A user submitted an interesting feature request that lets you use the Upgrade Finder to decide if you should do an Emissary quest based on the potential gear rewards.
My detective skills helped me figure out the Emissary Caches that most armor slots and Azerite gear below to. But a few slots are eluding me: weapons, cloaks, ring, and trinkets. This is where YOU come in If you get any of the items (listed below) from an Emissary cache, please post and let me know which one.
Emissary’s & Caches:
Drustvar - Order of Embers
Tiragarde Sound - Proudmoore Admiralty
Stormsong - Storm’s Wake
Nazmir - Talanji’s Expedition
Zuldazar - Zandalari Empire
Vol’dun - Voldunai
Tortollan
7th Legionnaire / Honorbound
Weapon Cache reward (a specific cache, different from regular cache’s)
Weapons
(In alphabetical order).
A couple of questions I am trying to answer:
Do weapons only come from the weapon cache, or faction emissary cache’s too?
Are all of the weapons below available in caches? (We’ll find out as people help fill in this list)
Sources
Blood Jungle Stinger
Bonehex Warmaul
Coldscale Cudgel
Coldscale Lantern
Coralshell Halberd
Coralshell Spellblade
Dazar’alor Polearm
Deepwarden Baton (Deepwarden NPCs found in Tiragarde)
Deepwarden Fangs (Deepwarden NPCs found in Tiragarde)
Dinobone Cracker
Dockyard Mace
Drustwrought Spellstaff
Gilded Hex-Maw
Glade Warden’s Glaive
Gnarlwood Barrier
Gnarlwood Cutlass
Gnarlwood Dagger
Gnarlwood Hammer
Gnarlwood Staff
Gol Osigr Handblade (Likely Drustvar?)
Gol Osigr Pillar (Likely Drustvar?)
Golden Empire Broadsword
Golden Empire Buckler
Golden Empire Hexer
Golden Tomb Defender (Drops off a rare in Zuldazar, also in caches?)
Ironcrest Bulwark
Ironcrest Greatblade
Ironcrest Longrifle
Loa-Bound Defender
Loa-Pledged Rod
Razorbone Carver
Razorbone Claws
Razorbone Skullcracker
Razorbone Spear
Razorspine’s Greatmace (Drops off a rare in Stormsong, also caches?)
Salt Coast Headcracker
Salt Coast Knuckles
Salt Coast Piercer
Shipwrecker Maul
Spirit Bog Scepter
Stagheart Gavel
Stagheart Hatchet
Stagheart Poleaxe
Tideguard Pike
Tideguard Spire
Wavecaller Beacon
Wavecaller Greatmace
Wavecaller Speargun
Whisperfen Chopper
Whisperfen Hewer
Whisperfen Polearm
Whisperfen Staff
Wintersail Dirk (Wintersail NPCs found in Tiragarde)
Wintersail Saber
Wintersail Striker
Zandalari Greatbow
Zandalari Machete
Zandalari Warstaff
Zem’lan Cutter _(Zem’lan NPCs found in vol’dun)
Zem’lan Hacker
Zem’lan Slicer
Zocalo Crusher
Zocalo Pummeler
Zocalo Stabber
Back
Battalion Veteran’s Greatcloak
Bloodhunter’s Drape (note: Bloodhunter NPCs found in Nazmir)
Worn Cloak (Is this a real item, if you even own it, let me know)
Trinket
Dinobone Charm
Emblem of Zandalar
First Mate’s Spyglass
Gilded Loa Figurine
Pearl Diver’s Compass
Plunderbeard’s Flask
Rings
Golden Empire Signet
Igneous Winterskorn Loop
Ornate Elun’dris Ring
Shiny Ring
Smuggler’s Cove Ring
Spearfisher’s Band
Stonemason’s Guild Band
Zandalari Band
Please reply below if you have a source for any of these. If you saw my tweet, ideally you stop here and reply, but if you don’t have an account and don’t want to register (I get it, I’ve been there!), you can tweet me back.
Zoop, I’ll probably have to look through my item restoration page to confirm the names of stuff from emissary caches, but I’ll share some info I am confident about off the top of my head.
Emissary Caches
Don’t forget to include 7th legion/honorbound
The caches from faction incursions can drop Azerite armor even if they are not explicitly named Azerite Armor Cache.
I’m not sure if the caches from incursions are the same as emissary caches. They appear the share a loot table though (possibly a superset).
The emissary caches that are explicitly named weapon caches also have yellow text to indicate that they provide a weapon appropriate for your class (not necessarily your current loot spec).
I’ve never seen a ring or trinket from an emissary cache. However, I know some of them were available as emissary rewards before the 8.1 changes that added caches in place of specific items. (I have received a Golden Empire Signet as an emissary reward before, but not from a cache).
Every trinket on your list (as well as a few others such as the mushroom one from Drustvar and the Kajafied Banana from Zuldazar) is available from world quests which cap at 330 base ilvl but can titanforge.
Thanks. I will edit my OP to give more background: I have the 7th Legion/Honorbound stuff categoriezed already. I also have azerite armor categorized into the right faction emissaries (along with all of the non-azerite armor slots except the ones mentioned). Is this what you were referring to, or something else?
Good question about incursion caches - will try to figure that one out. Also, thanks for the tip on the weapon cache being yellow. And for the reminder about them being per-class. The number of times I got one for Feral when I just wanted one I could use on my healer was making me pull my hair out.
I did get a Stonemason’s Guild Band a couple weeks ago, out of a 370 Ring and Trinket box (Tortollan Trader’s Stock) from a Tortollan Emissary quest iirc.
Didn’t get any other “non-regular” (i.e. ring/trinket oder weapon) caches yet, but I guess that’s only a matter of time. Will keep you updated if that happens.
Had someone in my guild get a Boralus Sailor’s Cloak from a Proudmoore Admiralty Equipment Cache which was rewarded for the Proudmoore Admiralty / Tiragarde Sound emissary.
Todays emissary for Alliance on EU is Storm’s Wake / Stormsong Valley which rewards a Kul Tiran Weapons Cache - at least on classes I’ve been able to check.
Rewards were as follows:
Demon Hunter: Stagheart Hatchet
Death Knight: Coldscale Cudgel
Druid: Tideguard Spire
Paladin: Stagheart Poleaxe
And once again some other rewards from people in my guild:
Shaman: Stagheart Gavel
Warlock: Deepwarden Baton
Druid: Wavecaller Greatmace
Paladin: Gnarlwood Hammer
Additionally, a human warrior on the official german forums mentioned getting a Gol Osigr Pillar for completing the currently active Drustvar assault (Post: Krieger mit Stab - Krieger - World of Warcraft Forums, Image: https://imgur.com/a/2qqtIYc). It’s also one of a couple staves with Strength if that’s relevant in any way.
I’m not sure about that info though, as the assault rewards an Azerite Armor Cache. According to the armory they did get the weapon at the same time as the achievement for being exalted with Storm’s Wake so it’s more likely they got the weapon from the emissary.
If it is in your inventory, when you copy your string from export tab of addon to the website, it will show up in your inventory on the website and be available to the optimizer for Best in Bags. That item also shows up under the Emissary Cache upgrade finder search.
In just a standard gear list (say on Best in Slot, click the down arrow on the left of the item in the list, then you can modify its item level to any available item level.
If you get any of the items (listed below) from an Emissary cache, please post and let me know which one.
