It seems to be a reagent for many high-end craftables. Perhaps it will be created through alchemy or some other means, by combining the following?:

Spirit of Summer
Spirit of Winter
Spirit of Autumn
Spirit of Spring

NOTE: This is just speculation

Comment by crazygnome2

Actually, I think we might be looking at MoP's Frozen Orb/Chaos Orb

Comment by Azrile

Seems very strange to place this item in comparison to other expansion

It is used to create epic weapons, which would put it on par with Chaos Orbs ( Frozen Orbs) from the last two expansions

But at the same time, it is also used merely to upgrade a common gem to a rare gem.. which in Cata only required a few herbs.

My guess is it will be more like primal might, and will be created by alchemists using primals (volatiles). The big question will be what is the cooldown on the process.

In any event, it seems like a rather expensive cost to use for a gem upgrade unless rare gems become much more rare than they are in Cata.

Comment by wwwddd

Dropped by a normal 85 mob in the Jade Forrest yesterday while doing the quest.

If this is not a beta test setting only, it seems to me this item could be just a random world drop in all Pandaria new 85+ area.

Comment by Hoticehunter

http://imageshack.us/f/690/spiritrb.png/
Picture of it dropping off a mob.
Seems to be fairly rare.

Comment by rzzr

Hopefully this regent will not be that rare as looking at leather working it seems to be used in every recipe beyond 570 in various amounts. I hope it will drop in many places.

Comment by Maelztrom

"Revered by craftsmen throughout Pandaria, this spirit is used in 145 recipes."
^ fix'd

Comment by tobindax

> used in countless recipes

A reference to Arcane Blast.

Comment by McMeyer

If you look at the recipies involving this item it looks to me as this is a replacement for the current vollitiles. No more fire/earth/life/water - just this one item used on a lot of crafts.

Because it's used in to many low-level craftings theres no doubt in my mind that it will not be super rare.

Comment by mstieler

Well crap. Being as they're BoP and drop off mobs, I've got two toons that will undoubtedly have a ton of these: my Herbalism/Skinning and Engineering/Enchanting toons, the two who have zero use for them.

I'm really hoping these just become unbound.

Comment by Werlwind

Got 7 in total while leveling from 86-90. Skipped Jade Forest because it's offline, but rng is rng so you could gain less or more depending on your luck.

Comment by sharkwouter

Used for crafting pvp gear.

Comment by NeilReynolds

It's now down to 59 recipes. and a pattern is emerging.

Enchanting, Herbalism, Mining and Skinning can't use them at all.
They're needed to bypass daily cloth production (3)
They're needed to bypass daily JC research (3)
They're needed to bypass daily Living steel restrictions (alchemy, 3)
They're needed for all weekly inscription quests (1,4-6)
They're needed for all weapon manufacture (lvl 85: 1-2, lvl 90: 2 or 5)
They're needed for all lvl 90 non-cloth armor
They're needed for either engineering mount (12)
They're needed for the "Blingtron 4000" (4)
They're needed for the "Mist-Piercing Goggles" (2)
They're needed for the JC trinkets (3)
They're needed for making cards in inscription (10)

The last seems like a serious anomaly. As you need on average about 9 random cards to make a new deck (and you need on average over 80 to get a specific deck when you start from scratch), this means the inscriber would need to get 90 of a BoP rare item to make every trinket, and several hundred to start off. This recipe replaced an earlier recipe needing one scroll of wisdom per card.

In every other instance, only a few are needed for items that are either only needed once, or for weapons and armor that can be replaced doing dungeons; or to bypass a daily limit, or the engineering mount and goggles.

Comment by jumbodog

The latest patch added two new NPCs Danky and Krystel who are Spirit of Harmony vendors. You give them Harmony and they give you crafting mats. Currently, one stack of ore/herbs/etc per harmony.

This is an excellent resource for dual gatherers and others who may collect the Spirits of Harmony but cannot use them.

(Personally, I would still rather see them BOA but this is better than nothing.)

Comment by degre

Since there is lots of speculation, I thought I made a post to sum up the facts.

Spirit of Harmony is the new elemental material and will be the only elemental in Pandaria.

It behaves like previous elemental, it is collected in the form of Motes of Harmony, using 10 motes produce a Spirit of Harmony.

It is Bind on Pickup, hence no more elementals market, if you need it, go out and farm. May become BoA in the future but so far is all speculation, it looks like will never be unbound though.

Motes of Harmony can be found as a random drop or can be obtained once Revered with the Tillers by planting a Songbell Seed, which when ripe rewards a mote.

Spirit of Harmony can be used by Alchemist to purchase extra transmute and Jewelcrafter to purchase extra daily discoveries.

For gatherers who have no need of these for crafting, Spirit of Harmony can be used in the Vale of Eternal Blossom to buy trade goods. Vendors can be found on the terrace of your faction's temple, next to the riding trainer. The Alliance trader is Krystel, while Danky works for the Horde.

The vendors will let you trade in a Spirit of Harmony in exchange for a choice of:
1 Ironpaw Token
1 Restored Artifact
1 Starlight Ink
20 Windwool Cloth
1 stash of 20 random Pandaria Herbs
2 Golden Lotus
20 Spirit Dust
5 Mysterious Essence
1 Ethereal Shard
20 Ghost Iron Ore
20 Kyparite
5 Black Trillium Ore
5 White Trillium Ore
20 Exotic Leather
20 Prismatic Scale
1 Serpent's Eye

While is true that at some point other elemental materials were datamined and we observed Spirits of Autumn, Spring, Summer and Winter, these never made it into the game as Blizzard has decided to scrap the elemental separation and go for a single elemental. This, as explained in a Blizzard's Blog, is the result of design simplification in order to avoid filling player's bags with many materials, and my guess is that they also wanted to avoid the supply diversification that made some elementals so common that were almost without value, like Volatile Earth, compared to others that having less sources had their price pushing up, leading to the Volatile shuffle.

Comment by thaia

Confirmed by Blizzard to be part of every creature's loot table in Pandaria. Probably a relatively low drop rate.

Comment by Sounder

On 9/18/2012 Ghostcrawler said they will probably make Spirits of Harmony Bind on Account "eventually". Source.

This doesn't appear to be well known, so upvotes appreciated.

For a dual-gatherer, it's a choice between cashing it in for something lower-value but immediately useful, vs. saving them for the probable/eventual day the above comes true (when your crafters may not need them anymore).

Comment by Tanfana

Since I don't see this information in "Currency for" or here in the comments, thought I'd share that you can also use these to purchase the PVP tailoring patterns from Raishen the Needle. One gets you one of the 16 available patterns (8 DPS, 8 Healing patterns.)

Comment by Napish

For any other farming Mote of Harmony, i recommend going to Dread Wastes and killing the Ik'thik Fear-Shaper

After collecting 10 Mote of Harmony you can transform them into an Spirit of Harmony

Spirit of harmony can be used to obtain Ore, Herb and much more from the
Quartermaster in Alliance/Horde camps at Vale of Eternal Blossoms

Alliance Citadel Shrine of Seven Stars
Horde Citadel Shrine of Two Moons

http://www.wowhead.com/item=76061#currency-for

5x Black Trillium Ore used by Mining
5x White Trillium Ore used for Mining

20x Kyparite used by Mining & Jewelcrafting
20x Ghost Iron Ore used by Mining & Jewelcrafting
NOTE: All ores whether they are smelt (or not) is also used by Blacksmithing

1x Ethereal Shard used for Enchantning
5x Mysterious Essence mats for Enchantning
20x Spirit Dust mats for Enchanter

1x Serpent's Eye used for Jewelcrafting
1x Restored Artifact used for Archaeology

20x Prismatic Scale used by Leatherworker
20x Exotic Leather used by Leatherworker
NOTE: Normaly you use Skinning on any beasts around Pandaria, but this way you dont need to run around and farm.

20x Windwool Cloth used by Tailoring & First Aid but also for a few recept as (Engineering)

1x Bag (20x random Herbs) Pandaria Herbs Worldwide Pandaria Herbalism
1x Starlight Ink is used for Inscription
3x Golden Lotus used by Alchemy

Comment by scarletbegonias

question - will these or the motes become available for honor or justice trade goods? i hope so!

Comment by pasky

I don't know about vnedor Exchange *-*,this is mean that i can craft my staff with my iscrption priest *-*

Comment by taniwha

Two levels and one and a half zones in (I've done every quest available to me to this point and two dungeons) I have gathered 13 motes, enough for a grand total of ONE Spirit of Harmony !

How does this compare with your experience so far? Please tell me it improves the higher level you get.

I need many dozens of these to go any further with my tailoring / inscription on this toon.

Unless the drop rate improves I'm basically buggered.

UPDATE: Discovered that I can grow 16 motes per day on my farm so that is awesome.
Plus I usually get 10 or more from dailies.
Now if only I could get more than one scroll of wisdom per day, and that valor cap is harsh :)

Comment by Crankshaft78

Is there anyway to have a crafter use motes from other players to craft items like weapons? Putting it in the "item will not be traded" window? For example I have all the mats including 5 spirit of harmony required for the Masterwork Spiritblade decimator. Can I have a BS make this with my Spirit of Harmony or will I have to pay them to use ones they have farmed?

Comment by dalisair

While in Valley of the Four Winds, in Stoneplow while on Evacuation Orders, The Swarm Begins and It Does You No Good In The Keg (this link is for Horde) , where you deliver beer for the Keg one, there are teams of friendly NPC's killing the Ik'thiks. You can tag the bugs as well, don't even need to get the first hit. Just AOE. Lots of mobs, fast spawn and the Motes of Harmony seemed to have a pretty good drop off of Ik'thik Warriors and other mobs that wander up while you are with the groups. I farmed about 20 motes in an hour or so, I could have been lucky, but my guildmates reported similar results. Just be prepared not to advance for a while this early in the game to farm for your later needs since I'm not sure this is possible once you complete The Savior of Stoneplow. I don't think you can do it after that. So make sure you do it before.

Comment by wormwoodminions

I'm curious as to what other crafters are charging per Spirit of Harmony. I have people interested in the epic Blacksmithing gear from the Klaxxi, and I can't get a straight answer from anyone I ask.

Comment by Nepturion

These are BoP and dont know if or when Blizzard will make them BoA.
The Chaos Orb was introduced in 4.0.3 (16th of November 2010) and became BoA in 4.3.0 (29th of November 2011).
So lets hope it will be soon or that they increase the droprate, low fee for hours of grinding isnt what i want.

Comment by Bovineflu

To the person asking about pricing: I've been charging between 1.5 and 2k per Spirit to my friends and about 3k per harmony to all others, including AH postings. So a LW chest will go from between 12k and 24k because it contains 8 Spirits.

Comment by shotmachine

this mote also drops from Sealed Crate

Comment by aspasito

I realised that my low level character who has not yet set foot in Pandaria has the most motes. I was leveling her fishing on Darkmoon with the pools, and it appears the crates are the best way to grind the damned motes. She now has more motes than both my level 90 and 89. Needless to say, she has no use of them other than exchanging them at some point. Sigh.

Comment by Lordplatypus

Made with the spirits of Magic, Generosity, Honesty, Laughter, Loyalty and Kindness

EDIT: This is taking so many up and down votes I don't know if it's good or bad.

Comment by forthewynn

When you turn these into Ironpaw Tokens from the Spirit of Harmony vendor, is it possible for it to proc and receive two? I had 9 spirits to turn in yesterday and afterward I ended up with 10 (my chat history also said at one point "You receive loot: x2").

Comment by Nepturion

Patch 5.1 PTR Notes Update - November 8
Spirit of Harmony can now be purchased for 600 Conquest Points at the Conquest Quartermaster Ethan Natice Doris Chiltonius.

Comment by BeastPredator

Wowhead tooltip seems to be wrong. Should be created from 10 Mote of Harmony, instead of 9.

Comment by Kharnachrist

Read my comment on this page, this is probably the best spot to farm.

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=58409#comments:id=1768147

Comment by Corentine

This takes 10 Mote of Harmony to create one Spirit of Harmony, and the drop rate on the mote's have seemed to be very very low. I have gotten only 5 of the spirits in the time it took me to level from 85-90.

As of patch 5.1 the Spirit of Harmony can be purchased for 600 Conquest Points, and Mote of Harmony can be purchased for 400 Honor Points.

Comment by Corq

Spirit-O-Harmony

Comment by viejo

The fastest ways to get motes now seems to be by running Scenarios. I have been getting 4 - 6 motes per run since 5.1

Comment by perculia

Datamining the latest 5.2 PTR build has revealed that completing Many More Giant Dinosaur Bones gives you one Spirit. Giant Dinosaur Bone are found on the mysterious Isle of Giants to the north of Kun-Lai Summit.

Comment by kinigit

It is possible to get Spirit of Harmony on low level characters. The Sealed Crate found in Shipwreck Debris pools on Darkmoon Island during Darkmoon Fair drop Mote of Harmony at about an 8% drop rate.

My level 80 pally scribe started fishing for 50 Mote of Harmony at level 1 fishing. It took several hours. I ended up at 311 fishing. I was able to fish crates from my first cast at level 1 fishing and Darkmoon Faire is accessible to level 1s. Thus, a low level character can fish these up. However, I am fairly certain every recipe that uses the Mote of Harmony requires a level 80 to reach the sufficient profession level. Spirit of Harmony can be used as currency so if you have some reason to fish these up below level 80 then it is possible.

To give an idea of how long this will take for planning purposes; I earned the 1000 fish achievement and I fished approximately 750 Shipwreck Debris pools. Moving between the pools significantly increases the time it takes so don't just mentally calculate how long 311 fishing or 1000 casts would take. I recommend you stock up on Elixir of Water Walking during the 3 weeks off time leading up to the Darkmoon Faire.

TLDR: Any character that can enter Darkmoon Faire and has been trained in fishing can fish up Mote of Harmony.

Edit: Ok, fishing requires level 5 so you need to be level 5 with skill level 1 fishing to fish these up.

Comment by rogermw

The icon for this totally looks like the CBS logo.

Comment by buffalocakes

Do I need to hang onto these? I'd like to make bag space and I am a skinner/herbalist. If I don't need them, I will junk them.

Comment by Nashoto

Interesting note for lowbies with gathering professions but not crafting ones and have spirits from Darkmoon fishing and who possess the panda expansion.

have some guildies use a lock closet to summon you to your respective shrine and trade spirits for junk (Also be sure to set your hearth here so you can use the portals at will.) ;)

This is the New Dalaran!

I frankly liked the old Dalaran better...but I'll make do.

20 spirits=400 cloth, 60 Golden Lotus, etc

As far as I can see, level 1s can be summoned to the Shrine of Two Moons, Shrine of Seven Stars.

my 68 DK chills there sometimes.

oh for lowbies:

The vendor for spirits is on the flight deck, in a perfectly safe place for a level 5-84 to be. (At least this is Two Moons, seven stars may be the same or different, alliance could comment the location for Seven Stars, please)
He's under the tree near the flight master and (I think) three taurens, one of them male with two papooses...don't remember if you see him without opening the Vale or not.

Comment by awh13

For people wishing to farm motes I would recommend Howlingwind Cavern in Kun Lai. The sprites inside are easy to kill and are packed in large groups. The only problem would be the potential questers inside....

Comment by Damonra

Crafting Material SHOULD NOT BE soulbound.

Comment by Hashiclif

if you really need just one of those there is an NPC in isle of giants with a dailly quest that rewards 1 spirit of harmony
The quest is to collect 99 giant dinosaur bones but note that each dinosaur(the low hp ones) drop 7-11 bones and may also drop a mote of harmony

Comment by Quackie

Please take away the soulbound restriction, or just make them BOA. I've got a ton on one toon who can't use them, and very few on a toon who actually needs them.

Comment by GibbiGobbi

As a Horde player; I can say the best place to farm these is Domination Point when we have Lion's Landing and are fighting the Alliance. Windwool, Lion's Landing Commissions, random greens, Motes of Harmony and even a Jewelcrafting Recipe.

Comment by yuyang0224

I agree with the idea that craft materials should be off trade. But it should be BOA rather than BOP.

Comment by gimolos

It should be noted these are worth more to you as part of some recipes then trading them in for reagents from a vendor. Lord Blastington's scope of Doom is a good example. The reagents for that item are about 150g for the bolts and another 100-150g for the gems. I just sold a few for 550-600g at a 250g-300g profit.. This is ALOT more valuable then the 60g or so from the reagents you could have bought.
Only trade them in if you truly cannot use them.

Comment by jnax

Spirit Dust x20 AH Value 40g
Mysterious essence x5 AH Value 35g
Eternal Shard x1 AH Value 6g
Starlight Ink x1 AH Value 135g
Pandarian Herbs x1 Ah Value 14~24g
Windwool Cloth x20 Ah Value 20g
Golden Lotus x2 Ah Value 62g
Ghost Iron Ore x20 Ah Value 49g
Kyparite x20 Ah Value 40g
White Trillium Ore x5 Ah Value 42g
Black Trillium Ore x5 Ah Value 50g
Exotic Leather x20 Ah Value 60g
Prismatic Scale x20 Ah Value 139g
Serpents Eye x1 Ah Value 9g

Shattered Halls (With Connected Realms)

Comment by Ryusan

If you do not like killing monsters to farm Mote of Harmony, running scenarios for Greater Cache of Treasures is probably the best item in game to get Mote of Harmony. With the exception of planting Songbell Seed for the motes with a maximum of 16 per day.

All you do is complete a scenario, obtain Greater Cache of Treasures and receive 1-17 motes. From my experience, I receive about 4-5 per cache on average. Pretty nice as scenarios normally last 8-15 minutes. So about 20 motes or 2 Spirit of Harmony in an hour.

Comment by Arjuana

Rumor has it that with Warlords of Draenor (patch 6.x) Spirits of Harmony won't be bound. Yes, totally unbound, not even account bound. All those dailies that requires huge amounts of spirits, like Living Steel, will become tremendously easier to get.

Remembering that:

- You can make one Imperial Silk per day for free, or 3 Spirits per Imperial Silk plus mats.
- The same applies to Living Steel. One free daily, or 3 Spirits per Transmute plus mats.

So, that Sky Golem will become tremendously easier to make, and won't take forcibly 30 days. Ops, yes it will, since the Engineering daily can't be made faster with Spirits, being the only exception.

Making Imperial Silk bags will become a matter of how many Spirits can you gather, or how many alts can you plant the stuff.

Making it account-bound would make it easier to smuggle values between Horde / Alliance. But nobody wants that.

Comment by Aryadei

In Warlords Spirit of Harmony will lose its soulbound properties and can be traded!

Comment by Balgair

On Warlords of Draenor beta these ARE unbound: I don't have one myself yet but I have an unbound Mote of Harmony, and I've seen the Spirits on the AH. Also I compared tooltips on the vendor in the Shrine: http://imgur.com/n0bIgFG (only addition I made was the text saying which was which)

Comment by stickshift

If this applies to you I hope this insight comes in handy...

1) I have several Alt's grinding away on Timeless Isle (but this can apply to altaholics grinding anywhere where you can slowly build up your SoH's).

2) I hate playing the auction house game.

3) Grinding for mats is tedious.

This late into MoP, my alts no longer have a need for the gear requiring the SoH; in fact, I really don't have a need for this item at all...except one, The Royal Satchel.

After a summer of all this accumulation of motes my SoH's totaled 130. Turning these in for (20) Windwool cloth a piece saved me wear-and-tear from gardening in The Valley, fighting for farming human mobs and messing with the auction house.

So in conclusion; if you play alts regularly, a tailor (or friend) that can make Royal Satchels and a ton of SoH's, you can slowly but surely build up the bank space of all your toons. If I hadn't followed this pattern, I would have never been able to build up the transmog libraries I have now.

Comment by saudfaisal

CONFIRMED: The spirits are going to be totally unbound as soon as the 6.0 pre-patch comes live. :D

Source: https://twitter.com/TheCrafticus/status/512315091128418304

Comment by Longeria

Such a joy that those things are not soulbound anymore. I have at this moment about 320 plus spirits and will get more before the release of WOD hits. It is great for making Royal Satchel. Nice to give them to your alts. I was collecting Bolt of Windwool Cloth already for a long time, in the hope that the cool-down for Imperial Silk was gone to. I have in stock at this moment 603x Bolt of Windwool Cloth. The bigger bags (Hexweave Bag) are just 2 slots bigger. Not worth to spend your new cloth yet.

Edit 08-11-14: I notice a few days ago that the cool down we have to make that Imperial Silk we can do it everywhere now, not only at the Silken Fields in 4 winds.

Comment by bcrucial

so basically, im about to be able to buy my vial of the sands recipe and bug mount through these and restored artifacts and my dude, brann bronzebeard. im sick of farming mantid digs.

Comment by Rekira

As of 6.0 the spirits of harmony are indeed NO LONGER soulbound. Trade away!

Comment by menace97

Spirit of Harmony now are NOT soulbound and stack to 200! This is fantastic!... thank you Blizzard.

Comment by ilostmahbucket

For Archaeologists considering trading these in for Restored Artifacts.

Enter happy, optimistic Chronos.

Hoping to kill two birds with one stone by trying to use these to complete the Tol'Vir rare artifacts while completing The Seat of Knowledge.

189 Mantid solves
280 Pandaren solves
377 Mogu solves
= 846 restored artifacts - 10 for Lorewalker's Maps
= 836 Crates of Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments
= 154 Tol'vir solves
= only 2 of 6 Tol'Vir rare artifacts

Exit bitter, grumbling Chronos.

In other news, probably better uses for 3 Spirits of Harmony for 1 Restored Artifact when 836 of them yielded nothing. Unless you're desperate.

These also may not decrease in price as much as you might think as they are used for Royal Satchels, which tailors will likely continue to make throughout Warlords.

Comment by tmmrtn

Why is there a market for these still in Warlords?

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