Best Spot to Grind Experience in Outland – Level 67+

So by now you know the easiest way to grind in World of Warcraft is to focus on yellow passive mobs as much as possible while leveling. They don’t have aggro, so you don’t need to worry about adds. In fact you can sit and rest right in the midst of a group of them without worry for your safety.

Did you know there is a way to grind yellow mobs leveling from 67 all the way to 70? And you do it in an area where the mobs are packed tightly together and there is almost NO chance of being ganked (for those of us on PVP realms).

What you will be grinding are Shadowmoon Harbingers if you are Alliance and Shadowmoon Zealots if you are Horde. These mobs are both located inside your faction’s Shadowmoon Valley stronghold – Shadowmoon Village for Horde and Wildhammer Stronghold for Alliance.

These mobs are yellow (neutral), respawn fast and each drop around 10-20 silver pieces and a few pieces of Netherweave Cloth – great grinding mobs. But in order to take advantage of this, you must be working on your faction’s quest chain that leads to the Divination quests for Altar of Shadows.

The trick (and the reason you need to be on the quest) is that you must be wearing a pair of Spectrecles you get from one the quests in the chain to see these mobs.

Horde

• For Horde, you will begin in Shadowmoon Village at Chief Apothecary Hildagard (30,28) with the quest A Haunted History. After you complete that quest you will be given the quest Spectrecles. For this quest you will be given the Spectrecles head item that will allow you to see the Shadowmoon Harbingers.

Alliance

• For Alliance, you begin in Wildhammer Stronghold at Zorus the Judicator (37,56) with the quest A Ghost in the Machine. After completing that quest you will be lent a pair of Spectrecles for the quest Harbingers of Shadowmoon. Now you will be able to see the Shadowmoon Zealots wandering around Wildhammer Stronghold.

The trick to grinding these relatively easy yellow mobs from within your faction’s stronghold is simple: after you’ve killed your allotted number of mobs for the quest requirement just keep killing them. You will not lose the Spectrecles or the ability to see these mobs with them until you speak with the quest-giver. So, once you turn in the quest, you will lose your spectrecles … and therefore you will no longer be able to grind them.

So do not turn in the quest; wait until you are just 10,000 or so xp away from level 70. That way you will still get the benefit of the roughly 12,000 experience points for quest completion. Or until you get bored out your mind grinding. You can earn around seven gold for this quest at level 70.

At level 69 I was receiving 1160 xp and 1092 xp (rested) for the levels 68 and 69 versions of these mobs respectively. I also received a an average of about 15 silver for each of them which is small potatoes even at pre-level 70, but given the large numbers of these mobs I was grinding it added up quite nicely.

This may be one of the easiest grinding spots in the game (after level six) on a pvp realm, given it takes place exclusively inside your faction’s stronghold. It’s almost like a get-out-of-gank reward for getting as far as level 67, like Blizzard’s all “Here you go, your last three levels are cake – have fun!” Well the cake is sweet, my friends, so enjoy it.

I think the guide with the best breakdown of getting your engineering (or any other profession) up to 375 skill points is The Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide. Aside from the numerous other information the Ultimate Guide has, it has complete 1-375 guides for every profession.

UPDATED 5/21/2008: