Winterfall activities

[Mirajj]

Winterfall furbolgs drop good money, runecloth, firewater, good greens, grey items that vendor for for 1g or so, and food/drink. Their chests spawn regularly. Spangles found the Heirophant Band in one of them. She found a Krol blade on a Winterfall Pathfinder.

They also have some of the best blue/purple drop rates of mobs in the game.

Wintersaber trainer faction provides no reward worth persuing. Exhalted status permits you to pay full price for an epic tiger with exactly the same properties as any other, except for the lavender color, which sounds ghastly. Farming is more fun with a longterm objective other than money. However, it's still very dilute fun.

I dunno, I find the purple/white rather fetching, myself...

Winterfall Village is the scene of overlapping faction quests, Timbermaw and Wintersaber trainer, so the activity can be very hectic. Most are grinding Timbermaw faction and finish or give up quickly. Wintersaber faction farmers are few, know each other, and group to share kill credit and the misery of an hopeless grind. Spangles also groups with the lvl 58s that appear to quest the Chief, to get them their kills and speed them on their way.

From the time I spent grinding, there aren't actually any quests there to build rep, just the rep from the kill itself. Most rep farmers like the area due to the repop rate.

The trash mobs north of Everlook and to the east of the road to Frostsaber Rock are not worth farming. The chimeras, bears and frostsabers drop useless junk.
Owlkin in the northeast are too far from Everlook to bother with.

Actually, they have a decent purple droprate, too. Most of the folks I know doing the Frostsaber Provisions quest have picked up one off of them.

The best farming, and the most fun, and the most dangerous, is in Mazorthil. Here be the famous blue dragons that surround the cave that questers run for the Awbee epic armor quest and Ony key quest.

The good news is that these dragons are plentiful, spawn quickly, and are not part of any alliance quest. There is a horde hunter quest here but usually there is no competition at all. These mobs drop excellent money, important alchemy recipes, and some of the best greens I have ever seen. Epic shoulders dropped for Spangles from a cobalt whelp, and a Hanzo sword appeared recently.

The bad news is that these animals are very dangerous. Nobody farms them solo. Spangles will team with a healer, or a hi-end rogue or mage for dps. A party of three can kill on the run nonstop. She won't farm in a bigger group.

I solo them. ;) They also drop the Arcanite Mechanical Dragon schematic (Highly sought after due to it's rarity), the Robe of Winter Night pattern (Sadly, BoP), they have a good blue rate, and if you are so lucky as to get your hands on a Mature Blue Dragon Sinew...you will make some hunter very happy, or yourself at least 400g richer.

Working outside the cave requires nonstop killing to avoid being jumped by respawns. There are named mobs that seem to pop out of nowhere. These are a hassle for a small party and never seem to drop anything.

YMMV. Brumeran (named Chimera) is a pushover, but Spellmaw is a Run On Sight mob, as he's immune to pretty much all a hunters tricks. I kept track Dragonkin up just for him. The repop rate there isn't that bad, you just need to know it as well as the pathing.

Working inside the cave is easier because you can pull the mobs to a wall. It is safest to clear one side of the cave from beginning to end, jump on the elevator rune and work outside for a while until respawn is complete. Running back to the entrance through repops is very dangerous.

See, in the cave is the only place I won't go without a healer, at least.

There are only two named in the cave, and they always patrol the same area near the rune. The small one can be taken by two or three, but never seems to drop anything. Spangles has never tried to take out the big boss. He never is dead, so he's probably not worth the effort.

Yep. The two named Dragonkin there aren't worth the effort to kill. I've never seen anything above grey quality drop off them.

There are opportunities to be explored in the far south of Winterspring. Fafner and Spangles have hunted the elite Frostmaul Giants and Preservers for Wintersaber faction, but saw nothing important drop. This may have changed in a recent patch, we shall see. There are very ferocious demons guarding what looks to be a future instance, but they may not be worth the trouble.

The Giantkin are the only source of the Greater Frost Protection Potion, something a lof of Alchemists like to have. They aren't too rough to solo. They have good blue/purple droprates as well.

The Demons are very hard to solo, but drop the (BoE) Eye of Shadow, that priests need for their epic quest. You can make a priest very happy, or yourself much richer as it is impossible for them to solo farm that.

GL on the Frostsaber quest. ;)