Farming Relics of Ulduar in Storm Peaks: Winning Proposition?

Last week, I got a really nice email from a reader called Jake, who alerted me to an interesting Gold-making opportunity that I was not really aware of.

Being that I had been away from the game for a month and a half or something, I was not necessarily aware of the latest developments, and Jake kindly pointed me to farming the Relic of Ulduar as a way of making WoW Gold.

Relics of Ulduar are used to gain reputation with the Sons of Hodir, in Storm Peaks. These guys are the ones selling those cool Mammoth Mounts you’ve seen around, and apparently, lots of people are keen to gain rep with these guys.

I wanted to spend an hour of my precious time farming these relics, and see what I could get.

Now to the Farmer-in-Chief: I sent Mordauk, my powerful Death Knight, to gather some Relics. Not only is Mordauk my “main” if you will, he is also the best-equipped of all my characters, and most likely to come back from the farming more or less in one piece.

Mordauk has about 50% Epic gear – all 5-man Heroic stuff mind you – none of that time-vampire raiding gear – so I knew I would have to be mindful of the repair bill. Check him out now on WoW Armory, it’ll give you an idea.

To start with, here is the map of where I went to farm my Relics, based on my reader’s recommendations:

(Map courtesy of Jake and Blizzard, of course).

The mobs available for killing in that place – the Snowdrift – are:

• Stormriders
• Stormforged War Golems
• Stormforged Artificers

There are also some Snowdrift Jormungar, monstrous man-eating worms that they are, but they don’t drop Relics. You may still want to kill them for their delicious and valuable Worm Meat.

Every single mob in that area is level 78-80, non Elite. All of them, with no exceptions fell under my blows in seconds, and will do so for any half-decently-played level 80, so I’m not going to go into details about DPS rotations, amount of hit points, etc.

You hit them, they die, you search their bodies for loot like a peasant on a battlefield, and move on. That’s it.

Here is Mordauk wah-tah-ing a Stormrider:

In the next picture, Mordauk turns a perfectly serviceable Stormforged War Golem into a pile of rusting crap. Observe:

Fun… LOL … Ahem. Yes. So I spent an hour killing all those guys, and here is what I got:

• “Looted” a respectable 11g 5s 5c
• “Pilfered” 36g 72s 39c worth of Grey Vendor Trash
• “Appropriated” 25 Crystallized Air, 13 Frostweave Cloth, 12 Worm Meat (Gross I know) and 5 Green Magical items
• “Liberated” 66 Relics of Ulduar

The WoW Gold total, before selling the Relics of Ulduar, was 47g 77s 44c, which is not so bad, but not great, either.

HOWEVER, the 66 Relics of Ulduar sold on the Auction House for 157g 54s 20c – after Auctioneer Chilton’s cut (that guy must be loaded).

My Grand Total, therefore, for one hour of Farming Relic of Ulduar in Storm Peaks, is 205g 31s 64c, which is a LOT better.

You must also take into account that the Crystallized Air and the Worm meat are not yet sold, and the 5 green items, once properly disenchanted, should yield at least another 75-100g.

It is safe to conclude that if it’s WoW Gold you want, then at over 300g per hour, you could do worst than farming Relics of Ulduar in Storm Peaks.

Oh – here is one last picture, this time of Mordauk about to teach table manners to a Stormforged Artificer:

“Hey! You say you made 300g, but what about the repairs on that expensive-looking Epic gear you mentionned? Did they bring you down to the poor house? Did they make you re-evaluate your life choices, cringe at little noises, and wail in regret at a thousand missed opportunities?”

Not quite. They cost 2g 19s 57c. That’s it. My new Rogue’s mount money is safe.

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