Prepare to farm for a while, these have got to be one of the worst items to farm for. If you need just one you have a better chance to get one by doing the quest Blueleaf Tubers. Otherwise you'll have to farm either Big-mouth Clams or Thick-shelled Clam the drop rate from them is extremely low.

I farmed 25 Big-Mouth Clams got 1 Black Pearl and the meat you always get with the clam. I then went and farmed 55 Thick-shelled Clams and got 3 Small Lustrous Pearls and 1 Iridescent Pearl

評論來自 pbij

Probably best to farm this while either doing the quest Soothing Turtle Bisque (Alliance Version) or for the grinding your cooking skill with the recipes Soothing Turtle Bisque or Goblin Deviled Clams.

評論來自 166878

Where most of the territory that has these is alliance or contested, but closer to alliance(so you are likely to get ganked if horde) they are MUCH more expensive for horde.

評論來自 BladeMaster0182

Let me give you an idea of how bad the drop rate is. First depending on what you kill you have about a 40-50% chance of getting a thick shelled clam. Each clam has a 3% chance of giving you the pearl. I spend TWO hours killing Torn Fin Murlocs just so I could get two pearls. I got to the point where if I heard another "Mrgrlgrlgrl!" I would snap. Yea, have fun farming these.

評論來自 rafaelh

if u farm the turtles in hilsbard long enough ull get some rare drops such as river pride choker i got 2 and sold 1 on ah for 50g and they sold fast i also got some pearls along that farm i got like 4 i sold em and it turned out i needed them XD

評論來自 Velothi

Sold one of these for 110g... ridiculous money maker.

評論來自 Qotsa

Snapjaws were perfect! The third one I killed dropped a clam that contained my Iridescent Pearl! Thanks for the tip, you saved me tons of time.

評論來自 337440

Not sure what I've done wrong here, but I killed like 300 Snapjaws and not a single drop. My bad luck beats math even.

There was a pearl for 10g on AH earlier... Now I regret not buying it.

評論來自 348492

I made an account just to nth the Snapjaws suggestion - it took me just a single trip up the river to find my Pearl compared to cleaning Bluegill Bay out of Murlocs.

評論來自 351600

i tryed the snapjaws by mill for 1hr 20min and gave up . got no iredisent pearls :( and i could kill a turtle in 5sec . maybe my bad luk

評論來自 353797

just finished my homeworks..
perfect 33% chance for me for the clams, 24 out of 72..
not even one dropped a single pearl >.<
not even a small lustrous >.<
/cry
even though, in the meantime i got 99 turtle meat, some clam meat, a shadow silk and some meat drop from spiders..
not totally useless time, in the end..

update:
i surely broke some of my hand's bones...
but FINALLY, after 1:30 hours of farming, 170 turtle meat, 7 large venom sacks, 30 crunchy spider legs,
25 gooey spider legs, 30 crisp spider meat, 7 venom sacs, one large fang, 4 golds made from vendor trash and 63 tangy clam meat, i managed to drop:
ONE iridescent pearl..

brb, if i'm not going to commit suicide >.<
if you have my same luck, and you only need iridescent pearls, farming them is definitely not worthy, in my opinion, it'll be faster to build up the golds to buy them from the lucky people that drops them >.<

greetings from crushridge :P

評論來自 105897

Maybe it would be far better "to farm" the gem with quest Sparklematic-Wrapped Box in Gnomer?

You will get a ton of Grime-Encrusted Objects from nearby Troggs and gold should not a problem anyway.

評論來自 358052

Snapjaws are excellent for farming these (given the circumstances.) I went up the stream twice in southshore-western plaguelands and got 2 iridescent pearls for my troubles. Probably the fastest way to farm these stinking things.

評論來自 82212

While I did find farming ONE of these to be extremely time consuming it was quite profitable. I choose to farm them off the Saltwater's in Hinterlands for maximum profitability.

I originally decided to farm this because I thought that AH prices of 10g per on my server were overblown, now I see I was wrong. Personally though I would farm for this item again instead of paying the quick and easy 10g because as a Skinner I came away with 74 Thick Leather (5g per stack), 14 Rugged Leather (12g per stack), and 57 Turtle Scales (12g per stack) in addition to all the Turtle Meat and ect. that the turtles drop in the place and the clam meat/other misc. pearls from the Clams. It was an hour of time that netted me about 75g and the pearl I needed and I helped some lowbies along the way by vaporizing a 68 Ally DK who thought it would be fun to attack Raventusk but instead got Windfuried into oblivion.

評論來自 409900

Signed up especially to say this,

After what seemed like an eternity (3 hours or so) of killing turtles in hinterlands I got a load of turtle meat, some greys, 7 black pearls, 1 Small lust pearl and 2 iridescent pearls.

To think I did this to save myself 40 gold on the AH -_-

評論來自 ryanred500

i bought 3 of these the other day for 3g on ah, some noobs were selling them...

resold them all for 60g :)

評論來自 gamersara

Bought 10 Big-mouth Clam off the AH for less than 1G and got my Iridescent Pearl on the 5th one, must have been really lucky :)

評論來自 Twyliteskye

If you have a higher level toon farming for a lower level alt, the best place to farm for iridescent pearls is Blackfathom Deeps. I went there with my 62 DK and in one run netted a bag full of greens and 3 stacks of thick shelled clams out of which dropped 6 small lustrous pearls and 3 iridescent pearls.

評論來自 Awkamess

Got one off my first big mouth clam!

評論來自 201822

If you're around level 30 then outzaidurs advice is great, since it's easy and you wont risk getting swarmed, but if you are a lot higher than 30 you could follow Skroflers advice and kill big groups of murlocs.

Bull... spent 1hour opened like 200 calms still no drop.

Well, the thing about drop rates, especially low ones, is that as long as it ain't a 100% chance you aren't guaranteed to find one, some people are lucky and find what they're looking for almost immediately, and others spend hours looking and find nothing. If you really want one you'll have to keep trying, but since you aren't guaranteed to find one you might want to consider if it is actually worth the time, because time is money, friend.

評論來自 435511

Holy sh!t, screw Irisdescent Pearls. Farmed the river of Alterac Valley/Hillsbrad Foothills for a good fourty minutes and yielded 190 Turtle Meats, 60 Tangy Clam Meats, 4 Small Lustrous Pearls, and that gray crap. Man, these are a pain in the @ss to get.

評論來自 435431

i farmed snapjaw turtles in Tanaris last night, went up and down the shore 4 times and found 3 black pearls, 3 iridescent pearls, 3 small lustrous pearls and 3 golden pearls... all good things come in 3s :) i was just looking for zesty clam meat too hehe

評論來自 443037

snap jaws in the hillsbrad river drop em' pretty rarely 9/1 so if you can kill quickly enough you'll get enough

評論來自 285665

why did they make these so hard to get.....? 0%-0.1% wtf?

評論來自 Lisawild

Was out in Blackfathom Deeps tonight, running some little ones through to one of the bosses. Kept getting thick shelled clams dropping and having giant clams under the water. In 5 runs we got 5 of these pearls, better then the grind I did last time I actually needed these, where I spent 4 hours farming turtles and murlocs and got 1. So you might try going into BFD if you can, check all the giant clams as I got 2 from those.

評論來自 455664

(Read my other comment) ... This droprate sucks TERRIBADLY when you are farming lower levels. Try farming the higher lvl mobs and the droprate improves, not much, but a noticeable difference....

評論來自 468470

Spent a half hour farming the snapjaws in the river in hillsbrad/alterac mountains, didn't get a single one. Spent the same amount of time on the murlocs south and to the west of southshore and got FOUR. 63 Afflic Lock. They are close together, in high numbers, and respawn ridiculously fast. This just may be my new favorite item to farm for profit.

評論來自 482620

follow jungleye55's tip. i got 7 iridescent pearl, 3 black pearl, 4gold pearl in isle of dread south of feathermoon hold in an hour. the pearl is simply with shalzaru and his mobs. droprate is fine. if you do enchanting it would be one of the best place to disenchant green & blue items too.

評論來自 44621

41 Big-mouth Clams opened, here are the results.
3 Iridescent Pearls
2 Black Pearls
1 Golden Pearl

Maybe I was lucky, maybe they changed the droprates.

評論來自 188789

By far the easiest way to get one of these is when you're not actually expecting to get one.

Here's an example: On my paladin I got 6 iridescent pearls and sold them all. When I tried to get ONE of those for a recipe on my priest I had to farm for an hour straight.

評論來自 kl0wn

Got it from Clam No: 15 as a first pearl @ Hillsbrad turtles.

Also, got 4 stacks of Turtle meat and 15 pieces of clam meat.

評論來自 Milker

Sometimes it can be a pain to read the succes stories of people who got it on their second kill so here goes:

75 minutes
223 turtle meat
65 tangy clam meat (= 65 shells)
39 thick scaly tail
26 speckled shell fragment
24 raw bristle whisker catfish
1 moss agate
1 small lustruous pearl
1 glimmering flamberge of the whale
0 iridencent pearl

That was farming snapjaws in hillsbrad, in reply to outzaidur

評論來自 Znuff

I tried what @jungleeye25 suggested. Farmed 400 Big Clams in that location, this is what I got:

23 x Greens (from the mobs there)
2 x Blues (from the mobs there)
7 x Golden Pearl
9 x Iridescent Pearl
13 x Black Pearl
4 x Small Lustrous Pearl

And 400 x Zesty Clam Meat

For the biggest part of the time, I was by myself there. Once I finished killing all mobs in the cavern, I got out, cleaned everything, then by the time came back in the cave, they were all respawned. This was done with a Shadow Priest @ lvl80.

評論來自 555760

ty guys it dropped at the 7th snapjaw, after 3 hours of farming clams and murlocs in STV

評論來自 andywhoa

Found within 5 minutes of pearl farming north of Revantusk Village on the eastern beaches of the Hinterlands. There are plenty of turtles there and they drop iridescent, black and sometimes golden pearls. Note: the turtles are leveled in the high 40s - low 50s.

評論來自 429348

found out that, if you want to farm the snapjaws in hillsbrad and you are a mage, you should use fire spells since the the snapjaws have a high frost immunity. You can kill them with frost but it will take a while and since i only had to use 4 fireballs to down them, i farmed alot faster.

good luck :D

評論來自 705725

yep this works i managed to get one right off the first mob there it took me more time to get there than it did to get it lol

評論來自 synz1976

I just went up and down the turtles outside of TM and not one of them dropped a clam and they bearly dropped turtle meat. I do not know if they were changed since 4.0.3 to 4.0.3a but they seem to no longer drop clams.

Yep up and down I got nothing for clams but I did get a lvl 17 blue leather armor that dropped, but no clams what so ever :(

Went to raventusk village and killed every turtle there and nothing from there either... Not one clam.

評論來自 synz1976

The turtles near raventusk and hillsbrad no longer drop clams nor do the mobs on the south shores of hillsbrad. Only place I have seem to find the clams is out of Blackfathom Deeps off every water type monster in there.
Out of 2 runs of BFD I walked away with:
80 thick-shelled clams
4 small lustruous pearl
3 iridencent pearl
103 tangy clam meat (most from the 80 thick-shelled clams others were from the giant clams)

Not sure if this is the only spot left to farm for these clams or if Blizzard made a boo boo...

評論來自 jfoobar

Concur, neither the naga nor the murlocs on the Hillsbrad shores appear to drop clams anymore at all.

評論來自 jfoobar

I also went into BFD to get one. I cleared the entire instance, 37 total clams, and found just 1.

評論來自 246666

spent about 20 min
killed about 25 Snapjaws in Hillsbrad Foothill (making two pass over river)

評論來自 740916

For lvl 50-60 Horde the Naga on the southeast shore of the blasted lands drop a lot of clams, maybe even at the same rate as in Shalzaru's Lair. I farmed there for about 30mins and came up with an Iridescent pearl, some Small Lustrous Pearls and a Black pearl.

I tried farming those damned turtles for about 1.5 hrs and came up with nothing. I think that really this item isn't a terribly hard drop to get if you know where to farm.

評論來自 4324

The island is gone. A victim of Cataclysm and Cuddlewing<tm>.

We need to find a new spot.

評論來自 771137

As of cata is says this zone no longer exists. the entrance to cave has collapsed so I was wondering how you guys are still managing to farm this area. If it exist somewhere else could you please post the coords because I cant seem to find Shalzaru's Lair anywhere

評論來自 777469

Confirmed. Nagas in the The Red Reaches in Blasted Lands drop clams. The clams can sometimes contain pearls. After around 30 mins of farming, I managed to get

1 Iridescent Pearl
2 Black Pearl
3 Gold Pearl
and a ton of meat. :D

評論來自 Randyrob

UPDATE as of the shattering -

unfortunately the cave 'jungleeye25' mentions is now underwater...the whole island is gone so thats no longer an option, neither is azshara as its now a low level area.sadface.

searching for an alternative i found quite a lot of naga in the red reaches on the south eastern tip of blasted lands, just follow the murloc slave train to find groups of them. id say its about 50% drop change on clams. results after grinding
108 clams (just under an hour at lvl 69) are

7 black pearls
1 iridescent pearl

just went to swamp of sorrows to the stalabog cave to see if its any better...its aweful dont even try, theres a few murlocs on the bottom half of the east coast but not great grinding

got 12 clams from clearing both areas (thought one did yield another iridescent pearl!)

評論來自 770923

Just received one after opening my 12th Thick-Shelled Clam from Murlocs in the Wetlands.. drop rate of clams is about 1 in 3 kills.

評論來自 773963

Took about 30 mins to get one, I started with the turtles 鉗嘴龜in Hillsbrad Foothills, made my way down the river , started on the Murlocks and then checked Wowhead and noticed that the Naga刺脊灘行者 & 刺脊海妖 east of Southshore also drops these clam's and trust me they dropped a lot more than the Turtles and the Murlocks and the rate of cloth was also very nice from these too, but the grind was not too bad, the cloth and meats gained sold very well on my AH.

But good luck grinding these pearl's and they will make a nice profit as someone was willing to pay 500g for one as they were leveling enchanting on an alt and just could not be bothered to grind so these will make money for sure as you need this to make the golden rod for enchanting, and most people just want to power lev these days so they will pay good :D

評論來自 799207

It seems like BFD is the place to be for these although I did find what I was looking for near Tarren Mill. From the Naga at the shore, inside a clam.

厚殼蚌

Tangy clam meat also sells very nicely on AH as mentioned in above post.

評論來自 699952

Misty Reed Strand - Swamp of Sorrows
Farmed Murlocs and then fished after eliminating them. Took 10 mins and had 1 Iridescent Pearl, 1 Black Pearl, 1 Bolt of Runecloth, 3 Thick Leathers, 18 Zesty Clam meats & 3 greens for 40s level. That all came from the 20 big-mouthed clams & 1 mithril bound trunk. Fishing there also garnered Rumsey Rum Black Label x 4 from wreckage.

This was way better cache than farming Hillsbrad turtles or murlocs.
Merry crits!

評論來自 Varicelle

South-east of Gadgetzan, along the shore, is now a great spot to farm those : the only mobs there are Tidal Striders and turtles, and drop big-mouth clams at a nice rate. Happy farming.

評論來自 cefm

WOW's own mobile armory says nothing about dropping from thickshell clams. Just in the Giant Clams underwater at Blackfathom. Can anyone confirm getting one from the dropped clams since 4.1?

評論來自 834766

I killed Snapjaw's in hillsbrad and it took me about 1h 20min and I killed 312 snapjaw's.. filled 32 slots in my bag and like 12 of them where stacks of 20. But the drop chance of the clam's are kinda low too...

評論來自 825154

Do NOT farm snapjaws, they have 10-20% drop rate of clams (from my personal experience) and are incredibly spread out. What I did instead is went south down the river to the daggerspine Naga and killed all of them (head south east along the shore, lots of them!). After killing 2-3 respawns of them, they slowed down in spawn rate, but their drop rate was much better imo! Not to mention the fact that they're closer together and drop wool/silk (which sells for a reasonable amount... mine aswell make some G right?). As soon as they slowed down in spawn rate I went up made 1 run of the turtles went back down and killed the naga again. Rinse, repeat.

I got my iridescent pearl after:

55 x Tangy Clam Meat
2 x Small Lustrous Pearl

I also got:

63 x Wool
9 x Silk

Not bad. (:

Oh and it only took me about... 20-30 minutes?

評論來自 Dremaestus

As of Cataclysm, the area in Feralas is no longer available.

評論來自 Talorin44

Where can i have Iridescent Pearl?

評論來自 alkemist

黑澗深淵 is a great place to farm for thick shelled clam.. except the drop rate on the pearl is horrendous. Easy as an 85 but it was still a pain nonetheless or the RNG god's hated me. I did half clear of BFD, up to the twilight portion and cleared the caves outside 2 times until I finally opened a shell and got a pearl. Got plenty of 有腥味的蛤蜊肉, at least 40. I had to dump some to make room in my bags. Glad I only needed 1 for the 符文金棒.

評論來自 794823

I used the nag on the coastline to getmine. Was there for a couple of minutes and i found 1 it was great!

評論來自 mario92337

After about 30+ minutes from farming the naga on the south shoreline of the Hillsbrad Foothills from the Ruins of Southshore to Dun Garok, i got 61 Tangy Clam Meat, 3 Small Lustrous Pearl, 3 stacks of Linen Cloth, 3.5 stacks of Wool Cloth, 3 green equips and 1 Iridescent Pearl along with several other little trash items. GL if you want to farm for the iridescent pearl; another place that may be worth trying is Black Fathom Deeps.

評論來自 859352

2,5h grinding snapjaws
Still not a single Iridscent pearl

3xlustrious pearl
12stacks turtle meat
14stacks Thick scaly tale
+ alot of greenies (sent 2 mails with boe greenies to another toon while grinding engi on the toon i grinded with)
2x bags
2xblues
4stacks tangy clam meat

I killed snapjaws murlocs nagas in soutshore
mostly snapjaws....

As of grinding 2,5h without any Iridescent pearl
i´ll be more then happy to pay up to 200g for one single pearl >_<
I just need one for the runed golden rod

The drop rate should be increased
its silly how low it is

評論來自 Kenyon

Iridescent pearls drop out of thick-shelled clams, too. Doing the RAF deal, I decided to run my alts (I have three accounts) through Blackfathom Deeps on my 71 frost DK.

I walked out with 6 of the iridescent pearls, 2 small pearls, and ~6 stacks of Tangy Clam Meat. The clam meat usually sells pretty well (~28g/stack last time I sold it), and the iridescent pearls sell for about 50-80g each on my server.

Definitely try Blackfathom if you're looking for just the Iridescent Pearl. Loot the clams on the floor of the water-filled areas, because two of mine came from those. (As well as an alchemy recipe and a green or two.)

I ran through maybe three to four times, but I was leveling alts, and I'm sure you can get at least one pearl within a run or two.

評論來自 860695

Spent two days farming Snapjaws, murlocs, and naga in Hillsbrad, didn't get a single iridescent. Friend tipped me off to go into BFD and try the clams littered through the instance. Oh. My. God.

Practically every mob in there has a very high drop rate for the 厚殼蚌 and by the time I got to Ghamoo-ra I had gotten so many clams it wasn't even funny. Nestled in there was my precious Iridescent, now I can finally get on with my life and my enchanting (too broke to buy an Iridescent off the AH xD). I seriously suggest you try looting the clams inside BFD as well as the naga, murlocs, crabs, etc.

評論來自 857329

If you are trying to farm these you want Thick-shelled Clam a good place I got them was the Daggerspine naga in Hillsbrad foothills.

評論來自 865005

+1 to BFD! Literally 5 minutes after entering the instance I had my pearl. Some fool was charging over 300G for one at the AH on my realm, and there was ONLY ONE. Thanks to whoever found this out! Artisan Enchanting here I come!

評論來自 SimonEddie

spent an hour farming snapjaws for this, only to find 10 of them on the ah that had come up whilst farming..... -_-

評論來自 737581

DOH!
Farmed the snapjaws, and got nothing.
Farmed thick-shelled clams in BFD, and got nothing.
Earlier while I looking on wowhead, I saw the Giant Clams as an alternative option for farming, and I remembered that when I saw one in BFD. I thought eh, might as well look in this too, and what do i find on the FIRST one? an Iridescent Pearl!
DOH!

評論來自 LeGustaVinho

I opened 100x Giant Clam: I got 100x Blue Pearl and 34x 有腥味的蛤蜊肉.
I'm very unlucky or database is outdated.
See Blue Pearl can be obtained by Giant Clam and are not listed in the database.

What do you think about it?

評論來自 877859

Ran BFD 3 times and came away with 6 iridescent pearls. Took about an hour and a half.

評論來自 837231

Just Been in blasted lands powering through the quests. Found x3 out of 20 clams dropped by the nagas in the area. Southeast of the blasted lands along the coast. Also found x5 Black pearls and x7 Small Lustrous Pearl out of 59 clams. Easy to farm also clams drop zesty clam meat for cooking. Enjoy! :)

評論來自 alleriah531

The best place I have found to farm big mouth clams are in the blasted lands, along the southeastern shore. The droprate from the naga (lvl 55ish) seems to be almost 1 per/mob. After farming about 40 clams, I received 2 iridescent pearls and 1 black pearl.

評論來自 884588

Well, I was farming Nagas south of Ruins of Southshore in Hillsbrad Foothills....
I killed about 120 nagas, and got only one Iridescent Pearl - so you have to farm alot

評論來自 126940

Took 20 minutes, but I got my pearl in Northern Stranglethorn Vale.

The Giant Clams have a chance to drop the pearls and the Murlocs in the Vile Reef drop 厚殼蚌 so there's multiple ways to farm them. Of course you'll want some sort of underwater breathing/swim speed to make things a little less painful.

There's a group of murlocs around the ruins (26,44) and shipwreck (28,51), other than that I made circles around the Vile Reef.

評論來自 counsel

Lvl 44 rogue. Vile Reef. Opened 10 giant clams, only blue pearls. Killed a dozen murlocs, and they dropped 2 Thick-Shelled Clams, and one dropped the pearl. So, try the murlocs.

評論來自 Markoswan

Cleared BFD. Nothing.

First big-mouth clam from the nagas in blasted lands? My pearl. -.-;

評論來自 227695

okay here is a comment that will help you and not frustrate you like "i wanted to tell you how you CANT get those"

okay so, you will go at swamp of sorrows, at the south half part of the east beach, there are some murlocs which seem to have the chance of about 80?% of the big-mouth clam, thats the best way ive found untill now, also the beach is FULL of those murlocs and on the south part of it, there is a camp to the west, that has some spawns aswell, try it.

murlocs name is marshfin murkdweller

and not downrate me since that seems to be the fastest way, and its a helpful comment, you smart guy who -1ed me.

評論來自 Quesac

Drop rate still sucks in 4.2. I cleared it on my 62 DK and got 2 of them in one run. Both of them came from the "Snapping Crustacean". Fortunately it's all I needed for the boots my little priest wants to make. I did pick up a ton of clam meat though and that sells very well on my server.

評論來自 445672

Went to blasted lands to the nagas... got a pearl in 6 kills.

評論來自 oxmoze

Blasted Lands:

Just Got one, First mob
A BloodWash Acolyte in the cavern (north east)

評論來自 895731

Opened Over 100 thick shelled clams and about the same amount of big mouthed clams from nagas in Blasted lands w/o any luck! (Got some black pearls though)

Also opened all Giant clams I could find also w/o any luck :/

評論來自 910404

Western Strand Found 2 Iridescent Pearl and 2 small pearls not to mention tons of other stuff... Check it out!

評論來自 422324

I think the law of diminishing returns applies here. Check the AH price and look at some real data. The above posters that get there drop on the first or second try are so overwhelmed with gratitude and more likely to come back and post here. Such as:

I got one on my FIRST FREAKING DROP. You, sir, are a genius. Two internets for you.

Awesome got it on the 6th one, thanks

THANK YOU! I saw this and went straight to Hillsbrad and i got a clam on my second kill. I opened it and PRESTO! Iridescent Pearl. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

However, the reality is that these post contain very little data to ascertain any sort of real drop rate. The sample size is just to small. which is why you have guys like me... That farm 4 stacks of Thick-shelled Clams and get no Iridescent Pearl. We are so underwhelmed with gratitude and overwhelmed with irritation we forget about coming back here and posting, we begrudgingly by it of the AH cause we reallize that 60g really was worth the hours of farming and getting nothing.

But Seriously Here is my data:
Farmed 81 x from Eastern Strand Nagas. I didn't keep track of the drop rate of the clams, I estimate its between 20-30%
received from the clams:
81 x s
7 x s
0 x s

評論來自 912422

First I got about 20 Thick-Shelled Clams from the turtles in Hillsbrad and got nothing
It took to long to get the shells so i tried the nagas in Hillsbrad in the south, they had much better drop rate but i got about 180 shells and got only 12 other pearls
Then i went to hinterlands and killed the turtles there, got about 10 shells but it took to long to get them.
Then i read more on the comments and saw that soemone did mention that it may be a better chance to get them in Gnomergan of Sparklematic-Wrapped box which you get of the machines, so i tried it and killed all troggs in there, it took 10-15 min, then I put the things i got from the troggs into the machine, i found about 20 things which you need to put into the machines. It also costs 3 silver every time. After the 10th box i recieved I got the stupid Iridescent Pearl!
Btw there was no pearl on ah so thats why I needed to do this.

評論來自 n4rt0n

Ok, Here is the best spot to farm these shinny pearls.

Forget BFD, or Murlocs, Snapjaws, etc. When I was looking for this pearl to create an enchanted golden rod on my enchanter alt, I looked in the Auction House and on my server the cost around 250-300g each.

I came here to look for information about where to farm it, the first 2-3 pages are full with outdated information (pre-shatter spot locations) and the updated information, mainly talks about BFD, and Murlocs in Southshore. So I looked around and decided to try on Blasted Lands, where the Nagas around the southeastern cost are - The Red Reaches.

I got my Iridescent Pearl in my 3rd clam (i know right?), but I had enough time, so I decided to do some more research to post here some useful information as most of the information here is numbing and confusing.

I spent 15 minutes farming around The Red Reaches (located here).

In the map there are 3 main locations which I ran through 3 times during this 15 minutes:

The first one is in the cave, lots of mobs, excellent drop rate of Big-Mouth Clams.
The second one is below the cave (coors: 60.6,69.5; 60.4,74.5). Many Bloodwash Idolater, and the best part is they're around a big blue circle, just standing there, and there are some moving around, and just below the blue circle there is a shrine, with more of them. PS: There's a rare spawn which will drop a: Flawless Draenethyst Sphere
The Third one is here, where you'll find Bloodwash Gambler gathered around small "water arenas" like Bloodwash Idolater some of them are just standing there, and some are moving around.

I spent 15 minutes farming around here are my result:

12g Worth of coins and trash loot
63 Zesty Clam Meat
3 Green Items (ilvl 53-59)
63 Runecloth
1 Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment
1 Flawless Draenethyst Sphere -- Rare Spawn

2 Iridescent Pearls
2 Small Lustrous Pearls
2 Black Pearls
1 Golden Pearl

Final Conclusion: Excellent drop rates, for clams and cloth (Runecloth), they're just level 55-57 with roughly 2.8-2.9k HP, so I was able to 1-shot them with my level 85 Warlock using only 1 Fel Flame (even the rare spawn mob). I found all my loots to almost always contain cloth or clam (or both together) and rarely nothing dropped (besides coins).

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2nd Run --- So today I decided to go there again, to make sure that it wasn't just lucky (and to prove I'm not just full of lies).

With the knowledge about where to go after my first run, things went smoother, with a 15 minutes run (15 minutes 23 seconds exactly), here are the results:

12g worth of Coins and trash loot
83 Big-Mouth Clams
96 Runecloth
3 Green Items (ilvl 56-57)
1 Aquamarine
2 Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment

83 Zesty Clam Meat
4 Black Pearls
1 Iridescent Pearls
2 Small Lustrous Pearls

2nd Final Conclusion: Because I knew where to go (my first run even though was clumsy had pretty good results in terms of grinding = time efficiency) I was able to kill more in the same period of time, thus increasing my clams drops. Also it's an excellent spot to farm Runecloth as you get clams they stack up pretty fast. I was able to drop again another Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment (as a matter of fact 2), even though I wasn't lucky enough to find the rare respawn again. On my clam drops, I received lots of Black Pearls(4), and only 1 Iridescent Pearl, well I suppose doesn't matter as it is randomly generated. Good luck and good hunt to all of you reading it.

And don't forget to +1 if you like it!

Piroxzgton lvl 85 Warlock (Horde - Warsong-US)

評論來自 754018

Why on earth would BLIZZ be so stupid as to put an item needed by level 20 to 30 crafters in an area for level 50 to 60 toons
by the time we get that high level we won't need them anymore
one more thing that blizz has !@#$ed up
great job guys!

評論來自 925886

The second murlock I killed in the purple area of Northern Stranglethorn, didn't drop a giant clam, but it did drop the iridescent pearl.

評論來自 945018

Best place to farm these is off of 刺脊灘行者 and similar NPCs along the coast southeast of Ruins Of Southshore in Hillsbrad Foothills - I farmed for around 10 mins on a 85 mage and got 3 彩色珍珠 out of 25 or so 厚殼蚌

I made an account just to post this because I felt info was lacking. Enjoy!

評論來自 xadama15x

Farmed 100 巨口蚌殼s from Nagas at "The Red Reaches" and nearby "Bloodwash Cavern".

The resulting pearl drops were as follows:

(patch 4.3.2)

評論來自 70784

TY for the info!

評論來自 905227

thanks man! good spot to farm runecloth too!

評論來自 964047

The Red Reaches are for mid-50's. If you need this pearl near level 40 as I did..

They can be found in the 巨口蚌殼s that drop from 逐潮者s and Turtles just southeast from Gadgetzan in Tanaris.

Took me 10 minutes and just over one loop of the Tidal Striders to get one to drop. Got it off the 3rd respawn from where I started. These are level 44-45 NPC's and I did this for my level 38 rogue that needed the Runed Golden Rod for enchants and I refused to pay $100g-$150g for one at the AH. Had I realized it was so easy to find one in Tanaris, I would have never looked in AH. At the time I was questing in Thousand Needles so it was a quick boat ride to get it.

Here's what I got from the Clams drops after just over one circle:
16x Zesty Clam meat (useful if you get the recipe from the NPC in Tanaris)
1x Black Pearl
1x Small Lustrous Pearl
1x Iridescent Pearl

評論來自 965374

N4rt0n: THAAAANK YOOOOOOU :D i farmed 2-4 stacks of Big Mouth Clams and got x4 Iridecent Pearls x2 Golden Pearl and x1 Black Pearl. all in all, for 30 mins of running thru the cave and around the blue circle repeatedly, 1.25k isn't bad at all! :D tyty

評論來自 tacolibre

Yup got one of these after opening about 30 Big-Mouth Clams in the Red Reaches in the Blasted Lands.

評論來自 sandal25

Took me just under 20min to farm the pearl.

Got 3 black pearls, 1 gold and 1 shiny white snowflakey luminous Iridescent Pearl for my Golden Rod!

評論來自 919614

Guys for all of you who can't buy this pearl (200-300g in my AH) i farmed it in tanaris from Big-mouth Clams with 15 mins of farming ..pretty easy

評論來自 521543

I have been farming the Big-Mouth Clams from the Tidal Striders in Tanaris around the 54 - 39 mark. They have a very high drop rate for the clams and an insane respawn rate.

評論來自 1015537

Farmed big clams in stv, near vile reef in the water with my aqua form...
after 82 blue pearls i gave up and decided to try some other spot...

4% drop rate, more like 1% or less...

評論來自 blackspot

Went to the Blasted Lands, killing naga's at the Red Reaches.

101 Big-Mouth clams gave me:
3 iridescent pearls
4 golden pearls
5 black pearls
1 small lustrous pearl

Also got a few greens, 8 stacks of runecloth and one purple : Axe of the Deep Woods and 2 Imperfect Draenethyst Fragments.

評論來自 Aezephyr

Black Fathom Deeps: took me longer to get there than to get a pearl once I was there.

Low level (alt) on different realm than my main, so I didn't have the advantage of 1. farming pearls with a high level char, or 2. just buying it from the auction house.

評論來自 1004326

Confirmed! Well done

評論來自 1023742

Killing the Tidal Striders, in Tararis, just south east of Gadgetzan seems to be the best way to do this that I have found, as they drop the Big-Mouth Clam almost 100% of the time. Be that as it may It still took over two hours and 107 clams to get ONE Iridescent Pearl, so I think we can safely say the drop rate for it is 1% at best, despite the luck of some people.

評論來自 Kenyon

As of the pre-MoP patch, enchanting rods are no longer in the game therefore these pearls lose a huge chunk of their value. In fact, they're practically downright worthless considering they're only used in old recipes that, frankly, nobody cares about.

評論來自 DOLamba

Just tried N4rt0n's spot today on my 85 retri paladin (iLvL 399) to farm 2 Iridescent Pearls for my lock alt's shoes and it took me 21 minutes to kills 100+ nagas which dropped 95 clams (got 95 Zesty Clam Meats) which contained:

5x Black Pearl
2x Small Lustrous Pearl
2x Golden Pearl
2x Iridescent Pearl

Apart from that I got 117 Runecloth (literally, 117!), 3 uncommon drops, a Two of Warlords Darkmoon card and an unknown amount of coins (roughly 3-5s/drop).

Happy farming! :D

評論來自 1215841

the best place to farm iridescent pearls is from the nagas along the shore (and in their cave) on blasted lands. droprate for big-mouth clams is really high. out of 75 clams i got 3 black pearls, 4 gold pearls, 3 iridescent and 2 small lustrous pearls. also since you farm the pearls from humanoids u will get tons of runecloth and other junk more valuable than from farming turtles in alterac or hinterlands. /junkyardjuju

評論來自 1457847

got one while pick pocketing murlocs on STV

http://imgur.com/XLYavB4

i dont even recommend, its my first one in over 60 hours farming there
best spot for sure is nagas from old phased blasted lands, got 2 in about 10 minutes plus some other uncommon pearls

評論來自 1445980

Worth noting that if your character is high enough level to be phased for WoD content in 詛咒之地, all the great Naga spots N4rt0n mentions will be completely abandoned, with no Nagas in sight.

評論來自 1636267

Firstly to farm Red Reaches now you need to go visit the NPC that sends you back in time or the Naga dont appear. After farming the Bloodwash Fighting Pits Area about 15 mins I got 60 Big-Mouthed clams from which I got 2 iridescent Pearls, 3 Black Pearls and 2 Golden pearls. I also got 2 Perfect Draenethyst Fragments for quest hand in which if your lucky will give you something rare.

評論來自 Feliciamarie

Opened 79 clams, got:

1 golden pearl
5 iridescent pearls
2 black pearls

評論來自 CallistaZM

Did as everyone here has suggested and farmed pre-WoD Red Reaches naga. Out of 200 big mouth clams I got:

4 x Small Lustrous Pearl
4 x Golden Pearl
10 x Black Pearl
6 x Iridescent Pearl

It took me around 45 minutes to collect that many clams so despite the low drop rate, they are easy to farm.

評論來自 Silverstrings

After opening 423 thick-shelled clams, only 4 Iridescent pearls, and 25 small lustrous pearls. Roughly a 1% drop rate from those for the iridescent pearls, for those farming for them.

評論來自 Aksun

This pearl is extremely easy to obtain for Enchanting while doing quests in Faldir's Cove area of Arathi Highlands - the NPC's there give you a 30-minute swim speed and underwater breathing buff (if you haven't completed the quests) - Blackwater Boon and they tell you to go kill Daggerspine Naga each of which can drop a Thick-Shelled Clam that contains the pearl. Being regular quest mobs they are easy kills and you swim around faster than running clearing up the seafloor in minutes and eventually you will get the pearl from the clams. Took about 5 minutes.

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