More Northrend Grinding: Gold Grinding and Level Grinding

First if you’re grinding for gold or experience stop, you would have much more fun questing for gold and experience, it’s faster and much more lucrative. If you find you’re questing is going slow I highly recommend using Zygor’s Guide not only will you level in no time flat, but with the quest rewards you can do so and have enough gold for just about anything. Click here to check out the guide and get your free trial copy.







I’ve recently been out trying to find more “grind spots” for people. Rather than cover each and every spot that I found I decided to go over some of the “requirements” you need to keep an eye out for. When most people start looking for a place to Grind in Northrend, or anywhere else for that matter, they typically try to find a place with a lot of mobs who drop a lot of silver. This is generally an ok idea. Lots of mobs + lots of gold equals lots of gold for you right? Well yes and no.






More than just looking for more, the idea of picking a grinding spot based on quality is just as important. When looking at mobs you need to take a few things into account.


1. Gold – Obviously this is a key component. You want to find mobs that drop decent amounts of gold.


2. Items – Some mobs drop “auctionable” items, others drop greys, and others drop greens. Here you want to find items that are in high demand or that sell for decent amounts. Certain humanoids, in addition to gold, drop a fair amount of cloth and other items that can stack in 20’s that can be sold for 2-4 gold a pop.


3. Damage and Health – “the bigger they are the harder they fall” doesn’t apply here. Typically the bigger they are the harder they hit yu and the harder it is to kill them. Try to find mobs that have a low amount of health and that take a lot of damage quickly, without dishing it out. This helps decrease the amount of time you have to spend healing or drinking many pots.


4. Respawn Rates - Some mobs respawn in seconds, some in minutes. You want to find mobs that are leaning towards the seconds... The faster they come out the faster you can grind them.






My next northrend grinding spot is out in Zul’ Drak. The name of the city escapes me at the moment, but there is a flight path to it and it’s on the easter side of the zone. It’s in the area with the Giant changed up snow leopard and bear.






Basically right outside of the little city with the flight path there is a square full of Ice Trolls. Ice Trolls in the square and out along the edges.


Step 1. Mount up.


Step 2. pull 2-5 of these guys


Step 3 Kill them and loot.






Wash rinse repeat. Go after the healers first...as they tend to heal. The warriors can do damage to you but if you have any degree of respectable AOE they should not be a problem. I’ve found that lvl 78 is the minimum to use this area to grind for either exp or gold.


Anything below this and you’re most likely not going to have a good time.






Last night I hit this spot up for a quick 200g in about an hour or so. Good grinding spot for greys and greens. Lots of cloth too. EXP wasn’t so bad either with rested exp.






If you have any questions please feel free to add a comment, or you can contact me here: blackthought@opendomain.ws






Happy Hunting

Level Grinding In Northrend - Why are you doing this?

Level Grinding In Northrend - Why are you doing this....seriously?

OK hold the phones everyone shhhh..shhh... I need people to get this point and I need them to get it clearly.
When you ask me, "Hey Blackthought, where is all the level grinding and gold grinding in northrend going on", and I respond by laughing at you then telling you "wtf are you doing?" I mean it in with the utmost sincerity.

Seriously wtf are you doing still trying to grind levels in Northrend for...or gold for that matter? I understand the need to kill 5 or 6 mobs to level on occasion, we've all been there. Or the occasional need for a fast buck without having to spend forever in the AH. What I don't understand is when I ask, "well how much till you ding" how I can get "only 20 bars"...there is nothing "ONLY" about 20 bars that's damn near the entire level my friend. Stop what you're doing and think for a second.

Ask yourself: "What could I be doing to make the most of my time in Northrend?" ...If "I need to get my grinding on" was the answer you came up with do me a favor and go sit in time-out for a few minutes.

I really want to help out on this one, I really do. There's no reason you should be grinding for levels or gold in Northrend...or any other continent for that matter, it's just so cavemanish and boring, I mean really do you want to sit and kill the same thing over..and over..and over again? Yeah I didn't think so, you're paying money to play this game, why waste it grinding?

There are many different things you can do to help get both gold and levels pumped out more quickly. Many of these tactics I've covered on the site, ALL of them are in either a wow leveling guide (if it's leveling you're after) or a wow gold guide (if it's gold ye seek). Why waste your time waiting for things to respawn when you could be out pvping or raiding?

So some advice from me to you, if you want to know everything about level grinding or gold grinding in northrend start by looking at:

Zygor Leveling Guide - For Leveling & Gold Making

Warcraft Wealth - for gold making.

Trust me when I say you're time will be much better spent. ... If that's still not good enough for you then I'll give you a good grinding spot I used to use.

The city just south of Venomspite in Dragonblight is chalk full of humans. Grab your mount, pull 5-8, AOE, loot. Hop on mount, head down to the beach near the tents, pull 5-8 mobs, AOE, loot. Hop on mount, there's a ship nearby with 10 or so mobs, HEAL, pull them all, AOE, loot. If you're a miner theirs a cobalt node just as you come off the boat on the beach too. Just wash rinse repeat this and you're looking at 100-200 gold an hour depending on what drops...it's just not that fun.

Oh and if you are going to do this make sure to loot EVERYTHING, even greys. Remember a grey weapon will sell for 1-4 gold at a vendor.

Happy hunting.