Where to Farm Plans: Green Iron Shoulders

The best place to farm Plans: Green Iron Shoulders is Thousand Needles, where Swirling Vortex (level 33-34) drops it at 0.1%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 393 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Swirling Vortex is worth about 27s 93c a kill in item drops (at Auction House prices). Gold farming spots, level 30-40

Best zones:

The 15 zones with the best source; every source is listed below.

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
Duskwood	17	Solid Chest		0.5%
Hillsbrad Foothills	16	Alliance Chest		0.5%
Stranglethorn Vale	43	Solid Chest		0.5%
Alterac Mountains	26	Solid Chest		0.5%
Arathi Highlands	41	Solid Chest		0.5%
Razorfen Downs	14	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Scarlet Monastery	26	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Thousand Needles	27	Heartrazor	32+	0.3%
Swamp of Sorrows	5	Lost One Cook	37	0.1%
The Barrens	6	General Twinbraid	30	0.1%
Unknown zone	7	Frostmaw	37	0.1%
Wetlands	16	Balgaras the Foul	34+	0.1%
Dustwallow Marsh	6	Mudrock Burrower	39-40	0.1%
Desolace	49	Scorpashi Venomlash	38-39	0.1%
Razorfen Kraul	15	Razorfen Dustweaver	28-29+	0.0%

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All sources, by drop chance:

Classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop% ▼	Map
Alliance Strongbox		Alterac Mountains	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Horde Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Alterac Mountains	12		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Duskwood	78		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Alterac Mountains	64		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Arathi Highlands	94		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Hillsbrad Foothills	7		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Stranglethorn Vale	104		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Heartrazor(rare)	32+	Thousand Needles	1		Drop	0.3%	map
Lost One Cook(rare)	37	Swamp of Sorrows	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Nancy Vishas(elite)	33+	Alterac Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
General Twinbraid	30	The Barrens	1	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Frostmaw	37		0		Drop	0.1%	map
Swirling Vortex	33-34	Thousand Needles	6		Drop	0.1%	map
Balgaras the Foul(elite)	34+	Wetlands	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Grandpa Vishas(elite)	34+	Alterac Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Salt Flats Vulture	32-34	Thousand Needles	9		Drop	0.1%	map
Aku'mai Servant(elite)	26+		0		Drop	0.1%	map
Saltscale Tide Lord(elite)	37+	Stranglethorn Vale	2		Drop	0.1%	map
Saltscale Forager(elite)	35-36+	Stranglethorn Vale	2		Drop	0.1%	map
Mudrock Burrower	39-40	Dustwallow Marsh	20		Drop	0.1%	map
Burning Blade Seer	33	Desolace	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Baron Vardus	40	Alterac Mountains	5		Drop	0.1%	map
Murkgill Oracle	36-37	Stranglethorn Vale	4		Drop	0.1%	map
Scorpashi Venomlash	38-39	Desolace	15		Drop	0.1%	map
Withered Warrior(elite)	34-35+	The Barrens	13		Drop	0.1%	map
Razorfen Thornweaver(elite)	33-34+	The Barrens	25		Drop	0.1%	map
Sharptalon	31	Ashenvale	1	Horde only	Drop	0.0%	map
Chieftain Nek'rosh(elite)	32+	Wetlands	1		Drop	0.0%	map
Blacksmith Verringtan	26	Hillsbrad Foothills	3	Horde only	Drop	0.0%	map
Highperch Patriarch	30-31	Thousand Needles	2		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Gallant(elite)	33-34+	Scarlet Monastery	20		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Diviner(elite)	34-35+	Scarlet Monastery	16		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Tracking Hound(elite)	33-34+	Scarlet Monastery	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Murkgill Forager	35-36	Stranglethorn Vale	19		Drop	0.0%	map
Murkgill Warrior	35-36	Stranglethorn Vale	23		Drop	0.0%	map
Razorfen Dustweaver(elite)	28-29+	Razorfen Kraul	3		Drop	0.0%	map
Scorpashi Lasher	34-35	Desolace	26		Drop	0.0%	map
Splinterbone Captain(elite)	39-40+	Razorfen Downs	2		Drop	0.0%	map
Death's Head Cultist(elite)	33-34+	The Barrens	15		Drop	0.0%	map
Deepstrider Giant(elite)	38-39+	Desolace	1		Drop	0.0%	map
Mudrock Tortoise	36-37	Dustwallow Marsh	68		Drop	0.0%	map
Mottled Scytheclaw	25-26	Wetlands	14		Drop	0.0%	map
Mottled Razormaw	26-27	Wetlands	9		Drop	0.0%	map
Dragonmaw Raider	26-27	Wetlands	57		Drop	0.0%	map
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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.