Farming Twink Items in Battle for Azeroth Onwards
Since Patch 7.3.5, when you go to a dungeon with your 1110 or 120 character, you get good transmog drops, but not twink items.
In order to get items for a level 19 character, you must take a level 19 character.
Transmog items sell well.
But twink items are now much rarer. So will they sell better?
Go fix yourself a coffee right now, because this is going to be a long guide!
Which loot ilevel is for Transmog? Which loot ilevel is for Twinking?
Let’s compare ilevels on similar loot.
Example: Dwarven Magestaff
There’s more +int on the higher item level, farmed with a higher level character, but only the last staff, item level 18, could be used by a level 19 character.
All three items could be bought by a player wanting transmog, but only the last item would be useful for a level 19 player.
Example: Pagan Shoes
The first two Pagan Shoes drop was farmed on a level 110, so requires the character level of 60.
Only the last Pagan Shoes, item level 19, could be used by a level 19 twink player.
All three items could be bought by a player wanting transmog, but only the last item would be useful for a level 19 twink player.
How Did Loot Change in Warcraft Patch 7.3.5
Loot drops changed in patch 7.3.5 with dungeons now awarding personal loot, and every zone in Azeroth using the level scaling introduced in Legion.
This means that if you take a level 110 or 120 to an old dungeon, the loot which drops will scale to the maximum level. For example, Stockades will give you level 60 loot. Not level 19 loot!
Zone Leveling after 7.3.5
- Starting zones 1-10
- Classic zones 10-60
- Outland and Northrend 58-80
- Cataclysm and Pandaria 80-90
- Draenor level 90-100
- Broken Isles 100-110
- Kul Tiras/Zandalar 110-120
Which Dungeons for which levels?
- 15-60: Deadmines, Ragefire Chasm
- 17-60: Shadowfang Keep, Wailing Caverns
- 20-60: Blackfathom Deeps, Stormwind Stockade
- 24-60: Gnomeregan
- 26-60: The Scarlet Monastery
- 30-60: Maraudon, Razerfen Kraul
- 35-60: Razerfen Downs
- 36-60: Dire Maul
- 38-60: Scholomance
- 42-60: Stratholme – Scarlet
- 44-60: Zul’Farrak
- 46-60: Stratholme – Baron
- 47-60: Blackrock Depths
- 50-60: Sunken Temple
- 55-60: Lower Blackrock Spire
- 58-80: Hellfire Ramparts, Utgarde Keep
- 59-80: Blood Furnace, The Nexus
- 60-80: Azjol-Nerub, Slave Pens
- 61-80: Ahn’kahet Old Kingdom, Underbog
- 62-80: Drak’Tharon Keep, Mana Tombs
- 63-80: Violet Hold, Auchenai Crypts
- 65-80 Halls of Stone, Sethekk Halls, Escape from Durnholde, Gundrak
- 67-80: The Botanica, Halls of Lightning, The Mechanar, Occulus, Shadow Labyrinth, Shattered Halls, Steamvault, Utgarde Pinnacle
- 68-80: The Arcatraz, Culling of Stratholme, Magister’s Terrace, Opening of the Dark Portal, Trial of the Champion
- 70-80: Forge of Souls, Halls of Reflection, Pit of Saron
- 80-90: Blackrock Caverns, Stormstout Brewery, Temple of the Jade Serpent, Throne of the Tides
- 81-90: Stonecore, The Vortex Pinnacle
- 82-90: Mogu’shan Palace, Shado-Pan Monastery
- 83-90: The Gate of the Setting Sun, Siege of Niuzao Temple
- 84-90: Grim Batol, Lost City of the Tol’vir
- 90-100: Bloodmaul Slag Mines
- 94-100: Auchindoun, Iron Docks
- 97-100: Skyreach
- 98-110: Darkheart Thicket, Halls of Valor, Neltharion’s Lair, Eye of Azshara
- 105-110: Violet Hold 2
- 110: Black Rook Hold, Maw of Souls, Vault of the Wardens
- 108-120: Kings’ Rest, Underrot, Temple of Sethraliss, Tol Dagor, The Motherlode, Atal’Dazar, Waycrest Manor, Siege of Boralus, Shrine of the Storm, Freehold
How is Loot Changing in Patch 8.0? What is Legacy Loot Mode?
- Legacy Loot Mode changes bosses’ loot only.
- The loot mode will activate automatically upon entering a dungeon or raid that’s trivial for you.
- The number of items dropped by bosses will be the same as it would have been if you were in a full party. So if you’re in a 5-player dungeon, you’ll get 5 players’ worth of loot.
- All items on the bosses’ loot table will have a chance to drop, not just the ones that are designated for your spec.
- Bosses’ loot will be tradeable and split among members of your party or raid. If you have multiple players in the group, the loot will be split among those players, but be tradeable. For example, if you’re clearing with one other player and kill a boss that should drop 4 items, you’ll each be able to pick up two items and trade them between each other if you like.
- BoE items aren’t affected. The ‘greens’ that you get won’t increase in number nor will trade materials like cloth.
- Great for transmog collectors, not so great for transmog BoE farmers.
Which Gear To Farm for Twinks?
1: XPOff. I started by looking at a Legion Twinking Guide, and checking which items were in high demand. Interested in Twinking? Start with XPOff. Here’s my grab of their information in case their website goes down again. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wupreVkbXCMsCIBpe3Yee8yL5ac-9NyK/view?usp=sharing
2: Wowhead. Once I had that full list of twink items, I cross referenced the gear with wowhead. Here’s my guide to Why We Love Wowhead.
3: Undermine Journal. Now that list is whittled down slightly, I went to the Undermine Journal to check every piece of loot and see which is selling for high prices.
4: Finally we can make a list of dungeons and their loot drops, and put together an ideal twink team for farming each dungeon.
How to Farm in a Group
Bring your max level character, and party up with a level 19 character. That level 19 could be a friend’s twink, or your own alt on a 2nd account.
Don’t have a second account? Create a 2nd account today by buying a Blizzard Battle Chest, they’re priced very low now. You will never need to pay a subscription on this second account, because your second account can be playing Warcraft in the background and sniping on the Auction House while you are questing, raiding, pvping and adventuring in BfA in your main account. Here’s part 1 of my sniper guide.
Don’t have time for that? Convince a friend to bring a level 19 alt to sit parked by the entrance while you kill everything, and offer to do the same for them in return.
Blizzard have recently (21 June 2018) reactivated old inactive accounts, with their Welcome Back weekend, so this weekend might be a good time to get your old accounts working again!
Farming the Stockades for Twink Items
Characters: Take one max level character, and bring a level 19 character with you to share the loot.
Loot:
- Bright gloves – cloth user
- Feet of the lynx – leather user
- Sentry cloak – agility user
- Redbeard crest – shield user
- Buccaneer’s gear – clothie
- Torbia’s gauntlets – warrior
- Keller’s girdle – clothie
- Twisted chanter’s staff – staff user / clothie
- Searing blade – 2h sword user
- Lil Timmy’s Peashooter – hunter
- Skycaller – wand
Farming Blackfathom Depths for Twink Items
Characters: Take one max level character, and bring a level 19 character with you to share the loot.
Some of this loot can also be found in Stonetalon Mountains. When you farm Stonetalon, make a party with your level 19 character, and make sure the level 19 loots!
- Bristlebark Gloves – leather user
- Ritual Shroud – cloth user
- Grunt’s legguards – mail user
- Outrunner’s chestguard – mail user
- Thorbia’s gauntlets – warrior
- Mystic’s wrap – cloth user
Farming Shadowfang Keep for Twink Items
Characters: Take one max level character, and bring a level 19 character with you to share the loot.
- Gloomshroud armor – leather user
- Shadowfang 1h – sword user
- Assassin’s blade – dagger user
- Mindthrust bracers – clothie
- Duskbringer – 1h sword user
- Night Reaver 2h axe user, eg warrior
- Buccaneer’s gear – clothie
- Witching stave staff user
- Guillotine axe – rogue outlaw
- Ironpatch blade – prot warrior
- Prospector axe – 2h warrior
- Lil Timmy’s Peashooter – hunter
- Skycaller – wand
Let me know how you get on.
About the Author
Warcraft’s longest running Gold Making blog, The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande since 2010. Working on her 14th level 110, she has 9 years expertise in making gold, 19,000+ achievements, 1593 days played, over 39 million gold earned, and now playing World of Warcraft Legion live on www.twitch.tv/thegoldqueen The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling, snatch lists, and farming gold making. Want more updates on Warcraft Battle for Azeroth? Support my Patreon for exclusive pre-release Gold Guides.
