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Farming Runecloth in Burning Steppes

Renei — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:14:16 +0000

A few days ago, I went on a Herbalism run and the incidental killings were so promising that I told myself that I absolutely must try farming Runecloth in Burning Steppes.

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So this is what I did this morning. I spent around 40 minutes in Burning Steppes, killing the Blackrock Orcs. I did not venture in Blackrock Depths, nor Blackrock Spire, for the simple reason that I wanted to offer a farming run that a level-appropriate character for the Zone could solo, and a pre-BC high level instance is not it.

Moreover, farming Blackrock Depths will be the topic of another article!

Anyways, during my perigrination in Burning Steppes, I killed great quantities of the following:

Blackrock Soldiers
Blackrock Sorcerers
Blackrock Slayers
Blackrock Battlemasters
Blackrock Warlocks

If I had to hazard a guess, I would say the the Battlemasters have a slightly better chance of dropping Runecloth than the others, but this is pure speculation on my part.

In about 40 minutes of farming Runecloth in Burning Steppes, I gathered 101 Runecloth, 56 Dark Iron Scraps and a variety of Herbs, Vendor trash and even a few green items.

The Dark Iron Scraps can be turned in at Light’s Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands for an Insignia of the Dawn (30 Scraps per Insignia) which will help you gain Argent Dawn reputation. In my humble opinion, you are much better off selling them on the Auction House to someone who still has not realized that Argent Dawn reputation is less than useless.

But that’s just me.

Here is a little map of my short and efficient Burning Steppes Runecloth Farming Route:

As you can see, it’s nothing more that the Pillars of Ash and Blackrock Hold. Easy enough, and the mobs drop Runecloth regularly.

101 Runecloth in about 40 minutes is not bad at all, considering this is not an Instance. I look forward to running Blackrock Depths and comparing how much Runecloth I get there!

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Farming Herbs in Burning Steppes

Renei — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:46:38 +0000

This morning, I went farming herbs in Burning Steppes. Why Burning Steppes, do you wonder? I mean, the place looks as barren as the surface of the moon, and besides ogres and orcs, there’s not really much there.

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There are several why I selected Burning Steppes for my Herbalism. The first and most important one was the achievement.

I know, I know, I don’t really care about the achievements but come on… Burning Steppes and Herbalism? Sometimes I think that I would have had more success looking for ore on the surface of a lake!

No seriously, it was not that bad. Burning Steppes is not a very large zone, at least compared to the new Outlands and Northrend ones. I did a circuit in about 20 minutes, gathering herbs along the way, and stopping for a few Blackrock mobs that dared interrupt me.

Here is what I gathered in 20 minutes of farming herbs in Burning Steppes:

10 Dreamfoil
7 Golden Sansam
5 Mountain Silversage
1 Black Lotus

“Renei, this is a miserable haul! Why the hell did you say we should grind for herbs in Burning Steppes?”

Yeah, well it is, and no, I did not say you should go there for herbaslism. But Burning Steppes has so many great attractions! There’s all those Blackrock Orcs that can be brutally murdured for their Runecloth – I got 10 Runecloths this morning, article about that coming right up! – and there’s Blackrock Depths (I think), an Instance that a high level character may try soloing.

Here is a map of Herbs in Burning Steppes:

As you can see, the Herbalism nodes in Burning Steppes are few and far between, but I get the feeling that that area is extremely under explored, because in the short time that I was there, I did gather herb nodes that were not yet inventoried in my Gatherer Add-On – this is very rare.

I figure I will return to this area shortly, for the Runecloth article and maybe something about soloing an Instance…

Until then, happy questing and farming!

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Farming Thorium in Burning Steppes

Renei — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:27:20 +0000

Originally, I went to Burning Steppes only because it is close to Redridge Mountains, where I was parked yesterday after my little farming run.

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As usual, on every Tuesday morning, I was surprised by the ‘server maintenance’ and needed to hurry for a run. I figured, what the heck, Burning Steppes is right next door, and everyone loves Mithril, right?

Right. Except that I got mostly Thorium, not Mithril. Also, it seems that every node can spawn Dark Iron Ore. Dark Iron Ore is used to create special armor with high fire resistance, although I think that at levels 70+, it is mostly useless, hence the ridiculously low price of Dark Iron Ore on the Auction House.

Here is the Burning Steppes Mining Map:

As you can see, the spawn nodes are pretty evenly distributed, with a concentration at the pinnacle in the Eastern part of the zone. It seems to me that every spawn point can produce either Mithril, Thorium (Rich or Small Vein) or Dark Iron Ore. Probably Truesilver as well, but I didn’t find any.

Now, since my time was limited by the stupid server maintenance this morning, I only had time for a 20 to 25 minutes farming run. Here are the (somewhat impressive) results:

31 Thorium Ore
8 Mithril Ore
16 Dark Iron Ore
37 Dense Stone
11 Solid Stone

That’s it for the ore. I also got the following gems:

1 Large Opal
1 Huge Emerald
1 Blood of the Mountain

Now in 2 years of playing World of Warcraft, it is the first time in run into [Blood of the Mountain]. It is apparently a reagent for pre-BC high level Dark Iron Ore crafting. Hmmm.

If that wasn’t enough of a blast from the past, I also had the Libram of Voracity drop on me. Hopefully someone will give me a gold or two at the Auction House for it, but I’m not keeping my hopes up!

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