How long does the later level 50 levels take you? It took my lock 7 hours and I feel like it’s too long (purely grinding tho)
The Shimmering Flats was pretty good to grind at for XP while leveling, you could make some decent gold by selling the turtle parts and other grey/white items from mobs in the area and they gave good XP. Its not exactly a secluded spot, but at the time [when Classic was live] most Alliance would just skip it since it was out of the way from the Eastern Kingdom zone and it was horde heavy on a PvP server.
The Mountain Giants in Feralas were pretty good too, if you can kill them since they were elites.
At level 60 i usually farmed certain mobs in LBRS for items to sell on the AH, or BRD. So it wasn’t a spot but certain targets.
this is a classic forum, not retail.
My bad man, didn’t realise which tab I had opened.
no worries. =D
It’s hardly a secret, but I spent a lot of time grinding dragonscales off various dragons.
Black dragons in Burning Steppes, blue dragons in Azshara, green dragons in Swamp of Sorrows, and level 40 dragonlings for worn dragonscales in Badlands.
Y’know those turtles in that river/creek in the Hillsbrad foothills.
Go grind those for a bit while leveling, they drop stuff that sells nicely to venders.
As in that vein, theres some spots in the barrens and night elf areas too.
Having grinded to 60 on multiple toons, I can/will do a small write up of mine but it really doesn’t matter as I chose them for efficiency’s sake as an undead with a tailor toon… Meaning tons of humanoids for cloth/cannabalize.
I also HEAVILY favored very out of the way areas with little to no foot traffic, and/or especially cavess where anyone coming in would have to fight their way into the cave, giving me substantial warning to murder them as they fought a bunch of mobs.
My routine probably won’t be anything near the same once classic comes out, even if I do end up grinding at all, specifically because there are numerous guides that list significantly more profitable spots gold wise to grind in than I’d have used…
But at any rate: (to be completed in a bit)
EDIT: Here we go:
Didn’t grind unless I needed to until ~18 or so, then the Pig-people north of Camp Taurajo are solid till ~20
After that, wildlife to 20-22 south and East of Camp T
Eventually moving to the pigs near weapons of choice or depending on class the Dwarves for Gann’s reclamation until 24-26
From here you could do the Dwarves IN the building if you really want to milk the barrens out, which can be nice on a pvp realm until 30… but I typically went south to the Centaurs north of Freewind Post until 30, then the centuar in the cave until 33ish… The wildlife in Shimm Flats is too spread, has too much competition, and too many tools coming up from Gadz ganking.
STV is a good grind spot in general in the low 30s, but it depends how congested it is with people of either faction. If I stay STV around this time I try and get up to the Troll town/area in the NW corner… Else I head to Desolace and kill even more centaurs for basically as long as I can.
Around 40 just south of Grom Gol there’s a billion raptors to kill, as well as some basilisks if you want a trinket that’s… kind of terrible but you don’t have a trinket so why not?.. I don’t like venturing to Kargath to grind because it takes forever to get there, and there’s always a ton of alliance since it’s so much closer to their capitols/zones.
44 or so the guides all say to go to Swamp of Sorrows if you grind, for some of the best gold/hour mobs in the game at that level… I prefer the naga on the western coast of STV, north of Booty Bay, on the hill near the shrine… Very secluded area, tons of humanoids nice and peaceful grinding.
Late 40s, there’s a giant area full of Ogres I believe directly South of Dire Maul, but it’s at least west of the horde town in Feralas, and south of the road.
I can carry that until 50ish… From there, there’s an island of Gorillas off the SE STV coast. You’ll see maybe one other player per level down there.
By now (@51) if AV is out, I am queud up for AV every single second I can be, and am grinding the gnolls in the gnoll cave until 60 while passively gaining AV rep.
If not, then on my OG toons I spent much of that time in Azshara, grinding on Timbermaw Furlbogs completely oblivious to the fact that they where a faction with a rep I probably would have wanted had I not hunted them into extinction.
Ideally by 55 and absolutely by 57 you should stop doing world leveling altogether, and spam as many dungeons as you possibly can… It’s slower leveling, but you get your pre-raid bis gear and save yourself time at 60.
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My favorite “secret” grind spot to hit 60 was Medivh’s Basement (also known as “The Master’s Cellar.” It’s full of ghosts, and I was a Paladin, so killing undead was the most efficient thing I could do.
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I tend to grind more for gold than for levels, specifically; to that end, I look for spots that have populations of beasts that drop gray items that are worth over a certain amount each and that will stack. These populations also drop random greens, blues and, rarely, epics.
The YouTuber Frostadamus basically taught me how to do this because I used to be helpless at acquiring and saving gold. His videos on the subject give out some great places to grind, at low levels and max level, but I don’t go to any of his spots. I find my own.
Takes about an hour and ahalf to an hour and 45 per level at 50+
Not really “secret”, but I always enjoyed going to the far corners of Azshara to grind, because no one ever went there.
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Strongly disagree with this unless you’re doing something like Dire Maul Lasher aoe pulls, which where nerfed. Or possibly just getting free reign to aoe grind as a mage in the world.
45 is the halfway mark to 60 by xp, and even the best levelers will take about 2.4 days to clear those last 15 levels which is about 58 hours. That puts the top leveler in the world just under 4hrs/level average in that range but xp always scales upward so 50 ends up taking less time that 59 does.
For me, grinding gnolls in av or Timbermaws in Azshara (both of which where low 50s mobs, so the xp penalty really started to kick in late levels) I was doing about 5-6 hours a level in the low 50s and a fairly rough 9-11 hours /level in my late 50s. My first toon leveled exceedingly slow (15 days /played) but stopped to smell the roses and generally didn’t know what to do or where to go… My later toons where more leveling focused and made it a bit faster each time, with 10 days and just around 8 days each.
I’m quite confident I can get those numbers around 7-7.5 /played for classic if doing pure grinding, but I’ve been practicing joanas guide out of lack of better games to play right now and am aiming for around 6-6.5 /played for my first toon (likely a Rogue) and under 6 for the second toon (likely warlock… who aside from being a faster class in general, won’t have to deal with lock picking, and will get more mileage on rested xp)…
right outside caverns of time where the chicken and turtle need to be escorted past, best farming spot
Travel time, getting skills, doing class quests, occasionally dying takes me about 7 days played to hit 60 just grinding from 10-60. Obviously there is a lot of rested there due to only playing about 4-5 hours a day but. But as I said before I am not trying to hit any world records, I just want consistency.
I grinded in dungeons. I was one of the only people on my server that had black rock depths memorized and could take people to any boss, so I was able to sell runs as a guide on lower alts because people couldn’t figure out where to go. Not gonna happen in new classic, but that was my old place.
Hope they take out the dungeon journal. Wouldn’t be classic if they gave you a dungeon journal.
I spent a lot of time in Felwood on my Paladin.
Wintersabers in Winterspring. Wintersaber Eko 20 for 10-20g/stack, leather, tons of greys, sometimes some other GG items. Easy 100g/day casually dicking around and tons of Juju Flurry for raiding.
Nagas south of Feathermoon Stronghold. Occasionally you will have questers come by, but not many. They are level 42-48. Tons of golden pearls for spell power enchant and Truefaith Vestments. Found Edgemasters off of these guys on 3 separate servers. Pearls alone usually I just stockpile and sell them in bundles on AH when Spell Power comes out and make 1500g or so. Edgemasters goes without saying 1000g+ a pop.
Shadowsworn Thugs/Cultists in Eastern Blasted Lands. Tons of shards for Kumisha for free greens and sometimes a blue. Tons of cloth, gold, Major Healing Potions. No one ever farms the cave. Easy for mid 50s grinding to 60. Usually make a few hundred gold here if I’m not doing dungeons.
Southmoon Ruins ogres in Tanaris. No ones ever around because they aren’t a part of quests. Take a ton of melee damage but also deal a bunch. Easy as hell for a Fury Warrior to grind 5 or 6 before needing to eat. Lots of cloth and major healing potions. Raw gold. Not the best, but usually the one I never have a single person bother me at unless someone is doing mining routes on the South. Even then a 55 Warrior popping cooldowns can impede on a mining leveler who wants to get funny and subsequently has a 5 min corpse run wasting their own time.
Little more known;
Hippogryphs in Feralas Southwest of Dire Maul. Insane grey gold per hour. Something like 28g/hour which is up there with Rogue RFD farming. The downside is you will have PvP here more frequently than you expect.
Water Elementals in EPL; stockpile your essence of water for enchants/Hide of the Wild, sell in bulk. Bonus is Hydraxian Waterlord rep. Downside is more PvP than you expect due to MC attunement chain and herb farming routes near them. And people definitely farm them for the same thing. Still can be lucrative if you hit them during population downtime.
Best overall farming spots;
2/3 man Dire Mail East jump runs.
Rogue RFD pickpocket runs.
Azshara herb/mining combo route.
Used to bundle 100 arcane crystals from Azshara and sell them for 1200g-1500g to raiding guilds for their Warriors. Kept people tanking instead of worrying about gold for their Lionheart Helm. Doing God’s work for your faction. Everyone farms Winterspring and DM for arcanes it felt like. Even on Northdale I never ran into people. Timers could have been skewed due to it being a private server but I had one of the first epic mounts Horde side on Northdale due to this, selling the bundled crystals to Progress when they had the first LH Helm recipe drop.
Edit; just realized I’ve smoked too much Shire herb and read it as gold farming and not GRINDING. Lol.
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Even so, it was a good read.
That said, I doubt rfd ends up being the rogue farm of choice in Classic. Brd should work with proper pick pocket resist rates (which Northdale fails at), and that is better gold /hour than rfd, especially since Northdale/pservers count the pigs as pick pocketable undead, something I really doubt real vanilla did or classic will do.
Edit, also what are your thoughts on silithus hives for thorium /arcane crystal farming? I figure rogues would have a major advantage there via being able to simply stealth into them rather than having to clear their way in.
You are so right about the gnolls. I never bithered with them but the more I started grinding on characters the more I noticed camps of mobs placed and spread out just for that purpose.