Elemental Earth

Been in demand of farming quite a lot of these for yetis among other, I decided to check, as many others, comments on where to go; but I couldn't really find many that suited me or worked too great.

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So here's my own input on where I agree the best place would be.

Areas

* Badlands
* Winterspring
* Stonetalon Mountains
* Silithus

Commentary per Zone

Badlands:

I tried farming Rock Elementals just above New Kargath. Badlands Map

I farmed for about 20minutes (Roughly 3 respawn routes) and found myself having very poor droprate. - Bear in mind that individual dropping isn't accurate, but this is what I got atleast.

Time; 20 Minutes
Amount killed; ~30-50 mobs
Loot; Elemental Earthx2, Core of Earthx3.
Scale; 3
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Comment; N/A
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Note; Scale is my way to determine if it's a place worth farming at, 1 being worst and 10 being excellent.

I then, disappointed with the drop rates, moved on towards Silithus. (as I was in need of Elemental Airs anyways) where I farmed at the Crystal Vale people familiar with Thunderfury, will know that this is the place you battle Thunderaan in North-Western Silithus.

I found the drop rates improved here, and considering I also got a couple of Elemental Air and Essence of Air. Which are quite expensive on this server tbh, it's a quite worthy place to farm.

Time; 35 Minutes
Amount Killed; ~55-65
Loot; Elemental Earthx4, Core of Earthx4, Essence of Earthx4
Scale; 6
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Comment; I know if you look at the values, the difference in loot per kill isn't major when compared to Badlands, but what makes this place better is the fact that there's a larger amount of enemies and the respawn time isn't quite as bad, and even if it was, there would be enemies that you can kill while waiting. (Air Elementals right next to them). If you are an engineer trying to earn money trough Tranquil Mechanical Yeti pets, this would be an ideal place to farm both Elemental Airs and Elemental Earths for Truesilver Transformer simultaneously.

Allthough, I'll state another option in the final comment at the end of the this input.

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Even after giving this place however, I did not yet feel satisfied and read about another place in the cave which can be entered from Northwatch Expedition Base Camp in Stonetalon Mountains. It's the alliance camp where the original Stonetalon Mountain's entrance used to be, in South-Eastern Stonetalon Mountains.

I tried to farm here yet for another 30minutes, and came to this conclusion.

Not worth it. In comparison to Silithus where you can farm other creatures among the stone elementals for gold or additional mats, this one pales.

Time; 30 Minutes
Amount Killed; 30-35 (~ 2 respawn tours)
Loot; Elemental Earthx3.
Scale; 4
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Comment; There really isn't much to comment on, it's not the worst place but what mainly ruined it for me was 1. the inability to quick-mount and run back to the start to continue killing the freshly spawned ones. Which slowed it down considerably. And the other thing is the fact that the only material it has a chance to drop is the Elemental Earth which made it feel less rewarding to kill them.
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And then finally, I tried out the final one on the list which I had heard quite some praise about, and not for naught as I got to realise. It was the small mountain just above Mazthoril and to the right of Lake Kel'theril in Winterspring.

Here I spent roughly 50minutes farming and will probably return for later runs, and those are the stats as followed -

Time; 50 Minutes
Amount Killed; 85-100
Loot; Elemental Earthx~20, Core of Earthx16, Essence of Earthx14
Scale; 10
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Comment; This place had by far the best average drop rate and whats even better is that it can drop all 3 materials that any other mob in the list could. But what truly made it great was the fact that it was a small area but plenty of enemies, they weren't spread out and you never found yourself having to wait for them to respawn, whenever I had cleared it of mobs I always returned to another part of the mountain to find 2 or 3 already respawned, and when they died, others had respawned. Meaning you can constantly kill without having to waste your time waiting.
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Verdict;

Winterspring is by far the best place to farm individual materials if you aren't after other stuffs. You can get deeprock salt from them by mining aswell.

It's just the fact that you never have to wait for respawns, the drop rate being good, and that you can easily move around, and that there's a town with Auction House, Blacksmith etc. just above it, making it a time conserving place to farm.

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ALERT! Engineers; While I said it would be a good place to choose Silithus for simultaneous farming of Elemental Earth and Elemental Air, the other option is quickly farm togheter all elemental air you want from Silithus and then instantly move to this place instead, that's what I did and found it most efficient.

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Farming Elemental Earth is easy if you know all the places. In my own experience, here are the drop rates:

Badlands (42, 87) - 15% Highly Populated Area, Low Horde/Ally
Badlands (26, 45) - 20% Highly Populated Area, Mid-High Horde/Ally
Arathi Highlands (35, 58) - 40-50% Mid Populated Area, Mid Horde/Ally
Thousand Needles (15, 20) - 20% Low-Mid Populated, High Horde, Low Ally

These are the best places I have found, and these mobs drop Smooth Stone Chips, Lifeless Stones, and Jagged Pieces of Stone which vendor for alot, making it a nice place to farm. Good luck!

-=- JadoJodo -=-

Long story short, I needed to level my JC but the prices of Elemental Earth were so inflated (20g per!) that I had to resort to farming the mats myself.

In just under an hour I was able to farm 12 Earths off of FIVE different spawn areas of the earth elementals in the Badlands.
Here is a map with the five spawn points.
http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=3:556823549825540825531831532842532856542856555856559873444821444834444850444862444877444891432852422850411833409844123852133854141860142871141887132889141902143914139928128928119922124889115860411813553889542895531897041765050757071770067790055800047811040831047836071831063836060759132345139339150333147345147359147370147382145398129407141411148413159413158431178434190456211477085792371784389807095770106745
after clearing out spawn area #5 bee line back to area #1 where the elementals should have respawned.

Hope this helps!