Where to Farm Pattern: Hands of Darkness

The best place to farm Pattern: Hands of Darkness is Thousand Needles, where Galak Packhound (level 24) drops it at 0.1%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 431 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Galak Packhound is worth about 7s 99c 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	3	Battered Chest		0.5%
Wetlands	38	Solid Chest		0.5%
Duskwood	30	Solid Chest		0.5%
Alterac Mountains	17	Solid Chest		0.5%
Hillsbrad Foothills	30	Alliance Chest		0.5%
The Stockade	7	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Silverpine Forest	4	Alliance Chest		0.5%
Gnomeregan	19	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Razorfen Downs	5	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
Scarlet Monastery	15	Large Iron Bound Chest		0.5%
The Barrens	19	Alliance Strongbox		0.5%
Arathi Highlands	19	Horde Chest		0.5%
Redridge Mountains	16	Rohh the Silent	26	0.2%
Thousand Needles	33	Galak Packhound	24	0.1%
Stonetalon Mountains	22	Sister Riven	28+	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		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 Strongbox		The Barrens	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Horde Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	0.5%	map
Rot Hide Bruiser(rare)	22	Silverpine Forest	1		Drop	0.5%	map
Hannah Bladeleaf(rare)	24+	The Barrens	1	Horde only	Drop	0.2%	map
Rohh the Silent(rare)	26	Redridge Mountains	1		Drop	0.2%	map
Galak Packhound	24	Thousand Needles	3		Drop	0.1%	map
Thora Feathermoon(rare)	25+	The Barrens	1	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Gath'Ilzogg(elite)	26+	Redridge Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Sister Riven(rare)	28+	Stonetalon Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Aku'mai Servant(elite)	26+		0		Drop	0.1%	map
Dun Garok Rifleman(elite)	29-30+	Hillsbrad Foothills	12	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Dark Iron Tunneler(elite)	29-30+	Wetlands	23		Drop	0.0%	map
Leprous Defender(elite)	28-29+	Gnomeregan	9		Drop	0.0%	map
Severed Druid	28-29	Ashenvale	9		Drop	0.0%	map
Cenarion Caretaker(elite)	25-26+	Stonetalon Mountains	8	Horde only	Drop	0.0%	map
Saltscale Hunter(elite)	35-36+	Stranglethorn Vale	5		Drop	0.0%	map
Razorfen Totemic(elite)	29+	Razorfen Kraul	4		Drop	0.0%	map
Galak Flame Guard	30	The Barrens	2		Drop	0.0%	map
Razorfen Beast Trainer(elite)	28-29+	Razorfen Kraul	2		Drop	0.0%	map
Morbent Fel(elite)	32+	Duskwood	1		Drop	0.0%	map
Shadumbra	28	Ashenvale	1	Horde only	Drop	0.0%	map
Shadethicket Oracle	30	Ashenvale	1		Drop	0.0%	map
Aku'mai Snapjaw(elite)	26-27+	Blackfathom Deeps	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Torn Fin Coastrunner	29-30	Hillsbrad Foothills	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Greater Kraul Bat(elite)	32+	Razorfen Kraul	7		Drop	0.0%	map
Highland Strider	30-31	Arathi Highlands	118		Drop	0.0%	map
Plains Creeper	32-33	Arathi Highlands	113		Drop	0.0%	map
Ashenvale Bear	21-22	Ashenvale	111		Drop	0.0%	map
Elder Gray Bear	25-26	Hillsbrad Foothills	109		Drop	0.0%	map
Wildthorn Stalker	20-21	Ashenvale	109		Drop	0.0%	map
Dread Swoop	32-33	Desolace	98		Drop	0.0%	map
Leprous Assistant	28-29	Gnomeregan	88		Drop	0.0%	map
Snapjaw	30-31	Alterac Mountains	83		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.