How to Get and Use Elemental Overflow in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

Hey friend! If you‘re looking to gear up fast in the new Dragonflight expansion, then you‘ll want to get your hands on the valuable new currency – Elemental Overflow.

In this comprehensive guide, I‘ll explain everything you need to know about farming, spending, and maximizing this important resource. Whether you want to gear alts, make gold, or just become an Elemental Overflow expert, you‘ll find tips and strategies here.

Let‘s dive in!

What is Elemental Overflow and Why It‘s Important

Elemental Overflow is a brand new currency added in Dragonflight that drops from various activities on the Dragon Isles. It‘s used to purchase catch-up gear from special vendors located around the islands.

This gear starts at item level 278, equivalent to Normal and Heroic dungeon loot in the new expansion.

Having a stockpile of Elemental Overflow allows you to:

Quickly gear up alts and undergeared characters
Fill missing gear slots or improve weak pieces
Buy items to disenchant or sell for gold making

It‘s an integral part of preparing your characters for Dragonflight content like dungeons, raids, world quests, and more.

Now let‘s look at the best sources to start accumulating this valuable currency.

How to Farm Elemental Overflow

There are three main methods to obtain Elemental Overflow out in the world:

1. Defeating Rare Enemies

The most lucrative source of Elemental Overflow is from defeating rare enemies scattered around the Dragon Isles. These mobs have long respawn timers but drop a whopping 500 Elemental Overflow per kill.

Here are some of the best zones and spots to hunt rares:

Ohn‘ahran Plains: The Forbidden Reach, Brackenhide Hollow
The Azure Span: Skytop Commons, Ruins of Elduror
Thaldraszus: Lost Ruins, Rumblerock Outpost
Waking Shores: Talonrest Overlook, Brackenweald

I recommend using addons like SilverDragon or NPCScan to track rares and hop between known spawn points. Bring a group for efficiency since rares can be tough elites.

Pro Tip: Realm hopping can help you catch rare spawns faster across different phases.

2. Looting Forbidden Hoard Chests

Forbidden Hoard chests containing ~250 Elemental Overflow spawn frequently around the Dragon Isles on a 30 minute timer.

Get an addon like HandyNotes to pinpoint all the chest locations. Then make a route to open as many chests as possible when the timer resets.

Here are some good spots to focus on:

Ohn‘ahran Plains: The Path of Enlightenment, Stonewing Overlook
The Azure Span: Skytop Commons, Broken Shores
Thaldraszus: Talonrest Overlook, Ember Hollow

Pro Tip: Have a flying mount ready to get to chests faster. Druid and Monk players can use Travel Form/Zen Flight.

3. Completing Primal Storm Events

Every few hours, primal storm events will pop up in each zone marked by a special icon on the map. Help the NPCs fight off invading enemies and you‘ll be rewarded with ~300 Elemental Overflow from a reward cache.

Look for the primal storm start points and help damage enemies when the event is active. They usually take around 5 minutes to complete.

Pro Tip: Primal Events scale based on participation so try to come help early on.

Most Efficient Farming Strategies and Routes

Now that you know the main sources, here are some tips to maximize your Elemental Overflow gains per hour:

Team up with others – Grouping up makes rare killing and events faster. Take advantage of General and Trade chat to form rare farming groups.
Prioritize rares – These drop the most per kill, so make them the focus of your route. Park alts at rare spawn points if needed.
Have an optimized route – Plan a route that includes multiple rares, chests, and primal events for efficiency. Avoid backtracking.
Use reset timers – When chests and rares reset/respawn, you can collect them again. Time farming around resets.
Realm hop – Hop between low population realms to catch more rare spawns and chests.
Have a vendor mount – Vendors To Go from the AH lets you access Elemental Overflow vendors anywhere.
Park alts at vendors – Position characters at Mythressa vendors to quickly buy items when needed.

Here is an example optimized 1 hour farming route:

Group with others at Skytop Commons in Azure Span (2 rares, 1 chest)
Realm hop and clear Ruins of Elduror rares
Mount up and fly to Talonrest Overlook in Waking Shores (2 rares, 1 primal event)
Hearthstone/portal back to Ohn‘ahran Plains
Clear Path of Enlightenment chests on timer reset
Kill Zharixiem rare (switch realms if needed)
Group for Geolord Greasefang rare at Stonewing Overlook

Repeat similar routes on chest/rare respawns and you‘ll quickly accumulate Elemental Overflow!

How to Spend Your Elemental Overflow

Once you‘ve farmed a healthy stockpile, it‘s time to visit the Elemental Overflow vendors and gear up. Here‘s what you need to know:

Vendor Locations

There are two Elemental Overflow vendors located at:

The Forbidden Reach – /way 35.73 59.86
Valdrakken – /way 38.08 37.60

Talk to Mythressa at either spot to browse the items available for sale. I recommend setting your Hearthstone at one location for quick access.

Recommended Purchases

The vendors offer level 70 catch-up gear including weapons, rings, trinkets, belts, and more. The gear scales all the way up to item level 278 based on your character‘s level.

Here are the best items to prioritize buying:

Weapons – Huge primary stat sticks for your spec. Cost 35,000 Overflow.
Trinkets – Powerful on-use and proc trinkets. 25,000 Overflow.
Rings – Item level 278 rings with solid stats. 20,000 Overflow.
Tier gear – Head, shoulder, chest, and leg pieces. 15,000 Overflow.

I suggest buying weapons first as they give the biggest boost. Then target trinkets, rings, and any significantly undergeared slots.

Avoid lower value purchases like necks, cloaks, bracers unless you really need to fill that slot.

Converting to Gold

Once you‘ve purchased all the gear you need, you can convert excess Elemental Overflow into gold.

Here‘s how:

Buy Bind-on-Equip rare quality and epic quality gear from the vendors.
Sell the BoE gear to any regular vendor.

Weapons, rings, and trinkets vendor for the most gold, around 19g for BoE weapons.

This lets you cash out spare Elemental Overflow without wasting any. A nice perk!

Advanced Strategies to Master Elemental Overflow

Let‘s wrap up with some advanced tips and tactics to take your Elemental Overflow farming to the next level:

Park alts at rares – Position extra characters at rare spawn points to quickly tap mobs when they‘re up.
Full clear dungeons – End-of-dungeon chests like Uldaman can drop ~500 Overflow.
Maximize primal events – Hop between two primal events as they activate to double up gains.
Have a farming team – Split up to cover more rares and chests, then share Overflow.
Sell BoEs from chests – Chest loot can be sold for extra gold income.
Get the weekly quest – Weekly quest from Dragonscale Supply crates gives 2,000+ Overflow.

With enough dedication, you can amass thousands of Elemental Overflow per week – more than enough to gear an army of alts ready for Dragonflight‘s endgame!

So get out there, master the farms, take down those rares, and gear up with Overflow. You‘ve got this!

Let me know if you have any other questions. And if you found this guide helpful, be sure to check out my YouTube channel for even more WoW tips and guides.

Stay breezy!