Tuesday 25 November 2008

Best Place to Farm Borean Leather

Ok for some reason I'm getting a lot of Google hits by people looking for places to farm Borean Leather in Northrend, I'm not quite sure why, since I haven't talked about skinning much, but I'll quickly address it here.
First off, why are you people even searching for this? There are so many things to skin in Northrend. If you'd been looking for Saronite or something, that would've been understandable. Well, I guess Leatherworking takes a lot of leather to level up.

You should be able to get a lot of leather just by leveling through Northrend. If you start in Borean Tundra, right off the bat you can grab leather and Nerubian Chitin from the things skittering around Warsong Hold, as well as Arctic Fur (I'd like to point out that Arctic Fur has a random chance of being skinned off every mob). In fact by the time you leave Borean Tundra, your skinning should be pretty much maxed, owing to the Nerubeans, the odd wolf or Caribou and the plethora of mammoth roaming the Tundra. Since killing the mammoths isn't directly a quest goal, and they travel in packs, it should be easy to kill a bunch and skin them (even Rogues, Shamans and Feral Druids will get AOE in the next big patch). Just stay away from the D.E.H.T.A. if you're on a skinning spree.

If you started in Howling Fjord, then there's Shoveltusks and a few wolves to skin as you quest, but mostly you'll be fighting Humanoids so the pickings for leatherworkers are leaner than the Tundra (much better for cloth though).

Grizzly Hills is also good for skinning, but Sholazar Basin, for those high enough, really stands out for Leatherworkers. Most things can be skinned, and there's also Drakes for Icy Dragonscales. Additionally, in the Basin, the mobs are high enough levels that you won't be skinning scraps.

If you want to try something else, you can get a decent amount of Leatherworking materials from running instances. Violet Hold is good for Icy Dragonscales and Borean Leather, and Azjol'Nerub is great for Nerubian Chitin. Since you'll probably be running stuff with at least two DKs you have a decent chance of being the only skinner, and if you're a Druid or Shaman then the fact that everybody in Northrend is looking for a healer means you'll have an easy time finding groups (tonight during a two hour session there were two groups "LF Healer Utgarde Keep" in Howling Fjord).

I hope that helps all you Skinners who have been directed to Udder Madness.

25 comments:

  1. I have acualy found a spot, which has very high respawn rate and high leather content. but i am going to keep this secret until about 2-3 months after wrath is out, just to build up my reserves.
    Keep looking for those spots, i on the other hand have found mine!(btw i got 2 levels in 9 hours just by farming in this spot!)
    also i make about 1200g a day since im like 2 of the 4 pages a day in the auction house =D

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  2. just tell us geezz

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  3. I only found this site because of this post.. LOL

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  4. come on man... tell us!
    we are probably on a different server so it would make no difference to u!

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  5. "Sholazar Basin, for those high enough, really stands out for Leatherworkers. Most things can be skinned, and there's also Drakes for Icy Dragonscales. Additionally, in the Basin, the mobs are high enough levels that you won't be skinning scraps"
    That should be sufficient.
    L2R the post, and work from there.

    Depending on the amount of people around, either the various mobs in Sholazar Basin, or the mammoth herds in Borean Tundra should be among the best spots for skinning.
    In terms of perfect spots for skinning, they're farmed a lot anyway.

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  6. there is a spot in SHolazar basin for those of you who have good AOE and health, it is just outside the frenzy heart hill and it is a the hardknuckle gorrillas, they clump together and as a druid i can grab about 10 at a time most of the time and they only have about 8.5k health compared to the 10-11k mobs in teh region and they go down fast and you can skin them, you can easy get an assload of leather in a bit of time

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  7. Yeh I'm a lvl 48 borean leather perfect skinner and master LW yeh i know bitch on at me about how did i get that high at my level but anyway i need know a better place to skin CORPSES that have alredy been killed other than sholazar where i spend all my time, i need a well populated area with a possible route and some fast respawners.

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  8. "I have acualy found a spot, which has very high respawn rate and high leather content. but i am going to keep this secret until about 2-3 months after wrath is out, just to build up my reserves.
    Keep looking for those spots, i on the other hand have found mine!(btw i got 2 levels in 9 hours just by farming in this spot!)
    also i make about 1200g a day since im like 2 of the 4 pages a day in the auction house =D"

    ^QUOTE

    *cough* Glider *cough*

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  9. do you need a flyer to go to Sholazar Basin

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  10. You don't need a flying mount for Sholazar.
    Just ride north from Borean Tundra.

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  11. dude dont be annoyin just tell us god i hate people that are dumb like that

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  12. What he's referring to, in my estimation, is the Valley of Echoes in the Icecrown zone. Pitifully, if you've done the first stage of quests where you mount a tower and gun down lots of critters, you've lost the opportunity to farm this zone, but if you're leveling and still new in Icecrown, the Valley of Echoes right outside the Argent Vanguard has an impossibly high respawn rate (recommend you bring a pocket healer, just for schnitz-n-giggles) and Borean Leather and Nerubian Chitin every time. I made fourteen stacks of 20 Borean Leather in less than one hour. Not to mention some nice xp.

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  13. There's a wolf and worm den in Storm Peaks near the Grom'arsh Crash Site with fast respawns. That's the best place I've found, aside from the front of Warsong Hold.

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  14. The basin in Northrend is most likly the best place to farm the Borean Leathers...kill the Gorrilas

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  15. storm peaks is the best place if your high enough lvl. I have a lvl 80 bm, can tank between 8 and 10 of them at a time with a gorilla, byt the time i finish my run and start running back to the entrance they have started to respawn, all i can say, on a not so busy day I can have 15 full stacks w/in 30 min

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  16. go to Zul Drak kill spiders they drop leather and spider silk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  17. next to gundrak are some non-elite raptors. ive found these to drop between 1-3 borean leather, and the respawn rate isnt too bad either. just dont farm them on dath'remar ore else XD

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  18. I also have found an awesome spot sucks to you n00bs lolz.

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  19. i spoted good place where to gain thes hide :) i am level 80 hunter name Spekiss aszune server you... so you need to go to Sholazar Basin. near Frenzyheart hill have much Gorillas so go and kill them easy to kill each 8k HP +/- . and then go to Wildgrowth mangal and kill Snakes and Crocosilc and skin them.. in one hour i gain 5 Green items, 3 Arctic Fur, 225 Borean Leather and 91 chilled meat! well thats all what i know :) good luch with Farming! :)

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  20. Hey there is a great place in north of the argent strand that I spend a lot of tim on. I was there killing random spiders and bats or w/e for two hours and never ran out. =D

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  21. Try the jormungar cave in that area outside the sons of hodir, they drop scales which are usefull for icc LW patterns and sometimes when you attack a worm a second one appears out of the first, giving you an easy second skin. Also they respawn fast enough that if you run the circle around the cave they have spawned by the time you come back around

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  22. if your looking for easy corpses to skin, the cave in dragonblight has a load of beetle things that are skinnable and a load of quest hand ins so people are always killin them on the way to hand in quests ;)

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  23. Thnx =D got all the info i needed, rawr =D

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  24. The BEST place in the game is in DragonBlight betwen the Green Spot and AGMAR's HAMMER. farm elks all you want and you will even find arctic fur at a high drop rate!
    Have fun.. this was spoiled by Redblast!

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