Where to Farm Pattern: Shadow Hood

The best place to farm Pattern: Shadow Hood is Arathi Highlands, where Highland Strider (level 30-31) drops it at 0.0%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 126 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Best zones:

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

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
Stranglethorn Vale	12	Solid Chest		0.5%
Arathi Highlands	13	Solid Chest		0.5%
Duskwood	3	Solid Chest		0.5%
Alterac Mountains	17	Solid Chest		0.5%
Razorfen Downs	5	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Scarlet Monastery	21	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Hillsbrad Foothills	2	Alliance Chest		0.5%
Razorfen Kraul	5	Ward Guardian	31+	0.1%
Unknown zone	3	Arados the Damned	35	0.1%
Desolace	10	Dread Swoop	32-33	0.0%
Ashenvale	4	Searing Infernal	29-30	0.0%
The Barrens	2	Razorfen Battleguard	33-34+	0.0%
Badlands	3	Elder Crag Coyote	39-40	0.0%
Gnomeregan	6	Irradiated Pillager	25-26+	0.0%
Loch Modan	4	Shadowforge Digger	35-36+	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
Solid Chest		Stranglethorn Vale	104		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Arathi Highlands	94		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Duskwood	78		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Alterac Mountains	64		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Alterac Mountains	12		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Strongbox		Alterac Mountains	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Hillsbrad Foothills	7		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Horde Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Ward Guardian(elite)	31+	Razorfen Kraul	2		Drop	0.1%	map
Arados the Damned	35		0		Drop	0.1%	map
Otto(elite)	38+	Arathi Highlands	1		Drop	0.0%	map
Highland Strider	30-31	Arathi Highlands	118		Drop	0.0%	map
Dread Swoop	32-33	Desolace	98		Drop	0.0%	map
Snapjaw	30-31	Alterac Mountains	83		Drop	0.0%	map
Gritjaw Basilisk	31-32	Desolace	78		Drop	0.0%	map
Stranglethorn Tigress	37-38	Stranglethorn Vale	77		Drop	0.0%	map
Scorpashi Snapper	30-31	Desolace	69		Drop	0.0%	map
Highland Thrasher	33-34	Arathi Highlands	67		Drop	0.0%	map
Bloodscalp Headhunter	36-37	Stranglethorn Vale	57		Drop	0.0%	map
Searing Infernal	29-30	Ashenvale	54		Drop	0.0%	map
Razorfen Battleguard(elite)	33-34+	The Barrens	49		Drop	0.0%	map
Crushridge Ogre	34-35	Alterac Mountains	47		Drop	0.0%	map
Elder Crag Coyote	39-40	Badlands	46		Drop	0.0%	map
Irradiated Pillager(elite)	25-26+	Gnomeregan	46		Drop	0.0%	map
Hatefury Rogue	31-32	Desolace	45		Drop	0.0%	map
Shadowforge Digger(elite)	35-36+	Loch Modan	45		Drop	0.0%	map
Half-Buried Bottle		Stranglethorn Vale	42		Contains	0.0%	map
Saltstone Crystalhide	32-33	Thousand Needles	42		Drop	0.0%	map
Venture Co. Geologist	35-36	Stranglethorn Vale	40		Drop	0.0%	map
Shadowforge Surveyor(elite)	35-36+	Loch Modan	39		Drop	0.0%	map
Unfettered Spirit	31-32	Scarlet Monastery	39		Drop	0.0%	map
Syndicate Spy	35-36	Alterac Mountains	37		Drop	0.0%	map
Dark Iron Agent(elite)	32-33+	Gnomeregan	34		Drop	0.0%	map
Giant Yeti	33-34	Alterac Mountains	34		Drop	0.0%	map
Nightbane Shadow Weaver	27-28	Duskwood	33		Drop	0.0%	map
Sparkleshell Snapper	34-35	Thousand Needles	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Stonevault Rockchewer(elite)	36-37+	Loch Modan	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Cleft Scorpid	35-36	Uldaman	30		Drop	0.0%	map
Crushridge Brute	35-36	Alterac Mountains	30		Drop	0.0%	map
Mountain Lion	32-33	Alterac Mountains	30		Drop	0.0%	map
Rock Elemental	39-40	Badlands	30		Drop	0.0%	map
Hulking Mountain Lion	33-34	Alterac Mountains	29		Drop	0.0%	map
Mechanized Sentry(elite)	28-29+	Gnomeregan	29		Drop	0.0%	map
Nightbane Worgen	26-27	Duskwood	29		Drop	0.0%	map
Crag Coyote	35-36	Badlands	28		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 (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.