Fast Stockades Runs For Wool Cloth & Other Considerations

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Last week, I wrote a very well-received article on Ragefire Chasm. Of course, I cheat a little insofar as I do these instance rns myself, and not with a party. The principal reason to do that, besides the fact, that like the proverbial dog, I can, is that it makes it much easier to count the drops.

Also, I follow my own advice as to running instances with the highest level character you have available.

Back to Instances. Ragefire Chasm is a Horde-only instance, situated as it is in the middle of Orgrimmar. So to be fair — fair is my middle name — I decided to run an Alliance-only instance, Stockades, with Mandorall and see what happened.

Stockades is right in the middle of Stormwind, making it inconvenient for Hordies.

First of all, it is a VERY short instance. I did the instance in three pulls, running from room to room to collect all enemies, then Consecrating and basically letting them die on my Retribution aura and Consecrated ground.

I honestly must say that it was longer looting the corpses than killing the enemies. But, as I am wont to say, that is neither here not there.

I ran the instance three times, each run took 15 to 20 minutes. Here is the averages of what I got:

70 Wool cloth
23 Linen cloth
7 Silk cloth
6 Bind on Equip Greens

I did not find any Bind-on-Pickup Blues, however I did receive [Ring of Defense] on my second run, which I sold on the Auction House for 10 Gold.

The total cash drop from mobs was around 2g per run. The value of the greens to the vendor was negligible, as usual, but I did sell some on the Auction House for several Gold. This is because a lot of the Greens are level 18-19 — perfect twink range.

So there you have it. Running Stockades with a high-level Character can net you about 200 wool cloths — 10 stacks — per hour, as well as smaller quantities of Silk and Linen Cloth. It’s not the best place for Bind-on-Equip Greens, but its not that bad, if you run it three times. If you are an enchanter yourself and would like to Disenchant Bind-on-Pickup blues, then I suggest Deadmines or Shadowfang Keep.