Farming Grtr Fire Protection Recipe...

[Purlop]

Found a post on WoW about a guy asking why he sees so many rogues popping in and out of BRS. Turns out, to my pleasent surprise, it might be due to players farming the Recipe: Greater Fire Protection Potion
which I currently dont have. I'll have to attempt a run next time on and see what turns up. The fact that Allakazam has the mkt price at 450gp makes me rather curious about this run.

Quotes of interest during my research:

Rogues can solo the invokers that drop the recipe, just jump down to the left off the first bridge in LBRS, there should be a grunt/invoker group to the left and an invoker/darkweaver group to the right. Sap one, kill the invoker, loot, vanish, wait 5 mins or use preperation, repeat.

56+ Firebrand Invoker
Blackrock Spire 9.1%

56+ Firebrand Invoker
Blackrock Spire 1.7%

57+ Firebrand Invoker
Blackrock Spire 2.6%

58+ Firebrand Pyromancer
Blackrock Spire 2.5%

The mobs listed are on the right hand side, just before you go up the slope to the Spider area in Lower Blackrosk Spire.

There are up to 5 groups of two that seem to randomly have an invoker in them. Sometimes out of the 5 groups, there will be only 1 but you might get lucky and get 3 or 4. The 5 groups are:

1. just left of the jumpdown
2. just right of the jumpdown
3. by the lava down the hall to the right of the jumpdown.
4. a big before the spider section, there is like 2 in the hallway area
5. right at the edge of the spider area, there is one sleeping and one standing. (very rarely is this an invoker)

I have no epics, but most of the high end blue equipment and these are no problem for me as a 21/8/22 build. Only about 1/3rd of the time do I need to use prep or a potion. The vanish cooldown is what makes it so you can't farm it super fast. You will also get the darkweaver 5-minute curse on you sometimes and you have to go back to the jumpdown area to wait it out since it destealths you every minute.

So far I have killed about 40 Invokers and no recipe drop yet. I don't think you can do the Pyromancers as the groups next to where they spawn are too close aggro. At least they did when I tried (crappy since there's a chest that spawns by the Pyromancer that you could get if this worked.) Maybe if you had epic gear and used magic dust/sap to decommission 2 and take one out FAST but I'd just respawn invokers since its easier.

[Purlop]

Hmm...I went snooping in BRS regarding this matter. Maybe Im looking in the wrong spot, but I dont see any of these groups to which they are referring.

[Malthorn]

The drop chance is also around 2% each mob, it doest get so high to where its a 9% drop chance.

[Purlop]

The issue was actually finding the spots to which was referenced. The wolves see through stealth (ie the way to LBRS) and I dont have an UBRS key, so was a bit limited in where I could look...

Ill just keep my eyes open for the mobs when Im running in groups and note for a later return.

[Prune/Jak]

as far as I know, the solves don't see through stealth. I've been pretty close the them, too. I've stealthed LBRS before for farming runs of a different sort. It works fine, really. You'll need pretty good gear to make the most of your farming runs, too. Oh, and to reset: Invite someone to your party, leave the party, then logout. When you log back in, you'll be at the beginning of a brand new instance just for you!

--Jakani

[The Zrogfather]

The route you need to take is:

(Set Stone to Kargath.)
- Enter instance, go up stairs to right.
- Jump off ledge (jump right), wait for pat to pass.
- Stealth through doorway, hug left wall (avoid dogs)
- As soon as you exit the S-corridoor, go immediately right along the wall, and jump off onto a ledge below.
- Walk along ledge, jump down (this is the jump down point). There are tons of humanoids down there, many of which are Invokers.

[Purlop]

The route you need to take is:

(Set Stone to Kargath.)
- Enter instance, go up stairs to right.
- Jump off ledge (jump right), wait for pat to pass.
- Stealth through doorway, hug left wall (avoid dogs)

Im assuming this is the doorway below the ledge you jump down to versus the one that is under the ledge you just jumped off of? The left takes ya back to the top..so its gotta be the one below with the 2 doggies...woof! okay.

- As soon as you exit the S-corridoor, go immediately right along the wall, and jump off onto a ledge below.

Okay, didnt realize there is a wall on the right in that next room...lol. okay

- Walk along ledge, jump down (this is the jump down point). There are tons of humanoids down there, many of which are Invokers.

Definitely gonna have to try this now. thnx!

[The Zrogfather]

It's kinda hard to explain... but basically when you get into the BIG ROOM, head right, drop onto ledge, keep going.

Zrog

[Purlop]

I found it. Pretty easy to get to via stealth. The ledge drops you right on top of them, litterally. Gotta be careful on that jump down. Then comes the problem of the actual pull. Weeeeee.

I found out that there is a very close placement of mob groups to the point that when I sap'd and attacked the invoker, if even 1 thing goes wrong (ie sap breaks early..grrr), dead. There's no maneuvering room to run to get em off ya.

A 2 man stealth team should be able to farm this area rather easily. 1-man makes it a nail biter.