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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 29036

Dear god, thats one hell of a long comment that really isnt needed, quick and informative, not long and not informative, basicly they are around 67,68 ish with the shadow weavers

Comment by kojiroh

Those guys seem to aggro from a longer distance than most of the other mobs do. Has anyone else noticed this? Any thoughts or reliable information?

Comment by 432291

Also worth mentioning, they seem to have an incredibly high dodge rating. It seems like half of my attacks miss with my mage, which is very frustrating when trying to kill it before it kills you.

Comment by Thottbot

Anyone know what level in skinning you need for these? :)

Comment by Allakhazam

The Dark Runners are only found west of Duskwood, the map shows them in the south near the Tranquil Gardens which is incorrect.

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.

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Nightbane Dark Runner

This NPC can be found in Duskwood (171).

Nightbane Dark Runner

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