but is it gonna be useless then? Because after 10.1 came the value recovered really well.

Lot of bored peoples farming it and for a few weeks the drop rate seems to have increased but it seems to be back normal for like 3-4 weeks now

Since 10.2 I haven't seen this drop. While it could just be bad luck, I have been doing this event for months as a source of income and typically get at least one drop per week across the 15 characters I do it on. But since 10.2 I haven't gotten any at all. Anyone know if they've simply dropped the rate to improve value or possibly made it only drop for JC? Just looking for validation it still drops, if it does.

I finally got a drop (about 30th attempt). So either it's been nerfed or I've had some bad luck. But it's still there for non-JC.

Got it yesterday on my DH on first try. The character was not a JC so the drop is not only for JC. Got it on 4th try overall.

First drop: https://postimg.cc/SXvL70jX

Second try on the same character (the non Jewel Crafter DH) and got it again. For now, it's a 100% drop rate on that character. Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/KkhPsPrF

Even when I'm here for the event, it's bugged and the chest disappears once the big named elemental dies without being able to loot it. How the heck are we supposed to get this pattern?

I believe the chest spawns every top of hour when the storm's event is off so either check as soon as the event ends or the hour after. I'll keep this updated as I try more (just 5 attempts)

I find the event tends to bug out a lot more often whenever I try doing it right after storm fury ends, the event starts but no event/quest log on the right to indicate it is active, i usually just log out at this point when this happens xD. Try doing it during 3hr cd timer for storm fury, i never get the bug during this time.