Best place for Wool?Follow

Started a priest, and figured I'd actually do a profession that makes stuff useful to the class.
So I'm on the Wool part of tailoring, and can not remember where the best/good place to go to get more Wool then Linen.

Tried a few instances, Cath gave me Silk and SFK only netted me 1 stack of wool.

I play horde side, will be farming with an 80. Any help would be awesome ^-^

If you can manage to get into Stockades, which shouldn't be too horrible if you're on a PVE server or play a survivable class, then I'd say it's hands-down the best place to go.

If you can get there once, you should be okay. Just clear it out (it's 100% humanoids inside...and lots of them in a relatively small area) and then you can peek your head outside, reset, and go back in. If you're at full health when you exit, someone would have to be very bored and very quick on the draw to root you and kill you before you could get back inside. Hardest part is just getting there, but if you know the way you can pretty much bust through the main gates and corpse hop your way to the dungeon. It's not all that far.

I assume this is your troll priest. You can try out southern barrens with all of the little boar guys.

i hate to say it....but farm the AH.

how long would it take you to corpse run into the stocks? 30Min? 45? and then another 15minutes to clear the stocks?

take that time to run dailies. 3-4 dalies is like 35+ gold. take said gold to the AH and win.

just my thoughts.

Deadmines got me 4+ stacks of linen and 4+ stacks of wool in a single run. No guards to mess with either.

I would say just one thing ,,Buy it .

My reasoning is this, no matter where you go mobs drop either linen/wool or slightly better for your trade skills wool/silk , no mobs seem to drop more than about 20% cloth at best so that means around 10% chance of wool at the very best from every kill and as you can skill up on making bolts of wool i would buy it make bolts of wool and all it takes is a few items being made of wool and you can start on silk.

That is what i did on my Mage and i sold the excess bolts of wool and made a small profit as i was disenchanting what few items i had made , i would never even think about farming just for wool as it is such a low drop rate compared to either linen or silk .

I think RFK is worth farming however but needs an alt that is a skinner for the slightly better profit making , i do it on a regular basis but not for the cloth drops and on my skinner alts can make around 100g sometimes 200g+ each clear as i usually get at least 1 blue and around 25-30 green items each run and i can do it in around an hour or less depending on the alts level.

My understanding is that the general price of wool is higher for Horde on all servers primarily because they don't have easy access to the Stockade.

How is Shadowfang Keep for wool farming? It's right in between the level range of Deadmines and Stocks and is full of humanoids. Unfortunately my only experience with it was going in briefly for an Alliance paladin quest.

Wool can reach high prices Alliance side as well, mainly because it's the least commonly dropped cloth and people skilling up first aid on alts keep the demand steady. It's almost as though tailoring is an afterthought when it comes to the general use of wool. Even though Stockades is easily accessible for Alliance, it still requires time and effort that some people are happier to forgo for the sake of a quick trip to the AH.

Nice to see you sorted out the wool collecting.

I forgot about the mad prices that wool can sometimes get to be, I would still have paid for the wool and i would have still easily made a profit as i would have wandered through RFK a couple of times and made myself around 300g profit and of course had some silk for when i was ready for the next level of tailoring , but each to their own way and at least you got the achievement of doing the stockades as a horde player.

BTW I was wrong the pirates south of Ratchet don't drop wool, they drop linen. BUT the Blackrock Orcs in the Redwood Mountains do drop wool. There's a cave with several of them just north of Lakeshire.

There is a spot I used to get lots of wool for my undead characters in Silverpine. I think it's called Fenris Island, the big one with the gnolls and a large keep. There are a few quests that lead out there, and I always found it a good spot for dropping wool. Lots of mobs, you can farm there for hours if needed. I think the mobs are level 18-22. I just finished it the other night since I started an undead warrior and took him through Silverpine.

Just make sure the time input for farming is worth the time you could have farmed something else and just BOUGHT the cloth...

Just for the sake of discussion... Our goal is to farm enough cloth to move us out of that level of cloth tailoring and onto the next... (i.e. enough Linen to start on wool items).

Let's say in 1 hr of farming (Mining, Herb, skin) or running dailies you can get 100G. (Estimate - just using nice round numbers...)

If you can't farm the level of cloth @ AH prices of 100G per hour - then you are better off just buying it. I mean I just checked my AH prices on linen. Stacks of 20 were going for <50S... There is no reason to farm it at those prices. Even if you only buy 10 stacks and farm the rest...

Linen, Silk, and Runecloth often fall into this category.

The tougher (more $$$) ones tend to be (in order) Mageweave, Wool, and Nether.

I don't really know why. Mageweave and wool have a tight level band for mob drops. Nether still seems pretty useful.

Hope it helps.