Sunwell Plateau - Instant respawn farming

[Yavanna]

It is very similar to the Blackwing Lair exploit (Blackwing Lair - Insane cloth/gold farm.), but this one can be done by any class with the ability to drop combat (or even for every class if you have a specific item that makes you drop combat).

Where is it?
At the very entrance of Sunwell Plateau



What are we going to kill?
All the mobs from the packs except Sunblade Slayer OR Sunblade Dawn Priest (the ones with the red circle around in the picture below). You only need to keep ONE of them alive and then drop combat. If you do it right the mob you left alive will run back to his spawn location and all the other mobs will respawn instantly.



They are just a few mobs, why should I farm here?
Because they not only drop a lot of epics and lots of gems (5g each) but also because they drop lots of expensive boe patterns (for example: Plans: Dirge, which sells for around 10k and even more on some realms).

TL;DR
- Kill all the adds from a certain pack but keep at least 1 Sunblade Slayer or Sunblade Dawn Priest alive
- Drop combat
- Repeat.


Tips:
- Be very careful with the Sunblade Slayer, since they got a god damn damaging skill that kills you in 8 seconds (25% total life every 2 seconds) so kill those first.
- More packs = more loot, try to get as many packs of mobs as you can but let at least one mob alive before dropping combat.
- Use marks on them for making it easier to know what to kill and what not to kill. Use cc's on those marked adds.
- If by some reason you fail and kill everyone just leave the instance and reset. After all, you are next to the entrance
- For rogues it's super simple: Sap one add and Blind another one, kill everything (except the ones stated above), Stealth (or Vanish if you got in combat) and repeat.

[saak]

Sounds really good. But i got no Rogue, Hunter or Nightelf... btw. no mage...

[UberGamers]

After 3 or 4 packs killed you wont get loot, only from the dragonhawk

[Khorium]

A more effective farming method for this (because of the CD's on drop-combat abiitites) is kill everything that you can without pulling a boss. Zone out. Reset. Go back in, and repeat.

[Tharmac]

A more effective farming method for this (because of the CD's on drop-combat abiitites) is kill everything that you can without pulling a boss. Zone out. Reset. Go back in, and repeat.

This. Way more proftable. Can be reset multiple times, specially now that the instance locks are increased per hour.

[Elektropop]

Few notes:

This is a very old exploit that's possible to pull of in a few of the old raids, with probly the most notorious one being the first mobs in AQ Temple which resets as long as one survives. They're farmed for the Red Battletank.

Even though something like instant respawn seems like an exploit, it's actually not a bug but a game mechanic placed there by Blizzard for a reason. Back in the days when trash was actually hard and some guilds suffered with clearing it, Blizzard made packs respawn following certain rules, to not encourage groups to go in, zerg one down, wipe and repeat.

Because of the note above, I'd say this is more of a guide.

If you're having problems with dropping combat, just zone out and in.

If you can't cc the healer, use /focus to make sure you're keeping it alive.


Lastly, I wanna give credits to op. Rarely do you see exploits with written instructions that are clear and keeps its simple with just a couple of pictures to go with. Very classy.

[stdsforall]

Sounds really good. But i got no Rogue, Hunter or Nightelf... btw. no mage...

priest spectral *****

[Zizzzzy]

Ahhhh.. flashback to the BC Sunwell trash farm pugs.....

[Fadinglight]

Has worked for years, gets posted here 5 days ago, I shit you not it no longer works for me. Doing same thing I've done for years trying to farm patterns and all the sudden they don't respawn, lone guy just stays there.