I don’t know about anyone else but sometimes I find a spot I like to grind. It’s usually a spot where the npc’s are 2-3 levels lower. It seems some spots of course respawn quicker than others and it’s just fun. Sometimes you get some cool gear drops and a lot of times they are ones you can’t use and on a rare occasion you can but it’s so much fun to be surprised with a green, more so with a blue or better. I am talking both classic and retail here but I am currently doing classic and sometimes I just don’t always have the patience for a run though a dungeon. Sometimes I just like to grind stuff out.
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I definitely get into a brain numb state sometimes where I’m happy to just grind the same area and same mobs for a long time, especially if their respawn times line up the way I want it to.
Unfortunately, but actually probably fortunately, this doesn’t last long as someone comes by and interrupts my grind and I mumble angrily and have to go do quest stuff.
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I do enjoy this. I usually find spots that put me in a slight amount of danger from horde. The NPCs aren’t too hard. That way once horde attack me, I’m justified in killing them.
I have a few spots depending on my level. But grinding for a full level has its benefits. It makes the quest you have already slightly easier, because you are one level higher. If you grind the right spot you can get high value vendor trash for raw gold. Also nice when that BoE blue or epic drops off that random crocodile. I wouldn’t grind much past 55, too much mob competition in the level appropriate zones.
I used to do that, the last 4-5 days though I get literally no greens.
Maybe bad luck I don’t know.
But the difference is noticeable and sudden.
even junk are much much much less.
I really love grinding (keep your dirty thoughts to yourself!) I’ve actually been grinding War Reavers in the Burning Steppes as I wait to join a BRD group that never comes (because my log in times suck.) I also grind Blackrock mobs in the area.
I think I had the most fun grinding mobs in Felwood in the Ruins of Constellas. I was grinding for felcloth which has a fantastic drop rate (or it’s just my luck) and I just got a lot of good greens and grey weapons which sell for good gold.
Yeah I think some areas tend to drop more items than others. But yeah I like to grind mainly and just do my own thing.
I’ve been mixing kill quests with focused grinding since about level 20.
By focused I mean satyrs in Ashenvale for Silk Cloth, then satyrs in Desolace (also for Silk Cloth), pirates in Tanaris for Mageweave; skinnable mobs for gold from 35-40; and so on and so on and so on.
The level 31-32 gorillas in STV. I think I’ve grinded out like 3 levels straight a few times. They are in abundance, they respawn quickly and the vendor trash they drop sells for a decent price. I usually pick skinning too so I just rake in cash from all of the heavy leather.
Definitely. Take a big rip, music on, log in, find my fav scenic spot and just genocide that place until my bags are exploding with garbo lewts.
One of the best parts of the game to me.
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I leveled 1-60 primarily through grinding mobs.
I grinded the bears in Ashenvale from 22-25, the furblogs in Ashenvale from levels 26-32, the Satyrs in Desolace levels 32-39, the ogres in feralas from levels 39-48, the trolls in hinterlands from levels 48-52, and from 52-60 just killed gouls in eastern Plaguelands.
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How was your rep for mounts and such?
I always enjoy grinding out a level or two around Blind Mary’s hut while I’m questing through Duskwood; the spawn rate for the skeletons there is great! If I’m not doing instances, I usually grind out level 59-60 killing Owlbeasts in Winterspring, as I have a loop I can do in my sleep there.
Yeah dude, I started grinding at level 36 when I realized I needed mount money. Once I got the lvl 40 mount I couldn’t really get back into questing - limited playtime means I don’t want to spend a lot of time running around and reading quest text. Grinding is a bit tedious but works! I just grind and do dungeons at this point.
I did very few quests after level 33. I would research mobs that were appropriate for my level on Wowhead and grind like crazy. Loved it.