Zul'Farrak "Shallow graves run" - farming epics

[apaca]

I have noticed some weeks ago one strange thing in Zul'farrak. When a group is looting shallow graves for epic drops Ring of Saviors, Ardent Custodian or Nigthblade, the Zul'Farrak Zombies and Zul'Farrak Dead Heros very often raise from there and they always target one guy. That might not be surprising, but the point is that they always target same guy, no matter if he opened the grave or not. So the guy might stand in the other corner of the grave place and zombies will still go on him! What I did was went to Zul'farrak with rouge (was priest at that time so I had to use some invisibility potions) and when we got at place we opened 1 grave. Cool! zombies went on me. With no problems we killed them, than I mounted and rouge started to open as many graves as possible. Zombies started to chase me while I was heading to that bug area. After like 45 seconds I was dead and zombies started to attack rouge but he managed to open 3/4 of graves. Soon we have learned how to open all of the graves and not to die. So what you do is:

1. Group with one guy.

2. Go to Zul'farrak and stealth to the shallow graves.

3. Open one grave to check who the zombies target.

4. "Target" mount and run(remember not to run to far away or they will attack the opener)

5. Other guy shift+click on grave and than fast on another and another (he will loot everything you dont have to wait until info about loots is written).

6. Loot all graves than vanish/fagin death or just save your live and run to exit.

7. Reset instance and do it again!

8. If you got luck you should loot some epics.

We did it around 180 times and we got in total around 20 epics, 20 blues and some greens which were sold for more than 2400g (divided by 2 goes 1200+g to each one)and lots of junks that were sold for 300g. In total I made around 1400g. Later after some practice it took us 8 min for whole run.

PS: I still dont know who zombies will target, but suspect that they will attack guy who first entered the instance.

[Haq]

Awesome idea, I'm a rogue and my friend is a Priest, we're gonna try this out tonight.

[spreech]

Trying now, will get back to ya :P

with a 70 hunter and 70 Warr

EDIT: Works perfectly, tried two times, its great with 70's and mounts but no loots all grey vendor rubbish for us but obviously it is luck of the draw, lot of fun +rep :P nice bug

[FoNzI]

Where do you run on the mount? do you just run in circles with them chasing you? doesn't seem like there would be much space do run since you didnt clear anything. Forgive my noobishness.

[spreech]

Stand in other corner of the room and then just loop around the room, then once there are like 5 graves left run to the instance entrance, and then both leave at the same time, rinse and repeat

[FoNzI]

Stand in other corner of the room and then just loop around the room, then once there are like 5 graves left run to the instance entrance, and then both leave at the same time, rinse and repeat

Thanks for the great response. I feared a "get lost NOOB" response but instead I got a nice informational answer to my question. Thanks alot.

[Lavi]

i wonder how u can loot epics from something that doesnt even drop epics...
IMO good find but getting 2400g for 20 epics 20blues und some greens is unbelivable - people are stupid but who the **** buys epics for such high prices
pls show me screens where u loot epics from the graves and I will believe ya

[Obanooba]

awsome

[Killer69]

Ok, this is my first post here.... but i've been watching for quite a while.

I just did this with a 70 druid and my 67 rogue, worked great! Good find.

Only prob is that we got maybe 3 greens from the graves and we did it 5 times... and were not even gonna try your 180 times thats a lot of work for 1200g when i could just do my dailys on my main and complete some quests for the same amount of time it would take.

[schittywah]

Odd Wowhead doesn't show the graves dropping anything other than scrolls potions and vendor items.

Shallow Grave - Objects - World of Warcraft

[JimFTW]

Allakhazam.com: World of Warcraft

[spreech]

Same as above really, the technique works great, but crap loot, and have tried it 10 times now.... but none the less good find

[Chrizus]

1400g in 24 hours is not good when you can grind 100+g / hour

[Dragonshadow]

The zombies attack the lowest character... So with two 70s, I'm guessing it would be the one with the least amount of XP leftover from lvling to 70.

[spartan646]

guys dont flame him for suggesting an idea, and if you dont believe him, then simply dont. i think its an awesome way to earn money at 46ish (i am 70) +rep