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Daily Level 100 quests to kill elites, available from your Garrison Town Hall. These reward 800 Apexis Crystal, like Assault on Darktide Roost.

Daily Level 100 group quests reward 1000 Apexis Crystal, like Challenge at the Ring of Blood.

Daily Level 100 PvP quests reward 1000 Apexis Crystal, like Battle in Ashran.

You have a choice between two options every day from your Garrison Town Hall.

Completing Garrison Invasions rewards different amounts based on your success: Bronze Victory is 33, Silver Victory is 50, Gold Victory is 75.

Completing Inn dungeon dailies that reward crates.

Work orders for medium and large buildings can contain several Apexis Crystal.

Rares and rares elites can drop Apexis Crystal.

The Liberation of Shattrath is a rare mission that rewards 1000 Apexis Crystal.

Apexis Crystal

The first tier of gear, "Crystal," is ilvl 630 and requires 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms.

The second tier of gear, "Exceptional," is ilvl 645 and requires the ilvl 630 item plus 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms. Click here to see the Exceptional Apexis Crystal Gear.

The highest tier of gear, "Flawless," is ilvl 655 and requires the ilvl 645 item plus 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms. Click here to see the Flawless Apexis Crystal Gear. This will not be available until Highmaul goes live.

Apexis Crystal

Mounts take 5000 Apexis Crystal

Pets take 2000 Apexis Crystal

Elixirs take 1 Apexis Crystal

Character effect items take 50 Apexis Crystal

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Spending Apexis Crystals
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Garrison Invasions

Gearing up in Warlords
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Guide to Apexis Crystal
"Assault" Dailies

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Comment by iinyla

Apexis Crystals are a new currency in Warlords of Draenor.
They can either be used to obtain gear, very similar to how we are used to with Valor Points, and are also used as partial payment for mounts and companion pets from reptutation vendors.

How to get them:

At level 100, there will be a table in your garrison offering you a choice between two dailies. They can either be regular PvE dailies intended to do alone, or marked as group dailies. There's also a PvP quest in the same rotation as the PvE ones, so you might get a PvP choice but it's not a guaranteed option. You can only choose one of the dailies each day.
The solo quests reward 800 crystals, and the group quests and PvP quest reward 1000 crystals.
The mobs you kill while doing these dailies also drop a small amount of crystals.

Several rare and rare elite mobs all over Draenor drop a small amount the first time you kill them. Check the "Dropped by" tab for details.

You sometimes receive crystals in work orders/quests from medium and large size garrison buildings.

You can also obtain them from doing weekly garrison invasions, the amount rewarded depending on how well you do.
Bronze rating - 33 crystals
Silver rating - 50 crystals
Gold rating - 75 crystals

There's also a rare follower mission that rewards 1000 crystals: The Liberation of Shattrath.

The cap is currently 20k crystals.

How to use them:

If you are planning on completing Chapter I: Call of the Archmage, you'll need to save up 4986 crystals for the quest Draenor's Secret Power.

In Warspear there are three gear vendors for Horde, and in Stormshield there are three gear vendors for Alliance:

Dawn-Seeker Jiklar (Horde) / Dawn-Seeker Verroak (Alliance)
Trades 3-5k Apexis Crystals for helm, legs, belt, gloves, bracers, and different cloaks. Items are rare quality and ilvl 630. Link to items.

Dawn-Seeker Rikks (Horde) / Dawn-Seeker Vallar (Alliance)
Trades 9-11.5k Apexis Crystals + the ilvl630 items mentioned above for ilvl645 epics. Link to items.

Dawn-Seeker Alkset (Horde) / Dawn-Seeker Krek (Alliance)
Trades 14.5-20k Apexis Crystals + the ilvl645 items mentioned above for ilvl655 epics. Link to items.
This vendor also sells the mount Mosshide Riverwallow for 50k gold and 5k crystals, and the follower contract Contract: Dawnseeker Rukaryx for 5k gold and 5k crystals.

All gear items requires player level 100.

Each week you can complete three out of four offered quests to get your Seal of Tempered Fate which are used for raid bonus rolls. One of the quests is to collect Apexis Crystals.

Fate-Twister Tiklal (Horde) / Fate-Twister Seress (Alliance)
Offers the quest Sealing Fate: Apexis Crystals, Sealing Fate: Heap of Apexis Crystals or Sealing Fate: Mountain of Apexis Crystals.

Some Draenor faction vendors uses crystals in addition to gold as currency for some items. In Warspear and Stormshield you can find the vendors:

Frostwolf Orcs (Horde) / Council of Exarchs (Alliance)
Beska Redtusk (Horde) / Vindicator Nuurem (Alliance)

Friendly:
Frostwolf Elixir / Exarch Elixir 5g and 1 Apexis Crystal

Honored:
Permanent Frost Essence / Permanent Time Bubble 1000g and 50 Apexis Crystals

Revered:
Frostwolf Pup / Draenei Micro Defender 1000g and 2000 Apexis Crystals

Exalted:
Swift Frostwolf / Dusty Rockhide 5000g and 5000 Apexis Crystals

Steamwheedle Preservation Society
Mimi Wizzlebub (Horde) / Gazrix Gearlock (Alliance)

Friendly:
Steamwheedle Elixir 5g and 1 Apexis Crystal

Revered:
Indentured Albino River Calf 1000g and 2000 Apexis Crystals
Captured Forest Sproutling 1000g and 2000 Apexis Crystals

Exalted:
Domesticated Razorback 5000g and 5000 Apexis Crystals

Arakkoa Outcasts
Ravenspeaker Skeega (Horde) / Shadow-Sage Brakoss (Alliance)

Friendly:
Arakkoa Elixir 5g and 1 Apexis Crystal

Revered:
Son of Sethe 1000g and 2000 Apexis Crystals

Exalted:
Shadowmane Charger 5000g and 5000 Apexis Crystals

If you have a Trading Post in your garrison and upgrade it to level 2, you can access these vendors:

Laughing Skull Orcs (Horde) / Sha'tari Defense (Alliance)
Kil'rip (Horde) / Maaria (Alliance)

Friendly:
Laughing Skull Elixir / Sha'tari Elixir 5g and 1 Apexis Crystal

Revered:
Bone Wasp / Nether Ray Fry 1000g and 2000 Apexis Crystals

Exalted:
Ironside Warwolf / Armored Irontusk 5000g and 5000 Apexis Crystals

In Ashran there is the PvP factions who offers a mount:

Vol'jin's Spear (Horde) / Wrynn's Vanguard (Alliance)
Dazzerian (Horde) / Crafticus Mindbender (Alliance)

Exalted:
Breezestrider Stallion / Pale Thorngrazer 5000g and 5000 Apexis Crystals

Comment by perculia

These are used to purchase high quality armour such as Flawless Windcrystal Hood (Which cost's roughly 37,000 Apexis Crystal's to purchase the initial 635 iLvL one, then upgrade it to 645 iLvL then to the final 655 iLvL)

You get around 800 Apexis Crystal's each day from the daily quest started inside your Garrison (Level 3), and a small amount as drops from Mob's you kill in the quest areas.

The Apexis Crystal grind is back, and far worse than it ever was in The Burning Crusade.

Comment by cerebrus

This is also used for the weekly quest for Seal of Tempered Fate bonus roll currency. One of the options is Sealing Fate: Apexis Crystals

Comment by Diostoro

Curious if he original ones can be farmed early having the same name.

Comment by nes76

So we are reusing old currency from BC? Shame they changed them the way they did I'd be farming the crystals near Ogrila. lol

Comment by orca1375x

Alright live this...im going to get exalted with all and add some new mounts..keep'em coming

Comment by Bethania

BETA comment

Just completed "Go Fetch" (Garrison Tavern / Dungeon Daily) on a mage

Received Crate of Valuable Treasures as quest reward.

It contained:

Lightbinder Gloves
63 gold, 40 silver, 86 copper
38x Apexis Crystal
20x Garrison Resources

Comment by Pyris

Here's a video guide outlining what you can buy with Apexis Crystals and several ways in which to earn them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2H0z1UEfOk

Comment by Billkiller

Did they bring simon back, I hated that daily with the high lag from my isp at the time. Too bad I can use all those old crystals sitting in my alts bank, the memories of the grind make me reconsider buying this expac.

Comment by gunsotsu

why they would make the Nether Ray Fry available only to people with shatari defense revered? Isn't this pet the same as Nether Ray Fry (Shatari Skyguard)?

what will happen with our Apexis Crystals from Outlands. I see the onlly difference between the 2 is one is a currency whereas the other is an item..

Comment by jorgeads

Just a tip about gear sold with Apexis Crystals, the first upgrade requires High Maul unlocked to be purchasable, so only in december 2 you guys will be able to buy it. And the second upgrade needs Blackrock Foundry, this one will take a longer time, something like 2 months..

Comment by Goldwarrior

funny how we can go in to the past, but from the future(burning crusade Apexis Crystal) are not the same item as the currency in game for the past(Apexis Crystal)

Comment by Ratamo

I got few of these on my Garrissons Mine, so i guess you can find these from gathering professions too.
And i did get also 37x these from Strongbox of Mysterious Treasures

Comment by Huntericius

Ohh Blizzard i need 210.000~ Apexis Crystals for all items ...that is 300hs of playing ONLY for 7 items!
Are u going to pay me?

Comment by flepser

With today's group quest Assault on the Pit there's a good way to farm them. Join or create a raid group and start circling the upper regions of the pit. Do not go down to the middle, only death awaits you there and barely any loot. Basically you want to keep on the same height as most of the tracks.

Apexis Crystals are personal loot plus there's a good chance on some Primal Spirits

Comment by tacololo

There is a dark relation with infinite dust.
You need an infinite amount.
This whole thing is really gross.

Comment by PWOMatrix

Why do my Apexis Crystals just disappear? I can have alot then I go to having little.

Comment by GrandGamer

I have 1987 Apexis Shard from Outland, it's a pity I can't turn them into crystals...

Comment by Xathrina

EDIT: For this to work, you need to be on the daily where you have to kill mobs in Shattrath.

A good way to farm these is to kill the Rune Ritualist found in the eastern Shattrath city. They drop 2-3 Apexis Crystal each, and are faily easy to solo. Some interrupts and stuns makes them very easy. Their spawn rate makes them ideal for soloing, as a group will run out of mobs too fast.

Rune Ritualist

202,460 hp.
2-3 Apexis Crystal dropped from each mob.
2 spells: Shadow Bolt and Hand of Gul'Dan. Shadow Bolts can hit for a lot, so use your interrupts on them. Cannot be Spell reflected

I farmed 200 crystals in ~40 minutes on a 625 glad warrior. Very handy if you're just a few crystals short of an upgrade or for the legendary quest line.

Map for the two places to kill ritualists.
When killing the Ritualists around (36,44) watch out for the ogre patrol. You can clear the 5 chanelling the crystal pillar in the middle without pulling anything else, if you're careful. After clearing around the pillar, take the elevator up, on the west, where you find an entire area with only rituatlists (34,47). Clear these two areas for a maximum crystals / hour.

Good luck.

Comment by sivla

Apexis crystals, you will never need them unless you have a ton of gold and want to stab your eyes out while mindlessly grinding these things.

Do you need the gear these give to go raiding? sorry but you will already be geared to begin with after you hit 100.
So if you feel you need to grind these for the gear...your doing some wrong very badly somewhere.

640ilvl stuff is quite easy to come by anyway...just jump into normals and heroics if under geared...then jump into mc before it finishes in january for another free 640 pieces...also use the dwarven bunker and do some level 100 quests, good chance of 630/640ilvl from quests.

These are generally only for the mounts, if you want to buy them which are ridiculously over priced 5000 gold and 5000 crystals. and even one for 50,000 g hahaha which you can get the exact same model, slightly different colour....in your garrison invasion bags lol

Comment by Lellane

You'll need 4986 Apexis Crystal for the legendary questDraenor's Secret Power, so If you're aiming at rushing the legendary ring, try holding onto these.

Comment by Stiflex

I've found a really good spot to farm Apexis-crystals, but you will need at least a small group of a few people.

Here are more details on this farm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1GdvrmBEU

Comment by menace97

It's too bad Blizzard decided to use an item/currency for Warlords of Draenor already in the game with the exact same name (different icon): Apexis Crystal from back in The Burning Crusade. I wish they would've come up with a completely new name to avoid any confusion.

Comment by xingling

For this to work, you need to be on the daily where you have to kill mobs in Shattrath.
Fight the mobs south of Shattrath, around 38, 42. Bring Vivianne along. Do in tank spec with magic damage mitigation is much better. There are a lot of mobs there. I farmed 100 apexis crystal less than 30 minutes.

Comment by phascina

not very sure worth the effort but for alters or non guild riders when using them for equipment, as you cannot stack the whole number needed to get 655 item lvl you will probably loot before being able to purchase it, at least that happened to me.

Comment by Vertixio

Capping those on main is EXTREME pain. I have 20k and all items on 655. Meanwhile i cant buy mounts due to lack of both gold and rep. It's very stupid for those to have a cap. I can't make progress towards statue achiev.

Blizzard, please, remove cap from them

Comment by darktangent

I've noticed that going to the areas for the daily garrison apexis quest without the quest will sometimes cause a bonus objective to pop up which rewards gold and 800 apexis crystals, in addition to the daily quest, but I still haven't figured out what causes these bonus objectives to appear.

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