Where to Farm Bear Meat

The best place to farm Bear Meat is Ashenvale, where Giant Ashenvale Bear (level 29-30) drops it at 71.4%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 21 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Best zones:

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop%
Ashenvale	3	Giant Ashenvale Bear	29-30	71.4%
Darkshore	4	Thistle Bear	11-12	46.9%
Silverpine Forest	3	Giant Grizzled Bear	12-13	45.0%
Loch Modan	4	Black Bear Patriarch	16-17	44.6%
Dun Morogh	4	Mangeclaw	11	31.1%
Hillsbrad Foothills	2	Vicious Gray Bear	22-23	18.4%
Elwynn Forest	1	Young Forest Bear	8-9	0.0%

All sources, by drop chance:

Vanilla reference — from the 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop%	Map
Giant Ashenvale Bear	29-30	Ashenvale	7		Drop	71.4%	map
Elder Ashenvale Bear	25-26	Ashenvale	42		Drop	55.6%	map
Thistle Bear	11-12	Darkshore	82		Drop	46.9%	map
Giant Grizzled Bear	12-13	Silverpine Forest	45		Drop	45.0%	map
Rabid Thistle Bear	13-14	Darkshore	101		Drop	44.9%	map
Black Bear Patriarch	16-17	Loch Modan	22		Drop	44.6%	map
Grizzled Black Bear	13-14	Loch Modan	24		Drop	44.3%	map
Den Mother	18-19	Darkshore	1		Drop	44.2%	map
Ferocious Grizzled Bear	11-12	Silverpine Forest	39		Drop	42.1%	map
Elder Black Bear	11-12	Loch Modan	24		Drop	41.9%	map
Grizzled Thistle Bear	16-17	Darkshore	20		Drop	40.8%	map
Ol' Sooty(elite)	20+	Loch Modan	1		Drop	38.1%	map
Old Vicejaw(rare)	14	Silverpine Forest	1		Drop	34.5%	map
Mangeclaw	11	Dun Morogh	1		Drop	31.1%	map
Bjarn(rare)	12	Dun Morogh	1		Drop	29.7%	map
Vicious Gray Bear	22-23	Hillsbrad Foothills	45		Drop	18.4%	map
Ashenvale Bear	21-22	Ashenvale	111		Drop	0.1%	map
Young Black Bear	5-6	Dun Morogh	33		Drop	0.1%	map
Ice Claw Bear	7-8	Dun Morogh	48		Drop	0.0%	map
Young Forest Bear	8-9	Elwynn Forest	6		Drop	0.0%	map
Elder Gray Bear	25-26	Hillsbrad Foothills	109		Drop	0.0%	map

Needed for:

Quests:

Level	Quest	Needs
11	Thelsamar Blood Sausages	3x

Recipes:

Recipe	Profession	Needs
Blood Sausage	Cooking	1x
Smoked Bear Meat	Cooking	1x

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 (vanilla reference — from the 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.