04-04-2006, 04:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2006, 04:18 PM by MongoJerry.)
MongoJerry,Mar 31 2006, 05:21 PM Wrote:Yes, farm the level 14-17 pirates just south of Ratchet.
Whoops! I started farming these guys with Wini, my Stormrage warlock, and it turns out that they're level 13-15's with the boss at level 16. This doesn't matter to a level 60 -- the mobs die in one hit regardless -- but my plan has been to farm goblin reputation at the same time as leveling up, so Wini could have started her farming in the Barrens another level or two earlier.
It was pretty fun last night. A level 50 priest wanted to farm the pirates to get volatile rum. I told him that the pirates south of Ratchet don't drop volatile rum (damn honesty!), but he wanted to try anyway. He let me party with him and I threw a dot on mobs to get a tap right after he dotted them. Since Wini is level 14, she gets 5 Ratchet rep per mob and 25 for each kill on the boss. She ended up getting around 1500 rep in like 20 minutes. Meanwhile, since she was grouped with a level 50, she only got a small fraction of the experience she would have gotten per kill (but the kill speed was *much* faster). The end result was a rep/exp ratio that was sky high. If one wanted to twink a character to a high goblin reputation, such a tandem would be the way to do it.