Hey there, guys! This is Reckles with WTBGold and yah, I know, based on the title and thumbnail,
this guide better be friggin awesome. So, let’s rock.
Back in the day, Shadowfang keep was considered kind of a joke for gold farmers. There’s
transmog farming, which is filled with RNG and the broken hearts that brings, and then
there’s twink farming, which is running a specific dungeon sometimes hundreds of times
just so you can get a specific 1 or 2 pieces of gear that sell for 50-100k gold. Now, that’s
what Shadowfang Keep is, and now that' we're all kindof used to that style, we're ready
for the Shadowfang Keep twink farm on steroids. For new players, a twink is someone who turns
off XP at level 19, 29, or 59 in order to PVP in a specific bracket. Then they get the
absolute best stats on their gear possible and proceed to crush people’s souls like
it’s a goldfish cracker they accidentally step on.
In this guide we are going to Gnomeregan. This dungeon has 9 pieces of BoE gear that
sell for obscene gold on the Auction House. And you need to learn how to do this quick,
because in Legion, PvP scaling may be changing so this stuff could possibly be worthless
soon if Blizz stays the course. But really, people have bought server transfers, paid
800,000 gold, and and then paid another $25 just to transfer back to their original server,
just to get this gear. The two items main we’re hoping for out
of the 9 Gnomeregan BoEs are the Hotshot Pilots Gloves and the Caverndeep Trudgers, both of
which sell for 250k gold at the moment, at the low end! Now, if you wait, you better
believe that this guide will get popular and these prices will fall as competition rises,
so do this now. Also, if you get one of those two pieces, let me know in the comments.
If you haven't ever been to Gnomeregan, you want to take a portal to Ironforge, then head
to the Northwestern most part of Dun Morogh. There’s an elevator there that can kill
you as you go in, so watch your step. For Horde, the best way to get here is to,
as usual, delete your toons you filthy savages, and roll Alliance.
There are two entrances to this dungeon, the main entrance and the back entrance at the
Workshop. You need a key to unlock and open the back entrance so do one full run to start
off, before you do speed runs. Also, this dungeon is notoriously confusing with it’s
multiple levels, so I pieced together a full dungeon map and route for running the dungeon
forward and backwards, if you want to do the full run. You can follow my map boards on
Pinterest to get all my maps.
Most of the blues have between a 0.03% and 0.05% drop rate, and the Caverndeep Trudgers
and Hotshot Pilot Gloves are lower, possibly even only dropping off the Crowd Pummeler
9-60 boss, so we’re going to focus on him in our speed runs. Start at the Workshop entrance,
head down the main path, and take a left when you get to the Engineering Labs. Wait for
all the slowpoke mechs to catch up after you kill the boss. And do a little AoE. These
guys are level 29, so they have no health. You could probably solo this on a level 40
character no problem. It's great for new toons, new servers. Now, the ilvl of these BoEs has
changed a few times over the years to their current ilvl 29, and when Deathwing came in
during Cataclysm, the normal lvl 29 elites were removed from the dungeon. This speed
run has 1 boss, 8 elites level 27 & 28, and 21 non elites. The way vanilla drops work
is that a lvl 29 item has the normal drop rate off a lvl 29 elite, and then level 28
and 30 elites have ½ the drop rate. 27 and 31 elites have ¼ the drop rate and so on.
So, it’s still worth farming these level 27 and 28 elites, but the drop rate is ridiculously
low. Get to the boss as fast as possible. I averaged 1 of the BoEs every 10 runs, every
lockout, which is probably a little high, but it's still reasonable. We’re killing
300 mobs every 10 speed runs, so if we’re working with a .05% drop rate, you have a
65% chance to get a blue every 20 minute session. Let's talk gold value. Worst case scenario,
If you’re on a bad server, only get the lowest price on the Auction House, and never
get the Hotshot Pilot gloves or Caverndeep Trudgers, you’re still looking at a 5000
gold expected value every 20 minutes. Best case is over 200k per 20 minutes, which is
just ridiculous, but while I want you to be excited about this, I don’t want to mislead
you. We’re talking about very low drop rates and very specific buyers. So much so that,
if you get the Hotshot Pilot Gloves, it would be worth putting up a WTS post in the Battle.Net
forums. People all across WoW would be interested. And finally, there actually is a trick to
doing this on Horde, but I'll just put this in the description so read there.
I’m putting out new dungeon farming guide every Monday at noon and Material farming
guides every Wednesday, so subscribe if you haven't to make sure you see the next one.
Other than that, I hope you have a great day, make a ton of gold. Let me know how much gold
you make, and I'll talk to you later. Bye!