Herb Farming

Recently Big Bear Butt talked about killing the bog lord guys in the Skettis area. You know the big tree peoples? The 70-71 elites?

Much more detail can be found here by the wonderful Warlock Horns. There are great numbers associated with the drop rates that he had.

Well the druid got the idea from a hunter… and if they can solo them I DEFFINATELY could solo them.

Cause I am a Warlock and all other classes are my Minions. *clears throat after diabolical laughter*   

So while doing the Daily Cooking quest up there… I try one out.

/Splat gnome paste.

Okay that didn’t go over too well.

Let’s try that again.

/cheer

They are not immune to Fear at all.

So it was a simple DoT, Fear, DoT, Fear repeat until it is dead.

After skinning the tree with my upper herbalism skills, I was rewarded…

Dead Tree loot

An additional bonus was fishing out Furious Crawdads which when cooked into Spicy Crawdads gives a 30 stamina boost. Much more then the typical 20 stamina most food buff gives. These may help My Tank in Heroics while we continue to collect more gear. So as soon as I get a stack I know where they will go.