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Dark Iron Ring Farming Guide
This guide will give you general tips on how to obtain your [Dark Iron Ring] as fast as possible as well as show you specific routes for a few classes. This ring is BiS in openworld PvP and PvE for all agility users in multiple low-level brackets including 60 and 70.
The first things you need to know:
The ring can only drop from a chest within Blackrock Depths called a Relic Coffer. There are only 12 Relic Coffers inside the dungeon, and they are all located in the same room:
This room has 12 doors. There is one Relic Coffer behind each door, and each door requires one [Relic Coffer Key] to open. The keys have a chance to drop off any mob in the dungeon that has the word "Anvilrage" in its name.
So in order to obtain this ring you must first kill some mobs, loot some keys, go to the relic coffer room and then open some chests. Sounds easy, right? Well unfortunately the droprate on the ring is only 0,5%, meaning you have to open 200 relic coffers on average to get one. And to make matters even worse, the ring has a random enchant every time you loot it - and only a few of them are good. The random enchants you are looking for are 'of agility', 'of the monkey' and 'of the tiger'. Any other enchant makes the ring useless.
Maybe you are beginning to see what kind of grind you have ahead of you if you're planning on farming this ring. And that is why efficiency is very important; if you can save just a couple of minutes on each run, you will end up saving hours in total as you run Blackrock Depths over and over and over...
How to farm efficiently:
- Pull big groups. The most efficient way of farming the keys is to pull large groups of Anvilrage dwarves and then AoE'ing them down in one spot. This way you can AoE loot them all simultaneously instead of constantly stopping to loot along the way. Use ranged abilities that don't do damage in order to pull. Don't hesitate to respec if another spec is better for this purpose.
- Plan your route. Find out where you can find large amounts of Anvilrage dwarves together so you don't waste time traveling through the dungeon. Remember your route should end at the Relic Coffer Room.
- Don't obsess over getting 12 keys every run. Your route should give you no more than 10 keys on average, otherwise you might risk getting over 12 keys which is a complete waste as keys disappear from your inventory when you exit the dungeon. Focus on the amount of coffers you open per hour, not on opening every coffer every run.
- Use whatever abilities, talents and glyphs you can to help you clear faster. This one is quite obvious, but since you're going to be spending so much time farming, you might as well adjust your spec, talents and glyphs to maximize your speed.
Note: The videos below are somewhat outdated since rogues and hunters have new mobility and pulling utilities as of the Legion prepatch (19th/20th of July 2016)
Hunter route:
Hunters are not as mobile as rogues or monks for example, so this is a shorter route with a lower key count that takes advantage of disengage. Remember, shorter routes just means you can do more of them.
Rogue route:
Burst of speed allows you to go for a longer route with a higher key count without spending huge amounts of time running between packs.
Happy farming
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