Greetings, everyone. I'm back with another update from the 6.2 PTR. I have been doing some intensive investigating all over Tanaan in the search for the new crafting material, Felblight. You will use this to upgrade all crafted gear from 685 to 700, and finally from 700 to 715. Crafted gear is going to be very powerful in Hellfire Citadel, especially seeing as the Ilvl of gear in the raid can screw people over on BiS pieces at times. Crafting gear will let you fill in those gaps in a fantastic manner.

So, how much Felblight will I need to farm?

Currently on the PTR, it takes 30 Felblight to take a piece of gear from 685 to 700, and 60 to take it from 700 to 715. This means you'll need to obtain 90 Felblight for a single piece of crafted gear. If you want to really commit and go for three pieces of crafted gear, you'll then need a total of 270 Felblight to completely upgrade everything.

How do I farm Felblight again?

Felblight is obtained via Mining, Skinning, Herbing, or Fishing from Felmouth Frenzy schools all within Tanaan Jungle. If you work out the math for the drop rate, you have ~2% chance to obtain a Felblight off an herbing node, mining node, skinnable corpse, or Felmouth Frenzy school. If you purposefully go out to farm Felblight, I have found a typical rate of obtaining ~4 Felblight per hour, or 1 every 15 minutes.

Well geez, that's a terrible drop rate. So, how do I get it as fast as possible?

In order to get Felblight at the rate I got it (or better), there are certain areas within Tanaan Jungle that have fairly high concentrations of certain resources. I have done the dirty work in investigating where the best places to farm each resource are. I will say that you can find things like herbing nodes and mining nodes pretty consistently throughout the zone, but are in particular concentrated in the areas I mention below.

Herbing Areas of Note in Tanaan

The map shown above highlights some areas of note when it comes to herb concentration. Each area isn't bad, but one area when it comes to pure levels of herbs I thought stood above the rest.

Top Herbing Area - North of Vol'mar

This area is the the highlighted upper-right zone in the herbing map in the previous section. This area has a very low mob count to keep annoying you while you herb, while also having a fairly dense population of herbs. There are other areas that have just as good densities of herbs (or even better), but the low mob count that allows for consistent herbing here I think makes it the best spot.

Mining Areas of Note in Tanaan

Mining nodes aren't as densely populated throughout the zone as herb nodes are, but they seem to have a pretty good amount of them in two notable areas; The Fel Forge and Fang'rila. Although, I will say that one of these areas stands above the other.

Top Mining Area - The Fel Forge

This area dominates Fang'rila for mining for the fact that most of Fang'rila is largely populated by 1.2M health elite Saberon that make mining very annoying. It can be found as the Northernmost highlighted region on the map above. The Fel Forge only has non-elite mobs amongst it for the most part, and has pretty good mining node population along the little fel rivers that flow through the area.

Skinning Areas of Note in Tanaan

Skinning I believe is going to be the best way to obtain Felblight. This is because you could form "death squads" of 3 DPS and 2 skinners that could just go through and area, killing all beasts in your path, while the 2 skinners simply just keep skinning whatever the other 3 players kill. This method might be able to yield you much more Felblight per hour, but at the cost of it being in a group.

Top Skinning Area - Zorammarsh

This area is by far the best skinning zone, by like a million miles. It's crawling with beasts everywhere you look, and bunches of them can be killed quickly. You can find Zorammarsh as the Southernmost highlighted region of Tanaan in the map above.

Fishing Areas of Note in Tanaan





Felmouth Frenzy schools have the potential to spawn in any of the areas highlighted in red above. There are one or two other small areas they can spawn, but those areas aren't really of note. One area does have a ton of Felmouth Frenzy schools, however. There is risk involved with it, but it is definitely worth it.

Top Fishing Area - The Moat of Hellfire Citadel

This moat is located all around the edge of the Hellfire Citadel raid to its north, east, and south, in the center of the zone. It contains a much higher density of Felmouth Frenzy schools in comparison to other areas. You also don't have to fight too many mobs when navigating around its perimeter. But, what you do have to worry about is the moat, itself. When in the Fel Sludge, it deals ticking damage to you while also putting a debuff on you that if it stacks to 10, you instantly die. But, you can either navigate around the shoreline of the moat to get around this downside, or even jump across the floating rocks in the moat in some areas.

Honorable Mention - The Lake at Fang'rila

I wanted to mention this lake due to it not having very many elites around it. This lake is located in the Southeastern region of the zone. It has a good population of herbs along its shores, some ore underwater, and a fair amount of Felmouth Frenzy schools. If you are wanting to farm a combination of herbs, ore, and fish, this spot will most likely be the best. It will also likely be the best farming spot if the others become to heavily populated with player traffic. This lake is behind a fair amount of high health elites that more casual players might not want to get near. Once you get to the lake however, it's only populated by a handful of aggressive fish and frogs that are non-elites.

With all this talk about Felmouth Frenzy fish, what are they exactly?

Felmouth Frenzy fish are the new type of fish that are only fishable within Tanaan. When consumed (they don't need to be cooked), they give you a food buff that provides a chance on attack to trigger a volley of Fel bolts at your opponent. These Fel bolts fire in waves of 4-6 at a time, and deal ~2k each. They cannot crit, multistrike, and don't scale with anything. They are a flat damage boost.

Woah wait, so Felmouth Frenzy, new meta?

Indeed. They proc at an alarming rate, and are ~3.5% of your damage done. This makes them actually more valuable for DPS players than the current 125 secondary stat food, which is only ~1% DPS boost (or ~2% for Pandaren), at best. They also stack to 200, not 20. So, we can fill the guild bank up with them and not take up rediculous amounts of space. We will still keep around 125 stat food for healers, tanks, and potential DPS classes that might severely benefit from the 125 stat food, but we will adding the new Felmouth Frenzy to our stock.

That's all I had for today. Now is a good time to start looking at the loot tables for Hellfire Citadel, and planning out potential crafted pieces you'd like to have!

_Mookaduka