Silithus making gold guide
With Cataclysm, Silithus has become a staple area for levels 55-60 to level through because other level 50-60 areas have been converted to lower level regions. Silithus has always been a great place to farm for Thorium, Herbs, Runecloth, Essences and Leather. It really is a “one-stop-farming” zone for mid-level tradeskill materials. Some of you are asking, why the heck do people want to need mid-level tradeskill mats? Well there are always new players leveling up in this game and switching professions. Usually times these are alts and so they are being funded by a wealthy max-level character willing to invest any gold it takes to get their tradeskill leveled as fast as possible.
Another use for a few of these items are enchants on the Heirloom gear (i.e weapons and chest). Just level 60 enchants is placed on the Heirloom items due to their i-level restrictions creating a huge demand for those mats.
With all of that, here are the areas that I recommend farming.
In the northwestern corner of Silithus, there are a large number of Dust Stormer as well as Desert Rumbler. The air elementals will drop Essence of Air, Breathing of Wind and Elemental Air. The rock elementals will drop Essence of Earth, Core of Earth as well as Elemental Earth. A high level player can rip through these mobs making farming them extremely easy as well as profitable. We will also find greens, blues and the casual epic if you are fortunate! Even the vendor trash sells very well, thus you are creating gold no matter just what.
If we don’t would like to farm elementals, then there are additionally humanoids too. There are 3 large Twilight camps in Silithus. There are two camps westof Cenarion Hold, one a small further west from the other and one camp in the southwestern corner of the zone.
The mobs range from level 54-60 as well as drop a large amount of Runecloth, Encrypted Twilight Text, Twilight trapping pieces, greens as well as blue items. The large amount of mobs coupled with their fast respawn makes these camps you of the best places to farm for Runecloth in the game. A lot of other areas that utilized to be great for Runecloth have been removed from the game to nerfed significantly with the changes made in Cataclysm.
The Twilight Cultists drop their trapping pieces consisting of the Cowl,Mantle and Robes used to summon the bigger elementals from the Wind Stones in these camps. These pieces drop very often off of the mobs there and market for anywhere from 50s-4g a piece. Be sure to check your server though! The Encrypted Twilight Text is a good gold machine for those players that like to be exalted with every reputation in the game in order to collect recipes for their tradeskills to just for bragging rights. Players turn in these texts in stacks of 10, so keep in mind to list them accordingly.
If you invest an hour or perhaps two in this area of Silithus farming the Twilight mobs you will pleasantly amazed how much gold we can make. Any green items that drop can be DE’d into Illusion Dust as well as Greater Eternal Essences. These are utilized thoroughly in the old-world enchants as well as are quite the gold maker these days!Professional gold farmers used to consistently farm these areas in the past, and so that should tell you just how good it is!
Those of we with skinner and/or mining can make even more gold in Silithus. There are a large number of skinnable creatures (worms and scorpid) thoughout Silithus that drop a mixture of both Thick as well as Rugged leathers and Heavy Scorpid Scales. Miners will find both Small Thorium and Deep Thorium veins around the perimeter of Silithus.
You should also check out the Silithid Hives where a larger concentration of Rich Thorium veins spawn. The silithid bugs are no longer elite, thus anyone level 58+ should be able to farm these hives fairly easily.The bugs in these hives are skinnable, but at this time I am unsure whether their Silithid Chitin are really value a lot to players. Check your own server to see if there’s a marketplace for them anymore. These bugs do certainly not drop Rugged leather though.
Herbalists will find a good amount of Sungrass, Dreamfoil and Mountain Silversage.


