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Arakkoa Feathers Equal Gold

Archived in the category: Grinding Spots, Money Making Ways
Posted by Nance on 24 Oct 08 - 0 Comments

The birdmen of Terokkar Forest place high on my list of grinding mobs. They could be found in three encampments located within the forest. The three camps are veil Reskk, Veil Shienor, and Veil Skith. You will know you’re at the right spot if you can see tree house above.

What make these birdmen of Terokkar Forest attractive for farming are their Arokkoa feathers. These feathers are used to build up your Lower City Rep. Turn in 30 Arakkoa feathers to Vekax at the northern portion of Lower City. You can turn in feathers for Rep until you get Honored with the faction. Granting that you’re not running any instances, you’ll need at least 1,080 Arakkoa Feathers to reach it. For Humans, they’ll need a minimum of 990 feathers.

That may seem a lot but the feathers have a 50% chance to drop per kill. Plus, there are times that 2 or more feathers drop from the same mob. According to my estimation, you’ll be Honored by farming at around 4 hours of farming. It’s like hitting two birds with one stone. You get rep while making easy WoW gold.

So you might be asking how you can turn these feathers into gold. When you turn in the feathers, you’ll be receiving 250 Lower City rep and an Outcast’s Cache, which will contain a random green item. The bag might also include potions and scrolls from time to time. If you’re lucky, the bag could contain a blue item such as Windwalker’s Footwraps, Talonite’s Boots, Ravenguard’s Greaves, and Dreadhawk’s Schynbald. You could sell these items for decent gold.

If you’re already Honored with the Lower City, you could still farm for Arakkoa Feathers. Based on my experience, it is more profitable if you sell the Arakkoa Feathers over the Auction House. A single Arakkoa feather can go for at least 1gold at the AH. It’s not only those wanting to be Honored with Lower City that’s your customers but also Leatherworkers. The feathers are used to make Knothide Quiver.

With that said you must prepare for competition while farming the birdmen. In my server, there’s at least one farmer in a camp at any given time. These are highly farmed mobs and you should be aggressive with your farming methods.

Arakkoa Feathers could make you lots of WoW gold quick. If my computations are correct, you should make at least 200 to 300gold per hour farming for these feathers.

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Horde Mid-Level Grinding Spots

Archived in the category: Grinding Spots, Misc, Money Making Ways, Tips
Posted by Nance on 23 Oct 08 - 0 Comments

Once you’ve reached level 40, there are a couple of spots in the World of Warcraft that you can farm for gold. There are two spots in which you can solo while there’s one that you might need a help from a high level friend. Here are the places that you can go to farm for gold.

Badlands’ Rock Elementals

Level 37 to 40 Rock Elementals could be found at the North West or East of the Badlands. Once you’ve reached their camp, start grinding them. Kill each and every Rock elemental you find and loot everything they drop.

They drop considerable amount of vendor trash plus items such as Solid Stone, Deeprock Salt, and Elemental Earth that you can sell at the Auction House for more gold. Rock Elementals are good grind mobs that can give you lots of WoW gold.

Scarlet Monastery

You can get lots of WoW gold in this instance. Even if you got to share some with a level 70 friend, it would still enough for both of you. All you need to do is to run the Library, Armory and Cathedral again and again.

You might be able to run the instance with a normal group but your share of the gold and loot would diminish. To maximize your gold potential, it is best to just run it with a friend who would be willing to give you all the gold and loot.

The best grind spot in the Scarlet Monastery would be the Graveyard. The Forsaken Spirits in that area would drop around 1 to 8silver per kill. Plus they also drop vendor trash and green items. Best of all, you can solo these mobs because they are level 30 to 32 non-elites. They might come in groups of threes but a level 40 Hunter had no trouble grinding these mobs.

Stranglethorn Vale’s Adventure Co. Geologists and Murlocs

If you’re in a PVP realm, you’ll know that Stranglethorn Vale is gank city. If you’re in a PVE realm then you can grind any mob in STV. But if you belong in a PVP server, the best farming spot would be at the North East of STV. There you’ll find Adventure Co. Geologists. The Geologists are a great source of Silk and they have a good drop rate for green items. They can be easily killed.

But if there are players from the other side farming the Geologists and you simply can’t kill them, then head to the Murlocs. Chests usually spawn at this spot and the Murlocs go down fast. They drop around 1 to 3 silver with each kill.

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Teremus the Devourer

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Posted by Nance on 21 Oct 08 - 0 Comments

You might have chanced upon Teremus the Devourer while you were farming or doing quests in the Blasted Lands. This elite boss loves roaming around the area. Well, at level 60 he could be a source for easy WoW gold daily but you have to share the loot with your group. Wait until you reach 70 and try to solo him if you can.

5 level 60s can easily kill Teremus the Devourer. I killed him by my lonesome at level 70. He drops a couple of greens but what you like him to drop would be Flawless Draenethyst Sphere. He also drops one to three at one time. This alone could be sold for at least 100gold.

But what you should do is bring the Flawless Draenethyst Sphere to Kum’isha the Collector at the Blasted Lands. He will then reward you with an Emerald Encrusted Chest. This chest contains random BoE items that could be blue or even epic. I got Cow King’s Hide from it once. It is said that the chest can contain Hammer of the Northern Wind, Kang the Decapitator, and the Ring of Saviors. These epic items are worth more than 100gold each.

Don’t be scared about his ?? level. He seems to be much lower than what it usually pertains and could easily be downed by a level 70. He usually spawns at (47,93). As a hunter, I would position myself on the mountain to have a clear view of the map. Teremus the Devourer is immune to DoT, Shouts, Stuns, and Silence. He’s immune to fire and ice spells therefore mages and warlocks might have a disadvantage farming him alone. Because you can’t use DoT on him, you must pour on the damage. At level 60, the DPS must not hold back to finish the battle as soon as possible. Melee classes would definitely be more at ease with Teremus the Devourer.

If you’re thinking of soloing Teremus the Devourer, be sure to pull him towards a tree at your back. He has a skill that would punt you away from him. This will prevent that from happening. One time I forgot to do this and was punted away. He would reset if you go too far from him.

He spawns once a day therefore you can farm him every day. For just 10 minutes at most, you can make 100gold daily. Make it part of your habit.

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Fishing for Gold

Archived in the category: Money Making Ways, Professions
Posted by Nance on 19 Oct 08 - 0 Comments

They say fishing in the World of Warcraft can’t bring in gold. Those who say this probably don’t know about the daily fishing quests available.

If you’re one of those who leveled their fishing skill to the max then you can easily make gold doing the daily fishing quest. Having good fishing gear can also be an advantage because the fishes that are required for the daily fishing quests are difficult to catch.

There are five daily fishing quests but only one would be available each day. Just like the daily dungeon and daily battleground quests, the daily fishing quest would be randomly selected. You can only do one daily fishing quest per day.

The quests are given by Old Man Barlo in the lake just outside Shattrath City. Each fishing quest has the same chance to be chosen. That means that a quest will be available once in five days. Though there might come a time that a quest would be available twice or thrice in a row. There’s also the chance that you might not see the quests in a week.

The five fishing quests are:

· Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy

You have to catch fish in Zangarmarsh and obtain shrimp from them.

· Bait Bandits

You have to catch a Blackfin Darter from the Terokkar Forest and bring it back to Old Man Barlo.

· The One That Got Away

You have to catch the World’s Largest Mudfish from Nagrand.

· Felblood Fillet

You have to catch a Montrous Felblood Snapper. This can be found from Shadowmoon Valley or Hellfire Peninsula.

· Crocolisks in the City

You have to find a Baby Crocolisk. Horde can find one in Orgrimmar and the Alliance can find one in Stormwind.

The reward for the daily fishing quests is a Bag of FishingTreasures. The contents are treasure indeed. You get not only gold from the bag, but you’ll find essential items that you might use with your fishing. The Crocolisks in the City would randomly reward vanity pets.

If you’ve checked with Old Man Marlo and the daily is one that you don’t like, then don’t do it. Daily fishing quests are made so that avid fishermen of the World of Warcraft can enjoy fishing while earning gold. The gold is not just from the reward. The fishes you’ll catch while doing the daily could be sold for gold in the Auction House as well.

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