Chilled Meat FarmingFollow

The seal colonies on the SE tip of Howling Fjord.

Say “hi” to PETA if you see them there.

The gorillas (Hardknuckle Foragers and Chargers) by the Frenzyheart camp in Sholazar Basin have a good drop rate (~37% and ~51%, respectively) and can be grouped pretty easily. These are camped sometimes, but still really easy to farm. The Hardknuckle Foragers are non-aggressive, with just a couple aggressive Chargers mixed in.

Other than that, I usually don't have any problem finding crocolisks to kill. They're spread out a little, but close enough to have little downtime between kills.

As I head down the river in Grizzly Hills fishing for salmon, I clear out the bears I see along the way. Roughly one stack of chilled meat per two stacks of salmon. Maybe not the most efficient method of farming, but it's not a separate trip, and there's a lot of downtime in getting from one fishing school to the next anyway.

Yeah, spending 10 minutes or less in Storm Peaks or WG will get me 1 Eternal Fire, which go for 20-40G. That is 1-4 stacks of Chilled Meat, depending on the market of both.

I've found farming chilled meat to be less than profitable - I get better returns by farming something else or doing a daily quest and then picking up a stack or two from the AH.

On the other hand, someone has to put the stacks on the AH in the first place so what I've done recently is to exterminate the rhino packs in Storm Peaks, thereby stocking up on rhino meat at the same time.

/agreed

Hands down the best farming spot - respawn rate is through the roof, there's usually no real competition, its off the beaten track if you're on a PvP server and if you're a LW you'll fill bags with leather as fast as with chilled meat.

I think the best place by far are the Rhinos around Warsong Hold and probably some around the alliance place too. They basically walk in packs of 5, round them up blast down 2 packs at once you get chilled and rhino meat and if you are a skinner you can skin all those mobs also. 3 things for just 1 mob, sounds pretty good to me. rhino meat still sells pretty well and you can save some up for mustard dogs!

I'll second this. Was just questing ZD with my DK this evening and the kitties and bears had probably at least a 90% drop rate. Wowhead says the drop rate is 60-61%, but it was much higher than that for me. Out of the 20-some kitties and bears I killed while questing, I think one, maybe two, didn't drop meat.



Edited, Aug 2nd 2009 12:15pm by Ambrya

I've had 5 stacks on the AH for a week on Area 52. They aren't worth farming anymore I guess.

Whenever I need to restock Chilled Meats I head to the north side of Sholazar Basin and tag the rhinos and cats. You get not only the chilled, but also the rhino meats, both used in the daily cooking quests in Dalaran and in multiple recipes to skillup, cook for the cooking achievements, and for raiding/quest foods.

Also, if you are a skinner, you will reap the rewards from each kill.

If you are a gatherer of herbs, and even ores, there are some chances for those as well.

Not to mention that the Nesingwary camp is at one (west) end of the run I go on to sell off stuff when the bags get full and there is even a mailbox to send stuff to alts if you use that method for hoarding stuff. Also a flight path is there if you have not yet trained for cold-weather flying.

Even for a level 80 I can go from one end (west near Nesingwary Camp) to the next (east near the Goblin/ogre area) and never run out of targets unless someone else is doing it - if you're a skinner and the others in the area are not you can still make useful time out of their kills.