Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Shadowfang Keep

I recently started to twink a level 19 rogue for the battlegrounds and decided to equip him with two Assassin's Blade. Unfortunately several other people had the same idea and the only two available were priced at 400 gold a piece.

The dagger drops mostly off the boss mob in Shadowfang Keep, Archmage Arugal. This instance is intended for groups in their low or mid 20's with the mobs ranging from 19 to 26 elite.

In an attempt to save myself 800 gold, I sent in my level 50 hunter to investigate. Obviously he didn't get any experience but neither did he suffer an untimely death. In spite of pulling 6 mobs at a time, he never went below half-health thanks to his trusty companion which he calls simply “Dog”.

Did he get the dagger? No, in spite of running the instance four times it didn't drop. However he did come away with packs full of blue and green items on every run. It seems that the fashion is to twink level 19's on both sides and the gear for this level is commanding a premium price. Even for pretty average green items I was getting 2 gold a time. One blue item, Shadowfang, fetched 220 gold.

For the four runs, which took me just over 3 hours, I made slightly over 330 gold. Over 100 gold an hour.

If you can disenchant, you can also recover enchanting materials from the bind on pick up blues. It's also a great instance if you have skinning as almost every mob is skinnable.
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