FARMING AND EASY KILLS

Raptor Teeth in the Wetlands

Wetlands, the hills below Dun Modr / level 23 to 28 / teeth, eggs, silk / alone

The trader in Menethil Harbor buys raptor teeth. Every evening I tip a bag of them onto his counter, he counts them with one finger and pays me in silver. The eggs I carry down from the same hills fetch less at the auction house, though everyone who talks about this farm talks about the eggs.

Why it pays

The Highland Raptor, the Highland Lashtail and the Highland Scytheclaw drop a Raptor Egg in three kills out of five and a Keen Raptor Tooth in one out of three. The tooth is grey junk, and a vendor pays 4s 45c for it. The egg sells for price unknown to cooks, who need it for Curiously Tasty Omelets and Forever's new Tasty Raptor Bites. Until an egg sells for more than about 2s 70c, the tooth pays more per kill than the egg. A Flecked Raptor Scale in one kill out of eleven adds 1s 68c at the vendor. Raptors carry no cloth. The Dragonmaw Raider at the Dragonmaw camp south of the hills drop Silk Cloth in one kill out of four, five times as often as the Mosshide Fenrunner gnolls, which give Wool Cloth instead.

What you need

Level 23 for the Highland Raptors, 25 for the Scytheclaws, 27 if you go on to the Razormaws. No group. Skinners get leather on top, which our data doesn't count.

Where

The hills in the north of the Wetlands, between Dun Modr and Direforge Hill and west from there. The Dark Iron dwarves in both places, the red dots, are elite and level 27 to 31. Most of the Highland Razormaw, level 27 and 28, live east of Direforge Hill, and Howin Kindfeather at the graveyard in the middle of the zone gives the Alliance a quest on them. The Alliance flies to Menethil Harbor and walks east. The Horde flies to Hammerfall and comes south over the bridge from Arathi.

How

1. Enter the hills from the south-west and work east, staying south of Dun Modr.
2. Take the raptors one at a time. Mosshide gnolls stand between them, so look before you pull.
3. Sell teeth and scales to any vendor, eggs on the auction house.
4. At 27, move east to the Razormaws. They drop an egg in three kills of four, fewer teeth, and a Curved Raptor Talon that a vendor buys for 6s 06c.
5. A tailor can finish the evening at the Dragonmaw camp for Silk, one or two at a time. The travellers say they throw nets.

What can go wrong

I walked into the Dark Iron camp on Direforge Hill at 24, looking for a short cut, and woke up at the graveyard. Egg prices swung a long way in the beta weeks, which is one more reason to count on the teeth. The gold an hour you hear about doesn't hold either. Five gold from Silk would take some 250 Dragonmaw kills an hour.

BASTIAN'S VERDICT Honest work for a vendor's silver. The teeth paid for a week at the inn in Menethil, and I've still got most of the eggs.