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=Farming Tips & Additional Resources=
 
=Farming Tips & Additional Resources=
 
*If you're having a hard time finding something, and you're willing to spend the money, the [[Auction House]]s are always an option.
 
*If you're having a hard time finding something, and you're willing to spend the money, the [[Auction House]]s are always an option.
*It seems that drop rates for skinning increase as you level up. Either that, or it just seems that way due to the rate at which you're able to kill things.
 
 
*For a useful <b>tailoring</b> guide, see [http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=69&mid=1118440862298478114&num=1&page=0 JahBreeze's Guide to Levelling a Tailor to 220 Cheaply]
 
*For a useful <b>tailoring</b> guide, see [http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=69&mid=1118440862298478114&num=1&page=0 JahBreeze's Guide to Levelling a Tailor to 220 Cheaply]
   

Revision as of 01:30, 14 December 2006


This page is designed to help you gather hard-to-find materials that you may need for your chosen professions.

  • Note: this page is JUST for the hard-to-find items. Common items are not listed.


Essences, and Reagents

Farming for reagents can be a time consuming affair, and many find it more cost efficient to just buy them off the Auction House. But as profit margins for blacksmiths are already meagre at best, some still like to farm for these hard-to-get components. Be aware that many of the mobs suggested are also quest objectives, and are at peak hours hard to get at. All of these are also in contested zones, so keep an eye out for gankers if you are on a PvP server. Remember that an alchemist buddy with transmuting skills can be of great aid when you are looking for essences of different kinds.

  • Water Reagents:
    • Elemental Water. Used in Inv axe 06 [Edge of Winter], Inv chest cloth 02 [Robe of Power], Inv potion 20 [Greater Frost Protection Potion]. Drops from almost any water elemental. Good farming to be had with the Cresting Exiles in Arathi Highlands, the Lesser Water Elementals on the northern islands of Stranglethorn Vale and the Sea Sprays and Sea Elementals along the coast of Feralas.
    • Globe of Water. Needed for several plans and quests. Can be fished from floating debris in Azshara, and drops from many water elementals from level 45+. Toxic horrors have them often.
    • Essence of Water. Needed for several plans. Drops from Toxic Horror in Felwood, Watery Invader in Winterspring, and Blighted and Plague elementals in Eastern Plaguelands. Moving between the Toxic Horrors and Watery Invaders seems like a fairly effective way to farm these.
    • Note: All Water reagents may be fished, with high Fishing level, from the 'Patch of Elemental Water' nodes in Azshara. See this guide for more information.
  • Nature Reagents:
    • Living Essence. Needed for several plans and enchants, such as those with +healing and Nature Resist attributes. Un'Goro Crater Tar pits, or Dire Maul East / West. Also off Warpwood and Irontree mobs in northern Felwood, or less reliably off the Decaying Horrors and Rotting Behemoths in the Weeping Cave in northeastern Western Plaguelands.


A good place to get Core of Earth and Breath of Wind is across the southern Abyssal Sands in Tanaris. From The Noxious Lair in the west, head east staying north of the Dunemaul Compound until you are south of Broken Pillar. Then head southeast to the area immediatly north of The Gaping Chasm. If you criss-cross a bit in said areas you should run into several Land Ragers and Gusting Vortexes on each round.

Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater is a good spot to farm for Spell fire lavaspawn [Heart of Fire] and Spell fire volcano [Essence of Fire], as the elementals there drop both kinds. It's about the only place to get Spell fire volcano [Essence of Fire] outside of Blackrock Mountain, so you should be prepared for some competition.

Professions

Alchemy

Almost everything used here comes from Herbalism. See down this page for things that can be farmed.

Vials of the various kinds are purchased at Alchemy vendors and Trade vendors. There is a vendor for the basic vials in almost every civilized area.


Blacksmithing

You will generally use Mining tradeskill. Some good spots to farm ore is the Gold Coast Quary in Westfall is a good place to get Copper and Tin. Good places for Iron and Mithril are the Yeti Cave in Hillsbrad Foothills (be careful not to get ganked while in the Yeti Cave on PvP servers). Gems are also found from Mining as well.

The Charred Vale in the Stonetalon Mountains has many Mithril (and other ore) nodes, and is close to the Sun Rock Retreat Flight Path.

You'll need a Blacksmith hammer which can be found at any Blacksmith vendor.

Mining

See the Mining Detail page for a list by skill level of what to get and where the popular gathering areas are.

Cooking

Small Flame Sacs


Enchanting

  • Farm any mob which drops green or better quality items. Named elite mobs are particularly good for this.
  • Run instances that are below your level over and over again. Instances have far more uncommon and rare drops than in the world.
  • The building skills (Tailor, Blacksmith, Leatherworker) can make green and above items.
    • People make lots of these items to raise their skill and then vendor them.
    • Make a deal with one/some of these people to give/sell/trade these items to you to melt down for enchanting raw materials.
      • For example, send cloth to a tailor. They can use it to gain skill and send you the greens they made for you to disenchant.
    • Take up Tailoring and make your own greens to disenchant. Black Mageweave gear commonly drops Dream Dust and uncommonly drops Nether Essences. If you're lucky, you may be able to buy crafted gear from other tailors crafted gear for a cheap price, since lower-level tailored gear doesn't sell very well.


Engineering

Flasks of Oil

  • The Harvest Reapers of Westfall
  • Various slimes in the Wetlands
  • Venture Co. mobs at the Boulder Lode Mine in northeast Barrens

Fused Wiring

Random parts

After your Target Dummy is destroyed ALWAYS check the remains. You will find random engineering pieces and possibly the Fused Wiring. Fused Wiring is a huge money maker - normally going for 4-10g in AH.


First Aid

  • Bandages - See the Tailoring section below for where to get the various cloth types.
  • Antivenom - Venom sacs for lower level antivenom drop off of venomous spiders located throughout the world.


Fishing

Inv misc monsterhead 01 [Deviate Fish]

Nightfin Snapper

This is a nocturnal fish, hence the name.

Inv misc monsterhead 01 [Firefin Snapper]

Alliance Alliance
Horde Horde
Neutral Neutral

Inv misc monsterhead 04 [Oily Blackmouth]

Alliance Alliance
Horde Horde

Inv misc fish 11 [Stonescale Eel]

The Stonescale Eel is Nocturnal.


Herbalism

The Gatherer add-on [1] is particularly useful for recording where you've encountered herbs in the wild.

Bloodvine

Inv misc herb 09 [Bloodvine] is the most rare/valuable herb in the game. It drops in Zul'Gurub and is used to make the Sylvan and Ironvine crafted sets of Nature Resistance gear. Drops rarely from monsters but more commonly found when harvesting an herbalism node.

Black Lotus

Inv misc herb blacklotus [Black Lotus] is the most rare/valuable herb in the game found outside of instances. Find it in places such as Winterspring and Eastern Plaguelands. It is required to create the powerful Flask consumables. They have a long respawn timer and are often heavily farmed.

Stranglekelp

Inv misc herb 11 [Stranglekelp] is a rare commodity that is very under-valued; the trend seems to be a very short-lived abundance in the auction houses and then they are all gone. It's a very good idea to make either a mental map or keep a record of where the pick up points are, as they usually don't respawn very quickly.

Update: As of the 1.7 patch, Stranglekelp is much easier to find and auction house prices are dropping. Still valuable for specific potions, the price is not nearly as inflated as it once was.

Stranglekelp can now be reliably farmed in Baradin Bay, near Menethil Harbor, and in the waters surrounding the Zoram Strand on the coast between Darkshore and Ashenvale. A few plants have been seen regularly along the coast of Stranglethorn Vale near the Vile Reef.

You can also get stranglekelp without being an herbalist, by fishing: small quantities of it turn up regularly in schools of fish and pools of floating wreckage.

Wildvine

Inv misc herb 03 [Wildvine] is a rare drop next to Inv misc herb 17 [Purple Lotus]. It also is a rare-ish random drop from the Trolls in The Hinterlands and Stranglethorn Vale.

Blindweed

Inv misc herb 14 [Blindweed] is a scarce high level herb that can be found only in Swamp of Sorrows and Un'Goro Crater. Blindweed is highly valued on many servers because it is an ingredient in Superior Mana Potions. The limited drop locations also limit the amount of Blindweed in the server economy, pushing up the auction house price. Swamp of Sorrows is an excellent location for farming Blindweed because it has a very high drop rate and it is relatively out of the way (reducing the chances of getting ganked on a PvP server).

Leatherworking

A wide variety of low- to mid-level leather drops can be gotten at Whelgar's Excavation Site in the Wetlands. Go with a group for the quests there and you can easily fill your packs by the time you finish them.

The raptors in Whelgar's Excavation Site drop Light Leather, Medium Leather, Heavy Leather, Light Hides, Medium Hides and Heavy Hides. Most drops are in the medium range but approximately 25-50% will be a combination of light and heavy leather.

Also the crocolisk island (the southernmost island in the Loch Modan) has a pretty fast spawn rate and every mob is skinnable for leather which is mostly of the medium variety.

Inv misc monsterscales 07 [Black Dragonscale]

Lvl 50+ - Any of the dragonkin in Burning Steppes & Blackrock Spire have a chance of dropping them. For a better breakdown see Thottbot [2]

  • Lvl. 45+: Badlands. Elite whelps in Lethlor Ravine can drop Black Scales but the drop rate is abysmally low.
  • Lvl. 58+: Upper Blackrock Spire. The dragonkin here drop scales from skinning at about a 10-15 percent drop rate. Also, scales of any color can be skinned off the chromatic dragonkin. Chromatics are found in the Rend encounter and at the end boss, General Drakkisath.
  • LvL. 57+: Black Dragonkin, drakes and whelps south of Blackrock mountain.

Inv misc monsterscales 09 [Blue Dragonscale]

Inv ammo firetar [Core Leather]

Inv misc monsterscales 02 [Deviate Scale]

Inv misc pelt 03 [Devilsaur Leather]

Inv misc monsterscales 11 [Green Dragonscale]

  • Lvl. 42+: All around the Pool of Tears in the Swamp of Sorrows The creatures are Lvl. 42-45 Elites.
  • Lvl. 50+: Temple of Atal'Hakkar (a.k.a. Sunken Temple). There are many elite Green Dragonkin that can drop scales here.

Inv misc monsterscales 03 [Green Whelp Scale]

  • Lvl. 35-36: The Dreaming and Adolescent Whelplings drop these in Swamp of Sorrows.

Inv misc leatherscrap 07 [Heavy Leather]

  • Lvl. 35+: Dustwallow Marsh along the eastern coastline. Mudrock Tortoise range from 36-38.
  • Lvl. 38-40: Western Badlands near Kargath. Best drop rates from the wolves and cats lvls 38-40.
  • Lvl. 38-40: Dustwallow Marsh, around Bloodfen Burrow in the southwest (coordinates approx. 31, 65). Raptors have very good drop rate. Good farming spot due to quick respawn and many mobs in a confined area.
  • Lvl. 35+: Stranglethorn Vale, raptors around Grom'gol Base Camp. Drop rate is VERY high (depending on skinning level).

Inv misc monsterscales 03 [Heavy Scorpid Scale]

Inv potion 22 [Larval Acid]

Inv misc monsterscales 15 [Pristine Hide of the Beast]

Inv misc monsterscales 01 [Raptor Hide]

  • Lvl. 40+: The Stranglethorn Vale Raptors. There are a large number of Raptors north of and around Grom'Gol Base Camp.
  • Lvl. 38-40: Dustwallow Marsh, around Bloodfen Burrow in the southwest (coordinates approx. 31, 65.) Probably safer than STV if on a PvP server.

Inv misc leatherscrap 02 [Rugged Leather]

  • Lvl. 55+: The Winterspring Yetis. The Yeti cave South-East of town with the Ice Thistle Yetis give a high percentage of Rugged Leather.
  • Lvl. 55+: Angerclaw Maulers, Felwood (37, 44) High chance of Rugged and Thick drop. Beware of Gold Farmers.

Inv misc monsterscales 02 [Scorpid Scale]

  • Lvl. 38+: All of Tanaris. The lowest-level scorpids are closest to Gadgetzan, and range from Lvl 40-47.
  • Lvl. 50+: The Blasted Lands. The Scorpok there range from Lvl. 50-51, and generally have better drop rates than Tanaris.

Inv misc monsterscales 13 [Silithid Chitin]

  • Lvl 57+ Elite silithids in Silithus. It can also be farmed by killing the Tortured Druids and Sentinels around Southwind Village, who will summon up to three Hive'Ashi Drones upon death. This can be risky and/or lethal, but easier than the slow farming of Elites.

Inv misc leatherscrap 08 [Thick Leather]

  • Lvl. 40+: Stranglethorn Vale along the southern coast line. Jungle Stalker raptors range from 40-43. Great place to due a large number of people killing them for quests.
  • Lvl. 40+: Wolves near Aerie Peak in The Hinterlands provide thick leather or heavy/thick hides pretty reliably when skinned.
  • Lvl. 48+: Southeast to east of Un'Goro Crater. The raptors range from levels 48-51.
  • Lvl. 49-50: Along the eastern shore in The Hinterlands are turtles from level 49-50. They drop thick leather roughly 70% of the time and rugged leather roughly 25% of the time. Be wary of Gammerita, however, an elite turtle who will attack on sight.

Inv misc monsterscales 11 [Turtle Scale]

  • Lvl. 35+: Northeast coast of Dustwallow Marsh, extending Northwest from Theramore Isle. The turtles range from Lvl. 36-38.
  • Lvl. 40+: East coast of Tanaris. The turtles along the northern part of the coast are levels 40-43 and usually drop 1 scale at a time. Turtles along the southern coast are levels 48-49 and often drop 1-2 scales. Be mindful of level 50-51 elite giants mixed among the turtles on the southern coast.
  • Lvl. 50+: East coast of The Hinterlands. The turtles are level 49-51. These Turtles normally drop 1-3 scales. There is one elite named turtle Gammerita that wanders among them who will attack you on sight, so be vigilant when hunting here.

Inv misc monsterscales 17 [Worn Dragonscale]

  • Lvl. 40+: Lethlor Ravine in the eastern Badlands. The whelps there are Lvl. 41-43, and the dragons are 41-50 Elites. The whelps and dragons are separate, so you don't need to worry about getting roasted if you're farming solo.
  • Lvl. 40+: Sprite Darter in a ravine west of Camp Mojache. The darters here are 42-45 and only killable by members of the Horde.
  • Lvl. 55+: Blackrock Spire. Worn Scales can drop off any dragonkin here.

Tailoring

Linen

Between 5-14 level most Humanoid mobs drop Linen. The peak range is 10-14 where one can expect to kill 1-3 mobs for each linen.

Wool

Humanoid mobs between level 14-36 have wool with drop rates from 17-26 in the 2-8 mobs per wool range with a peak at 20-23 of 1-4 mobs per wool.

  • Lvl. 5 If you have Skinning you can skin sheep for wool. The level 5 ones drop 1 wool every 2-3 sheep.
  • Lvl. 10+: The Barrens: Dropped by Razormanes right on the entrance to The Barrens coming from Durotar.
  • Lvl. 13+: Silverpine Forest in Fenris Isle you can find enough Wool to gain some levels.
  • Lvl. 18-23: Ashenvale Both the ruins near the northwestern border have good drop rates.
  • Lvl. 20-23: This is the main level range where Wool drops off Humanoids (1-4 mobs per wool)
  • Lvl. 23+-25+: The Defias in the Stockade drop 1 wool for each 2 mobs in general which is double the normal rate.

Silk

  • Lvl. 25+: The dungeon city of Gnomeregan, which is Northwest of Ironforge. Dropped by any humanoids in the dungeon and instance.
  • Lvl. 25+ Defias Insurgents in the Stockade drop silk at 41% per mob.
  • Lvl. 27+-29+ The Dawning Woods Catacombs in Duskwood are filled with monsters that drop 1 - 2 silk.
  • Lvl. 29+-33+ The area surrounding and inside the Scarlet Monastery is loaded with silk. Many 'Scarlet' mobs drop more than 1 silk per kill on average.
  • Lvl. 35+-36+ Shadowforge Surveyors in the Badlands drop more than 1 silk per kill on average.
  • Lvl. 34-40+ The Crushridge Ogres in Alterac Mountains also have loads of silk with drop rates ranging from 72%-116% per mob.
  • Lvl. 41 The Bloodsail Mages and Venture Co. mobs in general drop silk every 1-2 mobs.

Mageweave

Inv fabric purplefire 01 [Runecloth]

Inv fabric felrag [Felcloth]

Farming Tips & Additional Resources