The best place to farm Burnished Pauldrons is Redridge Mountains, where Murloc Nightcrawler (level 21-22) drops it at 0.1%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 148 sources are ranked below by drop chance.
Gold per kill: Murloc Nightcrawler is worth about 1s 91c a kill in item drops (at Auction House prices). Gold farming spots, level 20-30
Best zones:
| Zone | Sources | Best source | Level | Drop% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Stockade | 6 | Large Iron Bound Chest | 1.2% | |
| Gnomeregan | 2 | Large Iron Bound Chest | 1.2% | |
| Razorfen Downs | 2 | Large Iron Bound Chest | 1.0% | |
| Scarlet Monastery | 2 | Large Iron Bound Chest | 1.0% | |
| Duskwood | 10 | Solid Chest | 0.9% | |
| Hillsbrad Foothills | 12 | Alliance Chest | 0.9% | |
| Alterac Mountains | 3 | Solid Chest | 0.7% | |
| Arathi Highlands | 1 | Horde Chest | 0.7% | |
| Redridge Mountains | 24 | Chatter | 23 | 0.7% |
| Wetlands | 23 | Solid Chest | 0.5% | |
| Silverpine Forest | 11 | Alliance Chest | 0.5% | |
| Darkshore | 1 | Battered Chest | 0.5% | |
| The Barrens | 1 | Alliance Strongbox | 0.5% | |
| Westfall | 6 | Battered Chest | 0.4% | |
| Shadowfang Keep | 15 | Shadow Charger | 20-21+ | 0.2% |
- Solid Chest 33.8, 76.1
- Green Recluse 67.8, 22.4
- Starving Dire Wolf 35.9, 21.4
- Rabid Dire Wolf 19.9, 28.3
- Pygmy Venom Web Spider 66.4, 17.7
- Skeletal Mage 77.6, 68.1
- Venom Web Spider 14.9, 67.5
- Young Black Ravager 53.7, 73.7
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.