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Hey! After I recently decided to try a level 10 after a quite a long break from this bracket I found out that 10s got nerfed quite a bit from TWW Pre-patch. I however got the information that Mechagon Rings are still ilvl 80 and worth it so I decided to get them. I did not see any guides done to this as it is not that complicated but still I wanted to make one to make grinding for them easier for others. This guide will tell you how you can unlock and grind materials for ilvl 80 Mechagon Rings obtained from https://www.wowhead.com/item=169137/extraordinary-adventurer-augmentation. If you are having problems on unlocking Mechagon be sure to check out this post.
After reaching revered you can buy the blueprint https://www.wowhead.com/item=169134/blueprint-extraordinary-adventurer-augment from Stolen Royal Vendorbot located in Rustbolt for 2048g (sorry F2Ps). This blueprint unlocks the recipe at Pascal-K1N6 who is also located in Rustbolt.
There are 3 versions of the item:
This guide will only focus on the ilvl 80 version, since it is best. If you want information on the other you can check out Beti's comparison on them here.
When used, https://www.wowhead.com/item=169137/extraordinary-adventurer-augmentation will give you one of 7 items. It can be either one of 4 rings:
or one of three trinkets which have a level requirement of 50 so they will be ignored.
As each one of these rings can roll a socket and tertiary stat, there is a quite a lot of grinding for you to do.
The received tertiary stat amount can be:
The materials which you will mostly lack are going to be Chain Ignitercoil and Galvanic Oscillator since they are harder to obtain. We'll also go torugh how you can farm Energy Cells and S.P.A.R.E Crates since you will end up needing them a lot.
I realized that instead of waiting daily lockouts for Chain Ignitercoils and Galvanic Oscillators, you can actually create them from Spare Parts and Energy Cells. As both of them are farmable and not locked behind daily content, we need to calculate how many materials you need for making more of them.
Our starting position is that you already have a Galvanic Oscillator.
As S.P.A.R.E Crate = 250 Spare Parts
If we include the cost of turning 1 of the Chain Ignitercoils back to a Galvanic Oscillator
Total cost for Chain Ignitercoil from Junkyard Tinkering:
Now we have a cost for a Chain Ignitercoil from Junkyard Tinkering
Firstly we need to calculate how much 1 Drill Rig will cost. To start any Drill Rig you will need:
Then as it Drills it will spawn 7 minions with some drops. As an example we are going to use Scrapbone Demolisher which spawns on DR-TR28. This is the Drill Rig of Ol' Big Tusk which also has the highest chance of dropping a Chain Ignitercoil (39%). We are also going to include Earthbreaker Gulroc as his drop chance is the lowest (36%).
Scrapbone Demolisher will drop on average:
For boss loot we'll use Ol' Big Tusk as an example, and he drop on average:
And if we reduce the loot from the cost, 1 Drill Rig costs:
When we multiply these amount with the amount of Drill Rigs required to get a Chain Ignitercoil, we will get the cost from Drill Rigs.
Now if we compare these value to the values from Junkyard Tinkering we can see that their cost increase is only approximately 2 Energy Cells when compared to Drill Rigs. So we can definitely say that Drill Rigs are worth it but Junkyard Tinkering is no that far behind.
Right as the cave opens you need to quickly do damage to it. Right after that you can just kill it for example with Mechagon weapons (which I will make its own chapter on in the future). After that it should spawn in about a second and then you can kill it a second time.
The thing that makes this so great is that you get almost 2 times the normal loot of a Drill Rig. This makes it so the cost is even lower.
As you will still kill only 7 minions you will get the same loot from them:
So the cost of 1 Drill Rig is:
Which means that you will gain Energy Cells.
This also means that your chance to get a Chain Ignitercoil (38%) is rolled twice which means that the probability of hitting the roll at least once in two attempts is calculated like this:
This means that it costs close to no Spare Parts you will gain Energy Cells. This makes it the best way of grinding materials.
Malfunctioning Beastbot requires a https://www.wowhead.com/item=168045/beastbot-powerpack to be spawned. The cost of this is:
Now as his loot amount is low:
1 Malfunctioning Beastbot will cost you:
The drop chance for Chain Ignitercoil is (37%). Which means that cost for Chain Ignitercoil is:
The Rusty Prince was previously mentioned but as you need https://www.wowhead.com/item=169114/personal-time-displacer#created-by-spell to kill him, and it has 3 charges and it requires 1 Chain Ignitercoil makes it so 1 kill costs you 1/3 Chain Ignitercoil. As his drop chance is only (27%) you will lose approximately 0.063 Chain Ignitercoils per kill. You will also lose other materials, so killing him for materials is definitely not worth it.
Out of 35 rares located in Mechagon, 18 of them have a 27-39% chance of dropping https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoil. Most rares have a daily lockout for drops but some of them can take quite awhile to spawn, so I wouldn't recommend trying to get all of them daily. 7 of them require an event Drill Rig to be spawned so you can reach them. The Drill Rig spawn locations you can see here. You can also check the complete list of rares with notable drops from here, but I once again recommend getting Handy Notes and RareScanner.
On the following map you can see locations for the notable rares found in Mechagon and the location of Bloody Grotto which is discussed later in the guide. I have split the rares in three categories.
Drill Rig rares require the event Drill Rig to be active. You can build a drill in the marked locations which you have to protect for about a minute. After protecting it the cave opens and you can kill the rare in question.
Special rares all have some specific conditions that need to be met for them to spawn.
1 = Malfunctioning Beastbot requires a https://www.wowhead.com/item=168045/beastbot-powerpack to be spawned. This can be crafted in Rustbolt with:
2 = Enforcer KX-T57requires rain to spawn. requires you to kill elites found at Junkwatt Depot while they have the debuff Rusting. This can be caused by rain or BAWLD-371. Rain can however be only activated with Weather Alteration Machine which requires you to be lvl 45. You might still get lucky with someone else activating it, but if you want to do it solo just use BAWLD-371. You will know that rain is happening since the sky looks much darker than normally and enemies will have the Rusting debuff already. It has been theorized that only killing Anodized Enforcers causes him to spawn but as this hasn't been confirmed you should kill all the elites located there, since you will also gain more Spare Parts this way.
3 = Mr.Fixthis was previously believed to require rain to spawn, but that simply is not the case. He will be added to normal rares.
4 = Killsaw is almost a normal rare except he can't spawn on the days there are Venture Co. npcs around his spawning area. This happens when daily Unprofitable Ventures is up for grabs in Rustbolt. Note that his spawning area is quite large as marked in the map below.
5 = Sparkqueem P'emp can only spawn on days when the daily Bugs, Lots of Them! is up for grabs. After it spawn it starts moving towards Rustbolt and when it reaches Razak Ironsides he will instakill it. You know when it spawns since Razak Ironsides yells: "Wait till that bug gets close, then blow it to pieces! I want nothing left."
6 = Gear Checker Cogstar has a large variety of spawn points. Since they are so many I didn't want to put all of them on the map since it would've been too messy. You can check them from his wowhead page. He has a small chance of spawning when Upgraded Sentry are killed. You know he is going to spawn since the dying Upgraded Sentry will say: "Bzzt... Unit defeated... request immediate support... Szzt." After this he will spawn in a few seconds at the location of the killed Upgraded Sentry. Note that he can require a lot of kills to spawn and the specific chance is not known so consider if it is worth it.
7 = Mechagonian Nullifiercan be spawned by using https://www.wowhead.com/item=168023/dnt-smashed-transport-relay on the Hackable Nullifier Relay at his platform. You can get https://www.wowhead.com/item=168023/dnt-smashed-transport-relay by killing minions in the Drill Rig DR-JD41 or Drill Rig DR-JD99. I however have not seen these drop once so any confirmation to this would be appreciated. He can be spawned by higher level players using a trinket which lvl 10s can't use so you might get lucky on someone spawning him. Apparently you used to be able to spawn him using https://www.wowhead.com/item=168023/dnt-smashed-transport-relay, but it does not seem to be available anymore. Any information regarding this would be appreciated.
8 = The Rusty Princeis yet to be confirmed but you should be able to get to him is confirmed to be killable. You can only kill him on the alternate timeline on which you can get on by using https://www.wowhead.com/item=169114/personal-time-displacer#created-by-spell. The blueprint for which can only drop from Clockwork Giant which can only spawn if the daily The Other Place is active. Note that The Rusty Prince will not spawn if the daily The Other Place is active.
Normal rares can spawn at all times and any active events do not effect them. For tracking Arachnoid Harvester you can get the addon WorldBossTimers.
When one of the daily visitors in Mechagon is Grumbol Grimhammer [A] or Usha Eyegouge [H], a location called Bloody Grotto opens up during the day. It's located behind the waterfall at the Fleeting Forest. Once the Bloody Grotto is open a chest called Fight Club Treasure Chest will spawn every half an hour. The chest has some great rewards compared to other chests in the island but it also has a daily lockout. The notable drops are in a table below.
As the area is free-for-all beware of other players, but realistically most players have no clue this location exists.
There are couple different boxes which can give you Chain Ignitercoils.
These boxes are:
Luckily you can also craft https://www.wowhead.com/item=168832/galvanic-oscillator with your extra https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoil.
The recipe requires following:
The drop rates for the useful items in chests are in the table below.
On the Western Spray you can obtain a key with a daily lockout. The key can be one of three, which are:
The key is obtained from the murlocs located at the Western Spray. Each key has approximate drop rate of 3%. Since you can only obtain 1 key daily you have to kill approximately 100 murlocs to receive Mechanized Supply Key. Getting 1x Galvanic Oscillator this way requires approximately 1667 murlocs and getting 1x Chain Ignitercoil 7143 murlocs so if you want to maximize daily materials be my guest, but know that is it is quite inefficient. If you are interested on grinding or just happen to get the key, you can check the location of the chest here.
Mechagon also has Pet Battles which give you quest items such as Mechanical Eye and Can of Critter Spray. The quests they start reward you with Chain Ignitercoil and Galvanic Oscillator. However the quest item has a level requirement of 45 on wowhead, so most likely these are not doable (still require confirmation).
In the map below you can see locations for three Drill Rigs. Two of these Drill Rigs are marked by green dots and one is by a red dot. The green dots are The Kleptoboss and Caustic Mechaslime and the red dot is Gorged Gear Cruncher. All three rares are located in the same cave system and which rare / minions spawn there are mandated by the spawned Drill Rig event. For example if the Drill Rig is Caustic Mechaslime, then only it and its minions will spawn inside the caves. The reason for the red dot is that when Gorged Gear Cruncher spawns, the cave will contain Ranishu Nibblers. These are high levels npcs (not scaled properly), which will kill you very quickly. For that reason we are going to avoid the Drill Rig in question. However since only one of these three Drill Rigs can spawn at a time you need to complete the Drill Rig event for Gorged Gear Cruncher or just come back another time.
The Drill Rig event will require:
After used the Drill Rig will start drilling for one minute. After the minute is up the drilled cave entrance will open and stay that way for 5 minutes. You can kill the npcs in the caves for these 5 minutes after which you are simply teleported out and the entrance will cave-in.
The rare Caustic Mechaslime will drop you more Empty Energy Cells and Spare Parts
even after the first daily kill, so killing it more than once is worth it. The killed minions will drop Spare Parts and after couple seconds they will spawn Energy Cells, Empty Energy Cells and Spare Parts on the floor. On Burrowing Kleptobots you can see if they are carrying something, but as they are so small you will most likely only notice Energy Cells. You shouldn't bother looting the Spare Parts since you'll get much more of them by killing the npcs, but you should loot the Energy Cells and Empty Energy Cells.
From one Drill Rig you can get an average of:
Note that the required mats for the drill will be reduced from these results, but still you will end up gaining more materials. Below you can see a picture of what the items of the floor look like.
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Mechagon weapons
It can track multiple Drill Rig timers simultaneously. You can use it to know when you need to be at a Drill Rig if for example someone else activated it at another location in the zone. It will tell you which Drill Rig the timer is for by using the Drill Rig code, for example DR-JD99 as seen in the picture. You can check the WeakAura here Drill Rig Timer - Weakaura.
There also exists a WeakAura for automatically making waypoints to announced rares. Announced rares mean rares that give some sort of chat message when they spawn. For this WeakAura to work you also need to have the addon TomTom. You can check the WeakAura here Mechagon Yell Rare Scanner. It has some problems but you might get some use from it. I wanted to implement the waypoint system in my WeakAura using the in-game ping, but sadly this can't be done without external addons such as TomTom.
If you feel like there was something lacking from this guide be sure to tell me and I most likely will add it. I will keep tracks of the socket / tertiary chances for the rings, so all data towards this would be appreciated!
Changelog:
24.08.2024
- Fixed typos and links
- Made some visual changes (for the better I hope)
- Added the confirmation on The Rusty Prince
- Added info about pet battles and More Recycling daily
- Added Bloody Grotto horde daily visitor Usha Eyegouge
25.08.2024
- Added Jawbreaker on the map (oops)
- Added information about Mechanized Supply Chest
- Added few subheads and moved some paragraphs based on them
- Added calculations to explain The Rusty Prince not being worth it
- Added info about tertiary stat amounts
31.08.2024
- Added 3.5 Energy Cells and Spare Parts
- Added screenshots showcasing rain
- Confirmed Mr.Fixthis spawning with https://www.wowhead.com/item=168233/bawld-371#created-by-spell
- Small additions to couple other rares
- Added more information on the level 45 boxes
- Added new rare and chest maps and couple new chest locations
- Fixed some things overall, like honored requirement to revered
01.09.2024
- Updated info on Enforcer KX-T57 spawning requirements
- Added that Caustic Mechaslime will keep dropping some materials after the daily kill
- Added info on Burrowing Kleptobots having visual differences based on the drop
- Added 4.1 WeakAuras
03.09.2024
- 3.1 Cost of materials
- Made some other changes to avoid inconsistencies with 3.1
- Changed Mr.Fixthis to a normal rare (still not updated on the map)
- Added a link to https://sites.google.com/view/betis10stwinkguide/jewelry?authuser=0 to showcase different ilvls
1. Unlocking the blueprint
To unlock the blueprint for https://www.wowhead.com/item=169137/extraordinary-adventurer-augmentation, you need to reach revered with Rustbolt Resistance. This can be easily done just by completing quests, dailies and world quests in Mechagon. Note that you should do all the daily lockouts this guide mentions when farming reputation, since you will continue farming the materials still long after that.After reaching revered you can buy the blueprint https://www.wowhead.com/item=169134/blueprint-extraordinary-adventurer-augment from Stolen Royal Vendorbot located in Rustbolt for 2048g (sorry F2Ps). This blueprint unlocks the recipe at Pascal-K1N6 who is also located in Rustbolt.
There are 3 versions of the item:
This guide will only focus on the ilvl 80 version, since it is best. If you want information on the other you can check out Beti's comparison on them here.
2. Crafting the rings
The materials for crafting https://www.wowhead.com/item=169137/extraordinary-adventurer-augmentation are:When used, https://www.wowhead.com/item=169137/extraordinary-adventurer-augmentation will give you one of 7 items. It can be either one of 4 rings:
https://www.wowhead.com/item=169002/calibrated-hefty-cog?bonus=1494 10 Crit / 11 Versa
https://www.wowhead.com/item=169007/laser-etched-band?bonus=1494 11 Haste / 10 Versa
https://www.wowhead.com/item=169009/reinforced-digit-diode?bonus=4811 10 Haste / 11 Mastery
https://www.wowhead.com/item=169008/rust-resistant-loop?bonus=1494 10 Crit / 11 Haste
or one of three trinkets which have a level requirement of 50 so they will be ignored.
As each one of these rings can roll a socket and tertiary stat, there is a quite a lot of grinding for you to do.
The received tertiary stat amount can be:
4 Avoidance = 1.65% [lvl 10]
4 Speed = ?
4 Leech = 0.88% [lvl 10]
Since the amount of speed gained from Straddling Jewel Doublet is so high, you might want to stack avoidance or leech instead of speed.3. Grinding the materials
As you will be crafting a lot of rings to get the right ones with a socket and tertiary stat you will need a lot of materials. These materials will mostly come from chests and rares so I highly recommend getting Handy Notes and RareScanner!The materials which you will mostly lack are going to be Chain Ignitercoil and Galvanic Oscillator since they are harder to obtain. We'll also go torugh how you can farm Energy Cells and S.P.A.R.E Crates since you will end up needing them a lot.
3.1 Cost of materials
After weeks of farming in Mechagon I decided to take a new look on things. I decided to value the true cost of all things. Instead of just blindly doing all daily content, I decided to value everything and see if there is a smarter way on approaching things.3.1.1 Junkyard Tinkering
Firstly we are going to take a look on Junkyard Tinkering. At Pascal-K1N6 you actually have two very important blueprints, which are:I realized that instead of waiting daily lockouts for Chain Ignitercoils and Galvanic Oscillators, you can actually create them from Spare Parts and Energy Cells. As both of them are farmable and not locked behind daily content, we need to calculate how many materials you need for making more of them.
Our starting position is that you already have a Galvanic Oscillator.
As S.P.A.R.E Crate = 250 Spare Parts
If we include the cost of turning 1 of the Chain Ignitercoils back to a Galvanic Oscillator
Total cost for Chain Ignitercoil from Junkyard Tinkering:
3.5 Energy Cell
200 Spare Parts
Now we have a cost for a Chain Ignitercoil from Junkyard Tinkering
3.1.2 Drill Rigs
For Drill Rigs as you can farm the DR-CC caves (discussed later) we will not include those. We will only calculate values for highest and lowest chance Rigs for obtaining Chain Ignitercoil. Some will drop Empty Energy Cells but we will calculate them as Energy Cells.Firstly we need to calculate how much 1 Drill Rig will cost. To start any Drill Rig you will need:
2 Energy Cell
250 Spare Parts
Then as it Drills it will spawn 7 minions with some drops. As an example we are going to use Scrapbone Demolisher which spawns on DR-TR28. This is the Drill Rig of Ol' Big Tusk which also has the highest chance of dropping a Chain Ignitercoil (39%). We are also going to include Earthbreaker Gulroc as his drop chance is the lowest (36%).
Scrapbone Demolisher will drop on average:
15 Spare Parts
0.05 Energy Cell
As you will kill 7 of them per Drill Rig, you'll get:105 Spare Parts
0.35 Energy Cell
For boss loot we'll use Ol' Big Tusk as an example, and he drop on average:
69 Spare Parts
1.03 Energy Cell
In total from 1 Drill Rig you will get:174 Spare Parts
1.38 Energy Cell
And if we reduce the loot from the cost, 1 Drill Rig costs:
76 Spare Parts
0.62 Energy Cell
When we multiply these amount with the amount of Drill Rigs required to get a Chain Ignitercoil, we will get the cost from Drill Rigs.
39% = 2.564 Drill Rigs
194.864 Spare Parts
1.59 Energy Cell
36% = 2.778 Drill Rigs
211.128 Spare Parts
1.722 Energy Cell
Now if we compare these value to the values from Junkyard Tinkering we can see that their cost increase is only approximately 2 Energy Cells when compared to Drill Rigs. So we can definitely say that Drill Rigs are worth it but Junkyard Tinkering is no that far behind.
3.1.3 Boilburn
I decided to make this its own paragraph since I think this information is so great. You can loot Boilburn (DR-JD41) multiple times a day. If done properly you can also kill it twice during the same Drill Rig. I made a video of showcasing how you can kill it twice in the same Drill Rig event. You can check it out from here.Right as the cave opens you need to quickly do damage to it. Right after that you can just kill it for example with Mechagon weapons (which I will make its own chapter on in the future). After that it should spawn in about a second and then you can kill it a second time.
The thing that makes this so great is that you get almost 2 times the normal loot of a Drill Rig. This makes it so the cost is even lower.
As you will still kill only 7 minions you will get the same loot from them:
105 Spare Parts
0.35 Energy Cell
But since you will kill Boilburn twice, all of its loot is doubled:138 Spare Parts
2 Energy Cell
So the cost of 1 Drill Rig is:
7 Spare Parts
-0.35 Energy Cell
Which means that you will gain Energy Cells.
This also means that your chance to get a Chain Ignitercoil (38%) is rolled twice which means that the probability of hitting the roll at least once in two attempts is calculated like this:
The probability of not getting a drop on a single attempt is 1 - 0.38 = 0.62
The probability of not getting a drop on both attempts is 0.62 * 0.62 = 0.3844
Therefore the probability of getting a drop at least once in two attempts is 1 - 0.3844 = 0.6156
As you will have a (62%) chance of getting a Chain Ignitercoil from 1 Drill Rig the cost is going to be:38% = 2.632 Drill Rigs
18.424 Spare Parts
-0.921 Energy Cell
This means that it costs close to no Spare Parts you will gain Energy Cells. This makes it the best way of grinding materials.
3.1.4 Additional information
Prior to these calculations I noted for most rares that they are worth it. However there are couple which we can now exclude.Malfunctioning Beastbot requires a https://www.wowhead.com/item=168045/beastbot-powerpack to be spawned. The cost of this is:
250 Spare Parts
1 Energy Cell
Now as his loot amount is low:
12 Spare Parts
0.2 Energy Cell
1 Malfunctioning Beastbot will cost you:
238 Spare Parts
0.8 Energy Cell
The drop chance for Chain Ignitercoil is (37%). Which means that cost for Chain Ignitercoil is:
37% = 2.703 kills
643.314 Spare Parts
2.162 Energy Cell
Even though Energy Cell cost is almost same as on Drill Rigs, the much higher amount of required Spare Parts makes him not worth it, except if you have abundance of them compared to everything else.The Rusty Prince was previously mentioned but as you need https://www.wowhead.com/item=169114/personal-time-displacer#created-by-spell to kill him, and it has 3 charges and it requires 1 Chain Ignitercoil makes it so 1 kill costs you 1/3 Chain Ignitercoil. As his drop chance is only (27%) you will lose approximately 0.063 Chain Ignitercoils per kill. You will also lose other materials, so killing him for materials is definitely not worth it.
3.2 Chain Ignitercoil sources
The https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoils are obtained from multiple sources so they are much easier to come by.Out of 35 rares located in Mechagon, 18 of them have a 27-39% chance of dropping https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoil. Most rares have a daily lockout for drops but some of them can take quite awhile to spawn, so I wouldn't recommend trying to get all of them daily. 7 of them require an event Drill Rig to be spawned so you can reach them. The Drill Rig spawn locations you can see here. You can also check the complete list of rares with notable drops from here, but I once again recommend getting Handy Notes and RareScanner.
On the following map you can see locations for the notable rares found in Mechagon and the location of Bloody Grotto which is discussed later in the guide. I have split the rares in three categories.
Drill Rig rares require the event Drill Rig to be active. You can build a drill in the marked locations which you have to protect for about a minute. After protecting it the cave opens and you can kill the rare in question.
Special rares all have some specific conditions that need to be met for them to spawn.
1 = Malfunctioning Beastbot requires a https://www.wowhead.com/item=168045/beastbot-powerpack to be spawned. This can be crafted in Rustbolt with:
2 = Enforcer KX-T57
3 = Mr.Fixthis was previously believed to require rain to spawn, but that simply is not the case. He will be added to normal rares.
4 = Killsaw is almost a normal rare except he can't spawn on the days there are Venture Co. npcs around his spawning area. This happens when daily Unprofitable Ventures is up for grabs in Rustbolt. Note that his spawning area is quite large as marked in the map below.
5 = Sparkqueem P'emp can only spawn on days when the daily Bugs, Lots of Them! is up for grabs. After it spawn it starts moving towards Rustbolt and when it reaches Razak Ironsides he will instakill it. You know when it spawns since Razak Ironsides yells: "Wait till that bug gets close, then blow it to pieces! I want nothing left."
6 = Gear Checker Cogstar has a large variety of spawn points. Since they are so many I didn't want to put all of them on the map since it would've been too messy. You can check them from his wowhead page. He has a small chance of spawning when Upgraded Sentry are killed. You know he is going to spawn since the dying Upgraded Sentry will say: "Bzzt... Unit defeated... request immediate support... Szzt." After this he will spawn in a few seconds at the location of the killed Upgraded Sentry. Note that he can require a lot of kills to spawn and the specific chance is not known so consider if it is worth it.
7 = Mechagonian Nullifier
8 = The Rusty Prince
Normal rares can spawn at all times and any active events do not effect them. For tracking Arachnoid Harvester you can get the addon WorldBossTimers.
When one of the daily visitors in Mechagon is Grumbol Grimhammer [A] or Usha Eyegouge [H], a location called Bloody Grotto opens up during the day. It's located behind the waterfall at the Fleeting Forest. Once the Bloody Grotto is open a chest called Fight Club Treasure Chest will spawn every half an hour. The chest has some great rewards compared to other chests in the island but it also has a daily lockout. The notable drops are in a table below.
| Item | Amount | Drop rate |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.wowhead.com/item=169610/s-p-a-r-e-crate | 1 | 98% |
| https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoil | 1-2 | 98% |
| https://www.wowhead.com/item=166970/energy-cell | 3-6 | 97% |
There are couple different boxes which can give you Chain Ignitercoils.
These boxes are:
They all have lvl 45 requirement so trying to obtain these is useless, unless they get changed to lvl 10.3.3 Galvanic Oscillator sources
https://www.wowhead.com/item=168832/galvanic-oscillator can almost solely be obtained from a daily lockout world quest. This can be Security First, Junkyard Treasures or Rustbolt Rebellion all of which are very quickly completed and reward you with 1x Galvanic Oscillator.Luckily you can also craft https://www.wowhead.com/item=168832/galvanic-oscillator with your extra https://www.wowhead.com/item=168327/chain-ignitercoil.
The recipe requires following:
3.4 Combined Sources
One source for both epic materials and energy cells is Mechanized Chests. You can easily find them with Handy Notes, but if you hate addons you can get the locations from a comment here. You have a daily opening limit of 8 chests, so after opening 8 you can not find more for the rest of the day. Below you can see a map of the chest locations.The drop rates for the useful items in chests are in the table below.
On the Western Spray you can obtain a key with a daily lockout. The key can be one of three, which are:
However only Mechanized Supply Key is notable since it opens a chest called Mechanized Supply Chest which has the following loot table.The key is obtained from the murlocs located at the Western Spray. Each key has approximate drop rate of 3%. Since you can only obtain 1 key daily you have to kill approximately 100 murlocs to receive Mechanized Supply Key. Getting 1x Galvanic Oscillator this way requires approximately 1667 murlocs and getting 1x Chain Ignitercoil 7143 murlocs so if you want to maximize daily materials be my guest, but know that is it is quite inefficient. If you are interested on grinding or just happen to get the key, you can check the location of the chest here.
Mechagon also has Pet Battles which give you quest items such as Mechanical Eye and Can of Critter Spray. The quests they start reward you with Chain Ignitercoil and Galvanic Oscillator. However the quest item has a level requirement of 45 on wowhead, so most likely these are not doable (still require confirmation).
3.5 Energy Cells and Spare Parts
Since you might get into a situation where you are lacking needed Energy Cells or Spare Parts we are going trough a way of farming them. I was informed of this method by @Darimius here, so the thanks go to him!In the map below you can see locations for three Drill Rigs. Two of these Drill Rigs are marked by green dots and one is by a red dot. The green dots are The Kleptoboss and Caustic Mechaslime and the red dot is Gorged Gear Cruncher. All three rares are located in the same cave system and which rare / minions spawn there are mandated by the spawned Drill Rig event. For example if the Drill Rig is Caustic Mechaslime, then only it and its minions will spawn inside the caves. The reason for the red dot is that when Gorged Gear Cruncher spawns, the cave will contain Ranishu Nibblers. These are high levels npcs (not scaled properly), which will kill you very quickly. For that reason we are going to avoid the Drill Rig in question. However since only one of these three Drill Rigs can spawn at a time you need to complete the Drill Rig event for Gorged Gear Cruncher or just come back another time.
The Drill Rig event will require:
250x Spare Parts
2x Energy Cell
After used the Drill Rig will start drilling for one minute. After the minute is up the drilled cave entrance will open and stay that way for 5 minutes. You can kill the npcs in the caves for these 5 minutes after which you are simply teleported out and the entrance will cave-in.
The rare Caustic Mechaslime will drop you more Empty Energy Cells and Spare Parts
even after the first daily kill, so killing it more than once is worth it. The killed minions will drop Spare Parts and after couple seconds they will spawn Energy Cells, Empty Energy Cells and Spare Parts on the floor. On Burrowing Kleptobots you can see if they are carrying something, but as they are so small you will most likely only notice Energy Cells. You shouldn't bother looting the Spare Parts since you'll get much more of them by killing the npcs, but you should loot the Energy Cells and Empty Energy Cells.
From one Drill Rig you can get an average of:
700x Spare Parts
14x Empty Energy Cell
7x Energy Cell
Note that the required mats for the drill will be reduced from these results, but still you will end up gaining more materials. Below you can see a picture of what the items of the floor look like.
4. Additional information
(!) WORK IN PROGRESS (!)Today in mechagon / wowhead app
Mechagon weapons
4.1 WeakAuras
Since the Drill Rig events take some time to clear the way, I made a WeakAura to track those times.There also exists a WeakAura for automatically making waypoints to announced rares. Announced rares mean rares that give some sort of chat message when they spawn. For this WeakAura to work you also need to have the addon TomTom. You can check the WeakAura here Mechagon Yell Rare Scanner. It has some problems but you might get some use from it. I wanted to implement the waypoint system in my WeakAura using the in-game ping, but sadly this can't be done without external addons such as TomTom.
5. Conclusion
TLDR. Do world quests, kill rares and open chests.If you feel like there was something lacking from this guide be sure to tell me and I most likely will add it. I will keep tracks of the socket / tertiary chances for the rings, so all data towards this would be appreciated!
Changelog:
24.08.2024
- Fixed typos and links
- Made some visual changes (for the better I hope)
- Added the confirmation on The Rusty Prince
- Added info about pet battles and More Recycling daily
- Added Bloody Grotto horde daily visitor Usha Eyegouge
25.08.2024
- Added Jawbreaker on the map (oops)
- Added information about Mechanized Supply Chest
- Added few subheads and moved some paragraphs based on them
- Added calculations to explain The Rusty Prince not being worth it
- Added info about tertiary stat amounts
31.08.2024
- Added 3.5 Energy Cells and Spare Parts
- Added screenshots showcasing rain
- Confirmed Mr.Fixthis spawning with https://www.wowhead.com/item=168233/bawld-371#created-by-spell
- Small additions to couple other rares
- Added more information on the level 45 boxes
- Added new rare and chest maps and couple new chest locations
- Fixed some things overall, like honored requirement to revered
01.09.2024
- Updated info on Enforcer KX-T57 spawning requirements
- Added that Caustic Mechaslime will keep dropping some materials after the daily kill
- Added info on Burrowing Kleptobots having visual differences based on the drop
- Added 4.1 WeakAuras
03.09.2024
- 3.1 Cost of materials
- Made some other changes to avoid inconsistencies with 3.1
- Changed Mr.Fixthis to a normal rare (still not updated on the map)
- Added a link to https://sites.google.com/view/betis10stwinkguide/jewelry?authuser=0 to showcase different ilvls
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