Yesterday I spent some time preparing the media assets for all of the farms I had documented so far and including the one I am posting today I have seven and am working on an eighth currently. I am not sure when I will reach my stopping point, but for now, I am chugging along. Today’s far is the very first of the ones that I have posted that I would highly suggest you NOT go farm. This location is Scratchrock Burrow aka the cave that Scratchy the Elite Bear lives in, and it is heavily involved in a low-level quest chain. That means you are going to have a ton of low-level players traipsing in and out of the cave and since we don’t want to obstruct progress… there are going to be times that you have to wait for a player to tag scratchy upon spawning slowing down the progress. Because this is a level 16 bear… the drop rates are also completely awful meaning you will be standing here for many hours. I legitimately lost track of how long I farmed this before getting the two drops.
Scratchrock Burrow is located due south of Windsward, making it an extremely easy to get to farming spot. Scratchy himself is on a 5-minute respawn timer and will aggro you as soon as he spawns in if you are anywhere in the vicinity. There is some silver and saltpeter in the mine and some iron outside the mine, but apart from that, the only meaningful resource are the game animals outside that you could farm for leather while waiting on the timer to tick down. Since players are still starting fresh on servers given the uptick in the game, you are going to get multiple visits per farming run of folks who need the quest. Be nice and invite them to your party just to make sure that they get kill credit. This however means that you need to pay a bit more attention than the usual alt-tab until you hear the boss spawn and then tab back in to kill it immediately.
What makes this camp so frustrating is the rarity of the good drops. I’ve heard tale of folks rolling up on this camp and getting either the hatchet or ring within minutes. In my experience I got the earring that is useless over and over… and the only reason I included it in my drops image is to make you aware that it is a thing. I have this feeling that when you kill a monster there is a chance of getting a drop on the rare loot table, and that on this particular encounter that secondary table is heavily weighted toward giving you the earring. You might have also noticed that this is the same loot that Gren in Brightwood drops… which is absolutely true. Gren even at level 60 is an annoying boss to solo, so I opted towards farming Scratchy instead. Another weird thing that you will notice when you get one, is that the ring is bugged and has no image associated with it… meaning it just looks like whatever you moused over before mousing over it.
You may also notice that the hatchet is misspelled, which leads me to believe that this entire camp might be ephemeral. There was a situation like this out in Ebonscale Reach where a level 45ish pirate dropped the loot table of an encounter in the outdoor dungeon Siren’s Grotto. There might be a time in the future when Gren and Scratchy are decoupled and you can no longer farm a level 16 encounter and get level 60 gear. Even with that in mind… it is a rough farm. I am glad I did it just so that I could walk away with the ring, but I can’t say I would suggest anyone else follow in my footsteps. I did the work however so I am documenting it on my blog.
Like I said at the start I have six more of these with a seventh in the work, so you will likely see more in the coming days. I’ve collected all of my New World loot guides in a single “Loot Farms” category. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.
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