At higher levels, I really like grinding elite dragonkin. There are red ones in the wetlands, and blue ones in Winterspring. These guys drop up to 26 silver each, plus other loot. Note that the black ones in Dustwallow Marsh are no longer elite, nor are
the ones in Swamp of Sorrows.

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If you decide to grind, whether for XP or for money, try to grind humanoids. Humanoids drop money, cloth, food, water, and green and grey items. Other mob types typically drop much less value per kill. So, even if you are grinding for XP, you’ll get much more cash along the way.

Also, now that the 40-45 dragonkin in the game are no longer elite (Swamp of Sorrows and Dustwallow Marsh), I’m including them in my grinding recommendations.

They drop around 3-5 silver each, but they also drop plenty of greens and blues (during a quick 20 minute grind on the ones in Swamp of Sorrows, I got 3 greens and a blue.)

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So what do you do if you’re just not finding enough quests, or if questing just isn’t getting you XP fast enough?

In these cases, I like to double up on grind quests. For example, if you need to kill 12 Slobbering Maniacs to complete your quest, kill 24 instead.

If you need to collect 10 leather bandanas, kill 10 more mobs after getting enough bandanas to complete the quest.

In other words, simply incorporate grinding into your questing, and it’ll go by much faster and will be much less boring.

A small amount of extra kills beyond what is required for your quest, done many times on the way to level 70, will really add up.

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Don’t party up on kill quests. If you need to kill 15 raptors for a quest, and you solo them, you’ll get XP for killing all 15 raptors, plus the quest reward XP.

If you party with one other person, you’ll kill the raptors faster, but you’ll only get approximately half the XP.

The only time you should party up is on a slow spawning unique mob where other people are waiting to kill it (The Kolkar leaders in the Barrens, for example.)

Of course, if you have friends that you play with, don’t forsake them… Just don’t fall into the trap of letting other people leech off your efforts.

On the flip side, DO party up on farming quests (for example, collect 10 linen bandannas from the guys in Goldshire) – you’ll end up having to kill twice as many mobs in order for two people to get all of the needed items, which will cancel out the XP loss from grouping.

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I’ve been getting a ton of emails from you guys! Thank you, and keep them coming! I won’t have a chance to reply to all of them
but whatever you ask for, I’ll try to get into these emails.

By far the most common question I’m being asked is “Where do I grind?”

For example:

“I’m a level 38 gnome mage – where should I grind?”

or

“I’m a level 42 Tauren druid – where should I grind?”

Let me start off by saying I am NOT a fan of grinding, and I avoid it whenever possible. I mean, come on – it’s BORING!

There is no reason to have to grind XP in order to level. You can do it entirely with quests. Remember, many quests are like “Kill 12 somethings” or “Collect 10 something off of some mob”

In other words, grinding is already built right into the quest system (thanks Blizz!)

But, I’m a firm believer in giving you what you want, so over the next couple days, I’ll post some of my best grinding tips.

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Are you farming Silithus yet? Head on out there with your lvl 58-60 character, and farm the Twilight mobs. They drop plenty of Twilight Armor (which is used for quests) which can sell for 1-5g per piece (it’s currently averaging 2.5 gold per piece on my server.)

Also, check the price of Twilight Texts on your server – since they are dropped in the same place, you may be able to make some decent bank with them as well.

Also, since they are humanoid mobs, you’ll be getting runecloth, money, and green and blue drops… good stuff!

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