Smoke Flare

A Smoke Flare is a pyrotechnic device used primarily to mark a location on the terrain. The Smoke Flare item does this by placing a smoke column object on the terrain.

Any placeable object can mark terrain, but in order to be useful the marking object must be:

• Visible over a distance - in WoW, the Smoke Flare smoke column are as visible as any large object gets.
• Persistent - the Smoke Flare smoke columns persist for five minutes.

Some uses that people have come up with:

• marking locations for raids
• smoke bomb the Flag Rooms in the Warsong Gulch battleground
• props for floor shows and fashion shows

Varieties

Smoke Flare	PC Source	NPC Source	Vend Price	Quantity	Other Source
[White Smoke Flare]	Engineering (335)	Bossi Pentapiston <Engineering Supplies>  Qiff <Engineering Supplies>  Skyguard Pyrotechnician  Viggz Shinesparked <Engineering Supplies>	10 10 10 10	Limited (3) Limited (3) Limited (3) Limited (3)	Drops
[Red Smoke Flare]		Skyguard Pyrotechnician	10	Limited (3)
[Green Smoke Flare]	Engineering (335)	Qiff <Engineering Supplies>	10	Limited (3)
[Purple Smoke Flare]	Engineering (335)
[Cannoneer's Smoke Flare]		[10-30] Guide Our Sights

Smoke Flare Schematic	Source	Vend Price	Quantity	Bind	Reputation required
[Schematic: White Smoke Flare]	Feera <Engineering Supplies>  Yatheon <Engineering Supplies>  Captured Gnome <Item Repair>  Wind Trader Lathrai	6 6 6 6	Limited (1) Limited (1) Limited (1) Limited (1)
[Schematic: Green Smoke Flare]	Fedryen Swiftspear <Cenarion Expedition Quartermaster>	6	Unlimited	BoP	Cenarion Expedition - Friendly
[Schematic: Purple Smoke Flare]	World drop

Notes

The crafted and vended Smoke Flares do not bind, and can be bought and sold at the Auction House.

All of the Smoke Flares share a five second cooldown, including the quest item.

The Smoke Flares are cheap recipes for increasing engineering skill from 335. The White Smoke Flare is the cheapest, lacking a dye, and the White Smoke Flare schematic is the most readily available. It's skill up chance starts out at yellow at 335 and turns green at skill 345.

The Red Smoke Flare was apparently planned to be an engineering crafted item. The Armory lists ingredients, and the item can be placed in an engineering bag.

There was a  [Blue Smoke Flare] in beta, but it has not been made available in the live game.

Unlike the Hunter [Flare] ability, Smoke Flares do not influence [Stealth] detection.

See also

• Terrain markers
• The Cenarion [Expedition Flare]
• Hunter's [Flare] ability
• Fireworks