Weapon illusions are enchant appearances, the items named Illusion: something, that overlay a glow, rune or flame onto whatever weapon you transmog. Patch 7.0.3 folded them into the Appearances wardrobe, so an illusion learned once is account-wide and any character on the Battle.net account can apply it at a transmogrifier. This is a different collection from Legion artifact tints: illusions are the enchant layer, and since patch 10.0.5 one can even be placed on top of an artifact weapon.
Where they come from: the wardrobe list runs to roughly 90 illusions. 7 come already unlocked on every account (Agility, Beastslayer, Crusader, Lifestealing, Striking, Titanguard and Hide Weapon Enchant), 27 are crafted from Enchanting tomes such as Tome of Illusions: Cataclysm, which needs Cataclysm Enchanting 50 and teaches Windwalk, Heartsong and Light of the Earth-Warder, 15 drop from bosses, 10 sit behind reputation vendors, and 7 are class-locked.
The real farm is the drops. Illusion: Mongoose comes off Moroes in Karazhan, Illusion: Sunfire off Shade of Aran, Illusion: Blade Ward off Freya, Hodir, Mimiron or Thorim in Ulduar, Illusion: Blood Draining off Yogg-Saron, Illusion: Jade Spirit off the Sha of Fear in Terrace of Endless Spring, and Illusion: Nightmare off Xavius in the Emerald Nightmare. Every one is bind-on-pickup, so none can be bought off the auction house, and Blizzard has never published a drop rate for any of them. Those legacy raids are trivial to solo at max level, but each sits on a weekly lockout, so a miss costs a full week. That is why time is sold honestly instead of a guaranteed drop: 2 hours for $26.99, 4 for $53.99, 6 for $80.99, or 10 for $134.99.
Vendor illusions are deterministic instead. Illusion: Executioner is sold by Karaaz in Netherstorm and Paulsta'ats in Nagrand at Revered with The Consortium, Illusion: Mending needs Revered with the Guardians of Hyjal, and four covenant illusions need Renown 36 while four more need Exalted with the matching Shadowlands faction.
What is closed and never sold here: the PvP-season illusions. Glorious Tyranny, Primal Victory, Demonic Tyranny, Dreadflame and the Duelist illusions from the Shadowlands and Dragonflight seasons ended with those seasons. Illusion: Stinging Sands left with the old Recruit A Friend rewards in patch 10.0.7, and Illusion: Wraithchill was a Shadowlands Collector's Edition item. timesaver.gg quotes none of them, and the current-season Rival II illusions are a rating job, not a farm.
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