Time is Money: Farming in Storm Peaks
by Amanda Miller 
Mar 16th 2009 at 8:00PM
Today we'll be discussing some of the choice farming locations in the province of Storm Peaks. There are three areas in particular that I will point out, as well as some good gathering tips and information on where you can locate rare mobs.
Don't forget to check the comments section, as I'm sure it will be full of sweet spots and mob-hunting information!
Mission One: Valkyrion
Targets: Nascent Val'kyr and Valkyrion Aspirants.
These two mobs award very different loot, but respawn quickly. The Nascent Val'kyr fly around, and have a habit of descending on you from seemingly nowhere. They have a 100% drop rate for Dissolved Soul Essence, which sells to a vendor for 13.50g per stack! They also drop grays and miscellaneous greens, just like any other humanoid.
This mob is also the only mob in the game that will drop [Design: Fractured Scarlet Ruby], and patch 3.1 will be buffing Armor Penetration, so it may come into fashion. You have to be a Jewelcrafter to see this drop, and it is bind on pick-up, so the only profit to be had from it is through its use.
The Aspirants drop Frostweave Cloth 29% of the time (according to Wowhead), and Relics of Ulduar 41% of the time. The Relics can be sold for a high profit, usually in large stacks like 100, as they are turned in to the Sons of Hodir for reputation in stacks of 10. You will also end up picking up greens, grays, potions and scrolls.
Daily Tip: Once you've played through Brunnhildar Village, you can go there each day for a daily quest or two. Often, Gretta the Arbiter will give you the quest, The Aberrations Must Die, which will take you into Valkyrion to complete. You will get an extra 13g23s at level 80, plus a chance at the White Polar Bear Mount.
Mission Two: Fjorn's Anvil
Target: Seething Revenants.
These elementals will also drop Relics of Ulduar, although the drop rate is lower, set at around 33-34%. Their main draw is the Crystallized Fire, with about a 26% drop rate. Both of these items sell well on the Auction House, and you'll want to check your server to see if you should be selling the Crystallized Fire itself, or combining ten to form Eternal Fire and selling that.
Their most common junk drop is Hoary Crystals at 81% of the time, and a stack of 20 will sell to a vendor for 3g91s.
Daily Tip: Once you've unlocked the Sons of Hodir daily quests, you can go to Dun Niffelem to pick up the quest Hot and Cold from Fjorn's Anvil. Upon completion, you will get an extra 13g23s at level 80.
Mission Three: Frostfield Lake and Mission Two
Targets: Brittle Revenants, and the above Seething Revenants.
Because the daily quest, Hot and Cold, has you going to both locations, and because the area can be highly farmed at certain parts of the day, you might do better to do a circuit through the two adjacent areas.
Brittle Revenants are icy, and will drop everything that their fiery cousins drop, with the substitution of Crystallized Earth for Crystallized Fire. Earth is not in high demand, because it drops readily for miners, but depending on your profession, you could use them to make money. For example, Tailors can use it to craft blue PvP cloth gear, certain high-end, profitable epic jewelry take six Eternal Earths, and Enchant Gloves - Armsman and Enchant Shield - Defense use up an awful lot, and sell well.
Quick Gathering Tips:
Skinning
The Plain of Echoes is filled with Rhinos (that romp!) and Mammoths, and so does The Foot Steppes.
Mote Throttling
The clouds in the area will drop Crystallized Air and Water.
Herbing
Herbs are all over, and they aren't just along mountain bases. Once you have Cold Weather Flying, don't forget to search all the way up mountains. Both Icethorn and Lichbloom grow next to rocks and trees near rocks, so although there are some that can be found out in the open spaces, they are on rock outcrops.
If the province is crowded, take a trip across the southern slopes that fade into Zul'Drak. Nothing is there, except for herbs! I never find competition in that area.
Mining
Cobalt: There isn't much, and what the province does have is really on the border into Zul'Drak.
Saronite: This can be found all over the map, much like the herbs.
Click on either of the links to view maps. I strongly recommend getting an addon such as Gatherer to help you plot your farming excursions!
Rare Mobs:
Dirkee can be found to the west of the Terrace of the Makers, facing Ulduar, or near the Engine of the Makers, or finally, between Camp Taunka'lo and Thunderfall.
Vyragosa is found just outside the Grommash Crash Site, on the side leading down into the Snowdrift Plains. She will drop a blue leather helm with a random enchantment.
Time-Lost Proto-Drake will drop a mount, Reins of the Time-Lost Prot-Drake! One commenter on Wowhead posted an excellent map showing where he spawns and how he paths.
Stay tuned for more tips to help you make piles of gold on Time is Money. Kebina Trudough is dishing the dirt on coveted gold-making secrets, and you won't want to miss it! Check out my guide to choosing lucrative quest rewards for resale to a vendor, tips for disenchanters, or a list of addons to help you sell your loot.Filed under: Herbalism, Making money, Guides, Features, Jewelcrafting, Economy, How-tos, Tips, Analysis / Opinion, Items, Enchanting, Tailoring, Skinning, Mining, Time Is Money
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
peagle Mar 16th 2009 8:06PM
Very nice guide :) Unless I'm mistaken Gretta the Arbiter never gives more than 1 quest anymore :[
Discrete Mar 17th 2009 10:29AM
Afaik, its 1 per day, but it's rotated for me a couple times. I've had to fite ladiez by challenging them, but the last few days she's put me on a bear to go joust with other bears.
Jousting on bears; what a world.
A quick note, the brittle revenants that are on the frozen lake are mineable when they die. I've been lucky to be the only miner in the area most of the time, and end up getting lots of http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39220 which vendor for 22 silver and change each. I usually end up with at least 10g worth of the stuff when I go to turn in when I mine other people's kills.
Miners, do your part to clean up after our fellow players. Mining the corpses frees up the spawn point sometimes! I've mined a dead corpse with no mobs in the area, and was promptly greeted with a back-loaded spawn point (3 mobs spawn in succession, as soon as the previous one dies).
Rathani Mar 16th 2009 8:20PM
Nascent Val'kyr drop Tears of Bitter Anquish. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43573
jonas Mar 16th 2009 8:23PM
If you have not phased through any of the hodir area yet, you can find lots of seething revenants on the lake (Frostfield Lake, I guess it's called) instead of the icy ones. Yes, they are mixed in with the elite giants, but they will aggro a flying rider and the giants will not, so you can use that to your advantage.
In addition, since you're in a different phase, there's rarely anyone else there to compete for spawns with. I waited till I had 100 eternal fires before continuing the quest chains, just so that I wouldn't have to farm them again.
angrydruid Mar 16th 2009 8:25PM
Do you really think you are "helping" people by posting this? You are marking it hard to actually "farm" these areas. Why dont you go back to doing news instead of teaching chinese gold farmers tricks of the trade. Thanks.
Justin Mar 16th 2009 8:44PM
Yeah because im sure asian gold farmers get their tips from wowinsider......
Ravenlock Mar 16th 2009 8:52PM
You, sir, are a fool.
If you think that Chinese gold farmers spend their time reading WoW Insider to find out where to do things then you're deluding yourself.
They have better things to do (ie, farm gold), and they already know everything there is to know about where/how to farm things from other sources. They use Wowhead.com. They avoid competing against each other. They share information. Or did you not realise any of this already?
Yes, this is helping some people. There's nothing above that a smarter player didn't already know, so what are you crying about? Competition from other players at "your" special grinding spot?
Newsflash for you: it's not "your" spot, it's everybody's.
GetALife Mar 16th 2009 9:33PM
Wow i cant believe you would say that this is a game not real life and being such is suppost to be fun, its ppl like you that ruin games by being selfish and putting down people that try to make it more fun for others.
Lemons Mar 16th 2009 10:59PM
I really wouldn't worry about this guide, its so vauge that I don't think anyone is going to get in the way of your probably much more organized farming methods.
"You want herbs? There's herbs all over the freaking place! Where do you find them? Anywhere! Look around a bit aimlessly until you find some herbs! Then sell them!"
Genius..
RuroneDevil Mar 24th 2009 8:23PM
pffffffft, like your opinion's gunna matter. This is a pretty awesome type of post. got 250g (not including stuff that dropped) if your gonna QQ about something, do it that corner of the basement of your parent's house
krian Mar 26th 2009 5:58PM
The only problem with frostfield and Fjorn's Anvil is that so many people are there farming and doing the hodir dailies but if you find times where it isnt crowded forstfield and Fjorn's are good farming spots
Smoky Mar 16th 2009 8:58PM
@ angrydruid
this actually was pretty helpful to me so maybe you should just worry about yourself and leave out negative comments? kthx
Tumleren Mar 16th 2009 8:49PM
Yea, I was going to say "In before 'revealing our farming spots' QQ" but alas, Im too late
bundee Mar 17th 2009 1:14PM
Yet that didn't stop you from making a reference to it, disregarding how meaningless it is now...
elstor Mar 16th 2009 8:51PM
These guides are nice, however I'm really disappointed in the extremely obvious plagiarism going on here. Just my Two Copper has posted about Seething Revenants and Valkyr before on the site and wrote almost exactly what you wrote about both, and yet you don't mention JMTC at all. Plagiarism is bad, WI. Bad.
steve Mar 17th 2009 6:41AM
I read JMTC as well. Some of the tips are pretty subtle -- AH things or out-of-the-way places I never would have figured out on my own. But for all the comments on farming revenants as plagiarism or ruining the spot by tipping people off? Come on guys... every 80 in the game has spent at least a couple of days doing Hodir dailies (include Hot and Cold) to get the starter shoulder enchant. This one is obvious; its not like Markco invented calculus and now Amanda is saying she did too.
S Mar 16th 2009 9:34PM
My favorite spot was a cave right south spot #1, it has Stormforged Loreseeker and Stormforged Pillager in it. They drop relics pretty well, and frostweave cloth also, and lots of the trash cloth that stacks and vendors well. Also, they have ok green drop rate, and herbs/mines (even titanium).
The problem is its a little small, good for single target dps, and when someone else goes there, you won't get anything.
Laz Mar 16th 2009 8:54PM
Agreed. You're stealing information and not giving credit where credit is due and you are helping to ruin it for people who do the research and finding themselves.
slartibart Mar 16th 2009 9:08PM
This is all readily available information; it's simply being aggregated into one easy to read post.
For those complaining about plagiarism, read up on the definition of the word, and for the love of god, stop the qq about releasing your super secret farming spots.
The whiny-ness of some of you posters never fails to amaze me.
Good post.
Arcaria Mar 16th 2009 9:08PM
I'm very disappointed in this guide as well. Not even for the aforementioned reasons that it's tough for people who spend lots of time locating great spots to farm only to have them overrun by people who do things the easy way and just go where others tell them to.
I was unhappy when I saw the same article on JMTC as well but not disappointed. I'm extremely disappointed in the blatant plagiarism of this blog and although I realize that WI frequently gets its information from other sites. Rarely does it go without citing a source.
I don't often say this but people who are found to have stolen their works in this field are typically fired. Perhaps WI should consider that too.