Comments on: Powerlevelling Tailoring Cheaply: Linen Wool and Silk

By: WoollyMammoth

WoollyMammoth — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:18:54 +0000

There is no place in Azeroth that compares to the Woolly bounty of one location: the Furbolg cave in Ashenvale, and it’s usable by both Horde and Alliance.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:35:23 +0000

As a ‘kill single mob at a time’ kind of farmer, I went to Tanaris for my mageweave, either from the Pirates on the coast (if its not TOO busy) or from the higher level ogres in the mid-south part of the map. Also since they are not elite, they die quickly and nicely. Having not taken a mage above level 45, I’m not too familiar with using them for farming elites 20 levels below me. ;-) Guess having stomping grounds that are free of other people (instances) is pretty compelling. I know hitting lower levels with high level alts can be fun as well (taking out frustrations) and the drop per mob may be higher..? Can’t beat SM for Silk for sure!

PS: just curious what you mean by ‘note you’?

By: Dwarfenstuff

Dwarfenstuff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:37:46 +0000

Val, it is a definite challenge getting in stocks as a hordey.. And to be honest I don’t know how they do it.. but I have seen 3 guys go in before.. hehe.

I have even killed me a mage in IF before.. Somehow you hordies just get around.. Now the TRICK would be for an alliance guy to make it to RFC. If I remember right, you have to basically run by EVERYONE to get to it in Org.. I’ll try it someday.. but oh well.

How did I know a fellow troll would know the name of the zone?

OH forgot to add, for farming purposes, runecloth… Go up from WPL through to Hearthglenn. Tons of guys, good respawn rates.. and I think you can find a lowbie willing to tag along to finish some quests. Don’t know for sure about quests, but I always find 1 or 2 lowbies (mid 50’s) up to their nose in the scarlet fellas. Being affliction I can help easily by dropping 2 dots and keep walking.

Locks Rule, BTW.

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:43:16 +0000

When I needed wool on my horde character, I got it from Durnholde Keep in the Hillsbrad foothills — non-elites are easier and faster to kill, and there’s a vendor/repair NPC right there, so I could get the wool longer without having to stop and empty bags. Also, I was doing this for cloth rep turnins at a lower level (low-mid 50s) than your mage, so non-elites were easier.

For silk, again, I got it from non-elites — one of the centaur camps in Thousand Needles.

Mageweave — ogres in Tanaris.

Runecloth — I worked on my Timbermaw rep at the same time, and went after Deadwood Furblog

If you’re on a PvP server, grinding cloth safely inside an instance might make more sense, though.

By: WoWGrrl

WoWGrrl — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:36:17 +0000

Hey, I’m going to try this “reply to folks who note me by noting them back” trick, hopefully it works, as I feel bad not responding to the great comments that come through.

Rizzo: I’m finding my Mage to be much better for instance farming than even my Hunter, who was awesome at it - the whole AOE-things-down is way faster, and generally I don’t have to drink much. But, I basically refuse to bring my Warrior in because it seems to require too much attention to get the job done. Funny how some classes are just better farmers than others :)

Dwarf: I think getting into the Stocks for a Horde toon would be an interesting challenge! :) But yes, you Alliance folk seem to have the best wool cloth dungeon there is :) And yep, Jintha’Alor is my place of choice for gathering Mageweave as it’s got other things of benefit as well to help fund the occasional purchases I need to make while levelling the skill.

Later!

Valdesta

By: Dwarfenstuff

Dwarfenstuff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:08:45 +0000

For any readers, VC is great for linen.. But the Stockades is where wool flows like water..

I have yet to get my toon to farm SM, but at 64 I’ve farmed Zul Farrak. Looking for Mageweave. While speaking (read: whining and crying) about mageweave and how long it takes to get any decent amounts of it I remembered that given the mob level that it drops off of.. The place, (untested so far) would be hinterlands.. In the masses of YOUR people.. The Trolls. If I remember right they respawn quick (many lvl 40′ish deaths to account for this) and there are precisely, 1 bajillion of them. I plan on testing this on the weekend, as the weekends are for FARMING…

later val!!

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:42:45 +0000

Its a shame its harder for me to go back like this on my priest and ‘farm’ low level stuff, or whatever… Although I do have a fair bit of +dmg, and one on one I’m okay… but I have to stop every few steps and drink! Costs me almost as much in drink as I get in inventory!!!!

Usually I break out the hunter again and run through something like this with very little downtime and cost (Arrows are relatively cheap). :-)