Crackling shard "reasonable" farm

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I was able to find a fairly dependable farm for crackling shards.

the shipbuilders cave at 64, 20 is the place to go.

the mobs are all normal mobs this is not a hyperspawn. but the mobs have a pretty quick respawn times.

I don’t have exact drop rates but i think i got 1 shard every 200-300 kills. most were under 200 but one took nearly 1000. wowhead lists these at 0.7% drop rate, which is only slightly worse than the rares at 1% and you have to wait for those.

redwing falcons at 42, 74 have a better expected drop rate but there aren’t enough of them up at any given time to farm them efficiently.

happy hunting

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My guildy smashed his out super early, i regret not doing this too because the drops seem to be horrible now, to the point i have seen one shard across three characters lol

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Found one in my first 20 kills with shipbuilders. This place seems great so far. I was over 700 with nothing farming bees/wolves before.

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Where is this damn cave?

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Drops were just reduced another 45%

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I really need to finish this off, been 8/10 for a while now.

https://i.imgur.com/ypZ1dB3.png
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The cave is the place to go. I was originally just doing a casual farm of all the rares but had little luck. Hit the cave and got my last 3 in as many hours.

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For real? /squints Can’t tell if being sarcastic or if Blizz really hates players.

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What do you mean? They said the drops were too often/frequent and were not meant to be that easy so just a bit of retuning.

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Is this in the patch notes or just a theory?

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Was in the stream

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An official Blizzard stream, or are you saying that a streamer said it?