Jade Temple Elemental Farming

[heyaz]

Figured I'd post a screenshot of this. This is the uninstanced version of Jade Temple, the quest chain you get in Jade Forest. The water elementals are not aggressive so you can get yourself set up easily, they spawn endlessl from multiple locations and the XP per hour is very good without having to deal with the monkey grinding.

I used this location for a few bars here and there from 85-90, but from 88.5-90 I did it nonstop for several hours. Ended up being <5 hours for 89-90 completely unrested with guild banner.

With casters you could easily pull the whole room, I think ele shaman would do excellent here. With DKs I had to setup a way where I could get everything but eventually I got it to where it was non-stop, zero downtime, always 5-10 elementals.

The drops are also great, you can go back there and farm motes even at 90 if you haven't turned in the final quest. We're talking 5+ motes a minute from these guys, maybe more. My bags filled up and I was just trying to hit 90 so I quit looting at some point but I remember looting up to 16 motes at once after a few big pulls.

I ended up with 27 spirits (270 motes) from this in a few levels, I've no doubt if I looted nonstop I'd have more like 50-75. This would be an excellent spot to bring in Jeeves and use your guild bank cooldown to offload all the crap they drop and keep your motes and boe greens to vendor or disenchant.

So here's how I setup to farm with DK's. I used a couple macros to random target enemies, pull and kill with howling blast and finish everything off with frost strike. Death strike was used to keep them topped off at all times, no healer required. Death and Decay was used to pull the mobs behind me - I simply had three DKs have their camera angle turned around.