Farmable patterns in Northrend

External Since: Nov 20, 2008 Posts: 3

Zil wrote:
> Catriona R wrote:
>> Think it is, certainly my 375 LW had a whole heap of new recipes to
>> learn and I'm guessing at least some were lower than 375 skill. Seems
>> every profession has that, which is a good thing as it was always a
>> right pain getting the last few points to 300 to learn new outland
>> recipes...and the 350-375 grind was much worse, even more so now when
>> nobody will be staying in Outland long enough to farm primals.
>
> Yes - my 5-boxing team have almost all professions between them (apart
> from blacksmithing), and most were stuck at about 350-360 before WotLK
> (where it was getting very expensive to level).
>
> I took them all to Northrend and managed to get much cheaper recipes
> for taking them past 375 (although things start to get expensive again
> when you get past about 410, depending on profession).
>
> Which reminds me - whilst I found all other profession trainers at
> Valgarde, I still haven't found an Inscription trainer other
> than the one in Dalaran. Is there a trainer somewhere outside Dalaran
> where I can learn Inscription past 360?
>

Yes, there is a scribe trainer upstairs in the inn of the Howling Fjord
starting town, right next to a Lexicon of Power. There is also a trainer
in the Borean Tundra starting area, though I'm can't recall if he/she is
with that big group of other trainers outside the hold.

External Since: Oct 18, 2007 Posts: 78

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:38:54 -0800 (PST), Babe Bridou
wrote:

>On 5 déc, 11:42, PhilHibbs wrote:
>> Babe Bridou wrote:
>> > Beyond these four "reinforced cobalt" crafts, I don't think there's
>> > any other BOP blacksmith pattern. I spent a saturday afternoon farming
>> > these patterns. I went to 420 blacksmith, earning ~1500g in the
>> > process, and I'm not even a miner - blacksmith/engineer here Wink

>>
>> Damn, those patterns didn't show up on my Thottbot or Wowhead search.
>> Where do they drop? It's a bit late now, I'm well past those skill
>> levels and they cost me a fair amount to get. Well, actually the cost
>> me nothing, but I could have sold the extra cobalt or saronite that I
>> used.
>
>I don't have access to these websites here, but by memory (and because
>I farmed like mad for them):
>_the chest pattern drops from venture co. excavators in Sholazar
>_the helm drops from iron dwarf miners in their city northeastern
>Grizzly Hills (in the area that's under constant bombing by giants)
>_the leggings drop from Gundrak Savages in northeastern Zul'drak
>_the pauldrons drop from Onslaught Masons in eastern Dragonblight
>
>All of these took me ~100 kills (more like 3-400 for the pauldrons),
>including mobs that are around and don't drop the patterns, but still
>share the same spawn point.
>My advice is to kill everything in the zone everytime when you farm it
>to keep the numbers fair. Otherwise you'll quickly starve the area of
>its "pattern dropping" mobs.

Ouch! Wonder why they made the BS ones have horrible droprates when the
JC ones all drop first kill :-/
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