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Kommentar von 6571

Blizzard appearently hot-fixed these to now drop motes of water instead of motes of mana. Droprate seems to be the same though.

Kommentar von Flyv

On Feb 2 on Eitrigg I killed 28 eels. I got 9 Motes of Water, 0 Motes of Mana. I guess they patched it.

Kommentar von 12437

I killed these for about an hour today. In that time, I got 47 motes of water, and not a single mote of mana. So, if they still do drop them, it is not worth grinding them for it.

Kommentar von 19910

Farmed them two days ago and they dropped nothing but water, farming them today dropping nothing but mana...

Kommentar von 10105

in 30 minutes, i killed 73 eels, and recieved 20 motes of mana. these are very easily farmed as a fury warrior, i literally had NO downtime with my mushroom trinket. 85 eel kills netted me 30 motes total

Kommentar von Nienie

8:11pm -8:51pm Eastern - Motes of Water dropping. Looted 35 in 40 minutes. Pretty easy kills, though swimming around is annoying, even on an Undead.

Kommentar von 12437

Yeah, I reccomend the quest A Rare Bean out in Nagrand. It gives you a stack of cherries (20 of them) that let you breath underwater for a half an hour each. Makes this grind much better.

Kommentar von 5940

The only time dependant alternating drop I know of is the Sunscale Salmon and the Nightfin Snapper. The drop rates changed every 6 hours, from what I had observed.

12:00 AM - 6:00 AM = Just Nightfins
6:00 AM - 12:00 PM = Both
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM = Just Sunscales
6:00 PM - 12:00 AM = Both

If the motes these guys drop are time dependant, I'd bet that they are on a similar schedule as these fish.

Kommentar von 17690

In addition, for warlocks, this is a fantastic place to grind soul shards. The Eels go down fast, drop an easily sellable commodity (motes of water), is just a stone's throw from Shattrath, cater's to our underwater breathing spell, and is rarely overcrowded.

I'm not sure of the hitpoints on these guys either, but with a destro build, they die with Immo+Incinerate+1-2 secs of drain soul.

Kommentar von 17690

I'm still getting just Motes of Water. No mana. Farmed for 3 hours, 8pm to 11pm. Netted 3.5-4 primals per hour (with no competition as a 70 lock).

I prefer to swim South to North, eat/drink at the falls, and then fly back to the south end of the lake and do it again.

Kommentar von 13813

I farmed these for about an hour on Feb. 28th.
Got:
4.5 Primal Water
0 Primal Mana
~40G worth of grey stuff
6 Green items

Little competition, level 70 hunter.

Kommentar von 27210

Practically defenseless and cute. Who could resist?

I also only saw primal water, at about a 4/hr rate, grinding off and on between 7 and 8pm server time. It sounds like that's it here.

Kommentar von Stapler

I got 5 Primal Waters in about 50 minutes. Nice grinding for a warlock with dark pact, they die so fast you never have to rest plus you've got underwater breathing. Started out on my own, halfway more people came along but respawn rate is quite good.

Kommentar von Veok

Are these eels skinnable? Some eels are, others aren't, which makes for very confused leatherworkers.

Kommentar von 24572

Pretty decent for motes of water. Took me an hour and eight minutes to get 4 primal water. Stopped twice to mine (4 nodes in total). Never stopped aside from that.

70 Enhancement Shaman.

Kommentar von 30936

After 300 kills in two hours, I can make a post here to tell you about my impressions.

Total items:
- 61g in trash
- 10 Greens or so
- 9 Primal Water and 2 Motes of Water.

The droprate of Mote of Water is 30%.

It is really worth farming there. It is not farmed at all (I saw two other people) and there's always fish to kill.
It is better than Elemental Plateau since you don't have to worry about opposite faction or to wait for monsters to spawn.

However, you must have something to breathe water. I used Nagrand Cherry (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=24421) from a quest in Nagrand. If you already used all of these cherries or you deleted them, buy pots.

Primal Waters sell for 18g on my server. 61 + 18*9 = 223g in two hours, not counting greens (I disenchanted them so I don't know the price of each :p).

Good farming !

Kommentar von 38147

Dropped Essence of Water for me. 30 May 2007, 16:15, Tarren Mill EU.

Kommentar von 51520

i concur with everyone here, this place is great for mote of water farming. a warlock casted unending breath one me, for its duration 10mins, i got 9 motes of water a green dagger and some grey stuff.

Kommentar von Tilaro

I was farming these guys for Motes of Water last night. Couldnt have been there for more then 40 minutes. (3 casts of Underwater Breathing) and walked out with 4 Primals, about 3 greens, and 100+ greys that vendored 1g+ per stack. Never saw Motes of mana
(I think it was from maybe 7:30-8:10pm Game Time.)

-Level 70 Affliction Warlock.
-Never stopped for anything but to loot the kills, swam constantly casting CoA, Corruption, Siphon Life, and even in the crowded sections of they didnt last long enough to get more then 3 eels at a time.

Kommentar von 25547

I dunno if it's a recent thing, but I was farming for about half an hour and got 2 motes and a green. Not worth it for farming in my opinion, back to the muck spawns I go...

Kommentar von 71961

I have found these eels to be an excellent source of income. After farming several hundred of them and analyzing drop rates I have determined that each eel is worth roughly 80 silver on average. This may vary from server to server, but that is a rough average of what you can expect. Considering the speed which they can be killed, and their proximity to Shattrath, it makes them ideal for farming. If you plan on farming them for any extended period of time, I would suggest you invest in two items that will help maximize your income.

Azure Silk Belt - Increases swim speed by 15%
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=7052
This item is trivial to craft and really helps you get around the lake.

Elixer of Wather Breathing - Allow water breathing for 30 minutes
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5996
These are sometimes a bit hard to come by, but they really help to maximize your kill speed since coming up for air will be one of your biggest time sinks.

It is also best to farm them while your faction has control of the spirit towers for the extra 5% damage boost. Happy farming!

Kommentar von 39079

too bad Blizzard nerfed the droprate :( used to get 5 primals an hour, now i get max 3..

Kommentar von 65162

Personally ( as of 8/1/2007 ), and Im sure some will agree, I think this is the fasted source of Motes of Water in outlands.

Reason:

At 70 these things are very easy to kill, sure their drop rate is only 18%, but you would be suprised how much that is when your killing one of these things every 15 seconds! I have tried so many places for Water Mote sources, Elemental Plataeu, Skettis, and that pond near Shattarath. Hated them all.

Came to the ring around Hala and circled it, everytime I came around the Water elementals were respawning, and as a 70 DPS warrior I was getting Motes of Water very fast.

Try it, see how you like it.

-Wes

Kommentar von 24840

64 afflic lock, 32 motes in 30 minutes. was also a 70 hunter there farming too ><

this spot is awesome~

Kommentar von Shivacode

While these mobs have pathetic HP, they often drop Essence Of Water now as well as motes. So you're worse off farming these than Muck Spawns, which are all over Nagrand's lower areas.

Kommentar von 95858

3k hp each eel-good drop rate-elemental fragment every kill (2g+ a stack at vendor) good farm

Kommentar von 95917

Has the droprate been nerfed? I Killed 50 today and only got 3 mote of water.

Kommentar von moocow

Another thing to note if you're a Moonkin / Ele Shaman, is that these aren't immune to nature, unlike most water elementals.

In half an hour of grinding these, I killed 82 mobs, getting 19 motes, which fits pretty well with the listed droprate. You were unlucky, Callister :)

Kommentar von lcbagna

They have a good drop rate for their hp amount. You can kill them very fast and the respaw time is short so a non-stop farming will grant u like a primal every 10 minutes!

Kommentar von childofnewlight

30 minutes I had 3 primals and a bunch of stacks of the junk they drop. Sells to merchant for 2g each.

As a frost mage this was a MUCH better area than the Elemental Plat. Two frostbolts and a fire blast and they were dead. I'm a newer level 70 with decent gear for having turned 70 a week or so ago but nothing spectacular.

A tip, give the eel two hits and then let them get almost in your face before giving the finishing kill. Avoids having to do extra swimming to pick up the drops.

A hunter was also in the water with me farming them. I tried going in the opposite direction and there seemed to be plenty spawns for us both. We rarely got in each others way.

The downside is no crystals for Halaa Research Tokens. However, consistant 3 (2 if I crit) hit kills compared to 7 or 8. As well as only two or three stops to get out of water for mana (as compared to almost every fight in Nagrand) out weighs the one con.

Also, its right outside Shattrath. So its easy to go back and forth as needed. Takes maybe 2-3 minutes on an epic ground mount to get to the lake. If that.

Kommentar von 111097

Today, around 10:30 CST on Kirin Tor, I farmed about 20 of these without a single mote of water dropping. I'm level 61 Forsaken Warlock.

Kommentar von 110227

Wow! Did the quest "Rather be fishin" and got primal water in here. Great place to farm primal waters!

Kommentar von 99360

I love farming these. Discounting the motes of water, after around 30 minutes of farming ive made 15-20g in greys alone. I'm a level 66 shadow priest and I can almost kill these with a single SW:P. I usually just shield up, then swim buy and Vampiric Touch + SW:P all of the mobs I see, which is about 7 or 8 before I run out of mana.

Kommentar von 111351

Albeit what can be a mediocre drop rate on Motes of Water, due to this mob's low health, even if you are unfortunate with the drop rate, you are still able to mass farm Elemental Fragments/Primordial Essence. If you aren't undead, I would suggest taking Elixir of Greater Water Breathing along with you to farm so that you can farm as many mobs as possible and only have to stop to health/mana up instead of resurfacing constantly.

For all the frost mages out there who needs Primal Waters, these are your best friend. If you can, get your hands on an Azure Silk Belt beforehand. Also stock up on Elixirs of Greater Water Breathing to alleviate farming. Put up Ice Barrier, and Ice Lance every Eel you come across. Use Rank 1 Arcane Explosion to keep them agro'd, and pull about half the lake. Pop Ice Block, frost nova, trinket, Ice Barrier, AoE down (but not with Blizzard.) I farmed 2 Primal Waters in a matter of 10 minutes doing this.

Kommentar von 95917

I was very unlucky today. The drop was terrible. I had 7 mote of water and thought, ok ill get 3 more for a primal. I had to kill 60 of them to get the final 3 motes.
Terrible.

Kommentar von 96236

If water breathing is yr biggest problem just grab a Noggenfogger Elixir http://www.wowhead.com/?item=8529 and get yr self in skelly form ;)

Kommentar von 122122

Alright, after an hour of farming (or 131 kills), I have the following items (from playing a level 63 Beast Mastery Hunter):

Vendor Trash (gray): 112x, 19x, 1x, 1x, 1x (This all equals out to 19g, 79s, 5c)
Common (white): 46x (Avg. AH Price - 2g/ea)
Uncommon (green): 1x, 1x, 1x, 1x, 2x
Rare (blue): 1x

I prefer grinding in this area if you're trying to get gold, I've gotten two blues (from my two hours of grinding, so far), a ton of greens, vendor trash, and motes of water, and I never run out of mana killing these (I do two Steady Shots per battle), and the spawn rate is crazy. If you ever run out of food, mainly for Well Fed, just kill the Basilisks next to you for , you can cook it up into . The only downside that I see from this is you need to get underwater breathing so you don't have to come up every minute, which is a big waste of time. To counter this, I just pop on a and grab a few s if I can, that way I get around the lake quicker.

On my server I've never seen more than one person here, so it seems like there's not much competition.

!!! EDIT: I highly recommend turning your s into s. All of my Primal Mights sold, but the motes of water from the night before have not sold but two.

Kommentar von 139584

i farmed for 30 last night and only got 12 motes. lvl 61 warrior (prot/DPS spec). must be bad luck.

Kommentar von 121630

With lvl 70 sl/sl warlock, I got in 35-45mins 40 motes of water, 2 Essence of waters, 1 pair of green plate pants that can be sold to vendor for 4g(maybe a bit more in AH) and other vendor thrash worth about 16g 25s. First I was alone, then in the end, there were 2 other guys+me. Not a big rush, I didn't have to wait for respawns at all.

Kommentar von 173264

i farmed for 3 days ( from 2-3 hours each ) and got the following

232 motes of water ( sold each primal for 29,95g " dont try to sell motes coz they take longer to sell if not sold entirly ")
37 green equips
19 essence of water
75g worth of vendor-trash

i was a lvl 64 bm hunter , used the following while farming :

aspect of the viper ( gave me no downtime at all , i was killing those eels every 20sec's

15% speed increase
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=7052
and
underwater breathing
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9452
( this staff took me 14 tries to get from that boss , really annoyed the crap out of me )

during those times i saw alot of lvl 70 players famring alongside me , and a few that were around my lvl , i actually went there becoz i wanted to grind for exp since they have low hp and could be killed fast

be careful though , thier respawn rate is crazy and they get respawned at the same time with high numbers , its nice since you will keep hitting away quite fast but if ur not careful u might die ( for me i didnt die once but i saw many players get pwned by 3-4 eels respawning at thier heads ,lol )

Kommentar von Evilblobs

Farmed them for 20 minutes, got about twice as much gold from gray loot then i did from the measly 3 motes i looted.

So while i cant confirm it, it does appear the drop rate has lowered in 2.4.3

Kommentar von 205906

Guys this is free xp/mote.
They only got -- 3k health, i like 3 hit them with my lvl 62 shaman!
Thanks blizz!

Kommentar von LurkerPatrol

Just thought I would add my statistics to the rest of the lot here.

I noticed this was a great farming place when I did the relevant quest for it. Anyways, here are the details:

Level 66 Hunter, Marksman spec, Echeyakee with dash for pet.

Timer: Nagrand Cherry - Underwater breathing for 30 minutes.

For 1 run using the cherry as a timer, I obtained:

21 motes of water (so 2.1 primals)
15g 62s in vendor trash
1 essence of water

Kommentar von Torfee

These now only give about 35xp per kill at level 64. Not sure when their XP was nerfed.

Kommentar von pet1

I have killed for over 10 min now.
And they only have dropped 1 mote of water.
Is it just me there is short on luck or what?

Kommentar von AnnaRexia

pet1 said..

I have killed for over 10 min now.
And they only have dropped 1 mote of water.
Is it just me there is short on luck or what?

81 Unholy DK using path of frost to make getting to them easier (and to save myself from almost drowning since I forgot one time to go up to breathe...)

3 primals from farming motes in 45 minutes.

Musta been a run of bad luck. Were you farming alone on Silmyr lake..?

Edit:
Right after I posted essence of water dropped. In one hour 2 minutes of farming, 4 primals, and now 2 essences.

Kommentar von Niaw

They've changed to the new eel model in 4.0.6, so they no longer share a model with mana wyrms.

Kommentar von 767683

If you kill one of these in one shot, they turn into the orbs. If it takes two or more shots to kill them however, they twirl around then go limp. just an observation : )

Kommentar von FeralHousewife

After being dead for a while, shortly before disappearing, their corpses revert back to orbs.

Kommentar von branflake0

Shimmerscale Eels appear to have been missed out in the recent stat squish and take full damage (similarly to critters), allowing them to be killed in a single melee hit.

Kommentar von mudplayerx

These take about 500x the amount of damage that they should due to a bug. However Blizz seems to be aware of this because the exp gain per kill has been nerfed down to nothing.

It is worthy to note though that they still drop loads of Mote of Water if you need to farm these for skillups in professions.

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