Where to Farm Plans: Iron Shield Spike

The best place to farm Plans: Iron Shield Spike is Ashenvale, where Elder Shadowhorn Stag (level 26-27) drops it at 0.0%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 431 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Elder Shadowhorn Stag is worth about 2s 91c a kill in item drops (prices from 10 Oct 2026). Gold farming spots, level 20-30

Best zones:

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

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
Darkshore	6	Battered Chest		0.5%
Wetlands	38	Solid Chest		0.5%
Stranglethorn Vale	19	Solid Chest		0.5%
Arathi Highlands	20	Solid Chest		0.5%
Duskwood	32	Solid Chest		0.5%
Alterac Mountains	15	Solid Chest		0.5%
Hillsbrad Foothills	30	Alliance Chest		0.5%
The Stockade	7	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Silverpine Forest	2	Alliance Chest		0.5%
Gnomeregan	20	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Razorfen Downs	5	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Scarlet Monastery	16	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
The Barrens	21	Alliance Strongbox		0.5%
Stonetalon Mountains	22	Sentinel Amarassan	27+	0.5%
Blackfathom Deeps	19	Snapping Crustacean	23-24+	0.1%

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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
Battered Chest		Darkshore	109		Contains	0.5%	map
Solid Chest		Wetlands	109		Contains	0.5%	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		Hillsbrad Foothills	19		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Silverpine Forest	16		Contains	0.5%	map
Alliance Chest		Alterac Mountains	12		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Gnomeregan	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	0.5%	map
Large Solid Chest		Gnomeregan	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
Alliance Strongbox		The Barrens	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Horde Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Sentinel Amarassan(rare)	27+	Stonetalon Mountains	1	Horde only	Drop	0.5%	map
Dark Iron Demolitionist(elite)	30-31+	Wetlands	11		Drop	0.1%	map
Dark Iron Rifleman(elite)	27-28+	Wetlands	3		Drop	0.1%	map
Snapping Crustacean(elite)	23-24+	Blackfathom Deeps	18		Drop	0.1%	map
Blackrock Hunter(elite)	23-24+	Redridge Mountains	8		Drop	0.1%	map
Razorfen Groundshaker(elite)	27-28+	Razorfen Kraul	7		Drop	0.1%	map
Arados the Damned	35		0		Drop	0.1%	map
Elder Shadowhorn Stag	26-27	Ashenvale	78		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Preserver(elite)	29-30+	Tirisfal Glades	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Scout(elite)	29-30+	Tirisfal Glades	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Dark Iron Tunneler(elite)	29-30+	Wetlands	23		Drop	0.0%	map
Blackfathom Oracle(elite)	21-22+	Darkshore	22		Drop	0.0%	map
Caverndeep Reaver(elite)	27-28+	Gnomeregan	16		Drop	0.0%	map
Cenarion Druid(elite)	26-27+	Stonetalon Mountains	16	Horde only	Drop	0.0%	map
Whirlwind Ripper	32-34	Desolace	13		Drop	0.0%	map
Withered Warrior(elite)	34-35+	The Barrens	13		Drop	0.0%	map
Death's Head Adept(elite)	27-28+	Razorfen Kraul	9		Drop	0.0%	map
Windshear Overlord	21-22	Stonetalon Mountains	8		Drop	0.0%	map
Murkshallow Snapclaw(elite)	22-23+	Blackfathom Deeps	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Razorfen Warden(elite)	25-26+	Razorfen Kraul	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Venture Co. Engineer	20-21	Stonetalon Mountains	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Venture Co. Mechanic	34-35	Stranglethorn Vale	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Irradiated Horror(elite)	28-29+	Gnomeregan	6		Drop	0.0%	map
Swirling Vortex	33-34	Thousand Needles	6		Drop	0.0%	map
Twilight Elementalist(elite)	26-27+	Blackfathom Deeps	6		Drop	0.0%	map
Caverndeep Ambusher	25-27	Gnomeregan	5		Drop	0.0%	map
Shadowfang Glutton(elite)	21-22+	Shadowfang Keep	4		Drop	0.0%	map
Farmer Getz	24	Hillsbrad Foothills	3	Horde only	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.