The best place to farm Shredder Operating Manual - Page 9 is Ashenvale, where Crazed Ancient (level 27-28) drops it at 1.9%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 80 sources are ranked below by drop chance.
Gold per kill: Crazed Ancient is worth about 2s 26c a kill in item drops (prices from 10 Oct 2026). Gold farming spots, level 20-30
Best zones:

- Prince Raze 81.5, 48.5
- Crazed Ancient 60.2, 38.5
- Wandering Protector 65.4, 44.0
- Dark Strand Excavator 31.6, 31.1
- Uthil Mooncall 77.9, 72.7
- Ilkrud Magthrull 25.3, 60.7
- Shadethicket Moss Eater 46.0, 45.1
- Silverwing Warrior 65.0, 75.1
All sources, by drop chance:
Drop% is the rate recorded in Forever once a source has been looted ten times; a greyed figure is the vanilla 1.12 chance from the world data (classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in forever). Spawns counts the source's spawn points in the world data. "Side" names which side can kill the NPC when the other finds it friendly. The lead picks the best chance among sources that are not a rare spawn and have at least three spawn points.