Jonnes
Level One-Derful
Hello, it’s Jonnes again – bringing you another guide for level 1 twinks in shadowlands. This one will be specifically a guide on farming your Bis BoE greens. There are three sections, What to Know, What to Do, and Where to Go. As previously, I wish to give a lot of credit to @Winterly who is the person I find out everything with.
This guide is no longer up to date with the release of 10.0.
What to Know
I want to go over a couple things I mentioned in the comprehensive guide. If you already read the entire thing, you can skip to the next section.
It is recommended that you only farm for your BiS BoE greens in Legion zones, and not BFA zones. There are three reasons for this.
1) Legion mobs do not drop useless weapon BoEs, whereas BFA mobs do. This means you are getting less effective drops by farming BFA mobs. If you don't know what I mean, all weapon BoEs that drop in any expansion only scale down to usable at level 4, for some reason.
2) The Broken Isles contains 4 zones that scale to 10, rather than only 2 for BFA (Tiragarde Sound and Zuldazar). This means that there are significantly more spots for us to farm, with more condensed mobs that have force spawns due to quest requirements. Also, Rings and Trinkets are unique-equipped, so you'll need more than one zone worth of BiS rings at the very least.
3) Legion lockboxes can be opened on a level 10 character for BoE loot that scales to 1. BFA lockboxes require a level 50, making it a waste.
The BoE gear you’re going to want as your BiS will be formatted in this way -
Head, Chest, and Legs
+1 Primary Stat
+2 Stamina
+2 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Shoulders, Hands, Waist, and Feet
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+1 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
OR
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+2 Secondary Stat (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Back and Wrist
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+1 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Neck and Fingers
+1 Stamina
+3 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+2 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Trinkets (If you’re wanting an offensive option)
+1 Primary Stat
+2 Secondary Stat (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
The reasons for these differences-
Head, chest, and leg items have the highest secondary stat budget out of the non jewelry armor slots. They can provide you either +1/+1, +2, or +2/+1 secondary stats, making +2/+1 the obvious goal.
Shoulders, hands, waist, and feet items have a moderate stat budget and can only provide you with either +1/+1 or +2 secondary stats, making either option the best one. These are the only slots where the all-in-one suffixes are useful.
Back and Wrist items at Ilvl5 have such a low budget for secondary and tertiary stats that one of the two stats are sometimes rounded down to 0. You can sometimes only get 1 single secondary stat out of these slots, which will be the one that was given a “low weight" compared to the other for its suffix. You also only get +1 from the all in one suffixes. You need to find one with a balanced weight for each stat to get the most out of it at +1/+1.
Neck and Fingers, which have a high secondary stat budget to compensate for the lack of primary stats, can be +3/+1, +2/+2, +3/+2, and +4 secondary stats, making +3/+2 the best option. Unique-Equipped, so farm multiple zones.
Trinkets lack the suffixes of other slots and simply give you two of a random secondary stat, and a primary that depends on the item type. It too is capable of proccing a socket and tertiary stat. Unique-Equipped, so farm multiple zones.
Some final things to note; while you're farming, a great deal of legion BoE Epics will drop. They will all require level 7. L̶a̶s̶t̶l̶y̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶m̶o̶g̶r̶i̶f̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶u̶f̶f̶.̶ ̶I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶p̶t̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶m̶o̶g̶g̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶a̶p̶p̶e̶n̶s̶.̶ Transmogging works now!
What to Do
I recommend that you do all of your farming on a character that is level 10 with locked experience. Everyone from level 1 to 10 loot the same Ilvl of gear (as far as what's relevant to us). Since all of the gear is BoE, you can safely farm it on a level 10 and send it to your level 1 twink.
You will want to make a Druid, because druids can mindlessly spam moonfire and cut down the focus on what is a very tedious grind. You should be restoration spec, because for some reason moonfire does more damage than in balance spec at level 10. This might be offset by mastery, however, depending on your gear.
You should gear this character up to near twink status to cut your kill time down. @DeLindsay wrote a fantastic guide for level 10 twink gear, which is relevant to optimizing your farming. Read it here. At the very least, get a full set of blue-equivalent gear, mark of the hidden satyr, and eleforce.
Since you're going to spend the entire time spamming 1 spell, equip at least one https://www.wowhead.com/item=122362/discerning-eye-of-the-beast?bonus=0 to make sure you never go OOM.
With multiboxing becoming a ToS offense, every individual cast has to be an individual keystroke. Farming alone is pretty brutal, so try and group up with other people who farm often. Personal loot means the more the merrier! You can often find people who are up for it on the 1-9 section of the XPoff discord.
Some of the good spots have more than one kind of quickly-respawning monster. This means a simple macro with /tar and /cast won't cut it. Winterly and I recommend you download https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/gse-gnome-sequencer-enhanced-advanced-macros and tailor some custom sequential macros for each spot.
Once you have everything ready, you will want to stand relatively central to where the highest concentration of mobs are, and spam your macro. You will want to loot before corpses start disappearing, because we don't get BoEs left on corpses mailed to you (Unless you're farming in the open air Eye of Azshara spots).
Where to Go
I will put here the best spots that I know of personally. Click the titles to see a screenshot of the area. Please share any that I haven't listed.
Highmountain
1) Nesingwary Goat Hill (40.5, 54.0)
A decent spot for BoE farming; it was the best before 9.0.5, but the BoE drop rate has diminished significantly. A dense cluster of goats surrounding two rocks, that respawn quickly. Right next to a flight point and a vendor.
2) Drogbar Battle (53.5, 63.5)
An army of Drogbar that respawn over and over, locked in battle with Thunder Totem guards. They are relatively tightly packed, with about three independent clusters. Scripted respawns to keep the fight going. The pictured spot is right next to a vendor.
3) Front of Kobold Cave (55.5, 45.9)
A relatively fast spawning group of Kobolds hang around in front of the cave here. Requires a lot of movement if solo farming, but it's probably the best spot as far as BoEs per hour when done properly in a group. I would recommend farming with some 24 buddies here with a pull and aoe system.
(Credit to @ShinyHero for this spot)
Stormheim
1) Felskorn Encampment (65.0, 58.0)
A camp of Felskorn Vykrul, with plentiful forced spawns. Good rates of greens here, and easy killing and looting. Lots of unstackable greys, however, and no nearby vendor. Bring a vendor mount. This is my favorite solo farming spot.
2) Shield's Rest Necromancers (80.5, 5.8)
A cliff where a few elite Vykrul necromancers stand summoning non-elite skeletons. Both mobs have good rates of greens, and force spawn quickly. Slightly better rates than the Felskorn Encampment, but tougher to kil. Come here with a group.
Val'Sharah
1) Furbolg Imp Invasion (67.6, 73.9)
A small grove with a Furbolg village that is being invaded by imps. A decent rate of greens, as well as extremely valuable stackable greys. This place is typically overrun by level 50 gold farmers due to the latter.
2) Malorne's Refuge (57.7, 69.5)
A temple flanked by two packs of Satyr that force spawn. If you kill one side, the other side spawns back. This area also drops the same valuable Felblood as the imp spot, but in lesser numbers.
(Credit to @Blazai for this spot)
Azsuna
1) Temple of a Thousand Lights (56.8, 64.8)
A temple terrace filled with ghosts and fire elementals that respawn quickly. A high movement solo spot comparable to Kobolds that shines in groups. I would recommend farming with some 24 buddies here with a pull and aoe system.
2) The Eye of Azshara (67.0, 55.0)
While not technically in Azsuna, it uses the Azsuna loot table. This entire island is full of mobs, elite and non elite. The murloc villages here in particular are a popular spot for gold farmers, but require a lot of people farming the 3 clusters to enable force spawning. Running around the island as a solo farmer if you can't find a farming group is not a terrible option. This island is the only farming location that mails you forgotten loot.
3) Azurewing Whelplands (47.4, 14.7)
A specific section of this area has about 10 Withered Exiles that will forcespawn at a decent rate. Not an ideal spot, but solid as far as Azsuna goes. Requires you to "jump-start" the force spawning by killing a bunch of withered in the area outside the spot before they will start force spawning in the good spot.
(Credit to "Who Fed Zed" on Discord for this spot)
This guide is no longer up to date with the release of 10.0.
What to Know
I want to go over a couple things I mentioned in the comprehensive guide. If you already read the entire thing, you can skip to the next section.
It is recommended that you only farm for your BiS BoE greens in Legion zones, and not BFA zones. There are three reasons for this.
1) Legion mobs do not drop useless weapon BoEs, whereas BFA mobs do. This means you are getting less effective drops by farming BFA mobs. If you don't know what I mean, all weapon BoEs that drop in any expansion only scale down to usable at level 4, for some reason.
2) The Broken Isles contains 4 zones that scale to 10, rather than only 2 for BFA (Tiragarde Sound and Zuldazar). This means that there are significantly more spots for us to farm, with more condensed mobs that have force spawns due to quest requirements. Also, Rings and Trinkets are unique-equipped, so you'll need more than one zone worth of BiS rings at the very least.
3) Legion lockboxes can be opened on a level 10 character for BoE loot that scales to 1. BFA lockboxes require a level 50, making it a waste.
The BoE gear you’re going to want as your BiS will be formatted in this way -
Head, Chest, and Legs
+1 Primary Stat
+2 Stamina
+2 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Shoulders, Hands, Waist, and Feet
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+1 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
OR
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+2 Secondary Stat (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Back and Wrist
+1 Primary Stat
+1 Stamina
+1 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+1 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Neck and Fingers
+1 Stamina
+3 Secondary Stat A (Not Mastery)
+2 Secondary Stat B (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
Trinkets (If you’re wanting an offensive option)
+1 Primary Stat
+2 Secondary Stat (Not Mastery)
+1 Tertiary Stat (Speed or Leech)
[] Socket
The reasons for these differences-
Head, chest, and leg items have the highest secondary stat budget out of the non jewelry armor slots. They can provide you either +1/+1, +2, or +2/+1 secondary stats, making +2/+1 the obvious goal.
Shoulders, hands, waist, and feet items have a moderate stat budget and can only provide you with either +1/+1 or +2 secondary stats, making either option the best one. These are the only slots where the all-in-one suffixes are useful.
Back and Wrist items at Ilvl5 have such a low budget for secondary and tertiary stats that one of the two stats are sometimes rounded down to 0. You can sometimes only get 1 single secondary stat out of these slots, which will be the one that was given a “low weight" compared to the other for its suffix. You also only get +1 from the all in one suffixes. You need to find one with a balanced weight for each stat to get the most out of it at +1/+1.
Neck and Fingers, which have a high secondary stat budget to compensate for the lack of primary stats, can be +3/+1, +2/+2, +3/+2, and +4 secondary stats, making +3/+2 the best option. Unique-Equipped, so farm multiple zones.
Trinkets lack the suffixes of other slots and simply give you two of a random secondary stat, and a primary that depends on the item type. It too is capable of proccing a socket and tertiary stat. Unique-Equipped, so farm multiple zones.
Some final things to note; while you're farming, a great deal of legion BoE Epics will drop. They will all require level 7. L̶a̶s̶t̶l̶y̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶m̶o̶g̶r̶i̶f̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶u̶f̶f̶.̶ ̶I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶p̶t̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶m̶o̶g̶g̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶a̶p̶p̶e̶n̶s̶.̶ Transmogging works now!
What to Do
I recommend that you do all of your farming on a character that is level 10 with locked experience. Everyone from level 1 to 10 loot the same Ilvl of gear (as far as what's relevant to us). Since all of the gear is BoE, you can safely farm it on a level 10 and send it to your level 1 twink.
You will want to make a Druid, because druids can mindlessly spam moonfire and cut down the focus on what is a very tedious grind. You should be restoration spec, because for some reason moonfire does more damage than in balance spec at level 10. This might be offset by mastery, however, depending on your gear.
You should gear this character up to near twink status to cut your kill time down. @DeLindsay wrote a fantastic guide for level 10 twink gear, which is relevant to optimizing your farming. Read it here. At the very least, get a full set of blue-equivalent gear, mark of the hidden satyr, and eleforce.
Since you're going to spend the entire time spamming 1 spell, equip at least one https://www.wowhead.com/item=122362/discerning-eye-of-the-beast?bonus=0 to make sure you never go OOM.
With multiboxing becoming a ToS offense, every individual cast has to be an individual keystroke. Farming alone is pretty brutal, so try and group up with other people who farm often. Personal loot means the more the merrier! You can often find people who are up for it on the 1-9 section of the XPoff discord.
Some of the good spots have more than one kind of quickly-respawning monster. This means a simple macro with /tar and /cast won't cut it. Winterly and I recommend you download https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/gse-gnome-sequencer-enhanced-advanced-macros and tailor some custom sequential macros for each spot.
Once you have everything ready, you will want to stand relatively central to where the highest concentration of mobs are, and spam your macro. You will want to loot before corpses start disappearing, because we don't get BoEs left on corpses mailed to you (Unless you're farming in the open air Eye of Azshara spots).
Where to Go
I will put here the best spots that I know of personally. Click the titles to see a screenshot of the area. Please share any that I haven't listed.
Highmountain
1) Nesingwary Goat Hill (40.5, 54.0)
A decent spot for BoE farming; it was the best before 9.0.5, but the BoE drop rate has diminished significantly. A dense cluster of goats surrounding two rocks, that respawn quickly. Right next to a flight point and a vendor.
2) Drogbar Battle (53.5, 63.5)
An army of Drogbar that respawn over and over, locked in battle with Thunder Totem guards. They are relatively tightly packed, with about three independent clusters. Scripted respawns to keep the fight going. The pictured spot is right next to a vendor.
3) Front of Kobold Cave (55.5, 45.9)
A relatively fast spawning group of Kobolds hang around in front of the cave here. Requires a lot of movement if solo farming, but it's probably the best spot as far as BoEs per hour when done properly in a group. I would recommend farming with some 24 buddies here with a pull and aoe system.
(Credit to @ShinyHero for this spot)
Stormheim
1) Felskorn Encampment (65.0, 58.0)
A camp of Felskorn Vykrul, with plentiful forced spawns. Good rates of greens here, and easy killing and looting. Lots of unstackable greys, however, and no nearby vendor. Bring a vendor mount. This is my favorite solo farming spot.
2) Shield's Rest Necromancers (80.5, 5.8)
A cliff where a few elite Vykrul necromancers stand summoning non-elite skeletons. Both mobs have good rates of greens, and force spawn quickly. Slightly better rates than the Felskorn Encampment, but tougher to kil. Come here with a group.
Val'Sharah
1) Furbolg Imp Invasion (67.6, 73.9)
A small grove with a Furbolg village that is being invaded by imps. A decent rate of greens, as well as extremely valuable stackable greys. This place is typically overrun by level 50 gold farmers due to the latter.
2) Malorne's Refuge (57.7, 69.5)
A temple flanked by two packs of Satyr that force spawn. If you kill one side, the other side spawns back. This area also drops the same valuable Felblood as the imp spot, but in lesser numbers.
(Credit to @Blazai for this spot)
Azsuna
1) Temple of a Thousand Lights (56.8, 64.8)
A temple terrace filled with ghosts and fire elementals that respawn quickly. A high movement solo spot comparable to Kobolds that shines in groups. I would recommend farming with some 24 buddies here with a pull and aoe system.
2) The Eye of Azshara (67.0, 55.0)
While not technically in Azsuna, it uses the Azsuna loot table. This entire island is full of mobs, elite and non elite. The murloc villages here in particular are a popular spot for gold farmers, but require a lot of people farming the 3 clusters to enable force spawning. Running around the island as a solo farmer if you can't find a farming group is not a terrible option. This island is the only farming location that mails you forgotten loot.
3) Azurewing Whelplands (47.4, 14.7)
A specific section of this area has about 10 Withered Exiles that will forcespawn at a decent rate. Not an ideal spot, but solid as far as Azsuna goes. Requires you to "jump-start" the force spawning by killing a bunch of withered in the area outside the spot before they will start force spawning in the good spot.
(Credit to "Who Fed Zed" on Discord for this spot)
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