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Comment by 379233

just added in the new pandaria beta patch, these work like the crystallized elements we were used to during wotlk, therefore making it easier to collect Spirit of Harmony which has been turned into a BoP with the last patch

edit: since there are is no data in wowhead yet, i dropped few of these from Agitated Nettleskins in Townlong Steppes

Comment by turand

Yikes, BOP.

Comment by Alfador

These, then, are the Elements of Harmony.

Comment by Zarac

You can literally farm this. Songbell Seed

Comment by Elvisi

Has anyone found a good place to farm these yet?

Comment by Voxxel

You can get some extra Mote of Harmony per day without grinding. There are some special type of seeds which provide crafting materials by planting and harvesting them at Sunsong Ranch (next to Tillers hub) in Valley of the Four Winds.

On harvest
Songbell Seed provides Mote of Harmony.
Windshear Cactus Seed provides Windwool Cloth.
Enigma Seed provides random MoP herb. Could be any herb, even Golden Lotus.
Magebulb Seed provides random MoP enchant materials (mostly Spirit Dust).
Snakeroot Seed provides random MoP minerals (mostly Ghost Iron Ore).
Raptorleaf Seed provides Mist-Touched Leather.

These seeds can be bought from Merchant Greenfield at Halfhill Market for a cost of 90 silver each. Note, you need to be Revered with The Tillers in order to buy them.

UPDATE: With the Patch 5.1, the amount of Golden Lotus you can buy for Spirit of Harmony at the Pandaria capitals is reduced to 2 (was 3). In addition to that, the chance that Enigma Seed can germinate into Golden Lotus has been increased slightly, making it more efficient to farm through Enigma Seed.

Comment by Azrile

After reviewing the data (discounting the ones with very low data reported). It appears the drop rate is

10% + 1% x ( Mob level - 85)

In other words

85 - 10%
86 - 11%
87 - 12%
88 - 13%
89 - 14%
90 - 15%

Comment by midna987

I have had pretty decent luck with the Pearly Tortoise in the starting area. About 1 in 10 probably drop it...but it gets taken down relatively quickly.

Comment by 250679

If we assume that all creatures can drop these, the drop rate is no where near 10% for lvl 85 creatures. Almost two levels worth of grinding through Jade Forest has netted a grand total of ten motes for me.

Comment by Sounder

10 BoP Motes of Harmony combine to make one BoP Spirit of Harmony.

On 9/18/2012 Ghostcrawler said they will probably make Spirits of Harmony Bind on Account "eventually". Source.

This doesn't appear to be well known, so upvotes appreciated.

For a dual-gatherer, it's a choice between cashing it in for something lower-value but immediately useful, vs. saving them for the probable/eventual day the above comes true (when your crafters may not need them anymore).

Wowhead lists it as 9 Motes on the "Reagent For" tab. This is due to how the combine spell is coded. One mote consumes the other 9 to produce the Spirit of Harmony, and then a followup action consumes the 10th.

Comment by Hammermads

Spent 45 minutes grinding these Pearly Tortoise badboys for 2 Mote of Harmony .. at least there was plenty of Ghost Iron Ore around.

Comment by 1037136

The drop rate shown here is totally wrong. Shift the decimal point over to the left and it may be more accurate from what I've seen and others have posted on the forums. So 6% becomes 0.6%, which is about the drop rate I've seen.

Comment by 229173

Motes of Harmony
Use: Combine ten of these to make Spirits of Harmony.

Spirits of Harmony are used in crafting recipes. They are most similar to Primals from the Burning Crusade. Motes can be combined into spirits, but spirits cannot be broken into motes.

Motes of Harmony are a random, Bind on Pickup drop that can literally drop from any mob in Pandaria. Odd that you gather pieces of the spirit of Harmony from slaughtering half the countryside.

Comment by migit128

Hope no one on my server reads this but I found a great place to farm these the old fashion way. Kunzen village (around 33,26 in the valley of the four winds) has had a rather high drop rate for me so far. Killed between 10-20 mobs and got 4 motes...

I might have just been lucky...but these are level 90 mobs and some of them only have 55k hp. 1 shottable

Comment by Lightbrand

Why in God's name did they go back to the Motes -> Primal system again? It was stupid in TBC, it was stupid in Wrath, they finally ditched it in Cata. And now it's back. Why do Blizzard insist on making us jump through these hoops, this thing stacks to 200 anyway. But no no no, we want YOU to turn 10 of them into something that stacks to 20 and use that to make stuff.

Comment by 646932

The best place I've found to farm is Howlingwind Cavern in Kun-Lai Summit. The entrance is at (59,52), just north of One Keg. There are little white circles on the ground. If you walk over them or AoE them, you will pull approximately 10-15 sprites. They die fairly easily. I get a Mote of Harmony every 4 or 5 pulls (takes about 5 minutes). There is also a ton of ore in this cave.

Comment by 965937

The Shamans in Kun Lai have a decent drop rate. The good thing is after you kill a shaman you get a 25% damage buff (stackable 5 times for 30 seconds). This makes mob farming much easier (Fs leveled here to 90 in 4 hours and 30 mins). So if the formula above is correct for mobs that are 88 lvl you have a 13% droprate. You can kill mobs at around 3 per minute so that's 180 mobs an hour which roughly translates into ~20 motes ?

I just dinged 89 and already looted 62-63 motes which I converted for the imperial silk but if you guys want to get the contender pvp set (1 mote for each recipe) I recommend you go farm these bad boys. So either run with a 125% dmg buff or if you are high level farm some 85 packs but cloth is never useless.

Cheers.

Comment by Aliok

Mote of Harmony's Wowhead item page is now forever immortalized (or satirized, take your pick). Re-Mote Possibilities. (site: The Daily Blink)

Comment by Bulo

very good farm spot guide:
You have to kill these npc's, which are located in the Valley Of Eternal Blossoms in the Guo-Lai-Halls:

Only 393,941 health! They die very fast

NPC: Stone Guardian - NPC - World of Warcraft

In the screenshot you can see two of them sitting next to some kind of altar. If you kill them, they are respawning INSTANT, which means no downtime at all. You can farm both mobs solo or in a group of two people, maybe you even can get there without being level 90 to farm additional xp. I recommend you farming this spot only with DD specc and heroic gear, because you will be able to kill this mobs way faster this way! This gives you even more profit because of instant respawn and no downtime.

LOOT:

I got there 2x Skyshard - Item - World of Warcraft in only 1 hour of farming. You can use 10 of them to create a Sky Crystal - Item - World of Warcraft to kill Alani - NPC - World of Warcraft , which is flying around in the Valley Of Eternal Blossoms, which furthermore dropps himself as a mount ( Reins of the Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent - Item - World of Warcraft )
U can sell these by grouping up whit a possible buyer and let him roll for this item. The mount will sell for a extremely high price, because of the very low drop chance of the Skyshards! By using this farm spot u can get them very fast.

Also they do drop Ancient Guo-Lai Cache Key - Item - World of Warcraft , with these keys you can unlock the Ancient Guo-Lai Cache - Object - World of Warcraft which gives you gold and reputation items for the Golden Lotus faction. You will find this treasure chests by dying in front of the gates and then walking through them as a ghost

They also drop Mote of Harmony - Item - World of Warcraft , which you can use for your professions. I use them for Riddle of Steel - Spell - World of Warcraft , which gives me a high gold income by selling Living Steel - Item - World of Warcraft and their proccs with the transmutation specialization.
You can trade them also for profession items at Danky - NPC - World of Warcraft ! 3 Golden Lotus - Item - 3*300g=900g on my server) for 1 Spirit of Harmony

Grey stuff which sells for 5 gold per item and green items are also in the loot table.

WoW Head does also mention:
" After killing this NPC you will gain:
10 reputation with The Black Prince (stops at Honored) "

Comment by Moonstruck

No freaking way the drop rate is 10%.

I took the slow route dual boxing 2 characters from 85 to almost 87 over the past week walking everywhere and mining / herb picking and getting into tons upon tons of fights with mobs (its like every node has a personal guardian);.

I came away with about 1,000 ghost iron, little over half that in tea leaves and poppy and a sum total of 14 motes of harmony.

Comment by Kabookiejoe

i was wondering if anyone has tried using a potion of luck when killing mobs?

im tempted but 400g per lotus makes it kinda of blah atm

Comment by 545296

Hoping this helps someone else like it did me.
The Sra'vess Island just west of the Niuzao temple island, there are a over abundance of Mantrid.
They seem ot share the same standard 15% level 90 mote drop rate, however, they seem pretty easy to kill (for my frost dk) and there are tons of them, packed in close together (not too close that you'll chain pull, but u can if wanted). and they have really fast (under 2mins) respawn timers.

They also give Black Prince reputation. Non-elites: 11 reputation; Elites: 17 reputation
Before modifiers of course.

Me(frost DK), a Brewmaster Monk, and a Demo Warlock, were able to powerhouse through pulls of 20+(with cd's) mobs at a time, with no more then 60sec between pulls, and in just over an hour we farmed more then 6k(friendly to honored) and about 5 SPIRITS of harmony each (Thats 50 motes folks).
Reason I say more then, is we kept farming to cap off out current mote stacks, even after we hit honored.
Beware, *They do NOT give Black Prince reputation past Honored!*

Good Hunting.

Comment by kirby40

they also come from plundered chests. just super rare

Comment by Coelia

As a blood DK, I found pulling the 9 mob sets in the scar, the Horrid March, in the Dread Wastes to be the fastest and easiest. There is a general and 8 soldiers in each set. I seem to get one or two motes per pull. Averaging 4-5 Spirits per hour. No one is questing on them and they are easy to kill.

Also, if you get the Angel of Death buff from the Klaxxi, a Klaxxi will descend and AoE the mobs every minute. With roiling blood, Dancing Rune Weapon, and the Angel of Death I get to about 150-160k dps and mobs drop really fast. It is easier to farm here where that buff drops the mobs for you. I also suggest getting the painkiller buff from the Klaxxi (the blue buff). If you do get overwhelmed it will encase you in amber and heal you nearly full.

Just simply kill a group, and move to the next one. They are located on the east ends of the horseshoe shaped scar. They respawn by the time you finish killing all the sets. There are about 6 tight little groups to farm. They are the Ik'thik Slayer and Warriors. They also drop a lot of Dread Amber shards which are an infinitely repeatable reputation quest for the Klaxxi.

Good Luck!

Comment by Shauolin

I've found farming up on the Skyrange of Valley of Four Winds to be pretty good.
Where the daily Tillers quests take you to the Kunzen village there are little packs of Kunzen Rockflinger that throw stones. There are around 5 to a pack and spawn in pockets a little away from other mobs so if you do it properly you can fly in, AOE them down quite quickly as they have smaller health pools than the rest, loot and then move on.
If doing this alone when its quite the respawns can be a little slower but if you do it when its busy the respawns are crazy and the motes drop quite regularly.

Comment by Drathellia

Need to up the drop rate just a tad on these....

Comment by PerfeCisolation

I haven't seen anyone mention that these can be placed in specialty bags like Otherworldy bag Which is interesting considering it's not an herb, enchanting materials, leather, scribe mats ect.

Comment by mamwrotki

Farmed mote of harmony for 1 hour with Potion of Luck in cave near One keg in Kun Lai Summit (as half rare/half green gear retri pala) and i get this:

16x Mote of Harmony, 13x green items, 8x grey items, 67x Windwool Cloth, 27x Dried Peaches, 20x Roasted Barley Tea, 177g

and 14 Plundered Treasure. After opening them i get additional:

74x Windwool Cloth, 14x White Trillium Ore, 14x Ghost Iron Ore, 254g

Comment by 311629

The Marrow Chamber in Dread Wastes is a place to 'farm' these motes.

The entrance to the marrow chamber is at 47.2, 16.8 in Dread Wastes.

The room is crawling with mantids and the yellow marrow beams kill the npc's very quickly. Taunt, or attack these guys from the opposite side of a beam of marrow or otherwise kite them into the beams for very quick kills. Keep going in a circular motion around the room killing and looting. Very quick way to grab a maximum number of motes per hour.

Comment by Killovolt1

Today, 09/10/12, i went to all the good farming spots and the drop chance was ridiculously low comparing to the days before that date and the spawn rate of the moobs seemed also increased. In my opinion the drop chance alongside with the spawn rate has been reduced with a hotfix. Please excuse me from any grammar english mistakes, it's my second language.
Regards,
Killovolt

Comment by Random0525

Would be nice if these weren't BoP or even BoA... I'm trying to craft a full set of gear for my Death Knight to start pandaria with. Bought Ghost Iron Ore off the AH, but I can't make the weapons as they require Spirit of Harmony, which - like the motes - can't be sold on the AH.

Comment by RedSalamando

To me, I find the Hozen Rockflingers at Kunzen Village in Valley of the Four Winds the best for me, as a level 90 feral druid. One Thrash and a Swipe and they're done. They are always in groups of 4-5, level 90 (Which means the best drop rate), and extremely easy to kill if you have some AoE's. Just watch out for the patrolling elites!

Edit - It seems they've caught on.

Patch 5.0.5 Hotfixes - Nov 12
"Kunzen Rockflingers no longer have a chance to drop Motes of Harmony."

Comment by Measa

I think I found the best place to farm this.
In the The Veiled Stair near the Taver in the Mists there is a burrow full of Hatescale mobs that drop them more then in any area I've found so far. The place is also riddled with Ghost ore mining nodes, I found myself spending a few hours filling a 32 slot mining sack and getting 60% a level of xp. In addition the Mobs dropped Windwool Cloth which is great since my priest now has a good amount of the stuff.

*update
Irony is that in the weeks I've been farming this spot I have gathered a good amount of these. And cant use them.
My Pally does mining and enchanting. :-P

Comment by 1039479

So after much deliberation over where to farm between my shaman buddy and I we finally found a good spot. In the valley of fourwinds around the very northwestern part there is a hozen camp where one of the Tiller dailies takes place. Around this area are groups of 4-6 low HP mobs that have a pretty solid drop chance. I'm not a numbers guy but after close to six hours of farming we made out of there with 20 spirits of harmony (200 motes). They seem to drop 1-3 motes per group with some dry spells lasting 5-10 minutes. We put the loot on free-for-all and just had the LW pick up the loot.

Side Note: also found Ring of the Shipwrecked Prince and some BoE blues. All in all not a bad day.

Edit: Shauolin, the poster above me already discovered this 5 days ago and shared. Fail on my part.

Comment by 1044926

A really good place to farm motes of harmony is just east of the pools of purity in vale of the four winds. The turtles there ~87 have very little health and are easily killed in massive pulls by a 90. They re-spawn extremely fast, and you can also skin them if you've got skinning.

Comment by 142762

I could be wrong, but the Ancient Mogu Spirits in Tu Shen Burial Ground in Valley of Eternal Blossoms seem to have a slightly higher drop rate for the motes than other mobs.

Comment by 378260

If you haven't started the quest chain at Zhu's Watch, during the quest Zhu's Despair there are several insanely fast-spawning level 86 mobs in town for the quest with only 92k health. They are easy to kill, hit like a feather, and unlike many phased quest mobs appear to have a standard loot table.

If you are just beginning your adventures into Pandaria's crafting and require Harmony for your recipes, this is an extremely easy way to farm them.

The Essence of Despair also commonly drops Vial of Swirling Mist, and somewhat less commonly drop Liquid Shadow. Not an amazing income source, but it`s a nice chunk of gold after you've finished farming.

*** I personally farmed up enough Harmony to craft my Mist-Piercing Goggles, Blingtron 4000, and my Geosynchronous World Spinner in just under two hours. That is my PERSONAL experience, killing the Essence of Despair as fast as I could on my Arc Mage. You may have a different experience depending on your class and killing power. ***

Comment by 992404

Northwestern part of Valley of the Four Winds where Hozen monkeys are is my favourite. In 2 days of light farming (3hours max per day) I've got around 16-22 Spirits of Harmony. As well in those 2 days 2 epics dropped (tank shield and cloth chest), many blues greens, looted so many dark soil. I've been using Golden Fleece and probably got like 2-4k golds just from greens and the trinket. Good thing is that 2 rares are from both sides of farming spot so you can go check on them occasionally for these useful drops Crystal of Insanity and Helpful Wikky's Whistle. Anyway as protection paladin I've managed to stack 2 camps at once (10-15 mobs) and kill with use of barrel, quite simple. I encourage you everyone try that place.

Comment by nealj121

Ookin Shaman in Summit have an amazing drop rate of all the areas I have been to. I just killed 5 in about 5 minutes (took me awhile to find where they spawn in higher numbers than 1 lol), dropped 4 motes.

Comment by 951170

The extremely popular "turtle" spot on the eastern side of the Pools of Purity in Valley of the Four Winds has been hot-fixed in a fashion. The turtle re-spawn rate has been increased. This may still be a viable farming spot if you're one of the only people around, however.

I did some personal testing of a couple other reported places for mote farming, these are my results:

Kunzen Village - Valley of the Four Winds:
1 Hour: 11 motes of harmony

Kapari'ik + Kapari Vor (Ikthik Warriors) - Dread Wastes
1 Hour: 17 motes of harmony

Cave North of One Keg (little sprites) - Kunlai Summit
1 Hour: I couldn't manage to ever tag any after a whole hour of fighting for spawn tags, the place was too crowded with questers and about a dozen other 90s testing the area for motes.

Would love to know if anyone has discovered an area comparable to the old "turtle" area because after tasting that, these other places are just cheap off-brand substitutes at best. I will continue down the list on these forums to test out other mote farming areas.

Comment by K9Justice

In an effort to maximize efficiency of time during Mote of Harmony farming, I have been thinking. Each class may have different results due to the proximity of mobs and the class's/spec's AOE farm capability.

I did a search of Curse but was unable to find any addons which do what I'm looking for. I'm looking for an addon which tracks time of farming, mobs being farmed, location of farm, and the loot which was farmed during those things. Of course more information would be great such as tracking of class/spec used, etc.

Does anyone know of anything like this?

Comment by ironskillet

well, no more farming motes of harmony during the AC jade temple dailies.

that was a real dissapointment.

it also feels like over all the drop rate was reduced by a couple %

hope blizzard realizes that if you make people farm/do dailies all day, they will just reach burnout that much faster.

Comment by Dreamscape78

I found motes of harmony in sealed crates while leveling my fishing skill. I have no clue about drop chance but from 10 crates i got 2 motes in about 2 hours of fishing.

Comment by Drathellia

Ruins of Dojan in Karasarang Wilderness had a great drop rate on mote of harmony got 20 off the Dojani there in less than and hour. I was on the quests "The Dejani Threat" "Herbal Remedies" and "The Mogu Agenda" at the time...

While on the Nesingwary quests hunting the Gorge Stalkers and Dustback Mushan west of the Nesingwary camp in valley of the four winds I had a decent drop rate. I found 4 in about 20 mins.

Comment by 1049150

go to sra'vess in townlong steppes, any elite will do and they have a 25% chance on droping motes.

i sugjest you keep you'r eye out for vessgaurd's since they are the easiest to kill. kill the little ones first especialy if it are regenerators or drones since they can be a pain.

note: these mobs also give rep to the black prince

Comment by elkagorasa

This do not drop in non-heroic Scholomance. Just completed a full clear on my priest/tailor and got 0.

Comment by Dyminator

Me and my friend found an easy way of farming Mote of Harmony in the Dread Wastes.

IF you are a tank, you can go and pick up one of the "enhancements" from Klaxxi'Vess called Iron Mantid.
Absorbed, blocked, dodged, missed, parried, redirected, reflected, and resisted attacks against the bearer cause Bladeturning. Once reaching 10 stacks it will triggers a 3 second stun + causing roughly 70k damage.
If pulling 15-20 mobs this will procs all the time, i can imagine it procs even quicker for a warrior or paladin since they have block.

Head out to the island Zan'Vess in the south west corner of Dread Wastes.
And then just start mass pulling as many as you can handle, as a Blood DK i can easily pull 20ish mobs without dying.
Don't know how good monks, warriors or druid tanks are, but prot paladin works as well.

Unfortunately there is also dailies on this island if you have bad luck and farming won't be possible on a high pop realm(like mine).

Edit: This is also a very good place to farm mining as well! and don't forget Potion of Luck

Comment by 1050991

Is Blizz still thinking of making these items account bound? Anyone know?

Comment by Shauolin

When you are Revered with The Tillers you are able to buy Songbell Seeds from Merchant Greenfield.
This seed will grow into a Mote of Harmony. At Exalted you will have 16 farm slots and be able to farm 16 motes per day.

Comment by 1051913

KLAXXI ENHANCEMENT : RAINING BLOOD
KLAXXI AUGMENTATION : BATTLE HYMN
*also used potion of luck because after testing it the first time i got one BOE epic and one BOE blue (450ilvl)

CLASS/SPEC : MONK BREWMASTER

METHOD : starting at the horrid march (68,49) by flying into the two ithyk slayers beside the fearbringer, landing at fearbringer's feet and grabbing the two kuchong behind him as well as the warrior pack behind them. continuing west along the scar until i hit a roaming clutch-keeper, then flying north to destroy the nicely grouped packs of warriors at the top of the "horseshoe" that is the scar. return after clearing north to the gate with the first pull and repeat.

YIELD : 18 motes/hr depending on a grind circuit and timing that returned me to the gate as the initial pull was respawning (i watched them pop back up each time)

also, has anyone noticed that the klaxxi buff names are all famous metal songs/albums/references?

Comment by ironskillet

well unless i was the world's unluckiest person for 20 minutes kunzen rockflingers in valley dont drop these anymore, very disappointing, it appears blizz wants to get rid of all the good ways to grind this

Comment by vaelrock

I just killed ~1300 Zan'thik Impaler/Zan'thik Manipulator/Kypari Crawler but only dropped 69 motes.
The indicated droprate for those mobs is between 8 for the kypari crawler, and 14% for the zan'thik impaler/manipulator that I killed in majority, but I got only 5%.
I'm pretty sure some days ago it was the 14% drop rate, so eithier I'm the most unluck guy in the world (but it's statistically impossible with a sample size this big), or blizzard nerfed the drop rate in dread waste by something like 50%.
Anyone else noticed this too ?

Comment by zeiz

I'm the unluckiest guy in the world. my friend got 38 of these while leveling 85-90, I got 3...

Comment by Aliandrin

I believe we're looking at a dynamic drop rate. The more you kill a thing, the less that thing drops Mote of Harmony. This is why it looked like higher-level mobs dropped them more; at first, it was a matter of the higher-level ones being killed less.

They would do this to prevent excessive no-brainer, intensive farming.

Comment by Lordplatypus

You get motes of harmony by killing things

Seems legit.

Comment by 1055418

I've found that the mobs in Fire Camp Osul in Townlong Steppes drop a ridiculous amount of motes. When doing the Shado-pan daylies you can grab a helper (the best of which imo is the tank for larger groups) for farming.

Comment by 304386

Wow.. if u r completely smashed up with local panda alcohol drink the rate gose significantly up of drop mote of harmony... just kidding... however probably good way hot to grind up harmony is on your local farm in Valley of the Four Winds (need to be revered with The Tillers) :)

Comment by 1056647

Ive compared the Howlingwind Cavern with the Zul`s Watch quest a bit, and each has its benefits. Howlingwind seems to have about the same mote drop rate as Zul`s, drops similar greens, but also drops a great amount of windwool cloth (plus herbs and ore if you are a gatherer). On the other hand, Zul`s has an infinite amount of easier mobs that spawn almost immediately, and you wont be bothered with since you are doing an instanced quest.

If you can actually find Howlingwind uncamped, it has the edge in my opinion, but Zul`s is a great alternative when the cave is crowded. I use these two as my primary mote farming spots.

Comment by Namand

drop rate is terrible on these. Lots of people farming. Getting enough motes to make crafted items turns wow into a job. Please increase drop rate Blizz.

Comment by 692994

If you need to farm Mote of Harmony (instead of grow and harvest them on your farm using Songbell Seeds) I found a good spot to be in Krasarong Wilds just northwest of Angler's Wharf where the Riverblade Raiders and Thieves are. You can get a daily quest from Angler's Wharf to kill these guys also. What makes it a good spot is that most of the Raiders are already fighting with friendly Expedition Defenders in the area, so a lot of them are at low health, AND since it's a daily the spawn rate is very high for these guys. They also drop a good amount of Windwool Cloth, and the odd Scallion or Witchberry (though barely at all).

Comment by Kharnachrist

Read my comment on this page, this is probably the best spot to farm.

https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/npc=58409#comments:id=1768147

Comment by 1059371

Have the droprate been stealth-buffed in 5.1? Getting tons now.

Comment by 756708

Motes of harmony are grown by planting Songbell Seeds

Comment by restopresto

Would be kinda nice to see them BOA. Understand that this could cause programming issues etc but as I like many of you, I play multiple characters. The distribution across my chars is uneven as they drop as the weirdest times and being able to share them where I want them would be super. In any case, this subject is likely to be a hot one for at least the next year.

Comment by wowZhenek

I find those tricksters in mistfall village a better place to farm. You pull ~30 of them and aoe them down while they respawn. I think I farmed almost 200 motes in 5hours

Comment by JMTD77

Tried to reply to siakitty's post, for some reason it wont let me. Spot on place to get Mote's and it certainly hasn't been nerfed from what I can see. I just went there and within around 30-40 minutes I got 25 or so Motes and around 10 green items. Easy to kill them too, 95k health, can basically pull every single one of them (Though I am level 90, but I'd expect you shouldn't find it too hard even as a lower level person). Luckily I hadn't done the quest before. You need to do about 6 quests before you get this quest too.

After collecting 25 or so Mote's, I hearthstoned back to Org without completing the task. I'm guessing I can return there at any time and pick up where I left off. By far the best place I'd say. The kills are easy, you're in no danger of dying and they respawn almost instantly.

And take note, I almost gave up after around 7-8 minutes because no Mote's had dropped and I began to think this was wrong...then one dropped and from there on a tonne started dropping...2's and 3's here and there and they quickly begin to stack up. Spend an hour here and you should easily have 30 motes.

I'm using these motes to turn them into Spirit Of Harmony. I do Alchemy, so couple that with three Trillium Bar and I can make a Living Steel WITHOUT any cooldown. Looking at a 300g profit for one bar. So basically, 40 mins to an hour of farming get's me 300g, plus a massive amount of green items that can either be sold in AH or even make about 100g from shop keepers etc...so I'm then looking at a 400g profit without really doing a great deal of work. Do this for a few weeks and it quickly begins to total up.

Comment by kinigit

It is possible to get motes on low level characters. The Sealed Crate found in Shipwreck Debris pools on Darkmoon Island during Darkmoon Fair drop Mote of Harmony at about an 8% drop rate.

My level 80 scribe started fishing for 50 Mote of Harmony at level 1 fishing. It took several hours. I ended up at 311 fishing. I was able to fish crates from my first cast at level 1 fishing and Darkmoon Faire is accessible to level 1s thus low level character and bank alts could fish these up. However, I am fairly certain every recipe that uses the Mote of Harmony requires a level 80 to reach the sufficient profession level. Spirit of Harmony can be used as currency so if you have some reason to fish these up below level 80 then it is possible.

To give an idea of how long this will take for planning purposes; I earned the 1000 fish achievement and I fished approximately 750 Shipwreck Debris pools. Moving between the pools significantly increases the time it takes so don't just mentally calculate how long 311 fishing or 1000 casts would take. I recommend you stock up on Elixir of Water Walking during the 3 weeks off time leading up to the Darkmoon Faire.

Edit: Fishing requires level 5 so level 5+ characters can fish these up.

Comment by cotea

hi there. I was questing to reach level 90 doing The Field Armorer for shado-pan and i noticed the Mote of Harmony drops off them turtles 1xMote of Harmony at 1-3 Rankbite Tortoises or Rankbite Ancients.

Comment by Kold77

If you have a lowbie toon (I was 87) that you need these for to make things such as and (just my examples) which are BoA items, I found to get these there are 2 surefire ways as of MoP WoW 5.1 to get these.

Grind Method for lvl 85+

They drop like 'crazy' from the cranes north of Halfhill. If you don't mind the grind you get get about one spirit (10 motes) every hour or so if the laws of probability are on your side.

PVP Method for Alliance Requires level 87 to get the quests to open this method. Horde might be able to use the wall method but they have a different Honor QM named wich is north of the Shadow-Pan Fallback

Do the Kun-Lai quest lines that seems to start in the flight point hub at West Wind Rest that leads to the flight point Shadow-Pan Fallback in the SSW corner of Kun-Lai.

From the Shadow-Pan Fallback walk along the top of the wall south.

There will be one corner/gate with a closed door blocking you, walk to the right of it along the ledge then drop down to the next wall section.

Keep heading south towards the Honor QM Hayden Christophen at The Lion's Redoubt which is on top of the wall in The Dread Wastes.

All of the above PVP section stuff can be skipped if you bribe a guildy or someone with a flying passenger carrying mount to fly you to the Honor Vendor. Just be careful of phased areas as you will be booted off the mount.

The Honor Vendor sells for 400 Honor.

I am sure there may be other ways. Please up-vote if this helped and comment if you have any other methods.

EDIT: It is much easier, faster, and better if you keep your honor points and just mob grind. I like the cranes because there is plenty enough around where if nobody else is grinding them you can just keep going and going. Even at 90 I use this spot to fill in extra motes quickly to make a

Comment by 98367

A few good places I have found to farm these:

Quest mobs in general tend to be the best sources. Blizz has caught onto some of the more popular spots and nerfed them so I'm not telling my #1 spot which is still ridiculous for gaining a lot of these, a lot of greens and a lot of cloth in a hurry. But some other good quest spots I've seen which tend to be good for these include...

Just about anywhere there are sprites. The sprites often come in threes or can at least be pulled in mass. Many are tied to quests so they will respawn quicker than regular mobs. Examples of places with sprites would be the cave NW of the temple of the tiger. There's another cave with lower level ones south of the temple which includes a rare spawn chest in the back, some areas of northern Jade forest, and many quest areas in the Vale of Eternal Blossums although these tend to be the hardest to burn quickly. Sprites also tend to make for good farms because they will drop various food items depending on which ones you farm.

For tailors especially:
The various quest based lizard dudes (I forget the mob name) but you find some in Vale of Eternal blossoms on some days with the Golden Lotus dailies as well as off the coast or in the caves on the coast of Jade Forest with the Cloud Serpent dailies. I just stumbled on these the other day although I'd already been out there some farming the turtles on my skinner.

Quest related hozen. There are a couple of areas in Jade forest especially where groups of hozen are tied to quests. These tend to be good especially for tailors as, again they will spawn quickly if quest related and die quickly while dropping greens and cloth.

For skinners:
Turtles tend to be the best. There's the small pond near the entrance north in the Valley of the four winds that is good for low level turtles, then there's the aforementioned islands off the coast of jade forest for higher level ones. There are also some nice mid-level turtles around the pond in SW valley of the winds tied to the Nesingwary quests with lots of other skinnables round about that you can pick up while waiting on more turtle spawns.
Another good spot, although farming is a bit slower due to the level of the mobs is the small pond in SE Dread Wastes. You can farm turtles, striders and gators there and it's worth doing if you need klaxxi rep because they will also occasionally drop the shards for the repeatable rep quest.

I have as of yet to try various places with the mantid, but I am curious to see how the ones around the August Celestials quests in Townlong do for drops. Again, quest tied mobs and if you need to, you can fall back to the pandaren guards or the pat of the big yak to help burn them down quickly.

Comment by Troelsy

Many of the places listed in comments on here as being good places to farm Mote of Harmony are either outdated (been nerfed) or simply are just crap for level 85s.

I managed to find an amazing place as of Feb 2013 for my 85 frost Mage to farm Mote of Harmony.

Just south of Zhu's Watch in Krasarang Wilds there is a tiny bit of Sha touched earth with some Weeping Horror. They respawn faster than I can kill them. They give the best yield I have come across for level 86 mobs. Lets say less than 10 min waiting for lfg to pop and I got 3 Motes of Harmony. I have returned several times to this location and got the same results.

Comment by Sulker

I found the island in the very south of Krasarang Wilds to be the best farming spot for those.
The island is called Unga Ingoo, it's the island where Funky Rotten Fish drops for the quest Beastmaster's Hunt: The Crab. There are tons of Unga Villager which seem to have a decent drop rate for Mote of Harmony and also Windwool Cloth . You can pull 10-20 of them together, I never had problems to kill those amounts as a iLvl 464 survival hunter.

There are to main spots to pull those hozen:
1. The pit at the western part of the island. Two hozen are batteling inside while 15-18 hozen are watching. You can easily pull them together and AoE them down.

2. From the pit, go to the west and you'll find another pack of hozen sitting in a circle. Just as with the first spot, pull them together and AoE them down.

While you are waiting for those two packs to respawn, just kill the other packs of 3-5 hozen or do a bg/heroic.

Also, there's a chance for a rare spawn at the far eastern edge of the island. It's Spriggin. He drops nothing special, except of Spriggin's Sproggin' Leggin' which you may be able to sell for a few hundred gold. There also is a chance for Barrel of Banana Infused Rum for the achievement Is Another Man's Treasure to spawn. It contains 5xBanana Infused Rum and the Recipe: Banana Infused Rum

Have fun farming :)

Edit: Nerfed :'(

Comment by togahsisoka

I've had some success farming the Mushan Herds around the Underbough in Townlong Steppes. I'm still grinding for ribs for ironpaw tokens so I'm kind of killing two birds w/ one stone. I think I got 15-16motes in the ~hour I was farming up 50 ribs...

Comment by 1115034

On farming Motes of Harmony, I'd like to add the following:

Consider farming 85-88 mobs. The drop rates are lower but you'll kill the mobs faster too. For instance, if you can kill a given mob with half the drop rate twice as fast, then the drop rate per period of time is effectively the same. Now, this is mostly theorycrafting, but interestingly I do seem to get motes more often by killing lower-level mobs. I could be wrong and I'll have to test it more, but at least it's worth noting. 85 mobs might be too low, but 87-88 mobs seem to be in that "sweet spot" between lower drop rate and faster killing.

If anyone can confirm or dismiss this, then please do. Also, with enough ilvl (maybe 500+) killing normal 90s is pretty fast anyways, upon which my tip may not be as viable. It definitely depends on your levels, not to mention if you're not even at 90 yet yourself.

Regardless, I've seen a lot of players who neglect time as a resource. This is one of the secrets of successful farming and AH trading - how much time you spend doing it, and not just how much you get out of it per individual drop or trade.

Comment by ir0nmike

For a shadow priest, one of the easiest ways to farm this at level 90 are probably the Bilgewater Sapper (for the Alliance) or the Shieldwall Engineer (for the Horde). Just gather 5-7 of those using mind sear, halo and shadow word: pain. Then use void tendrils and mind sear them down. (If they aren't dead after the void tendril "expires", just continue mind searing, they will drop within seconds)

Comment by jawabait

I spent about an hour and a half at the Pools of Purity killing turtles. I killed about 375, got 10 motes, 13 greens, and 165 turtle meat. Not a bad haul, all said and done! Of course I did this at 4AM EST so it was easier for me than if I'd done it at peak times.

Comment by 827788

I found that though it's a bit tough because of mob spacing, if you're crafty, farming the barrens seems like a decent way to get motes. Any of the Kor'kron mobs work.

Comment by Smilodon

I found the best way to farm these is in short bursts - flying around Jade Forest and Valley of the 4 Winds (or wherever you fancy) looking for rare spawns. You have a 20% chance to get a bag that has a 50% chance to contain 2 or 3 motes, which averages out to only 0.25 motes per rare on average. But considering some of them are easy to find at certain times of the early morning, I netted 6 motes on my first round, then logged off for a few hours and came back to collect 5 more on my next round, which was all I needed. The other goodies and toys I collected from this adventure fattened my wallet a bit too!

Comment by Trifold

A nice way I've found to get a fair amount of motes as well as justice/valor is merely spamming scenarios.
The Greater Cache of Treasures have yieled me 1-5 motes per run so far.

Comment by NickMansell

I found that if you take off your bracers, spam 10 self heals, jump 5 times, spin 180 degrees, kill a Zandalari Warbringer, say "Show me the motes!" and then loot that Zandalari Warbringer the drop rate of the motes increases greatly. Bear in mind you'll have to do this many times to have a sufficient number of motes.

Comment by 408978

So i think i figured something out. I am grinding BP rep and motes on Thunder Isle at The Emperor's Gate. I noticed that when I kill stuff in the pens I get bones and teeth when I move to the shrine i get motes. Yep motes. So I am fighting at this spot and out of 16 battles, of the same ol thing, I've gotten motes 14 times.... my interpretation of this information i that the drops are zone based somehow not only NPC based. Which would account for the low drop rate. we are running in and out of these small zone areas killing the same NPCs. Do it yourself grind one NPC in one area and move and grind the same NPC and see if your drops percenteges dont change. You draw your own conclusions but i'm adjusting my grind strategy.

Comment by Foxearedass

It seems that people have completely underestimated the value of spending 5 minutes every week doing Key to the Palace of Lei Shen. If done correctly, it's a good 400-500g for 5 mins work. additionally you can, if lucky, get 1-4 SoH per run.

using this well done video guide you should be able get the most out of each run.

Comment by Mike21daisu

Doing normal scenarios is the best way to farm Mote of Harmony, after you complete the scenario you will get Greater Cache of Treasures in which there will be around 5 Mote of Harmony.

You can do normal scenario runs as many times as you want, it is 3 times faster than farming it anywhere else, I wonder why people haven't figured this out yet... Just get a nice group or just join as a good DPS or Tank to finish the scenario quickly. Plus, you will also get x60 Justice Points, gold and random rare or epic items.

Comment by WOW333

Also, found out that Motes of Harmony drop from the Shao-Tien Sorcerers and Fists in the Vale quite often. This is also my first time writing a comment and wanted to make sure it worked! :D

Comment by xblessedx

Wanna farm these like there is no tomorrow, go to the thunder island and go to the zone where you get transformed into a lizard. There, in the beach and around, there are a ton of those lizards where you can pull nice groups and get motes easily.
I've pulled groups where 5/6 motes droped at a time.
Battle Horn is great to have if you're a tank.

Comment by MrsTiger

Hello all

in addition to the 16 Mote of Harmony u can "make" a day at the tillers once u are exalted with Tillers.
U can also once a day deliver (on Isle of Giants):
9 Giant Dinosaur bones to get one Mote of Harmony
99 Giant Dinosuur bones to get one Spirit of Harmony

so in motes thats another 11 motes a day

Comment by Ryusan

If you do not like killing monsters to farm Mote of Harmony, running scenarios for Greater Cache of Treasures is probably the best item in game to get Mote of Harmony. With the exception of planting Songbell Seed for the motes with a maximum of 16 per day.

Complete a scenario, obtain Greater Cache of Treasures and receive 1-17 motes. From my experience, I receive about 4-5 per cache on average. Pretty nice as scenarios normally last 8-15 minutes. So about 20 motes or 2 Spirit of Harmony in an hour.

Comment by ClodaghLunaria

I used to farm these from the Hozen at Unga down in Karasang. Recently though, even with a Potion of Luck I seem to be getting very little. They didn't change the drop rate of anything at all did they? Just curious :)

Comment by Stormeey

The Vale of Eternal Blossoms Shado-Tien mobs end up being a very good location for a variety of reasons.

If you take a toon that is a tailor, you will farm up lots of cloth, motes have a very decent drop rate, Guo-Lai keys drop off these mobs, a decent amount of greens, the Skyshards also drop here as well in addition to a fairly fast spawning batch of rare mobs in the area that can drop Treasure of the Vale.

This makes a pretty well rounded farming area, as the chests opened by the keys drop motes as well as a wide variety of all crafting mats and a decent amount of Treasures of the Vale boxes. If you happened to take tailor the chests AND the Treasures of the Vale have a fairly decent chance to drop Imperial Silk.

All the while you are able to continue to acquire Skyshards either for your own Alani mount or to sell the kill.

Comment by 513976

At the very least they should make items like this BoA with the final Spirit of Harmony soulbound so they can be sent to crafter alts.

Even making the motes BoE would be a great economy booster.

People without alts could sell off their motes to crafters, who in turn would convert them making them soulbound.

Comment by Balgair

In Warlords of Draenor beta these are unbound! http://imgur.com/fW9ZY0y - no "bind on pickup" or anything like that text, also I have seen Spirits on the AH there, so can only assume both are completely free of any binding.

Comment by 301240

I like how you get these by killing things.

Comment by frexima

Looking to farm them? ;) This is one of the best farming spots for them! ^^ with abit of luck you can farm 100 of them in one hour! i farmed 12 in just 10 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51XB6RorTnM

Comment by martanius

You can"farm" these by opening Greater Cache of Treasures that is reward for completing normal scenarion. It is not daily limited. It drop around 5 motes + golds and some medium quality items. But it probably is possible untill WoD patch 6.0.

Comment by Neama

They DO drop from mobs for lvl 85 characters questing in Pandaria!

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Mote of Harmony

Item Level 85
Binds when picked up

Use: Combine ten Motes of Harmony into a Spirit of Harmony.

Max Stack: 200

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This item can be purchased in Kun-Lai Summit (2), Townlong Steppes (2), and Vale of Eternal Blossoms (2).

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