The timing is particularly unfortunate. Blizzard has only just begun returning Sparks of Tides that went missing through a separate Season 2 bug, meaning some players have finally received the crafting currency they were waiting for and are now discovering an entirely different way for that currency to disappear. World of Warcraft apparently looked at the phrase “crafting progression” and decided it needed more suspense.
Crafting Orders Can Become Stuck Between Both Players
The reports follow a fairly consistent pattern. A player submits a Crafting Order with the required materials and expensive seasonal resources attached. The order then either fails to appear properly for the receiving crafter or disappears while they are trying to work on it. On the customer side, the order may no longer be available to cancel either. Normally, cancelling or expiring a Crafting Order should return the supplied materials, but affected players say that does not always happen here. Wowhead has collected reports from the NA and EU forums, Reddit and community Discords describing Sparks, Crests and normal materials becoming inaccessible after the order fails.
One player reported the issue directly on Blizzard's official Bug Report forum after submitting an order for leather boots and finding both the order and the supplied materials missing. Other reports describe similarly expensive crafts disappearing during the process. This is worth distinguishing from an ordinary Crafting Order simply expiring: those materials should normally be returned through the mail, sometimes after a delay. The current bug reports concern orders that appear to become stuck or vanish in a way that prevents normal completion or cancellation.
Some Players Have Lost 80 Myth Crests and a Spark
The potential cost is what makes this much more serious than a disappearing stack of inexpensive profession materials. Some affected high-end crafts included 80 Myth Crests, a Spark of Tides and the other materials required for the item. Losing access to 80 Crests is painful enough on its own, but Sparks are deliberately time-gated and cannot simply be farmed back in an afternoon. We have already seen how disruptive missing Sparks can be this season, particularly for characters trying to craft expensive weapons or finish a planned gearing setup.
That matters even more because crafted gear is competing with several other tightly controlled Season 2 progression routes. Players are already making weekly decisions between raid loot, Mythic+, the Great Vault and its new Nebulous Voidcore option, and Catalyst conversions. Blizzard only recently fixed another problem where some Great Vault and Voidcore raid items could not be converted through the Creation Catalyst. Losing the resources for a major craft therefore does not simply mean losing materials; it can disrupt an entire week of planned character progression.
Blizzard Support Says the Behavior Is Not Intended
There is at least some acknowledgement that the problem is real. One affected player shared a Customer Support response stating that Blizzard has seen similar reports and that the behavior is not working as intended. According to that response, the case details were passed to the development team for investigation. Support could still see the missing crafted item associated with the character on the server, suggesting that at least some of these orders may not be permanently deleted even though the player cannot currently access them.
The same response indicated that the server may periodically attempt to return affected items when the character logs in or passes through a loading screen, but Blizzard could not guarantee that this would happen in every case. More importantly, Customer Support reportedly does not currently have a direct way to manually resolve the issue. Players are being asked to submit an in-game Bug Report and wait while the development team investigates. There is currently no published timetable for a complete fix.
This Does Not Mean Every Craft Is Broken
It is important not to turn a serious bug into a broader claim than the evidence supports. Most Crafting Orders are not necessarily failing. The reports describe an intermittent problem rather than a universal shutdown of the crafting system, and Blizzard has not told players to stop using Crafting Orders. If you have completed several crafts without an issue, that does not contradict the reports. It simply means your orders worked normally.
The sensible question is therefore one of risk. If you are submitting a relatively inexpensive craft with replaceable materials, you may decide the small apparent risk is acceptable. If you are about to commit a Spark, 80 Myth Crests and a pile of expensive reagents to a major weapon or armor upgrade, waiting for clarification or a hotfix is considerably easier to justify. Season 2 has already demonstrated that Blizzard can repair affected characters after the fact, as we saw with the ongoing Spark of Tides restoration waves, but “Blizzard may eventually give it back” is not an especially comforting crafting strategy.
If Your Crafting Order Disappears, Do Not Panic Immediately
If an order appears to vanish, first make sure you are not simply dealing with a normal delay or expired order. Check your mail, relog the character and move through a loading screen before assuming the resources are permanently gone. If the order remains missing and neither player can complete or cancel it, submit an in-game Bug Report with as much detail as possible, including the item, attached materials, character and approximate time the order was submitted. A support ticket can also document the problem, although current reports suggest Game Masters may not be able to restore the order manually while the underlying issue remains under investigation.
And if the missing resources include a Spark, remember that this is separate from the earlier Season 2 Spark problem. Blizzard's recent restoration process addressed characters whose Sparks of Tides were never correctly awarded. This Crafting Order problem occurs after resources have already been earned and then committed to a craft. Season 2 has somehow managed to produce both “the Spark never arrived” and “the Spark arrived and then vanished into tailoring administration” within the same week.
You May Want to Delay Your Most Expensive Craft
Until Blizzard provides more information, the safest approach is not to panic and abandon professions entirely. It is simply to think twice before putting your most valuable time-gated resources into a Crafting Order if the upgrade can wait. This is especially true for Myth-track crafts using large amounts of Crests and Sparks, where a failed order can temporarily remove resources that took substantial progression to obtain.
Crafting remains one of the strongest ways to control your gearing in a season increasingly dominated by random raid drops, new restrictions on targeted Bonus Rolls and weekly Great Vault decisions. The entire appeal is that crafting is supposed to be the predictable part. You gather the resources, find the crafter, specify the item and receive the gear.
At the moment, a small number of players are discovering an undocumented fifth step:
wonder where everything went.
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