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 5s 30c a kill in item drops (at Auction House prices). Gold farming spots, level 20-30
Best zones:
| Zone | Sources | Best source | Level | Drop% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duskwood | 30 | Solid Chest | 0.5% | |
| Wetlands | 38 | Solid Chest | 0.5% | |
| Silverpine Forest | 4 | Alliance Chest | 0.5% | |
| Darkshore | 3 | Battered Chest | 0.5% | |
| The Barrens | 19 | Alliance Strongbox | 0.5% | |
| Hillsbrad Foothills | 30 | Alliance Chest | 0.5% | |
| Alterac Mountains | 17 | Solid Chest | 0.5% | |
| Arathi Highlands | 19 | Horde Chest | 0.5% | |
| The Stockade | 7 | Large Iron Bound 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% | |
| 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% |
- Battered Chest 56.3, 26.2
- Blackfathom Oracle 31.4, 91.8
- Fallenroot Satyr 31.1, 93.0
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.