Farming Cobra Scales

Here's a nice WoW money maker for those in their late 60's or 70 who have skinning as a profession.

Cobra Scales are in high demand at the moment and sell for around 25 gold each. These drop only from Colskar Cobras, a level 68 mob in Shadowmoon Valley.

There are two groups that I farm at 45,30 and 51,27.

The group at 45, 30 are surrounded by other Colskars, but if you go to 43,30, you can jump down almost on top of them. With care they can be pulled singly. Respawn time is about 5 minutes, so you can farm this continuously. I leveled my 66 hunter there for a while and I was collecting about eight an hour which gave me 200 gold an hour. A level 70 should be able to gather at least 12 an hour.

The Colskar Cobras at 51,27 are easier to get to, close to the road, but tend to bring a friend when pulled so make sure you can handle two.

Captured Firefly Farming

This is another one of those odd vanity pets that doesn't do much of anything apart from make an irritating buzzing noise. Being rare(ish) the Captured Firefly also sells for a lot of gold. Typically anywhere between 500 and 1500 gold. It's a favorite of the Chinese gold farmers who can be found working this 24 hours a day.

It drops from the level 62 Bogflare Needler in Northern Zangarmarsh along the north side of Serpent Lake. There's a group of four that spawn fairly quickly around 52,33. Easy to round-up if you have AoE.

This mob also drops Unidentified Plant Parts which are used for boosting Cenarion Expedition reputation. These plant parts sell well in the AH in large quantities for around 40 silver each. Although the plant parts drop often, the Captured Firefly will be a rare drop (probably 1 in 500) I'm suggesting that you only farm this if it gives you some experience.

Disgusting Oozeling

The Disgusting Oozeling is a very odd-looking pet that actually lowers your defenses when he's around. In spite of this, or maybe because of it, this strange creature is in high demand. In fact, I've seen this sell for 500g on more than one server.

The pet can be found inside an Oozing Bag which drops from a number of different Oozes near Bloodvenom Falls in Felwood amongst other places. The drop rate of the bag isn't high, maybe 1 on 20 Oozes. Even when the bag drops, the pet will only be found in 1 in 50 bags. That's a lot of Oozes. They don't drop much of anything else. A little silver and some grey vendor items.

For these reasons I'm going to suggest you only consider farming this for gold if you have a character in the 50's who would benefit from a bit of grinding experience. They spawn fairly quickly - if you run a circle around the lake at the bottom of the falls, you will have a continuous supply.

If you fancy a change of grinding scenery, this bag also drops from the Living Decay and other Oozes in Eastern and Western Plaguelands. These are slightly higher level (mid-50's) so you can grind these right up to your late 50's.

Apart from the pet, the bags will contain some sort of useful item, often a mana or health potion, or a minor green item with some value.

There used to be a useful bug with this bag in that it would reset the contents whenever it was mailed. All you had to do was mail the bag between alts a few times to get the contents you wanted. Unfortunately this was fixed a few months ago. Around this time the pet went from a selling price of 100 gold to 500 gold.

Farming Arakkoa Feathers

How would you like to gather 90 gold an hour and get experience at level 65?


I was looking to increase faction with Lower City in Shattrath the other day. A little research indicated that the best way was to hand in Arakkoa Feathers. These drop from a number of mobs in Terrokar Forest in reasonable quantities. I worked out that I would have to turn in over 200 feathers to get Honored rep. Being lazy, I popped into the AH in Stormwind intending to buy a few stacks.

Ouch.

They were selling for well a over a gold each. It was going to cost me 260 gold for the rep I needed.

So I went farming.

Which bring us to the point of this narrative. The feathers can be gathered quickly and easily by any mid 60's character, and very quickly once you reached 67 or so. You can expect 70 feathers an hour at level 65 and 90 an hour at 68. This will bring in 90 gold an hour easily at 65, even if you undercut the regular AH price a little. Over 100 gold an hour at level 68+. In the three hours I spent there a few days ago, I also had one green and one blue item drop. These sold for over 100g as a nice little bonus.

The best drop rate for me was from the Lithic Oracle in the South West of Terokkar Forest. Since they are humonoid, these mobs also drop a little silver, Netherweave Cloth and Runecloth adding to your hourly farming rate. These are level 65 and are in the camp Veil Lithic together with a few level 63 Lithic Talonguard. The camp is at coords 25,73. If you want a lower level mob, go for the Shienor Talanite in the North East of the zone.