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Comment by 4067

I'm currently AoE levelling a mage, so I'm stopping by all my spots to comment on their viability for AoE grinding.

The various nightbane are great for AoE levelling. All but the casters have a huge aggro radius, and all of the camps contain nothing but melee mobs, there are some scattered casters around the middle of where I farmed (Details to come), but they're usually not a problem.

There are two caves in the southern end of the zone, which was where I was alternating between. My pulls went roughly like this:

Two pulls outside the first cave (The larger one with the named patrolling inside), which had mostly Dark Runners, I pulled the two little camps in one pull then got all the loose mobs in the next pull.

The next pull was in the farm area, there's a group of 4 dark runners right in the middle, I'd usually pull a mob or two from the side, then run into the pack of 4, then counterspell another into the pack if there was one available.

Next pull, continuing in the same direction was more dark runners, about 6 in the camp, just at the edge of the farm, usually pulled one extra mob on the side. There's a little hill just behind these guys that can make LoS difficult, but there's lots of ways around it if you're prepared.

The last area is if you hug the mountain range to the left (Moving in the same direction as tha last two pulls) You will go around a corner to another camp. This was the really fun camp. You could get 15 or more mobs at once here, you have to be a little higher than for the dark runners, but it's a huge pull, limited only by your stamina. However, if you fail a pull here, it's best to grind somewhere else for a minute or two until the mob's tainted howl wears off, or else your will get poisoned by every mob that you were in combat with before. I learned this the hard way, 10+ poison stacks is nasty.

Few little quirks that take some getting use to, otherwise great AoE grinding area.

Comment by 66549

Found at 72.76 in the mine

Comment by 44612

they have resistance to shadow spells :)

Comment by 201933

Odd. It seems that Torment is not resisted by them even though it is a shadow spell.

Comment by 52997

i'm currently standing at a hidden nightbane encampment, including cave, at 63, 80. this respawn timer is either buggy or downright insane, because as a L68 hunter i physically cannot kill them fast enough; i've had more than one occasion where i kill a mob, and the point generates a new spawn before the mob hits the ground.

i highly doubt it's normal.. BUT! for a level 30-odd frost mage, the AoE farm potentials are off the charts.

i also posted this on the Vile Fang page, as i found both types at this spot.

Comment by Erised

I can confirm the spawn rate is really fast. I went in there with my heirloom and instance geared lvl 27 warrior (+ Fire Festival Fortitude 30 stam buff) and died from the fast spawn rate. This spot can be very dangerous for the unprepared, ungeared or sleepy combatant!

Comment by 70906

This place is sick to level in.

Since 4.0 hunters are really viable at farming and I noticed. I level'd from 30 to 33 in 40 min.

I love this spot

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Comment by 324747

Just a heads up for everyone. These NPCs have been recently updated with the new worgen model as well as the rest of worgen in Duskwood. They also have a debuff that will turn you into a worgen yourself. Enjoy the emotes =D

Comment by 721741

Just killed one and tried to skin it. Appears as if they are no longer skinnable.

Comment by Jadeshade

So glad to know that I wasn't getting Hacked, I logged on and off like three times. Thanks to Blufuzzyhat I see that it was just part of the game *whew*

Comment by injunuity

saddly, no longer skinnable, just tried today, and the skinning icon doesn't come up :(

was on my 58 Sham, with a 305 skinning at the time.

means this needs to be pulled out of the skinnable list for medium leather please.

Comment by SFFCorgi

I had problems getting the NightbaneTainted Ones for the 'Vile and Tainted' quest until I realised that if you kill the Nightbane Vile Fang first, even if you don't get to loot the kill, it lets you get the Tainted One for credit. There's also solo Tainted Ones inside the mine.

Comment by WinstonKaminski

The worgen curse they put works even if u play worgen yourself. Only difference is that your armor disappear and u will get same outfit as Tainted Ones have.

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm on that quest where you kill 8 tainted ones and 8 vile fangs. The vile fangs were easy, but clearing the mine entrance so I can get in is hard. I'm still working on it right now, I keep pulling that named mob when I'm trying to work 1 tainted at a time. I'm 500xp from dinging 28 so with the new spells that might make it a little better. I can take these lvl 30-31's one at a time but when they start coming at me with groups of 2-3 I need to sac my void and run.

Comment by Allakhazam

These are a little bit tricky but can be single pulled at level 30. The first pull from the mine entrance you will probably get two, just make sure you burn one down fast and the second will be easy. I stood just outside in the SE corner of the small valley where the mine entrance is. There are two Vile fang camps outside but they are far enough away that they will not aggro when you pull the tainted ones. After you killed the first two you move inside and can easily single pull the rest while clearing the rest of the tunnel. A bonus to the mine is that it has 1-2 Silver ores, which makes sense since these guys are were-wolves after all. :)

Edited, Tue Dec 28 12:45:30 2004

Comment by Allakhazam

As a lvl 28 Paly this is my main grinding zone in duskwood. You can clear them all out easily soloing if you pull them one by one. I've had to cope with the 30 and the 32 from the entrance on me at the same time but i still beat them.

The beauty of this place for grinding is that its very close to the inn and so if you come out rested at the start of your session you can always jump in there for 20 mins for around 398 XP per kill.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is an awesome place for farming medium and heavy leather. The worgen don't normally drop anything but copper/silver so people are looting the corpses completely. There are always skinnable corpses lying around and if you go with another person, it makes it that much easier to keep the cycle going. I was there for about 30 minutes and left with about 6 stacks of medium leather and 3-4 stacks of heavy leather along with the occasional medium/heavy hide. Awesome.

Comment by Allakhazam

Me (lvl 29 shadow-specced priest) a paladin (24) and a mage (26) cleared out this mine easily. These guys are no problem. Just remember to pull them one at a time, they seldom aggro if you soothe them.

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