Where to Farm Long Tail Feather: Drop Rates by NPC

The best place to farm Long Tail Feather is Desolace, where Dread Ripper (level 39-40) drops it at 28.8%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 31 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Dread Ripper is worth about 9s 43c a kill in item drops (prices from 10 Oct 2026). Gold farming spots, level 30-40

Best zones:

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop%
Desolace	4	Dread Ripper	39-40	28.8%
Arathi Highlands	3	Mesa Buzzard	34-35	27.9%
Badlands	3	Buzzard	37-39	27.1%
Thousand Needles	5	Salt Flats Vulture	32-34	25.6%
Ashenvale	1	Sharptalon	31	14.7%
Westfall	1	Vultros	26	12.5%
Stonetalon Mountains	8	Bloodfury Slayer	25-26	11.7%
Unknown zone	2	Grenka Bloodscreech	31	2.6%
Feralas	4	Northspring Harpy	48-49	2.5%

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Map of Desolace — Dread Ripper **29.8, 81.2**
Carrion Horror **49.4, 59.5**
Dread Swoop **67.9, 60.3**
Dread Flyer **58.1, 50.8**
4 sources in Desolace, each where it spawns most often; click a pin for the source.Larger map

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
Dread Ripper	39-40	Desolace	10		Drop	28.8%	map
Mesa Buzzard	34-35	Arathi Highlands	14		Drop	27.9%	map
Carrion Horror	35-37	Desolace	15		Drop	27.8%	map
Elder Mesa Buzzard	37-38	Arathi Highlands	7		Drop	27.6%	map
Buzzard	37-39	Badlands	7		Drop	27.1%	map
Giant Buzzard	39-41	Badlands	17		Drop	27.1%	map
Salt Flats Vulture	32-34	Thousand Needles	9		Drop	25.6%	map
Salt Flats Scavenger	30-32	Thousand Needles	8		Drop	25.0%	map
Starving Buzzard	35-37	Badlands	6		Drop	21.3%	map
Young Mesa Buzzard	31-32	Arathi Highlands	18		Drop	19.1%	map
Sharptalon	31	Ashenvale	1	Horde only	Drop	14.7%	map
Vultros(rare)	26	Westfall	16		Drop	12.5%	map
Dread Swoop	32-33	Desolace	98		Drop	12.4%	map
Bloodfury Slayer	25-26	Stonetalon Mountains	37		Drop	11.7%	map
Bloodfury Harpy	23-24	Stonetalon Mountains	44		Drop	11.6%	map
Bloodfury Storm Witch	26-27	Stonetalon Mountains	37		Drop	11.2%	map
Bloodfury Roguefeather	25-26	Stonetalon Mountains	37		Drop	11.2%	map
Bloodfury Ambusher	23-24	Stonetalon Mountains	42		Drop	11.2%	map
Dread Flyer	36-37	Desolace	49		Drop	11.1%	map
Bloodfury Windcaller	24-25	Stonetalon Mountains	42		Drop	11.1%	map
Sister Riven(rare)	28+	Stonetalon Mountains	1		Drop	6.4%	map
Bloodfury Ripper(elite)	26+	Stonetalon Mountains	1		Drop	3.0%	map
Grenka Bloodscreech	31		0		Drop	2.6%	map
Northspring Harpy	48-49	Feralas	36		Drop	2.5%	map
Northspring Slayer	49-50	Feralas	36		Drop	2.5%	map
Northspring Roguefeather	48-49	Feralas	36		Drop	2.4%	map
Screeching Windcaller	30	Thousand Needles	8		Drop	2.3%	map
Northspring Windcaller	49-50	Feralas	36		Drop	2.3%	map
Edana Hatetalon(elite)	50+		0		Drop	2.2%	map
Screeching Roguefeather	29-30	Thousand Needles	16		Drop	2.2%	map
Screeching Harpy	28-29	Thousand Needles	16		Drop	2.0%	map

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Needed for:

Recipes:

Recipe	Profession	Needs
Fletcher's Gloves	Leatherworking	4x

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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.

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