Frostweave FarmingFollow

A friend told me about a wonderful spot to farm frostweave so I decided to go check it out.

I am a tailor and I was working on 420 tailoring, hoping to get enough for 425 and the Epic flying carpet.

I hate to give away trade secrets but since Allakhazam has helped me ever so much in the past few years I'd thought I share this.

Nortern Borean Tundra, Magmoth.

There is a cave there and at the very bottom are humanoids with only 2k HP that drop 1-3 cloths. Not all the time but the drop rate is about 25% or so. But there are 8 mobs standing on top of each other.

Now the cool thing is since I am an 80 mage and the humanoids are 68-70 they drop like flies. Also the other cool thing is they literally spawn on top of each other, before you are even done looting! There are about 15 mobs down there and you can kill about 45 of them before an internal timer kicks in and you have to wait out the spawns.

This is what I got from about 2 hrs of grinding. Enough Frostweave for about 40 Bolts (10 Stacks). About 20 greens to DE and make Imbued Frostweave. I leveled from 420 to 426 in a very short time.

And here is the kicker. I looted...read that right...LOOTED about 25G an hour. That doesn't include the Vendor Trash. Each mob can drop up to 20s. I am now 20G away from the 1000G looted acheivement.

Cloth, Greens, Trash, Money. And a seriously quick and fast respawn rate.

Check it out. You seriously will not be disappointed.

I checked out the cave in Magmoth, the one with the mates and offspring of the mammoth guy - only one frostweave in 45 minutes - do I have the wrong cave?

I just wanted to add my 2c worth on this frostweave farming thing.....

My experience of this has taken me all across Northrend looking for places to farm on my frost mage. I haven't found any one spot where I could farm the cloth consistently. Drop rates in my experience are poor at best, hence why the price of frostweave is so expensive on my realm.

I did try the area you mentioned but didn't find it to be that productive (for me), just like all the other areas people have mentioned in other posts. I spent 2 hours in Icecrown (forgot the name of the actual area) farming mobs that respawn as you loot the last body for a disappointing 19 pieces once, the other times I've been there, nothing spectacular either. The video on utube showed the person looting loads.

When I paid 5g for that North Cloth Scavenging for tailors, I thought it might increase the drop rate, but sadly I don't see it doing anything special. Nothing more annoying than AOE'ing 15 mobs down again and again and finding none of them has a single piece of cloth on them.

In dungeons it doesn't seem much better either, 3 or 4 mobs max, in the entire dungeon drop 5 to 7 pieces. My tailoring has kinda of stopped at 435 until I gather more frostweave. I cba to farm it anymore, I'll send it to my mage if I get any to rebuild his stocks...

Tried this location and it was pretty good. Only one green, but a similar amount of frostweave to what the OP suggested.

There is a recipe shown on this forum already that allows you to make a profit off an item you can disenchant for infinite dust. Your own server prices may vary, but I make about 25% more than I buy the materials for off of the dust. In your case, just do the recipe, sell some of the dust to buy more of the item, and keep the rest. It's slower this way, but you won't spend ANY money on it.

Also do every quest. You'll get plenty of BoPs to disenchant. I personally just raised my enchanting to 400 for the ring enchants; the rest of the profession is just gravy.

maybe he meant Add on, like Enchantrix

make Northrend taioling greens....DE...dust....skill up tailoring and get dust all at the same time.

I find that I get a ton of frostweave pretty much anywhere in Icecrown. Everything there is either humanoid or undead, and even though they are level 80, a lot of them only have 10,000 hp or so. A lot of them CAN be pulled as singles (although if you are capable of any sort of AoE you can probably handle 3-5 at a time... heck, if you are any sort of Paladin you can probably handle 12).

The mobs in Icecrown tend to drop 3 to 4 Frostweave cloth at a time. When they aren't dropping Frostweave, they generally drop heavy wool clothing scraps - which are a crap grey drop, but they vendor for 50s each, so if you get a stack of 20 of them, you just made 10g on nothing.

Granted, unless you are at least level 77, you aren't going to be farming Frostweave in Icecrown, but from 77 on up, it is a great place for it.

I am not a tailor, so all I do is sell my Frostweave, but just by doing 2 or 3 dailies in Icecrown (which takes maybe 30-45 minutes) I come out with 20-30 Frostweave without even trying. I imagine I would get a lot more if I was just grinding for it.

Hmmm, very interesting. I'll try this out. It may be my new Wicked Leather Headband!

I would suggest, if your lvl is high enough, going to the Sons of Hodir area and farming the elementals on the ice lake. It is a daily and the mobs have a quick respawn rate and drop the earths used for the ring.

For the cloth, if you are capable of aoe or able to take on multiple mobs going to the island off of Icecrown. This is the area you would do the Ebon blade daily quests (Intelligance Gathering). My favorite place to farm it is on the steps of the large church. I'm not very excited about the drop rate, but they respawn fairly fast and there are alot in one area.

I feel like if you have another person grouped with you for farming the cloth you are able to pick up more because after they loot there is a chance for you to pick up more cloth. Not to mention if they are nice enough to give you the cloth they have. I'm a holy priest so what I usually do is help my guildies grind through those dailies. They get to finish the quests fast and keep whatever other goodies drop, and all I ask for is the cloth that they pick up.


Edited, Jan 2nd 2009 9:46am by Amallthia

A 20 stack still goes for 20G ish on both of my primary servers, Darkspear and Ysera. My tailor doesn't sell them but I will sell the bolts which go for more. My non tailor is going to sell all cloth so I can get my Epic flyer for him.

I still stand by Magmoth as the place to go for the sole reason that my tailor is on a PvP server and the only Horde there are usually 70-72 and they don't bother me as much. I'm 80 Mage.

If I went to Icecrown, I would be targeted by 80's and that is not worth the hassle. Plus it takes 5 secs to aoe +10 2KHP mobs in Magmoth and then loot, as opposed to killing 4-5 10KHP in Icecrown.

If u are on a PvE server then It doesn't really matter.