Guild Wars 2

I’ve been farming the very last item I need for the 1st tier of the legendary scepter collection for close to an hour now. The item in question is Spark’s Energy (I can’t for the life of me make an the intergrated link work, so; https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spark's_Energy ).
Now, the other items in the collection that dropped off mobs, I only had to kill around a dozen or so, for it to drop. But not the spark. I farmed in two confirmed locations, most of the time in Metrica Province. Halfway through I had a friend come try to get the item to drop, and he got in in less than two minutes.
I don’t understand why, and it’s really grinding (pun inteded) my gears.
Any help appreciated, thank you!

EDIT:
Next day, another fruitless session. I went to both places mentioned in the comments, I also farmed for a while in Orr, and back in Metrica Province as it has way better spawn rate, and is also specifically mentioned in a guide, and still nothing. I tried on two separate lvl 80 character, I tried ranged and melee, I tried to let it damage me a lot before killing, I tried killing asap.
Since everyting else dropped so quickly for both me and others, I feel like my account is bugged or someting. Is tht even possible? Wat do? I’m getting really frustrated. :<

have you tried “Restricted Zone XRB” in Harathi Hinterlands? There are some sparks there.

I don’t know if this will work but as a piece of HOPE came off the vet branded spark maybe you can look for it? If it’s used for one legendary it might be from another, though probably you’re just hitting a bad patch of RNG.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Branded_Crystalline_Phial for details on which spark I mean. There are other sparks there as well, and take a look around the Shatterer fight area for a good number of them.

Thank you both, I’ll try each of these today!

Still no luck, halp!

Try giving Windrock Maze in Plains of Ashford a shot. There are some sparks there I believe.

You probably just have to keep farming every spark you see. I know I was tearing my hair out over the Tengu feather I needed for Bo because I was slaughtering Tengu by the dozens without it helping map events in any way shape or form, for days, before it dropped. Ditto the tiger claw for my Berserker torch, and the dust mite thingie for another elite weapon. All the other things of their ilk dropped very quickly, often on the first kill, so I thought I was bugged. But it was just RNG.

Keep on zapping sparks!

Thanks, Donari! Seems you were in my exact postition. I’ll pray to the RNG gods and get my farming boots back on.

any news? I cant loot it yet.

A friend just finished this one a few days ago. Had to go around killing sparks/embers/etc. for a while.

can you ask him here did he get it and what did he farm exactly?

I killed a few air elementals/sparks in Malchor’s Leap near Doric’s waypoint today. took maybe 20 kills to get the thing to drop.

THX A LOT! it took me 5 kills to get it there.