Yes, yes, I know, I start big.

When a whole bunch of things have been overhauled, I bring my now-68 mage into Orgrimmar, clear my inventory up a bit, and head into Ragefire Chasm to see the “blue loot” the bosses drop for my very own. (and maybe get some equipment for my new lvl 12 Paladin)

My Experience - Overview

• Every mob dropped more than 40c each
• The first green drop was within the first few mobs of the instance door on multiple runs and was lvl 9-10
• All of the Vendor Trash that dropped was worth over 60c each, and there was more Trash
• The equipment seemed higher level, but hard to tell - I seem to remember Mystic Belt only dropping in Wailing Caverns before, but it dropped here for sure.
• Some equipment now has +to damage, healing, crit, etc much like the Outlands gear, instead of just having +stats
• The blues that drop are of the same name the boss drops used to be, just they’ve been upgraded in quality so they now qualify as “Blue”. Very nice stuff for the low-teens level.

Patch 2.3 Increases Amount of Trash Dropped In Dungeons

I ran through the dungeon twice because it’s fast, and the first time through I did the “standard inventory clear” at the bank before heading in. “Standard” in this case was backed up by the past few weeks of doing RFC AOE runs for equipment, cash, linen and all that jazz for my new pack of healer lowbies, but “standard” turned out to be wrong…

The first run through, I wasn’ even to Hungerer when my inventory filled up. For the second run I cleared out all but absolute bare essentials in my backpack (and what’s that small thing, 12 slots?? 14?) and at the end of the instance, I was packed absolutely full. Patch 2.3 has certainly increased the amount of trash dropped in this dungeon, and I’d assume that goes for all the old-world Azeroth and Eastern Kingdoms instances.

Loot Tally, Cash Tally

The first time through I ended up with more Greens (15) than the second time through (8), but both times, both Jergosh the Invoker and Tag the Hungerer dropped blue gear, and both times I came out with about 1g50s of profits from corpse loots, vendor trash, and white equipment trash. (this is vs the 65c I was getting pre-patch 2.3)

Player Quality Of Rare Drops

Decide for yourself!

Robe of Evocation
Crystalline Cuffs
Cursed Felblade
Subterranean Cape
Chanting Blade
Cavedweller Bracers

(hey cool, this was a partial test to see if whatever my wordpress Addon uses for doing the WoW Item link needed to be updated or not - nope! yay!)

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At level 64 my Mage dropped skinning (which was at 375) and picked up Tailoring as a way to get a leg up on getting the best equipment for my Mage when the time comes to pick up things like Primal Nethers in the dungeon runs I’m doing.

Farming Linen Cloth

As a Troll was my first character and I didn’t actively play anything other than one character until that one hit 60 (pre-expansion), Orgrimmar is the city that I’m most used to, so whenever it comes time to pick up some training, Orgrimmar is where I default to.

So, I went into The Drag and picked up Tailoring, and then I headed into the Cleft of Shadows and jumped into Ragefire Chasm, aka RFC - a dungeon aimed for level 12-17 Hordies (you CAN get in at level 8 but I wouldn’t recommend trying that in a Pick Up Group of strangers).

I farmed through RFC twice for the Linen Cloth and lowbie green equipment drops (you see, ever the alt-o-holic, I have a new lowbie - currently level 10 druid) and after those two smashingly-fun AOE-fest farm-throughs, I had enough linen to turn into enough bolts to make enough Tailoring gear that I could consider progressing on to Wool Cloth very shortly.

Farming Linen Cloth and Wool Cloth

Deadmines was the next dungeon that I farmed through with my Mage - I have never gone through the instance as an Alliance player (my highest Alliance toon made it to 20 but never instanced), but since one of my guildmates got to mid-40s with an Alliance toon as his first he was able to pass on the information that Deadmines (sometimes called Van Cleef so it’s not confused with Dire Maul when referred to in short form) is a GREAT place to farm for both Linen Cloth and Wool Cloth.

Deadmines isn’t as easy to AOE group up in some spots because while all the Defias guys (Defias Conjurer, Defias Blackguard, Defias Bodyguard, Defias Digger, Defias Evoker, Defias Henchmen, etc) were easy enough to round up (and I resisted anything the casters threw at me so that wasn’t a big deal), the Goblin Woodcarvers later on threw axes at me and knocked me down mid-gather. Ah well, they all died for their treachery.

My favorite place to gather everyone up and hose them all down with my Blizzard spell was near the end, as I was approaching the final boss Van Cleef - out on the docks with the plethora of Pirates and their companion Parrots. From what I remember, none of them were casters so it was super easy to gather them up and mow them down, and the death sounds of the little parrots was great! ;) ;)

Farming Silk Cloth

When it comes to Silk, there’s one place that I think of - Scarlet Monestary. I’ve actually nicknamed that “The Silk Factory” and generally refer to it that way when someone saw my 64 Mage in Scarlet Monestary and wondered what was going on.

At the level of Silk in Tailoring, things start to slow down quite a bit. Where I only needed 2 runs each of RFC and VC, I probably did 4 runs of the Scarlet Monestary Armory and 3 of the Scarlet Monestary Cathedral in order to get enough Silk Cloth to progress past it into things that required Mageweave Cloth.

I brought a guildmate friend through with me for at least two of the Scarlet Monestary runs to help spread the benefit around - burning off rest bonus on his lowbie toon and getting some equipment upgrades while handing over all of the Wool Cloth, Silk Cloth and Mageweave Cloth that dropped from the mobs we were killing.

Mageweave and Runecloth were levels where I “got by with a little help from my friends”, for sure - but I don’t have time to continue this entry right now so I’ll write more later!

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