Hey there, guys! This is Reckles with WTBGold and I hope y’all are ready to kill just
a ton of things because we’ve got another material farming guide. Ok, so ttoday I’ll
be showing you the 5 best embersilk cloth farming spots in World of Warcraft. Some of
these places may be phased out to you, some have quest requirements, some are better for
long term farming, and others are great for just, a quick restock, so watch through all
of them and I’ll give you a nice flowchart at the end so you know where to go for your
class and circumstances. Oh and I’ve got a timestamp in the description for each of
these if you're just watching this to refresh your memory about a specific spot.
Now, there are three honorable mentions here. The Uldum farm under the Obelisk of the moon
is fun but didn’t quite make the cut. Also, neither of the routes recommended by WoW-Professions
was worth while at all. But hey, if you’re feeling like dealing with a lot of competition
head over to the Restless front in Tol Barad or The Twilight Gate Ettin farm in Twilight
Highlands. Alright, let’s do this guide. Before you start, I’m gonna recommend a
couple of things. First, buy a potion of treasure finding off
the Auction House or have an alchemist guildie make one for you. With most of these spots,
a Potion of Treasure Finding gives you and extra 200 gold per hour, 300 cloth, and 2
to 4 greens, along with about 50 volatiles and 50 ore. So, it's totally worth it.
Second, buy Findle’s Loot-a-rang on the Auction House. Costs a couple hundred gold
but allows you to loot bodies from Range rather than having to run all over the place to get
stuff. Also, Findle's isn't going to work in Legion zones.
Next, make sure you’re on a tailor and have cloth scavaging. I think scavaging comes standard
during the profession leveling process now, but in the January 3rd, 2011 hotfix, they
buffed this to drop double cloth 50% of the time up from 25%. So, 50% more cloth, great
boost. Next, have a Yak, traveler’s tundra Mammoth,
Jeeves, vendor pet. Something to sell your junk to. On that note, the addon SellJunk.
That's worth downloading, and remember that you can add specific things to it, like the
potions and food, the white items you want to automatically sell off too.
Speaking of addons, cross realm assist is a great way to hop realms on the farms that
benefit from that. Annnnd finally, two macros will be useful
here. A full zoom out. Use this to max out how far
away you can zoom out your camera. And next, this one. This casts your instant
attack ranged spell when you hover over a live enemy, in my case it’s the priest’s
Shadow Word: Pain, and then it loots an area nearby when you cast while hovering over a
body with the Lootarang. Note that it isn’t affected by which way you’re facing, it'll
still loot things out of line of sight, and doesn’t necessarily loot the body you’re
hovering over, so you may need to cast it twice in order to loot large areas.
Ok, jeeez, enough talk let’s go already, right? Let's go.
#5 - The fifth best place for embersilk cloth farming is Verlok Stand. Now, every farm spot
in Deepholm has been nerfed, the bats in Shuddering Spire have to be single targeted and the Stonehearth
farm just...doesn’t drop loot anymore. After you take the cata portal to deepholm head
North East towards the broken red crystal. There’s a platform with a 50 troggs on it,
Verlok Shroomtenders and Verlok Grubthumpers. They aren’t elite and will evade pretty
quickly so pull them into a couple of piles. For my recommended route, start at the entrance
and do your first aoe right before the bridge. Then run around the right side of the pillar
and AoE again on the other side. Pull the next pack all the way to the end. And from
there, turn around and fly up to the additional platform where there are 15 more troggs. They
start respawning at 2 minutes 15 seconds after death and finish respawning at 2:45, and since
this route only takes a minute, you have two options. First, my favorite is just relax,
open your treasure boxes and turning all the cloth into Embersilk Bolts while you wait
for everything to respawn. You’ll get less cloth this way but it’s still a ton and
you don’t have to do the bolts later. Alternatively, use Cross Realm Assist and do 2 more runs
on two different realms. This spot is pretty popular so if you find an empty realm, just
manually hop into that group each time. Using this technique you’ll get about 1400 cloth
#4 - The fourth best spot for embersilk farming is Dragonmaw Pass in Twilight Highlands, and
we're going to be killing the Twilight Spearwarders. This place used to be absolutely ridiculous,
netting 3-4000 cloth per hour,. They nerfed the spawn and drop rates into the ground,
but we have crossrealm assist now so we're fine. Now, this does have a quest requirement,
so these mobs aren’t here until you complete the quest “Encroaching Twilight” which
will take a little while, and I’m almost positive they despawn once you finish the
Mathias command quest chain, so there's a very small amount of time you can do this
farm. You want to stop your tailor on this quest and not Complete Twilight Highlands.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to do this. If I’m wrong on the despawn thing, let me
know in the comments. So just AoE and single target down all the mobs in whatever way that
works for your class and then switch realms to do it again. On my priest, I pretty much
just cast cascade and then lootarang and I’m good. You can expect to get at least 1600
cloth here, but, I mean that depends on your class. I’m sure a solid monk could pull
in 2k no problem here once he figured out the best places for his ox statue. Oh, also,
bots come here a lot. And if anyone watching makes or uses bots, there’s no need to cast
fear ward on this farm. Like, ever. C’mon now.
#3 - The third best spot to farm embersilk is in Molten Front. Now, first things first,
this used to be end game. Patch 4.0 was Blacwing Descent and Bastion of Twilight. 4.1 was everyone
complaining about how mages don't sheep properly in the Zandalari troll dungeons. And patch
4.2 was Firelands and this. So, everyone at that point had already completed Mount Hyjal.
If you haven't, go to the Hero's board, pick up Hero's Call: Mount Hyjal, and just do quests.
Follow the normal quest chain until you unlock it. It'll take anywhere between 2 hours and
5 hours. And just for completeness, Patch 4.3 was the one that required a prot warrior
for the bloods. Not, you can do this entire farm from standing in one spot. And they just
instaspawn around you. If you stand right at the edge of this shadow of one of the pillars,
you're in line of sight of 7 out of the 8 mobs, and since 2 have to be up, you just
go around clicking on em with your single target and loot macro. And then every two
minutes you loot, there's one guy way off in the corner that you kinda need to move
a little bit to loot his stuff, but it's fine. From here you can expect 1800 cloth per hour.
It's fantastic, and can be your goto farm if you don't mind doing a little work ahead
of time with quests.
#2 - The second best spot for Embersilk cloth farming is the Gate of Hamatep south of the
Akhenet Fields, in Uldum. We are going to be killing Neferset Guards here. Now, haven’t
run this spot since Dubistott told me about it back in 2013. We’ve gotten a significant
amount of gear in 2 ½ years so you can 1 shot these guys no problem. There are 8 mobs
total here, 7 stationary ones and one patrol mob, and since they’re tied to a quest,
there has to be 1 up at all times.
After I found my groove, I was able to improve my per hour from 1000 cloth per hour which
is "meh" to 1800 cloth per hour, which is "yay." These mobs have a 2 minute despawn
timer and each round takes like 10 to 20 seconds, so to min max it, you want to kill as many
mobs as you can before you spend time looting. So, walk back and forth between killing the
5 in the front and the 3 in the back. Every 2 minutes, or every 7-8 rounds, something
like that, loot the center front guy’s body manually and then throw out your loot a rang,
then run to the back, kill those guys, loot one of them and then throw out another lootarang
and that should get everything the fastest way possible.
Optimized, you can expect 60 treasure boxes, 1800 cloth, 30 greens, about 400 raw gold
per hour. I really like this spot because it has such
huge potential, but to have your results not suck, it’s kindof a lot of work, you have
to keep track of a lot of things and I like to farm more casually where I can watch YouTube
or streams. Final tip here, set your view distance to max using our max view distance
macro, set your camera following style to “Never adjust camera,” and for the front
5 guys keep an overhead view, and then when you turn around to kill the guys in the back,
have more of a PoV view.
And finally, #1 - The best spot for Embersilk cloth farming hands down is Bastion of Twilight.
I first posted about this place on my Blog back in June of 2014, and back then you were
actually farming for the epics which sold for 10,000 gold on the Auction House. They're
vendor junk now. It’s been forever so watch this video for a detailed look at how to run
it, but in short, just kill everything in the first room. If you can taunt or dot the
channeling guys around the outside to pull them in, that’s best. There’s four guys
in the back, but they slow you down on a per hour basis unless you pull the front room
into that hallway. Ten runs of Bastion of Twilight will net you 1000-1100 cloth. So,
here's my recommended workflow for this. I'm going to assume that you're using a Potion
of Treasure Finding, and looking to farm for the entire duration of it - an hour. So first,
if you haven't completed the twilight highlands quests, do Bastion of Twilight and then head
on up to Dragonmaw Pass. If you have completed Twilight Highlands, are you looking for a
relaxed farm or something more tryhard? If you're just looking for relaxed, go to Verlok
Stand, you'll be fine. If you're willing to bust it out for an hour, if you're melee,
go to Verlok Stand. If you're ranged, go to either Molten Front or Uldum, depending on
whether or not you've unlocked molten front and which farm you like doing more. And finally,
for those who don't know, I want to talk about how to make gold with Embersilk, but I think
that'll be best left for a seperate video, so look forward to that or click here somewhere.
That's it guys, thank you so much for watching! Good luck out there, have fun farming. Subscribe
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Have a good one. Bye.